As he tries to re-energize Brooklyn, Kevin Ollie’s willing to repair his side of bridge to UConn

[willie99]

^^^

The good ole institutional control violations

A former team manager goes rogue, even embezzels from RIP, Calhoun should have warned the world about him.

The wannabe agent paid for Miles to have a simple medical procedure done before arriving on campus. UConn would have paid for such once he was on campus

Miles was officially a Husky for < two months. He was a problem child, maybe not his fault because he had a bad life, and Calhoun thought he could mold him into a man. Never really had a chance to do so

 

[CL82]

UConn clearly fired him because of performance, not violations.

Do you think that UConn would have fired him that season if he did not commit the violations, lied to the A.D. and lied to the NCAA about it, etc.? I honestly do not.

 

[ucp990411]

Maybe he should donate 11 million to our NIL fund

 

[huskyfan224]

Stuff like this makes it hard for me to completely buy these behind the scenes rumors this board constantly talks about.

We had two bad years. One because of injuries, the other because of a mass exodus.

We had one bad recruiting class. A class that produced an All-Conference player, a Conference DPOY, and a Conference 6th Man of the year. Then yeah, one guy that had no business playing here.

Hell we even brought in elite transfers in Shonn Miller, Terry Larrier, and Rodney Purvis.

Some of yall make it seem like he had this long stretch of terrible play and recruiting though instead of one realistically bad year. Even in his last year he still didn’t have his All American PG that he brought in.

It was more unlucky than disgraceful.

Lol, I’ve watched basketball for decades and those last 2 years under him almost made me stop watching it for good.

 

[tzznandrew]

It wasn’t just recruiting. It was Xs and Os in terms of game planning and in-game adjustments (how many horrific losses did we have?). And worst of all, it was player development. Hamilton, Adams and Brimah made no progress under KO. The staff just completely took its foot of the pedal, and that’s on KO. You’re sugarcoating things.

All that said, that’s just a lack of performance. And I don’t blame him for suing; UConn clearly fired him because of performance, not violations. Fishy is making rather nasty allegations about things KO supposedly did, but unless someone’s going to tell me what those things are, then I’m going to remain in favor of mending fences.

TL;DR As someone said above, multiple things can be true at once.

I think everything in this is 100% correct. It wasn't just two years—it was under-performing every single year except for the title year. It was not developing players, which is what led to them transferring. It was having no offensive scheme and consistently getting out-coached even when we were healthy. The year after they won the title they scored 44 points in a loss to Yale. A team that played Boatright, Hamilton, Brimah, Purvis, and Facey. The recruiting wasn't just a one year thing, either. The group of kids coming in before KO got fired were not UConn level. If you think we reached rock bottom, you can't imagine how bad it would have gotten with players like Kisunas. And this is after they took more 20 point beatings than any UConn team ever. They got smacked by 40 some nights like we were a MAC team.

Whatever happened, the team tanked. KO should have been let go. I hear rumors thrown around about this all the time, and unless people are willing to say what happened, I have to dismiss them.

KO was an integral player on some of our best teams and our first ever #1 ranked team. He was a great assistant on the 2011 team, and he was the coach that won us title #4. Without that title, the program may not have had the juice to get someone like Hurley, since might look like we were a one-coach wonder.

The messiness is what it is. The university took a bad path, and paid dearly for it. But I want the program to be able to comfortably honor 2014, and that incudes KO. I want the early 1990s greats to feel fully welcome. Time heals, if you let it. People grow and change. Bitterness and held grudges are diseases of the soul.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I have a hearty dislike for people who get paid a ton of money to do a job and they just mail it in, so I’m a no for now. In time and under certain circumstances I might be swayed but he dug a really big hole despite leading us to a title and the respect I have for him as a player.

 

[Deleted at users request]

It wasn’t just recruiting. It was Xs and Os in terms of game planning and in-game adjustments (how many horrific losses did we have?). And worst of all, it was player development. Hamilton, Adams and Brimah made no progress under KO. The staff just completely took its foot of the pedal, and that’s on KO. You’re sugarcoating things.

All that said, that’s just a lack of performance. And I don’t blame him for suing; UConn clearly fired him because of performance, not violations. Fishy is making rather nasty allegations about things KO supposedly did, but unless someone’s going to tell me what those things are, then I’m going to remain in favor of mending fences.

TL;DR As someone said above, multiple things can be true at once.

I’m not saying everything was great or perfect. I’m just saying it wasn’t as bad as people make it seem. We still went to the tournament in 2016, won the AAC tournament, and lost to a Kansas juggernaut that year.

It was really those two god awful years, one caused by injury and that was it. Recruiting was bad for literally one year and even that one year ended up having some really quality players.

I agree with everything you’re saying at the end of the day. Like you said multiple things can be true at once.