BC Grad Transfer Deontae Hawkins:

[Jaker]

Judging by the kids list of schools, he wants to play for a true mid major, so that puts us out of the equation.

 

[LStudfellow]

Don't blame the fan base because KO steered the ship into the rocks while going full steam ahead. Your screechy tl:dr posts are the Boneyard version of "The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves."

Ah, yes... I am quite sure my post hit the mark when you chime in Waquoit... "screechy", eh?

At least I back up my points with facts and history... not like you, who constantly comes on this board to spew hatred with points where you often conflate the truth toward a man who has shown a thousand times more loyalty, respect and love for this program and what it is supposed to stand for than an obtuse, sniveling social media troll like you.

The fact is, you could not carry the man's jock. In basketball, nor in life. Only idiots like you would ever stand behind a position that this man does not deserve a chance to turn things around after what he has done as a player, as a coach and as a representative of this program and University over the last 25 years - he did, after all, save the team in 2013 in one of our darkest times, and then lead those same players to a National Title the next year... although I am quite sure that you constantly tell yourself you would have done that and more when you talk to yourself in the mirror in your bathroom every night.

 

[lange10]

I still maintain that UConn needs to pivot in terms of recruiting tactics. I see nothing wrong with setting up a welcoming committee similar to Louisville's of a few years ago. Really, you just have to be better in your execution. You can't argue with those National Championship results.

It's been discussed but I seriously wonder the impact of the dying party scene has on recruits. All parties in Mansfield are shut down within an hour at this point.

Even Bunkey would have a tough time selling recruits in the current landscape.

 

[Waquoit]

At least I back up my points with facts and history

Any history you cite is ancient history, any facts you use are irrelevant and usually wrong. Like when you say, "Only idiots like you would ever stand behind a position that this man does not deserve a chance to turn things around." Or the I "spew hatred". I don't take those insults personally, you make it easy to consider the source. I'm on record saying that a title gives you five more years. I hope he does turn it around but I see nothing going on now to give me hope. I want you knobs to tell me I'm wrong. But you would be more credible if you waited until he actually had some current success until you do. All he's done is rearrange the deck chairs. The fact is this program is in dire straights because of KO. Your screeds insulting fans won't change that. And don't question my loyalty, I'll still be buying season tickets and going to games and supporting the team when KO is on the beach counting his buyout money.

 

[mauconnfan]

Any history you cite is ancient history, any facts you use are irrelevant and usually wrong. Like when you say, "Only idiots like you would ever stand behind a position that this man does not deserve a chance to turn things around." Or the I "spew hatred". I don't take those insults personally, you make it easy to consider the source. I'm on record saying that a title gives you five more years. I hope he does turn it around but I see nothing going on now to give me hope. I want you knobs to tell me I'm wrong. But you would be more credible if you waited until he actually had some current success until you do. All he's done is rearrange the deck chairs. The fact is this program is in dire straights because of KO. Your screeds insulting fans won't change that. And don't question my loyalty, I'll still be buying season tickets and going to games and supporting the team when KO is on the beach counting his buyout money.

There's no questioning your loyalty as you do go to games no doubt. But this KNOB questions you as one of those who'd prefer to say he was right about KO rather than see him succeed. I mean counting his money on the beach, really you speak of a player/coach who had given so much in such a matter of fact way? He has made mistakes but desereves a shot to revive his wrongdoings whatever they may have been. We all know he's a great guy, how far could he have gone to "ruin" everything to the point of no return. I doubt we are there but I know how much happier you will be if he's counting his buyout money than if they win 25 games, it's obvious.

 

[Waquoit]

I know how much happier you will be if he's counting his buyout money than if they win 25 games, it's obvious.

No, you don't. This is my team. It's been my team for decades. It was my team for decades before they won anything. If Ollie ends up on the beach it will mean that the program has crashed and burned. That would hurt me more than most anyone on this board.

