Confidence in Danny Going Forward

[superjohn]

Towney007 may be right, by a hair.
I'm not going to take the time to look at each class individually in order to weight the averages by how many recruits are in each class, but if you do a simple average for the four years for each school it comes out that Cincinnati's classes average 56.5 and UConn's average 57, so Cincy does have the higher rated recruits by that measure.
And, since three of the class of 2016 are no longer with the team you'd have to lower UConn's average somewhat and that might drop them into the 60's.
Cincy has the #37 class for 2020 (4 commits) while UConn's class is currently #47 (2 commits) and if we do add 1 or 2 in the spring that could put UConn on top overall, especially is they're highly ranked.

Not the case, we have the higher rated recruits and it's not really all that close...

I had time to look up the rankings of our respective players...
UConn...

Jalen Gaffney-105
Christian Vital- 166
James Bouknight- 66
Alterique Gilbert- 32
Isaiah Whaley- not ranked
Brendan Adams- 178
Tyler Polley- 168
Sidney Wilson- 89
Akok Akok- 30
Josh Carlton- 178

Average of UConn players is #112 with 1 player being unranked.

Cincinnati...

Chris McNeal- 412
Jeremiah Davenport- not ranked
Keith Williams- 128
Nika Adams-Woods- 244
Tre Scott- 268
Mamadou Diarra- 196
Jaevin Cumberland- not ranked
Zach Harvey- 49
Chris Vogt-349
Jarron Cumberland- 56
Jaume Sorolla- not ranked
Trevor Moore- 340

Average of Cincinnati players is #227 with 3 players not ranked

 

[nelsonmuntz]

You're advocating to bring back Kevin Ollie in all sorts of threads and yet you make a post that because Dan Hurley is a former player he might not cut it as a head coach and now you're whining about getting called out for making a silly post.

Can't make this stuff up.

That's not what I said. You are having trouble keeping up. The Internet may not be the place for you.

 

[Tuna]

In that season Ollie got manhandled by Pitino 3 times. And was a miracle by Amida Brimah from losing to.....St Joes lmaooo. He also had a couple of guards names Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright. Who would’ve fit Hurley’s style like a glove

Nothing to add to the Hurley discussion but the bolded is so irritating every time I read it. Miracle? The guy made a put-back and 1 down 3 with 40 seconds left. Even if he didn’t pull down the rebound, doesn’t make the layup or does then misses the free throw, they were down at most 3 points with 40 SECONDS LEFT. Yeah, no one’s ever come back from that hole. Truly God’s work.

 

[traitor71]

I seem to remember JC once calling a timeout 30 seconds into a game. I remember him calling a timeout and walking onto the court pointing at players meaning "You! You! and You! Get your Arses on the bench." Found this little clip. No one did it quite like JC, that MoFo.

I think I remember him doing that like 20 seconds into a game against Kentucky (I think it was). He was pissed at Jerome Dyson I believe, and just stormed onto the court, pointed at Jerome, and then pointed to the bench. He didn't even need to say a word lol.

 

[Excalibur]

Nothing to add to the Hurley discussion but the bolded is so irritating every time I read it. Miracle? The guy made a put-back and 1 down 3 with 40 seconds left. Even if he didn’t pull down the rebound, doesn’t make the layup or does then misses the free throw, they were down at most 3 points with 40 SECONDS LEFT. Yeah, no one’s ever come back from that hole. Truly God’s work.

He made a shot he didn’t make before or after that in his entire career — an 8 foot jump hook falling away from the hoop. So yeah, pretty miraculous. And if he missed we are fouling, so we are likely down 4 or more. Your chances of winning at that point are around 10%, but you can feel free to rely on those odds.

 

[superjohn]

He made a shot he didn’t make before or after that in his entire career — an 8 foot jump hook falling away from the hoop. So yeah, pretty miraculous. And if he missed we are fouling, so we are likely down 4 or more. Your chances of winning at that point are around 10%, but you can feel free to rely on those odds.

He made a 5 foot shot, it was a really nice play but it's constantly used to detract from Ollie's run that season. Ollie blew up the program after but nothing from that run should be taken away from him. He went through Phil Martelli, Jay Wright, Fred Hoiberg, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan, and John Calipari. Trying to take that away from him on a "what if" Brimah didn't make a 5 foot "miracle" with 40 seconds left is silly. The weirder more "miraculous" play on that sequence is that Bazz bricked a layup.

 

[KingAG]

He made a 5 foot shot, it was a really nice play but it's constantly used to detract from Ollie's run that season. Ollie blew up the program after but nothing from that run should be taken away from him. He went through Phil Martelli, Jay Wright, Fred Hoiberg, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan, and John Calipari. Trying to take that away from him on a "what if" Brimah didn't make a 5 foot "miracle" with 40 seconds left is silly. The weirder more "miraculous" play on that sequence is that Bazz bricked a layup.

I didn’t use it to disqualify Ollies run. He pointed out that we lost to st Joes. I just found it ironic how we almost lost to them in our championship season. You need miracles to win championships

 

[superjohn]

I didn’t use it to disqualify Ollies run. He pointed out that we lost to st Joes. I just found it ironic how we almost lost to them in our championship season. You need miracles to win championships

There was no miracle, Bazz bricked a layup and Brimah rebounded and made a 5 foot shot. Jalen Adams chucking in a 70 footer at the buzzer was a miracle. I'm not trying to accuse you of using it to diminish Ollie but often when that championship run is brought up it turns into something to the effect of "but Brimah made a miracle, UConn loses first round without Brimah's miracle."

Come on, you know getting run out of the gym by a horrendous St. Joe's is in no way similar to us gutting out an OT win against a really good St. Joe's team in the NCAA tournament.

 

[Waquoit]

"but Brimah made a miracle, UConn loses first round without Brimah's miracle."

Yeah, that's the kinda stuff one should leave to fans of other teams.

 

[superjohn]

Yeah, that's the kinda stuff one should leave to fans of other teams.

It's used against Ollie. I was Ollie's biggest detractor when he stopped doing his job and blew up the program but those first 2 seasons happened. I don't get trying to pretend they didn't or trying to diminish those accomplishments. I agree Shabazz was the biggest part of us winning it all but that holds true for Calhoun's last title as well but you rarely see people say that title was 100% Kemba winning it all for us.

 

[Tuna]

He made a shot he didn’t make before or after that in his entire career — an 8 foot jump hook falling away from the hoop. So yeah, pretty miraculous. And if he missed we are fouling, so we are likely down 4 or more. Your chances of winning at that point are around 10%, but you can feel free to rely on those odds.

Oh god another one. 8 footer!! The lengths some people go to to discredit our own championship. He caught the ball directly under the hoop and had both feet inside the lane when he took the shot and landed with both feet in the lane. The lane is 12 ft wide, do the math. Not to mention he was falling away because he got hacked.

And you mean if he missed, magically wasn’t fouled and UCONN also didn’t get the rebound? Or he missed/was fouled and hypothetically missed both free throws? Either way they’re also not automatically fouling down 3 with 40 seconds left.

But you can feel free to keep trying to somehow deny that the team and staff earned that win and championship. Why else would our own fans keep bringing it up?

 

[Waquoit]

It's used against Ollie.

I'm agreeing with you.

 

[UConnStats]

This thread

 

[superjohn]

I'm agreeing with you.

I know.

 

[kansashusky]

Hurley just got a critical technical in a game UConn is losing to an awful USF team and a game we are favored to win.

He is awful working the refs and just causes us to get even worse calls against us.