Does Kevin Ollie even want an extension at this point?

[Reno]

I don't see much to attract any big time recruits to the program after this last news. If I was Ollie and I "proved" myself enough to get an extension I'd probably turn it down and look for a job with a future.

 

[tzznandrew]

I don't see much to attract any big time recruits to the program after this last news. If I was Ollie and I "proved" myself enough to get an extension I'd probably turn it down and look for a job with a future.

Yea, he's not going to do that. He's going to stay here as long as we have him, I'd bet.

 

[Dove]

Where's that trap door?

 

[mets1090]

Kevin Ollie = UConn Husky. If he turns out to be a great coach you can bet your bottom dollar that he will do everything in his power to ensure the future of this program.

 

[Stinger92860]

Yes, he was made for this job. He will be here much longer than Warde or Susan.

 

[DrewDog85]

I don't see much to attract any big time recruits to the program after this last news. If I was Ollie and I "proved" myself enough to get an extension I'd probably turn it down and look for a job with a future.

Wow That would be kinda funny,,,,

 

[AZHuskiePop]

If he leaves Calhoun should come back and lead us out of this mess

 

[HuskyV]

I'm going to guess that the announcement will be just before or after the Washington game on the 29th.

Should be 10-2 & have completed the Fall Semester. Big announcement stating strong academic year, players competing & winning games. Setup for BE season & recruiting.

No reason to wait for BE season - may be tough if we are 4-6 at the end of January.

There is no way the KO will not get the extension unless something bizarre happens. Showing KO the door would be showing JC the door. Not gonna happen.

 

[jleves]

This may be worse than the thread about every position being better for UConn over every other Old Big East team.

 

[Kitaman]

Wow Ollie wanting to leave UConn to coach football for better recruits, go figure,

 

[upstater]

Yea, he's not going to do that. He's going to stay here as long as we have him, I'd bet.

I hope so.

He'll be showing a degree of loyalty that wasn't shown to him.

But you have to know that an ass't job in the NBA may look better than games against Tulane and UCF right now.

 

[CTBasketball]

I really think we're screwed. Ollie, save us. You have become our messiah to fight us from these NCAA demons.

 

[CL82]

Yes, because Ollie is a man of character. I don't see him bailing on us when the school and the program needs so much help. Now if we only had the character to support him....

 

[freescooter]

I don't see much to attract any big time recruits to the program after this last news. If I was Ollie and I "proved" myself enough to get an extension I'd probably turn it down and look for a job with a future.

Here's the reality of kevin Ollie...if he doesn't get an extension at UConn he won't get a head coaching job anywhere else for at least 5 years. Where do propose he go? His options are the MAAC or maybe, if he's lucky some lesser A-10 program. For all the nonsense that gets posted here, Kevin Ollie would not have been a candidate at any major program other than UConn. None.

 

[aceboon]

Here's the reality of kevin Ollie...if he doesn't get an extension at UConn he won't get a head coaching job anywhere else for at least 5 years. Where do propose he go? His options are the MAAC or maybe, if he's lucky some lesser A-10 program. For all the nonsense that gets posted here, Kevin Ollie would not have been a candidate at any major program other than UConn. None.

He had a job waiting for him with the Thunder organization you . Yes, the OKC Thunder, the NBA, paying much more than a MAAC job, or Wesleyan, or any other school that you are ready to pull out of your ass.

 

[upstater]

He had a job waiting for him with the Thunder organization you Replicant. Yes, the OKC Thunder, the NBA, paying much more than a MAAC job, or Wesleyan, or any other school that you are ready to pull out of your ass.

People can't seem to understand that those ass't jobs are worth more than mid-major jobs.

 

[freescooter]

As an assistant. He could likely land an assitant's job lots of places. Big Whoops. What part of "he won't get a head coaching job" did you not get? In case you don't know the difference, See the head coach is the boss of the program. Assistant coaches help, or assist, him. Most of the UConn assistants could land assistant jobs elswhere for what its worth. But if he wants to be a head coach now its UConn or nothing. By the way, if it were me, I'd let his contract run out and spend whatever it takes to bring in a BIG TIME GUY and try to get us back to the top of the NCAA pecking order in short order. We never could, but at this point we absolutely cannot afford to have Jim Calhoun's ego lead us to mediocrity. We need someone who will make recruits sit up and take notice when he calls, and someone who we know can coach a team at a very high level. Someone who has taken a team to a final four at the very least. And pay him whatever it takes. Calhoun's ego meets none of those criteria.

 

[DogMania]

KO is a special person. I think he'll stick things out for a while if he gets an extension. He'll likely want to be the guy who shepherds the program back to greatness, similar to what JC did when he took the job. In KO's case, we're coming off an NC just 2 years ago, but the climate has radically changed from Palm Beach to Antarctica almost over-night.

With that said, if the conference situation doesn't work itself out over the next few years and it looks bleak that a major conference slot simply isn't there, I would not be shocked to see KO take another job. Who could blame him. Now granted you see some coaches that are at some successful mid-majors stick it out for a long time like the one that coached and the one currently coaching (Few) the Zags, so maybe if KO can recruit successfully despite what's happened, maybe he'll stick around for the long hall. He does have roots now here in CT.

