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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2218741, member: 5436"] You are right HuskiesAllDay - this point has been discussed to death. And you are also right that it goes the same way every time. And then you go on to craft the rest of your point as if your side is 100% fact and those who rebutt you are making "excuses." Which of course is your not so subtle way to say you are right and anyone who posts counter points is overlooking what is obvious to all of us - which is why you use the word "excuses" instead of some other term that gives the debate more legitimacy. Except that you and others who make your point consistently do so as if the issues of the last 3 years are almost entirely KO's fault. No blame to Calhoun (which is patently false. The greatest men's college basketball program builder ever made several major mistakes in his last 5 years as head of the program that were going to negatively affect whomever succeeded him. Yet every time you make an argument about poor player development, you never once reference that aspect of it... ever. Because of course it weakens your point that the blame lies with KO). Also no blame to conference affiliation (a small part, but a part... and again that continuing debacle had nothing to do with KO either). These views/points are not mutually exclusive or at opposite ends of the spectrum as you make them. Player development the last few years has been pretty poor. Last year in particular. You and everyone who feels that way are right. The people making "excuses" largely feel the same way as you do. But we also see a coach who has done some good things and a few great ones during his 5-year tenure. A coach who started his head coaching career with a legitimately serious handicap, thanks in significant part to his predecessor... and therefore deserves to have these legitimate, also factual counter points (not excuses) made on his behalf. And, if you feel that makes me a "Pollyanna" or delusional, I offer you are comparison. I refer you to our own football discussion board. I have never once posted a single point in support of either Paul Pasqualoni or Bob Diaco in 6 1/2 years. Why? Because they were both lousy coaches, lousy at development, mostly lousy at recruiting (particularly Diaco), lousy at in-game coaching and in the 2nd case proved beyond a shadow of a doubt he was totally in over his head and unfit to be a head coach of a Division I college program. Diaco embarrassed himself and UConn on multiple occasions. Kevin Ollie has never embarrassed us or himself in that manner. Bottom line: I do not offer support to anyone who has not earned it on some level. [/QUOTE]

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