Best Things About Ollie as Head Coach

1. Guy does a natural killer impression of Denzel Washington (watch a video again thinking that - it's uncanny).
2. We go from great coach initials - JC - to great coach initials - KO.
3. If he makes this happen, the program is likely set for the next 30 or more years.
4. We have a coach who can likely, at least for a couple of years, school most of the kids on the court.
5. The guy loves the program. We don't have worry about hiring somebody who will be looking to jump in 4 or 5 years.

#5 is a problem with someone like Shaka Smart. If the best jobs come calling (Kansas, UCLA, Indiana, Duke, UNC, Kentucky), he'd almost be a fool not to leave if he were successful here. We don't have to worry about that with KO.

High character guy, commands respect yet players can relate to him on a personal level. He will be loved by the media, and he also gives us a fresh start and puts the Nate Miles and APR bull**T in the rear view. I also agree with dapriest that we will be set for at least 15-25 years with KO. How many 39 year olds have their dream job already in college hoops?

$-wise, some of these programs pay more than they ever paid Jim Calhoun.

You all realize that if he is very successful, he will be guaranteed to receive several NBA head gig offers. That is always tough to turn down, even at your dream job.

While this is true, he could have easily already been an assistant in the NBA, entering his third year, with the OKC Thunder. That he chose to turn down that position to take a similar one at UConn says a lot.

I think this also gives us great recruiting. I would definitely want to play for the coach at UConn who is probably better than me over the old guy coaching somewhere else that has probably never played pro. That's just me though.

6. The ladies love him.

My wife has loved him since he played for us, which was still some years before she became my wife. Since our daughters shared her similar and more recent crush on Roscoe, I'm guessing they'll share this one, too. End result for me is that it will be even easier to get the whole family interested in going to and watching games.

Saw him play at st joes this summer still in incredible shape. Better than any of our guards id venture to say

Also, his family has lived in CT for the last 5 years or so, so I don't think he wants to move them anytime soon.

Yeah, he lives here in G'burry, but it goes back more like ten years. He loved living here, and believe it or not, that played a part in choosing to come back to UConn vs. coaching in the NBA.

Just make sure you get seats as far away from KO as possible

his wife is hot so maybe we can get some shot of her on tv at games

You mean we have some competition for Julie B?

Mo' ritmo!

Boeheim's wife is within limits. Coach Ollie's wife is not~!

I just love the idea of going from one 25 year coach to another potential 25 year coach.

That is true only in the scenarios where Smart and Ollie are equally successful going forward. If 3 years down the road, UConn is mired in .500 season after .500 season and Smart (or another coach, just using him as an example) is going to final fours with Maryland or somewhere, it will have been an incredibly foolish move. By the way, I think it will be incredibly foolish, but my biggest fear is that Ollie is Herb Sendak...not good enough to really get us very far but too good to fire very easily. I can see a Sendak type being completely and totally acceptable to many if not most UConn fans...couple of NITs then a couple of Syracuse type NCAA performances...

Nice, I love the avatar man!