DiMauro: Ollie's recent public relations plan reeks of hypocrisy

[UConnLen]

Having lived in SE CT most of my life and having been a subscriber to the Day most of that time, Mike is first and foremost a BC fan, a NL fan and most recently a guy who likes to put politics in his columns, which many of us feel we don’t need his leftist opinions in his columns. As a result I AND MANY of my friends have cancelled our subscriptions. Of course The Day has offered us subscriptions for like $30 for a year, which is really funny after paying 10x that for years (customer since the 60’s). No bite! I’m sorry to read today that The Day is making company wide layoffs because most of these employees don’t write the crap that fills the paper and they deserve better. But if I wanted a subscription to the Washington Post I would have ordered one. Meanwhile, Mike was the straw that broke the camels back for many of us.

 

[Paesano]

*Lots of good stuff*

He just wasn't ready for this job.

He will never be ready for this job. It doesn't fit him and never will. He NEEDS to be an NBA assistant coach. That is where he can do what he does best. Yeah, the pay is nowhere as good but it is what he is good at and what he would probably be happy doing. He won a miracle championship and made a ton of money for doing it. Move on Kevin.

 

[ctchamps]

Having lived in SE CT most of my life and having been a subscriber to the Day most of that time, Mike is first and foremost a BC fan, a NL fan and most recently a guy who likes to put politics in his columns, which many of us feel we don’t need his leftist opinions in his columns. As a result I AND MANY of my friends have cancelled our subscriptions. Of course The Day has offered us subscriptions for like $30 for a year, which is really funny after paying 10x that for years (customer since the 60’s). No bite! I’m sorry to read today that The Day is making company wide layoffs because most of these employees don’t write the crap that fills the paper and they deserve better. But if I wanted a subscription to the Washington Post I would have ordered one. Meanwhile, Mike was the straw that broke the camels back for many of us.

Just as you were writing this I recalled Dimaura is an anti UConn hack. Can't believe the hatred is so strong against KO that people in this thread missed out on his agenda to get UConn hit with sanctions.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Having lived in SE CT most of my life and having been a subscriber to the Day most of that time, Mike is first and foremost a BC fan, a NL fan and most recently a guy who likes to put politics in his columns, which many of us feel we don’t need his leftist opinions in his columns. As a result I AND MANY of my friends have cancelled our subscriptions. Of course The Day has offered us subscriptions for like $30 for a year, which is really funny after paying 10x that for years (customer since the 60’s). No bite! I’m sorry to read today that The Day is making company wide layoffs because most of these employees don’t write the crap that fills the paper and they deserve better. But if I wanted a subscription to the Washington Post I would have ordered one. Meanwhile, Mike was the straw that broke the camels back for many of us.

One of two particularly interesting additions since I came out as OK with locking the thread.

I didn't need the WaPo/liberal swipe, as that was of a piece w/DiMauro's overreach in thickly calling "hypocrisy" when the article could have stood on its own dialed back a notch. We can all benefit from keeping a tighter rein on the gratuitous.

 

[KingAG]

I also agree that it would be. I've done a bad job making myself clear in this thread...UConn firing Ollie for cause and saying performance had nothing to do with it while refusing to fire Calhoun for cause is hypocritical. It's obvious what the difference between the two situations was; performance. If UConn comes out and says that, it would severely hurt their chances at keeping Ollie from his $10 million. I'm not saying that they should; my point was that if they want to pretend that the only reason they're firing Ollie is because of violations, then they're being hypocritical.

Ollie benefitting from and exploiting positive media reports after ignoring the same media members during his tenure as a coach is hypocritical, too. Both sides come out of this situation looking bad.

i dont think UConn comes out looking bad at all i when you know the facts

 

[HooperScooper]

If I am not mistaken... didn't the AD and KO had a meeting and KO assured he didn't commit no NCAA violations... and AD kept him until he got the report and decided to move on.

Ah, I figured this out. KO pulled the old double negative trip on Benedict. So KO was really admitting he did commit NCAA violations but Benedict thought Ollie was saying he didn't. So KO didn't lie!

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Just as you were writing this I recalled Dimaura is an anti UConn hack. Can't believe the hatred is so strong against KO that people in this thread missed out on his agenda to get UConn hit with sanctions.

Fair enough, though the 'hatred'-as-blinder seems beyond the scope of the essential argument that an Op-Ed is just that, and the PR move backfired in this instance.

Maybe there will be those charmed by the press releases to counteract this published piece.

Maybe things will move toward settlement. I can only state my wish and hope.

 

[superjohn]

Just as you were writing this I recalled Dimaura is an anti UConn hack. Can't believe the hatred is so strong against KO that people in this thread missed out on his agenda to get UConn hit with sanctions.

 

[UCONN in OKC]

Ah, I figured this out. KO pulled the old double negative trip on Benedict. So KO was really admitting he did commit NCAA violations but Benedict thought Ollie was saying he didn't. So KO didn't lie!

did not see that... corrected now thank for the check

 

[Ewekon]

No, I'm not reading what I want. You don't seem understand the implications of UConn doing what you want them to do.

They can't say what you want them to say . If they did, they'd have to pay him $10 million. No arbitrator in the world is going to find in UConn's favor. If they say anything about his performance they would have been better off paying him the buyout and making this all go away, just like they did with Diaco.

How do you not understand that?

And quite frankly, he doesn't deserve the $10 million, so no, I don't agree that they are being hypocritical. The environment in which Ollie broke the rules was much different than the one in which Calhoun did so.

Bingo. It's a business period.

 

[CL82]

Ah, I figured this out. KO pulled the old double negative trip on Benedict. So KO was really admitting he did commit NCAA violations but Benedict thought Ollie was saying he didn't. So KO didn't lie!