Calhoun regrets?

[TitleTown]

Four years of disappointment are worth a title, and there's no guarantee another coach would've gotten us there in 2014.

No regrets. Hopefully KO lands on his feet.

Are you joking? They won in spite of Ollie and not because of him! Any other human being with a pulse could have won with that senior laden team that basically coached itself. Ollie has completely run this program into the ground.

 

[Dove]

Don’t assume Calhoun had zero to do with the Hurley/Moore arrival.

His presence is all over this move. The Jeff/Dan All Star room mate connection. The Blaney connection. The Calhoun Visit !!

 

[Huskybass]

Are you joking? They won in spite of Ollie and not because of him! Any other human being with a pulse could have won with that senior laden team that basically coached itself. Ollie has completely run this program into the ground.

Ollie needs too get some credit for a successful 20 win first season and the NC in his second season. What he brought back then was confidence and a "refuse to lose" mentality. You could see it when he walked out onto the court before the games. He truly believed that UConn would find a way to win those games, and they did.

For a variety of reasons, that resolve, confidence and rapport with the players ceased to exist over time. The results over the past two years were really, really bad. But you cant take away the success he led UConn to in his first two seasons. He was undeniably a significant part of the 2014 National Championship, even though that team was absolutely stacked with upperclassmen and had the best player in the nation. They got it done under his leadership; you cant take that away from him.

 

[mpfitz85]

Fun thought exercise about the 14 team. If JC is still the coach, does that team have a more consistent regular season and get a higher seed in the Tournament?

 

[HuskyBandDad]

Are you joking? They won in spite of Ollie and not because of him! Any other human being with a pulse could have won with that senior laden team that basically coached itself. Ollie has completely run this program into the ground.

So you you blame the coach for the dumpster fire but give no credit to him for winning. OK.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Any other human being with a pulse could have won.. .

I was torn between bumping the Comment or the affirmation of the comment that many on this board underestimate how hard it is to win the NC. And then came this.

What else have you got?

 

[KemBaller]

Blaze strategy = arguing with your own hallucinations. Chief's the master.

Man definitely has a monologue in front of the mirror before posting.

 

[KemBaller]

I was torn between bumping the Comment or the affirmation of the comment that many on this board underestimate how hard it is to win the NC. And then came this.

What else have you got?

I was one of the first adopters of the fire Ollie section, but even I can't say he wasn't amazing in the 2014 tourney. Pretty much everything he did during that run from rotations to enthusiasm to being a vocal presence with the refs was spot on. That being said I do think people on here glamorize that 14 team as more of an underdog team than they really were. I think that team was as good or better as anyone that's won a title since, and the roster construction and usage came at a time when Calhoun was much more involved than he was the last few years.