 

[mauconnfan]

No, you don't. This is my team. It's been my team for decades. It was my team for decades before they won anything. If Ollie ends up on the beach it will mean that the program has crashed and burned. That would hurt me more than most anyone on this board.

You don't act that way. Someone who thinks they have that much skin in the game would try to be more positive about how things will be, should be despite the obvious speed bump we're driving over. He has something to prove but back to the wall I like who we have. If they didn't hire KO we wouldn't have #4 I promise you that. Now we all need to lean on who we know he is and will be again. The alternative is unacceptable at this point.

Hang with the Knobs just a little you'll smile a little more at least.

 

[intlzncster]

I'm on record saying that a title gives you five more years. I hope he does turn it around but I see nothing going on now to give me hope. I want you knobs to tell me I'm wrong. But you would be more credible if you waited until he actually had some current success until you do. All he's done is rearrange the deck chairs. The fact is this program is in dire straights because of KO.

In reality this is the most salient point. None of us know. It doesn't look good right now. But the jury is out. Closer to a judgment, but still undecided.

And agreed on the title thing. No matter what the naysayers claim, Ollie built on JC's and UCONN's legacy significantly. He's doing his best to tear that down now, but it doesn't change the former fact.

The future is unwritten. C'mon KO, pull your head out.

 

[Fishy]

All you need to do to make these people happy is to pretend that what's happening isn't actually happening.

 

[mauconnfan]

All you need to do to make these people happy is to pretend that what's happening isn't actually happening.

That's not it at all Fishy but keep up the fight for the program to crash. No one is blind but what's wrong with hoping they win games this year and getting some kind of hope back? There's some real good kids still wearing that uni I can't wait to see how they do. What good does it do to continually crap on a steamy pile?

 

[JMick]

It's been discussed but I seriously wonder the impact of the dying party scene has on recruits. All parties in Mansfield are shut down within an hour at this point.

Even Bunkey would have a tough time selling recruits in the current landscape.

I think it has at least something to do with it. From what I've heard it just keeps getting worse and worse.

 

[intlzncster]

I see nothing wrong with setting up a welcoming committee similar to Louisville's of a few years ago.

I think they want a perimeter player, Purvis or Daniels type, as a transfer. That's why they were going after Daniels and Doughty

Do perimeter players really like hookers or something?

 

[Blaneylover]

All you need to do to make these people happy is to pretend that what's happening isn't actually happening.

Exactly!

 

[pj]

All you need to do to make these people happy is to pretend that what's happening isn't actually happening.

What's visibly happening isn't a disaster unless it continues happening. One bad year, on the court, on the recruiting trail, and in the locker room, doesn't imply that all years will be bad.

If you have inside information on what's happening that indicates a continuing and enduring failure is in progress, then share it. If you don't, how can you expect us to take your doom and gloom as any more rational than an optimism based on 2014?

 

[UConnNick]

It's been discussed but I seriously wonder the impact of the dying party scene has on recruits. All parties in Mansfield are shut down within an hour at this point.

Even Bunkey would have a tough time selling recruits in the current landscape.

If we have now become relegated to ramping up the Storrs party scene to attract recruits, we have far worse problems than anything Ollie and the present coaching staff can solve. Some of us on this forum attended UConn during an era when there was almost nothing in Storrs. In the mid 70's we had Ted's, Huskies, the Rathskeller in the Student Union building, and nothing else. It's worlds better now than it was back in those days, but it's still a rural setting 30 minutes from any place of any size. Ollie and the current coaching staff can't move the school to a more urban location to satisfy recruits. Somehow, those of us who attended UConn back in the 60's, 70's and 80's figured out a way to have a social life there. That should be far easier to do now than it was then.

 

[lange10]

I think it has at least something to do with it. From what I've heard it just keeps getting worse and worse.

I just graduated in May. This past year was BRUTAL. Cops don't even patrol carriage anymore on Fridays/Saturdays because they know kids won't even try at this point.

