Assuming everyone is back

[tentoes4rings]

If Hurley comes I hope he knows that the team must be built as if Gilbert isn't there. Hurley can't fall into the same trap of depending on Gilbert. He has to recruit over him. It's tricky because AG will be the 1st-2nd best player on the team next year but you have to build the team like he's a role player in order to avoid what has happened already.

Or we can just heavily count on him to be fully healthy and blame our lack of success on his injury if it happens again.

 

[CL82]

Or we can just heavily count on him to be fully healthy and blame our lack of success on his injury if it happens again.

When you have a chance to get a three time preseason rookie of the year winner, you take it.

 

[Uconnfanatic]

For the most part i think the recruiting excuses for Ollie are just that. Excuses! The conference isnt the reason so many players that Ollie recruited either transferred or changed their mind about coming here. He also did a poor job of developing what talent he did bring in.

I agree that he did a poor job with player development. We went from a coach that was one of the best at player development to a coach that really struggled to develop the talent he had. In the past two years, I think negative recruiting was a significant factor. Not saying it was the only factor, but I think we lost some good recruits because of it.