JC had many chances to move on, but he didn't and it took quite a while to build the program from the cellar, to the next floor and so on, till he built it into a 3 time NC program. When was the last time a non-major conference program won the NC? I can't think of one. Butler came all so close Hey, maybe we can look forward to being the first non-major conference team in a long time to win an NC. That's something new to shoot for.

 

[nomar]

Thank God we have Kevin Ollie as our Coach, because he DOES want to be here. If UConn Men's Basketball is going to continue to be a force, it's because of Kevin Ollie.

HOW ABOUT SIGNING HIM TO AN EXTENSION NOW WARDE? Or are you allergic to good PR???

 

[upstater]

As an assistant. He could likely land an assitant's job lots of places. Big Whoops. What part of "he won't get a head coaching job" did you not get? In case you don't know the difference, See the head coach is the boss of the program. Assistant coaches help, or assist, him. Most of the UConn assistants could land assistant jobs elswhere for what its worth. But if he wants to be a head coach now its UConn or nothing. By the way, if it were me, I'd let his contract run out and spend whatever it takes to bring in a BIG TIME GUY and try to get us back to the top of the NCAA pecking order in short order. We never could, but at this point we absolutely cannot afford to have Jim Calhoun's ego lead us to mediocrity. We need someone who will make recruits sit up and take notice when he calls, and someone who we know can coach a team at a very high level. Someone who has taken a team to a final four at the very least. And pay him whatever it takes. Calhoun's ego meets none of those criteria.

The idea that most assistant coaches could land a NBA ass't job is a big stretch.

 

[inWV]

Kevin Ollie is UCONN basketball. And at present, he is one of only a few people who are showing competence and class in this whole ordeal. The extension should be an early XMAS gift.

 

[freescooter]

KO is a special person. I think he'll stick things out for a while if he gets an extension. He'll likely want to be the guy who shepherds the program back to greatness, similar to what JC did when he took the job. In KO's case, we're coming off an NC just 2 years ago, but the climate has radically changed from Palm Beach to Antarctica almost over-night.

With that said, if the conference situation doesn't work itself out over the next few years and it looks bleak that a major conference slot simply isn't there, I would not be shocked to see KO take another job. Who could blame him. Now granted you see some coaches that are at some successful mid-majors stick it out for a long time like the one that coached and the one currently coaching (Few) the Zags, so maybe if KO can recruit successfully despite what's happened, maybe he'll stick around for the long hall. He does have roots now here in CT.

JC had many chances to move on, but he didn't and it took quite a while to build the program from the cellar, to the next floor and so on, till he built it into a 3 time NC program. When was the last time a non-major conference program won the NC? I can't think of one. Butler came all so close Hey, maybe we can look forward to being the first non-major conference team in a long time to win an NC. That's something new to shoot for.

Stop Stop Stop Stop STOP!!!! We are now in a position where we don't need a special person. We need a proven winner. Kevin Ollie may be many things. That he ain't. That's why I'd bring in a proven winner, whatever it takes. Otherwise we're likely to spend years in the wilderness. Decades even. Back in September, Ollie was a risk, but he if he bungles this, it was reasonalby recoverable. that is not the case today. We're not in a major conference of any sort. And when Kevin Ollie contacts a recruit, he can't sell Jim Calhoun, he can't sell UConn the national power, he can't sell the Big East as the power conference of the country. He may not even be able to sell the Big East at all. So he has to sell Kevin Ollie. And Kevin Ollie is a nothing in terms of coaching basketball. let him go. Open the wallet and pay whatever it takes to land Stevens or the guy from Villanova or ThompsonIII or some other proven commodity. We need to get back to the top and we need to do it soon because if we don't we might very well never make it back. And we may be forever stuck in the lost planet league or whatever this thing is called. Ollie might be the greates guy in the world. We don't need a great guy. We need a great basketball coach and we cannot afford to wait around to discover whether kevin Ollie is or not.

 

[freescooter]

Kevin Ollie is UCONN basketball. And at present, he is one of only a few people who are showing competence and class in this whole ordeal. The extension should be an early XMAS gift.

How's he going to recruit? given where we are now, he can't sell Calhoun,can't sell the Big East, can't sell UConn the national champion since that's so tied to the Big East, and he had a minimal impact. People are whining he can't recruit with a 1 year contract. What happens when he is in a basketball league that stinks? He needs to go and we need to bring in a big name who will get people's attention and recruits' attention.

 

[PacificStorm]

Kevin Ollie will get an extension, that's for sure. The earliest for that is probably right after the fall semester grades are released. There's not too many players available, recruiting-wise, between now and then. Warde is just being practical. He and Ollie have probably talked in private about this. Even Calhoun and Herbst are most probably into it. I won't worry too much about when Ollie would be getting a nice extension. He will get it and he will stay for the long haul. He loves Uconn and we already have love him.

 

[aceboon]

This guy just said go get Jay Wright, LMAO. Wright is basically Steve Lappas all over again, the Nova program has been trending downward for several years now and gets worse every year, and that is the guy UConn should open up their wallets to go get. As if you weren't already a ridiculous poster, I don't even know what to label this as, this is beyond shark jumping.