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Message: [QUOTE="boog204, post: 2539942, member: 880"] All of this may be true. But Hurley has the name, budding success, and the buzz that would make players want to come here. We heard from numerous sources (real ones, not Chief) that KOs (and as a result, UConn's) name are a bit tarnished on the recruiting trail. We are easy to recruit against with the defections, the negative pub, our own coaches admission that we are a "sinking ship." Bringing in new blood; a guy who has a building rep would do wonders to restore some normalcy to the problem. What that new normalcy is, we do not know. But I'm not much of a fan of the "norm" that KO has established here. The title is what is keeping KO here, but that title was fortuitous in many ways. We had Amida for four years. I feel like I could count on my hand the number of times he made a tough catch off an offensive board and finished. On the converse, I lost track of the number of times he was caught completely flat-footed and was a non-factor on the boards. We were very lucky to win that St. Joe's game. After that, Bazz, Boat, and DD were able to do their thing with KO motivating the hell out of them. But we were outplayed in that St. Joe's game and we should have lost. I really thought, even with a depleted roster of sorts, that KO would bring them together this year. I was not expecting a final four team, but I was expecting something significantly better than the tire fire that rolls out there every game. That's it for me. I have seen little to no improvement in the players (not all KOs fault, obviously), we are a recruiting and attracting a lesser stratum of players (Blaze?), and worst yet, the x and o aspect of our game is at an all-time low. When opposing scouts cite us as "the easiest scout" they've ever done and the pundits are stating that "UConn would not win the America East" then it is time to clean the house before those rats KO so idiotically used as positive, devour the whole freaking thing. [/QUOTE]

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