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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2449547, member: 5436"] First of all, to answer your utterly false retort that Ollie only came up with an ingenious out-of-the-box strategy to win the Championship game versus Kentucky and not the other games is another one of your groups' canards. Again... makes you look like a fool. I mean seriously. Did you even watch any of those 6 games? Kevin Ollie ate Jay Wright's lunch in the round of 32 game against Villanova - and without Shabazz for the last 12 crucial minutes of the first half of that game, I might add. If you need me to go more in-depth on this and the other games and continue to show you for the ignorant fool you are being, by all means let me know. That 6-game run does not define a career, but he sure as hell deserves a lot more credit for that 4th National Championship than you want to give him credit for. What I do not understand about guys like you, BlueDogs, Freescooter and others is that you seem incapable of being able to admit that the same person can be the one most responsible (with huge help from others, starting obviously with Shabazz) for something great: our National Championship in 2014, and also the most responsible for this more recent period, when by most measures he has been doing a less than stellar job. What is so hard about understanding that, and admitting to it? And yes... to come out and say that Ollie was "lucky" for winning the championship in 2014 is to disrespect it. It certainly disrespects him. And he was the Head Coach at the time. Every one of you takes it for granted that we would have won that year if Calhoun was coaching that team... and that is disrespectful of that team and what they and Ollie accomplished together. I would put any other coaches odds of winning that title with that group running through that group of 6 opponents at about 1 in 10. And that is probably generous. And before you come out with some sort of response that I have anything but the greatest respect for what Jim Calhoun did for this university by saying he most likely would not have won that National Championship in 2014, let me just state again that I will always believe that Jim Calhoun was one of the 2 or 3 best coaches that men's college basketball has ever seen. And his building of our program may well be the best building job ever. Period. But he is also the same coach who just a year after his 3rd National Championship in 2011 was also the head coach who led the 2011-2012 preseason ranked #4 team in the country to a 20-14 ranking, 8-10 in the Big East and a rather atrocious 13-point loss to Iowa State in the first round of the 2012 NCAA tournament in a game that we were not in at all after halftime. Did the team under-achieve that year and in that game? By almost any measure, yes. Does that take away from Jim Calhoun's legacy at the University of Connecticut overall? No [/QUOTE]

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