People need to accept this and try there best to support him. He’s still our coach, UConn alumni hate seeing him being treated the way he has been. He hates losing just as much as we do. It’s been tough but the fans don’t help. At the end of the day complaining and negativity gets us no where, if we want this program to get back on track the fans need to step up.
KO is the guy that has the ability to stop he losing and the overall trajectory of the program, but he seems unable or unwilling to do what is necessary (I'm not speaking of his effort because I can't comment on that) - but he's done a very poor job of managing the program and there is no way to argue differently.
Should he be cut loose, yes, should he have been hired originally, no. Was unfortunate for all involved and if he's giving JC the proverbial heisman as rumored that just shows he wasn't astute and/or comfortable enough to keep a guy close who knows a bit about running a program for advice, perspective, etc. The staff as it's constructed has nobody that knows how to run a program - Hobbs ran his own program, Miller ran his own program - and I'm not saying if they were still on the staff we'd be jumping for joy, but having those types of guys on staff allows experienced folks to suggest course corrections to KO be it in game or practice plans and recruiting strategy, etc. If he's too insecure to take that type of advise or have those types of guys on staff that's a bad deal.
Part of his profession and why you make all that coin is having a thick skin to put up with the lunacy from passionate fans, the idea that he's not getting the ol' atta boy from fans is insulting to any rational fan. With some credit to Dan Hawkins - KO should go coach intramurals if he craves positive reinforcement.
Folks pay their money, they have the right to complain and complain loudly about the product when its piss poor and calling the product on the floor piss poor is an insult to piss poor.
Very few are actively routing for KO to fail, even I who thought the hire was ill-advised wanted him like hell to succeed because the vast majority of fans want the program to succeed above the success of a player or a coach.
For the life of me I can't understand what glimmer of progress folks see that have them advocating for KO to stay on? Someone please tell me what you see - he's an alum, he won a title, or geez he's a good guy that cares are not signs of moving the program forward.
I do know that if KO goes that there's no guarantee that there's a better guy walking through the door - hope there is but no guarantee.
Sorry for the mini diatribe