CL82
NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions - Again!
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"THE GUY who made JJ Some guy:"He just mad he replaced by some guy!
Lol, nice Fleud.
"THE GUY who made JJ Some guy:"He just mad he replaced by some guy!
I was posting about going to sleep but couldn't stop posting, then the news came. Then I really couldn't sleep. Then I fell asleep and woke up from a dream screaming help (it was like the exercist, my screams scared my wife). Then i couldn't sleep again. Then i fell asleep and had another dream (can't share these details) . Then I woke up again for the day. Glad the thread kept me posting that I was able to be awake when the news broke.I feel so bad for everyone that went to bed not knowing it was a done deal. I wouldn't have been able to sleep
"We think we have the facilities... And budget (to get to a Final Four)."
Well, then, I guess there was nothing else to offer coach Hurley.
Huh, you still have your own liver @CL82? Fake news; couldn't have been a UConn student in the early 80s!Frankly, I'm astounded that any of us still have our own livers.
I will say though my one point of snark through all of this is that a lot of the pro-Ollie/hand-wringers were indescribably wrong.
-UConn fired one of their own
-UConn figured out the buy out
-UConn found the money for the new guy...
Sure seems like they are going to try and bring someone else in (other than their current coach in waiting AHC David Cox), which would potentially open the door for some URI recruits/transfers to UConn.
This thread shall never be locked
What doesn't kick in? Contract's presumably been executed. UConn can't announce as official, if not that is the case. I don't think there is a 72 hour grace period, it would have been leaked. The press conference is merely a formality.Pretty clear he *loved* being at URI and this was a truly difficult decision for him. Appreciate his honesty and loyalty - hopefully it doesn't kick in in that drive from Kingston to Storrs tomorrow.
Which also caused UConn to become much more strict with parties by hiring more police to shut them down which sucks when you are trying to have a good time.
I will say though my one point of snark through all of this is that a lot of the pro-Ollie/hand-wringers were indescribably wrong.
-UConn fired one of their own
-UConn figured out the buy out
-UConn found the money for the new guy
And I'm glad they did. I'm not glad it all happened, I've never wanted that for Ollie; but what separates the really great programs from the ones that fizzle is sometimes a willingness to close the book on the era of the past and look forward. And there's a lot of reasons those programs can't do that - blind devotion to yesterday's heroes, immense Alumni pressure, etc. It was a pretty brave thing for ADB to do and he did a remarkable job in pulling this all off. We've been really spoiled being one of like - five programs in the US who haven't had to go through this kind of a thing in 30+ years, so it's unfamiliar territory for a lot of people... But this was a change that was needed. Just the general attitude now as opposed to a week ago is just something else.
It feels like the first "UConn" kind of day i've had since we won our last National Championship. And the more I get to 'know' this coach, the more excited I am. He seems utterly fantastic. Long ways to go, but if we head back in the right direction, today was a top-5 day/event/week in program history.
Haha I forgot about that. I jumped pretty high when that happened.I gotta go wtih Scottie Reynolds in the lane at the E8.