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Calhoun regrets?

No regrets at all, I mean look how he started.

After 2012-2013 we thought we had our coach for the next 25 years.

After 2013-2014 we thought we would lose him to the NBA.

Then we all know what happened. Underachieving NIT team, underachieving 9 seed, losing season, losing season.

Say what you want about Napier carrying the team in 2012-2014 (and he did), but someone had to keep the squad together and coach them.

Regret how it ended, but in my world, you take a title any way you can get it.
 
Even if JC did regret it, no one but he would know
He would NEVER broadcast that sentiment and rightfully so.
The only thing I ever questioned was the timing
 
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No regrets at all. You have to make the best decision you can based on the data nd your own gut feeling. Once you make that decision you have to go with it. Yes, if it doesn't work out you have to evauate what wnt wrong, what was preventable and what was not but lookng back with regret is a futile effort.

I wasn't happy with the way Ollie was forced on the program and I was disturbed with what I saw from the season before this past one. However, Ollie deserved this past season to get things back on track and he didn't. He's gone, move on.
 
Mokum said:
In retrospect, who else thinks Calhoun regrets what he did to get Ollie the HC job? When you think about it, it was a pretty dumb thing. To put a guy in charge of a program like Uconn, with no HC experience and what, 3 years as an assistant? A nice career at Uconn, an overachiever in the NBA, a nice person, none of that qualifies you as a head coach. I feel bad for Ollie, he was in way over his head. JC should have known better. But of course he will never say it or admit he should not have done what he did.
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Not a qualm back.
 
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Did anyone else read Calhoun's book way back when? I feel like I remember a section on it that talked about coaches putting a bad coach in place to replace them so their legacy is cemented.

I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm just saying... I think it was in the book. Does anyone still have it around their house or actually remember? It's been at least 10 years since I skimmed it.
 
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Huskybass said:
UConn won a National Championship and we now have an excellent head coach. It all worked out fine.
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... and we get a chance to prove that we are among the very few elite programs to win a Natty under three ( or more ) different coaches.
 
Sphinx said:
I'd ask, respectfully, that you examine the logic of your response. Are you saying that the same KO deficiencies that left our men's basketball program in disarray also gave us the NC? Are you saying that a coach lacking those deficiencies would have been less likely to pull it off?

Or are you saying that a NC is pot luck and having one in hand is worth the destruction of a basketball program? Aren't JC's three championships proof that winning titles is not pot luck -- that winning titles is what strong programs do? And a strong program is what JC left to KO.

As to guarantees, where is the guarantee that Shabazz might not have led us to the title in 2014 with a competent coach? Where is the guarantee that a strong program, developed by a competent coach, might not by now have won a 5th NC, or a 6th? And be positioned to win more.

To answer the OP's question, I'm sure that JC does question his choice. Not that it was "dumb." It was questionable judgment, influenced more by friendship and good will than by objectivity. Perhaps KO deserved his chance and hence you are right in saying "No regrets." But definitely "second thoughts."
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First of all to say our basketball program has been destroyed is a foolish exaggeration. We are probably two players away from tournament bid with the prospect that some returning players will improve. UConn is not Pittsburgh.
JC did not coach UConn to its last NCC. KO was the coach and won it as a 7 seed and you can't take that away from him. We weren't the most talented team by a long shot.
So no matter how many rocks KO deserves to get thrown at him for the last 2 seasons his accomplishments shouldn't be dismissed.
It was time for a coaching change and I think we have the right guy but you never really know.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
If we're discussing how the '14 team won the national title, the strongest argument for why we won is we shot 89%+ as a TEAM from the foul line for the entire tournament. That is absolutely insane, and a testament to the emphasis the coaching staff put on it and the work the players put in.
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Was it Glenn Miller who worked the free throw drills? Is that correct?
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
If we're discussing how the '14 team won the national title, the strongest argument for why we won is we shot 89%+ as a TEAM from the foul line for the entire tournament. That is absolutely insane, and a testament to the emphasis the coaching staff put on it and the work the players put in.
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So right... if we miss even 5% more, it was a different tournament.
 
Mokum said:
In retrospect, who else thinks Calhoun regrets what he did to get Ollie the HC job?
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Regrets, he's had a few
But then again,
Too few to mention.
He did, what he had to do
And saw it through,
Without Exemption.
 
Nope, I was all in on the plan at the time. I Thought for sure it meant continuity, and our best bet to remain a top program.
 
Recruiting for KO wasn't all that bad originally it all fell apart with the transfers and decommits and the lack of development. KO did bring in Dham, Brimah, and Adams you wonder where they would all be drafted if they had solid coaching.
 
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Ollie is in the rearview now, and I'm sooooo glad about that, that I really don't care to ruminate on the question. Three weeks ago, I wasn't at all confident that the AD would have the stones to make a move, and another season of lifeless basketball might well have made this program bleed out, IMO. Instead, they got their first choice to come coach the team, and while there are zero guarantees that Hurley won't crash and burn too, the university has sent a message that they're committed to hunting the next championship.

So much hope I can hardly stand it!
 
I am committed to not judge Hurley on next season no matter what happens. This is not a 1 year building project, been reading how some think we are a top 25 team next year. Just don’t see that.
 
jibsey said:
I am committed to not judge Hurley on next season no matter what happens. This is not a 1 year building project, been reading how some think we are a top 25 team next year. Just don’t see that.
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You don't see how we'd be top 25 because we'll be top 10?
 
My guess is that JC made the best decision at the time with the information he had.
If it doesn't work out, but you made the best decision at the time based on what you knew, why have regrets? That's silly, and not JC's style at all.
The deficiencies that ended up being fatal to Ollie's career at UConn were most likely not apparent to JC at the time.

Make your best call with the information you have, and live with the results.

And like many have pointed out - it's entirely possible that there was something about the chemistry among Ollie and the kids he had in 2014 that resulted in the NC that would not have been possible with another coach.

The 3 lost years after the NC will look like a minor bump in the road if Dan Hurley rights the ship, and most will think 1 NC in exchange for a few lost years was a robbery on our part, given continued success.

I never agreed that we have lost prestige, notwithstanding the AAC. Winning again will dispel much of that noise.

Heard a guy on the radio (Tiki?) today say that Kansas/Nova is a matchup of Blue Bloods. Interesting.
 
Mokum said:
In retrospect, who else thinks Calhoun regrets what he did to get Ollie the HC job? When you think about it, it was a pretty dumb thing. To put a guy in charge of a program like Uconn, with no HC experience and what, 3 years as an assistant? A nice career at Uconn, an overachiever in the NBA, a nice person, none of that qualifies you as a head coach. I feel bad for Ollie, he was in way over his head. JC should have known better. But of course he will never say it or admit he should not have done what he did.
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I just couldn't resist.
 
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