Borges: Moore confused he’s yet to land job

[tcf15]

Former UConn assistant Ricky Moore confused he’s yet to land job
Now that Kevin Freeman is reportedly taking a job as an assistant coach at Penn State, everyone from Kevin Ollie’s UConn staff last season has landed on his feet.

Everyone, that is, except Ricky Moore. And he’s a bit miffed by it all.

“I’m still confused about how everyone has a job except for me,” Moore said by phone on Thursday morning. “I don’t get it. It’s very strange.”

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Lol is he throwing shade at all the other coaches?

 

[Stainmaster]

This should go well.

 

[husky99]

Sometimes less is more. The correct answer is I am in talks with a few schools.

 

[pj]

Glen Miller took six months to get a job, and dropped to DIII to do it. He was a former head coach and had won championships as an assistant. Ricky needs to work on his sales pitch.

 

[rip7774]

I always thought Rickey got this job only bc he was on '99 team and friends with KO. Hope he lands on his feet but thrilled for the new highly-qualified guys!!!!

 

[JimHurley]

Ricky Moore looked completely disinterested and bored on the bench. I never saw him contribute to any in-game coaching.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Former UConn assistant Ricky Moore confused he’s yet to land job
Now that Kevin Freeman is reportedly taking a job as an assistant coach at Penn State, everyone from Kevin Ollie’s UConn staff last season has landed on his feet.

Everyone, that is, except Ricky Moore. And he’s a bit miffed by it all.

“I’m still confused about how everyone has a job except for me,” Moore said by phone on Thursday morning. “I don’t get it. It’s very strange.”

Ricky nothing to be confused about it’s perception.
That’s why Kevin made the right choice in taking the Penn State job.
The wisest thing for a career oriented former star player is to take a job at another school
The perception not necessarily the reality is your just another former player with little to contribute who was tossed a bone because of his star status. Unfair but life is unfair
Freeman’s out was he was retained even though the rest of the coaching staff was canned giving him a perception of competence.
Ricky will have to depend on someone in the Calhoun family giving him a chance.,or he might be forced into a lower level job.

 

[pj]

Ricky nothing to be confused about it’s perception.
That’s why Kevin made the right choice in taking the Penn State job.
The wisest thing for a career oriented former star player is to take a job at another school
The perception not necessarily the reality is your just another former player with little to contribute who was tossed a bone because of his star status. Unfair but life is unfair
Freeman’s out was he was retained even though the rest of the coaching staff was canned giving him a perception of competence.
Ricky will have to depend on someone in the Calhoun family giving him a chance.,or he might be forced into a lower level job.

Calhoun and Hurley started with high school coaching. There's nothing wrong with working your way up.

 

[Huskyforlife]

UGA should look into Ricky next time they need an assistant, Georgia guy with Northeast connections and a championship. Never seemed from the outside he had a huge impact, but he did bring Gilbert from Georgia. Best of luck to him!

 

[upstater]

Ricky Moore looked completely disinterested and bored on the bench. I never saw him contribute to any in-game coaching.

That's funny. I saw him always engaged, always coaching, never disinterested.

 

[LIuconn]

Glen Miller took six months to get a job, and dropped to DIII to do it. He was a former head coach and had won championships as an assistant. Ricky needs to work on his sales pitch.

..or Glen Miller might have some money and could be extremely selective? Sounds like Ricky needs a headhunter. I hope he gets what he wants

 

[tcf15]

UGA should look into Ricky next time they need an assistant, Georgia guy with Northeast connections and a championship. Never seemed from the outside he had a huge impact, but he did bring Gilbert from Georgia. Best of luck to him!

Not sure if you read the article, but apparently Jim Calhoun felt the same way. Calhoun reached out to Tom Crean but Crean never called back.

 

[superjohn]

That's funny. I saw him always engaged, always coaching, never disinterested.

lol, our staff looked like pallbearers.

 

[tcf15]

Ricky Moore looked completely disinterested and bored on the bench. I never saw him contribute to any in-game coaching.

 

[Chief00]

Given the gag order I will talk in general terms.
There might be a perception out there that a head coach seldom creates NCAA violations by himself. If we were any kind of normal setup last year (which we weren’t) the head coach would have plausible deniability and the assistants would actually commit the violations and the issue for the head coach would be degree of institutional control.
So with the other assistants hired and you assume the other schools vetted them in regards to this investigation via Benedict - Ricky has a bullseye on his back. Fair or unfair. The other factor may be DK and Chill worked at other schools where Ricky had a more limited experience at Dartmouth.
Of course, Kfree getting a job must hurt because he did not have the experience of working elsewhere. I do believe though that Kfree’s situation was more knowing a particular person.

 

[JimHurley]

That's funny. I saw him always engaged, always coaching, never disinterested.

I sat front row in the student section almost every game and I think he spent more time looking in the stands than the game. I wish the guy best of luck as I do with every former player but I don't think he contributed much on the bench.

 

[Chief00]

Former UConn assistant Ricky Moore confused he’s yet to land job
Now that Kevin Freeman is reportedly taking a job as an assistant coach at Penn State, everyone from Kevin Ollie’s UConn staff last season has landed on his feet.

Everyone, that is, except Ricky Moore. And he’s a bit miffed by it all.

“I’m still confused about how everyone has a job except for me,” Moore said by phone on Thursday morning. “I don’t get it. It’s very strange.”

What I got out of this article was Tom Crean did not return Jim Calhoun’s call. LOL

 

[AdamaNation]

UGA should look into Ricky next time they need an assistant, Georgia guy with Northeast connections and a championship. Never seemed from the outside he had a huge impact, but he did bring Gilbert from Georgia. Best of luck to him!

Anywhere in Georgia makes sense for him for recruiting at least

 

[Palatine]

Still the best on ball defender in the history of the program.

 

[husky429]

The staff failed from top to bottom. He needs a restart at a low level program. Best of luck. He seemed bored, but always a good guy.

 

[intlzncster]

lol, our staff looked like pallbearers.

That's more on KO than the staff imo. It's the environment he set up which I don't think encouraged guys to challenge him or freelance.

 

[upstater]

I sat front row in the student section almost every game and I think he spent more time looking in the stands than the game. I wish the guy best of luck as I do with every former player but I don't think he contributed much on the bench.

The picture I have of Ricky is him with a marker board in hand showing a player something. He was the only one who seemed to talk to the players.

 

[upstater]

Up 26 points.

 

[BUConn10]

My main memory of Moore on the sidelines under the Ollie administration was him talking into players' ears when they were visibly frustrated or upset over something that was exchanged between them and Ollie before getting benched.