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“It’s all over” - A compilation of a few really dumb posts

If these were your only 5 options...

  • Hurley

    Votes: 80 75.5%

  • Crean

    Votes: 15 14.2%

  • McGrath

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Sanchez

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Skerry

    Votes: 7 6.6%
  • Total voters
    106
Hey guys. I’ve been reading The Boneyard off and on since we joined the conference. Let me just say it’s a joy to be in a conference with a program like UCONN. I really hope that you guys back to playing like the team I remember, it could really elevate this conference to the next level I think. You are a top 10 program, you can draw a top-tier coach.

As for our game this Saturday, we have not looked good at all the last 4 games. We should be a top 10 team, given how we played at the end of last year and the fact that we returned everyone except 1 minor role player. I’m not sure what our deal is. We did lose two long-time assistants over the offseason so maybe that’s it. If we continue the trend of the last few games though, don’t expect to get beaten badly (or at all) on Saturday. Especially don’t expect to be impressed by what you see from the us. Hopefully we can turn things around and play how we should so we can represent the conference well in March. Having Markis McDuffie back should help us.

In the meantime, here’s to a great game Saturday!
 
I am on the fence with KO. Watching our pups continue to turn the ball over. An errant pass over the head.Okay, it happens. Again losing the dribble on your own. Dribbling off your foot, trying to drive to the hoop with towers waiting on you. What can Ollie do about that? The last five games we have been showered with 3's from fopposing players. Okay, yes,perimeter defense is a problem. However, I have seen teams go wild on draining threes. I saw Larrier in the players grille and the shot still goes in. What can Ollie do about that. I think it was Anderson raised his arms up like "what can I do" after a long three. This team has been plagued with that.

Our talent underneath is not anything to brag about. Yes Cobb looks decent for the future. He has to learn not to shuffle his feet when getting a rebound or trying to shoot. I am starting to think about our talent level. Other teams have Freshman that look better than our Juniors. The way Auburn brought the ball down speeding right by our defenders on a coast to coast. They scored before our bigs knew what was happening.

There are things these kids should know,They have been playing for years. Enough with Juco's. Lets wipe the slate clean if we have to.

Seems like teams get hot against us. I need to start looking at these teams we played on how they did the next game.

I really cannot blame Ollie on the turnover events. That is on the players. Recruiting could be suspect. The start of the season I said our guys have really good BBIQ.
I am not so sure now.

Coaches study us. They are prepared.
 
Also we should have 0904 behind the UConn bench for this game indeed. Ya know help the staff???? Yes please!
 
uconnphil2016 said:
We need to take a page out of Florida's firing of Jim McElwain. They avoided paying him out by pointing towards his claims of people threatening him online that could not be corroborated. His misconduct nullified the buyout. I think UF probably didn't want to give him the buyout and then searched for a reason to get him on a technicality. Given the number of stories we've all heard about ollie, we could probably find something and get out of it
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You got it, their is enough
 
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JKLshocker said:
Hey guys. I’ve been reading The Boneyard off and on since we joined the conference. Let me just say it’s a joy to be in a conference with a program like UCONN. I really hope that you guys back to playing like the team I remember, it could really elevate this conference to the next level I think. You are a top 10 program, you can draw a top-tier coach.

As for our game this Saturday, we have not looked good at all the last 4 games. We should be a top 10 team, given how we played at the end of last year and the fact that we returned everyone except 1 minor role player. I’m not sure what our deal is. We did lose two long-time assistants over the offseason so maybe that’s it. If we continue the trend of the last few games though, don’t expect to get beaten badly (or at all) on Saturday. Especially don’t expect to be impressed by what you see from the us. Hopefully we can turn things around and play how we should so we can represent the conference well in March. Having Markis McDuffie back should help us.

In the meantime, here’s to a great game Saturday!
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Welcome. As a fan base, we haven't been this depressed and negative in 30+ years. So don't feel bad if you don't get much positive engagement.

UCONN is really, really bad place right now, both as a team and a program. UCONN is going to get curb stomped by WSU.
 
JKLshocker said:
Hey guys. I’ve been reading The Boneyard off and on since we joined the conference. Let me just say it’s a joy to be in a conference with a program like UCONN. I really hope that you guys back to playing like the team I remember, it could really elevate this conference to the next level I think. You are a top 10 program, you can draw a top-tier coach.

As for our game this Saturday, we have not looked good at all the last 4 games. We should be a top 10 team, given how we played at the end of last year and the fact that we returned everyone except 1 minor role player. I’m not sure what our deal is. We did lose two long-time assistants over the offseason so maybe that’s it. If we continue the trend of the last few games though, don’t expect to get beaten badly (or at all) on Saturday. Especially don’t expect to be impressed by what you see from the us. Hopefully we can turn things around and play how we should so we can represent the conference well in March. Having Markis McDuffie back should help us.

In the meantime, here’s to a great game Saturday!
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There are only a handful of folks left that believe we can beat you this Saturday. And even the folks that still believe know that it will take a mental toughness that we have not displayed for more than 10 minutes all season. Welcome to the Boneyard, and good luck for the rest of the season with the exception of Saturday...
 