 

[TRest]

If we have now become relegated to ramping up the Storrs party scene to attract recruits, we have far worse problems than anything Ollie and the present coaching staff can solve. Some of us on this forum attended UConn during an era when there was almost nothing in Storrs. In the mid 70's we had Ted's, Huskies, the Rathskeller in the Student Union building, and nothing else. It's worlds better now than it was back in those days, but it's still a rural setting 30 minutes from any place of any size. Ollie and the current coaching staff can't move the school to a more urban location to satisfy recruits. Somehow, those of us who attended UConn back in the 60's, 70's and 80's figured out a way to have a social life there. That should be far easier to do now than it was then.

i graduated in 1983. There were 3 package stores that delivered free to dorm rooms, anything from a six of Heff to 5 half kegs of Bud. We didn't need no stinkin' bars.

 

[JMick]

I just graduated in May. This past year was BRUTAL. Cops don't even patrol carriage anymore on Fridays/Saturdays because they know kids won't even try at this point.

I graduated in 2014. It started getting bad in 2011 and by my junior year there were no more parties up and down hunting lodge. it's really sad. If I had to pick a school right now, I wouldn't go to UConn.

 

[UConniki]

All you need to do to make these people happy is to pretend that what's happening isn't actually happening.

Especially mauconnfan!

 

[JMick]

If we have now become relegated to ramping up the Storrs party scene to attract recruits, we have far worse problems than anything Ollie and the present coaching staff can solve. Some of us on this forum attended UConn during an era when there was almost nothing in Storrs. In the mid 70's we had Ted's, Huskies, the Rathskeller in the Student Union building, and nothing else. It's worlds better now than it was back in those days, but it's still a rural setting 30 minutes from any place of any size. Ollie and the current coaching staff can't move the school to a more urban location to satisfy recruits. Somehow, those of us who attended UConn back in the 60's, 70's and 80's figured out a way to have a social life there. That should be far easier to do now than it was then.

the UConn social and party scene isn't even a shell of its former self, it's an unmitigated disaster.

 

[Waquoit]

I graduated in 2014. It started getting bad in 2011 and by my junior year there were no more parties up and down hunting lodge. it's really sad. If I had to pick a school right now, I wouldn't go to UConn.

It was all over when they built that Taj Mahal for the campus cops.

 

[JMick]

i graduated in 1983. There were 3 package stores that delivered free to dorm rooms, anything from a six of Heff to 5 half kegs of Bud. We didn't need no stinkin' bars.

I think every UConn student would trade the bars for being able to get away with what students did in the 80s and 90s.

 

[UConnNick]

the UConn social and party scene isn't even a shell of its former self, it's an unmitigated disaster.

In my view, if it's that important to any recruit(s) that we have a kick ass party scene at UConn, then maybe those aren't the type of recruits we want to be getting.

 

[JMick]

In my view, if it's that important to any recruit(s) that we have a kick ass party scene at UConn, then maybe those aren't the type of recruits we want to be getting.

it isn't a bad party scene. there is no party scene. if you want a bunch of celibates and teetotalers for recruits go be a BYU fan.

 

[ucp990411]

Judging by the kids list of schools, he wants to play for a true mid major, so that puts us out of the equation.

Are you saying we are lower or higher than a mid major? Because that is exactly what we have become.

 

[mauconnfan]

Especially mauconnfan!

Wow creative and hilarious

 

[intlzncster]

In my view, if it's that important to any recruit(s) that we have a kick ass party scene at UConn, then maybe those aren't the type of recruits we want to be getting.

Yeah, those guys just go to Arizona, UCLA, UK, and UNC.

 

[Huskyforlife]

In my view, if it's that important to any recruit(s) that we have a kick ass party scene at UConn, then maybe those aren't the type of recruits we want to be getting.

Too bad that's everyone.

 

[LStudfellow]

I think every UConn student would trade the bars for being able to get away with what students did in the 80s and 90s.