JKLshocker said:
Hey guys. I’ve been reading The Boneyard off and on since we joined the conference. Let me just say it’s a joy to be in a conference with a program like UCONN. I really hope that you guys back to playing like the team I remember, it could really elevate this conference to the next level I think. You are a top 10 program, you can draw a top-tier coach.

As for our game this Saturday, we have not looked good at all the last 4 games. We should be a top 10 team, given how we played at the end of last year and the fact that we returned everyone except 1 minor role player. I’m not sure what our deal is. We did lose two long-time assistants over the offseason so maybe that’s it. If we continue the trend of the last few games though, don’t expect to get beaten badly (or at all) on Saturday. Especially don’t expect to be impressed by what you see from the us. Hopefully we can turn things around and play how we should so we can represent the conference well in March. Having Markis McDuffie back should help us.

In the meantime, here’s to a great game Saturday!
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How close were you guys to ever signing Wilson-Frame?

Thanks for stopping by.
 
JMick said:
Susan inexplicably gets left off the hook for this disaster. Everything she has touched with Athletics has gone to
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Not going to say everything she's done has worked but I think this may be a bit of an exaggeration.
 
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BLUEDOGHOUSE said:
How close were you guys to ever signing Wilson-Frame?

Thanks for stopping by.
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I’m not sure. It was kind of a weird situation. Apparently he had connections to WSU and it seemed like he wanted to come here, then his recruitment just completely fell off the map. I really liked what I saw in his highlight videos and really wanted him to be a shocker. I’m not sure if interest was lost on his side or our side.
 
Losing P5 talent has hurt. We lost- Enoch, Durham, Jackson, plus the graduates of Purvis, Brimah and Facey. We replaced them with mid major talent- DO, Anderson, Polley, Whaley, Cobb, and Williams.

Bad recruiting class and defections has killed us and that’s all on Ollie. Plus the offense he runs is just pathetic and he refuses to adjust to the lineup we have.

Time for him to go and blow this team up. Players will transfer and decommit but a new coach can bring in their own players.
 
gampelcrazies said:
And did you sell how many they sold? Unless it snows expect a pretty packed house.
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I don't know how many they sold, but the seat selection for the discount seats was pretty crappy so I imagine the decent seats are sold. I agree it will be pretty packed barring a weather event.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
None of the above. I want Tommy Amaker. He’s got a better recruiting class coming in to Harvard than we have coming to UConn. He is smart and given our resources would win here.
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His only two good years were 2011 and 2014. If Harvard was consistently atop of the Ivy League I’d be more impressed. But they’re up and down.
 
How about Mark Jackson (former NBA coach), I think he would be an outstanding recruiter.

If Tulane can get Dunleavy we can get an NBA guy.
 
gampelcrazies said:
You do realize they already sold 80-90% of tickets for this game right?
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At $15 a ticket,that is quite an accomplishment—-not.
If we get blown out again, we,ll be lucky to get 5000 a game for the rest of the season unless we give tickets away.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
We need to take a page out of Florida's firing of Jim McElwain. They avoided paying him out by pointing towards his claims of people threatening him online that could not be corroborated. His misconduct nullified the buyout. I think UF probably didn't want to give him the buyout and then searched for a reason to get him on a technicality. Given the number of stories we've all heard about ollie, we could probably find something and get out of it
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They paid out 7.5m to his 12.5million contractual buyout. Partly because he didn't disclose evidence of death threats. Partly because his agent didn't really want to fight. His agent represented a couple of top candidates to replace JM, so he didn't want to create bad blood. Talk about conflict of interest.

Weird situation. I think JM could have gotten more.
 
metsfan2323 said:
How about Mark Jackson (former NBA coach), I think he would be an outstanding recruiter.

If Tulane can get Dunleavy we can get an NBA guy.
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They can't afford to go with "think". They gotta go with "know".
 
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UConnStats said:
His only two good years were 2011 and 2014. If Harvard was consistently atop of the Ivy League I’d be more impressed. But they’re up and down.
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And the Ivy's are a totally different ball game. You aren't really looking at the same types of guys when recruiting there. Different recruiting draws too.
 
metsfan2323 said:
How about Mark Jackson (former NBA coach), I think he would be an outstanding recruiter.

If Tulane can get Dunleavy we can get an NBA guy.
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Mark Jackson might be the closest coaching candidate to our current KO as could be technically possible. If you want KO gone, Mark Jackson is the worst possible replacement.
 
Pat Kelsey at Winthrop's another name...he's the guy who backed out on UMass at the last second, they're rebuilding this year but he's done really well there.

I'd go all out for Hurley.
 
BUConn10 said:
Mark Jackson might be the closest coaching candidate to our current KO as could be technically possible. If you want KO gone, Mark Jackson is the worst possible replacement.
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To be fair, he left the Warriors and they went in the tank-


wait.
 
Banta55 said:
You got it, their is enough
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husky429 said:
Doubt uconn has to pay him the full amount if KO wants to play hard ball. We all know why.
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Not enough to be able to win a legal fight imo. I know what most of the transgressions are, and none would qualify as 'cause' I'd think. He didn't substantially embarrass the University brand (outside of stinking) or make them liable for anything.

EDIT: I'm not a lawyer, so this take is kind of opinion. I'm sure better educated folks could clarify.
 
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