I was at UConn from 1986 to 1991... A good time, but the campus and sometimes Mansfield police as well as the campus drinking rules in general were already starting to crack down. We had parties at several houses right off the edge of campus once we were able to get our guys into those houses. The cops would eventually show up, but we did get a few hours of fun in before they did.

In actuality the "UConn is a party school" reputation was built in the late 1970's through the mid 80's when the national drinking age was 18. The guy who took me up to tour campus when I was in high school was a UConn grad from 1981... and he told me he had a beer mug on his bureau, and from Wednesday or Thursday night through Saturday night many weekends he would just grab his mug, walk out his dorm room door and there were parties happening in pretty much every campus quad area - now THAT was the time when the students were getting away with everything... and that is how UConn got all the way up to #6 on the Playboy list of party schools.

The drinking age being moved back up to 21 in 1986 started this pendulum swing that now has messed with the on campus social (drinking) scene

But the late 70's into the 80's? Those were the days...

 

[LStudfellow]

Any history you cite is ancient history, any facts you use are irrelevant and usually wrong. Like when you say, "Only idiots like you would ever stand behind a position that this man does not deserve a chance to turn things around." Or the I "spew hatred". I don't take those insults personally, you make it easy to consider the source. I'm on record saying that a title gives you five more years. I hope he does turn it around but I see nothing going on now to give me hope. I want you knobs to tell me I'm wrong. But you would be more credible if you waited until he actually had some current success until you do. All he's done is rearrange the deck chairs. The fact is this program is in dire straights because of KO. Your screeds insulting fans won't change that. And don't question my loyalty, I'll still be buying season tickets and going to games and supporting the team when KO is on the beach counting his buyout money.

Great... you go to games. Bravo. I do as well when they are down here in my neck of the woods (south Florida). And used to go to many games when I was still living up there, and watched any game on TV that I could not get to live. We can give each other a certificate of appreciation... I am sure the Athletic Department will have those in the mail to us.... tomorrow.

Before I rebut your diatribe, I will give you this: ... since I was often on the football game day threads last year... you were definitely right about Diaco. Now he IS/WAS an idiot, was in way over his head, was a terrible game day and game situation coach and was ruining the football program.

As for Ollie: the fact is, you have absolutely been spewing hatred toward Ollie (and even Chillious... after only 2 months). I could show half a dozen posts off the last month alone that prove my point about you Waquoit. You can call me a "knob" all you want. But I know to show respect and give some latitude to a man who has brought a lot more to this university than you... or me. Kind of makes you the knob Waquoit, not me.

Furthermore, to put all of the blame on KO for the current state of our program is just plain false, and a "rearranging" of the truth of all the things that have happened over the last 5 years. You are either ignorant, or you have an agenda. For one thing, unless KO is the one who botched this whole Conference Realignment crap for us... which of course he is not... then he could not possibly be 100% at fault. He also is not to blame for the recruiting issues we had due to the Nate Miles debacle. Another truth that you can not erase from the program's history, no matter how hard you try. Yes, he deserves SOME of the blame for the current state of our program, of course. As I am on record as stating... not none of it, but not all of it either.

Perfect Example of you spewing hatred, but being silent when something good happens: We won a recruiting battle today... and the recruit specifically mentioned his conversation with Ollie as THE BIGGEST REASON he decided to come here. But since the recruit's statement is against your narrative you are nowhere to be found on either of the threads dedicated to the recruit (Kwintin Williams). Not surprising in the least. But you love to chime in when we lose out on a guy.... you do it all the time in that scenario.

And calling the job Ollie did in 2013, or that 6 game run in 2014 to the national title "rearranging deck chairs" is just as stupid as your ridiculous comment last week calling Chillious a failure for us missing out on a recruit after he has been here for 2 MONTHS. It shows that for all the games you go to, you don't know crap about a whole lot of things where high-level Divsion I basketball are concerned.