Durham transferring

[intlzncster]

I'm new here. Who is this OZ character in relation to the program?

Insider ('friend of the program') from another board.

 

[nychuskyfan]

I'm new here. Who is this OZ character in relation to the program?

Our Baghdad Bob.

 

[Marat]

Sounds like cleaning and restarting.

 

[ctchamps]

I'm new here. Who is this OZ character in relation to the program?

poster in the rivals forum. Is close to KO

 

[8893]

#pizzapocalypse

 

[JSM1970]

Neither top 150. Brutal.

At least we have the vaunted class of Tyler Polley and Josh Carlton coming in

 

[PAHusky]

Maybe Ollie did ask him to leave.....Oz is the messenger....stop killing the messenger. If it was good news you'd be kissing Oz's freaking feet, but because its not great news everyone wants him to shut up now. The real question is if KO asked him to leave then why? Is someone coming in? Or is he really just cleaning house?

Major difference in my eyes. It's one thing for Oz to talk about potential transfers to his heart's content, but revealing that a kid was asked to leave rather than left on his own volition and then following it by disparaging him in another tweet is definitely not the right thing to do. It doesn't appear Durham has done anything to warrant that kind of treatment and if KO wants to clarify the situation he should step up himself and discuss Durham's reasons for leaving, rather than potentially feeding it to a third party, unsanctioned mouthpiece.

 

[Mots010]

Maybe Ollie did ask him to leave.....Oz is the messenger....stop killing the messenger. If it was good news you'd be kissing Oz's freaking feet, but because its not great news everyone wants him to shut up now. The real question is if KO asked him to leave then why? Is someone coming in? Or is he really just cleaning house?

Ollie's messenger should be official team press releases, not some hanger on with a twitter account. It's not a great look for Uconn. Come play for us, but if it doesn't work out, my buddy will air all our dirty laundry on twitter.

 

[CTBasketball]

We'll see what happens next.

 

[gwhuskyfan]

Ollie's messenger should be official team press releases, not some hanger on with a twitter account. It's not a great look for Uconn. Come play for us, but if it doesn't work out, my buddy will air all our dirty laundry on twitter.

If only you were allowed to do that

 

[intlzncster]

Maybe Ollie did ask him to leave.....Oz is the messenger....stop killing the messenger. If it was good news you'd be kissing Oz's freaking feet, but because its not great news everyone wants him to shut up now. The real question is if KO asked him to leave then why? Is someone coming in? Or is he really just cleaning house?

Just a couple days ago, he said 'not to worry...there are no more transfers!". So why should we buy everything he's saying?

We don't know what's his opinion and what's fact. And taking any kind of pot shots at players/coaches on the way out is low at best. Detrimental to the program at worst. Bad optics.

 

[Burnsbros23]

Neither top 150. Brutal.

Both are on rivals. Polley 100.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Sounds like cleaning and restarting.

It sounds like BS unless we see some high-level commits from the transfer/JUCO/HS ranks soon. The only way I believe this was KO's decision is if dominos start falling quickly.

 

[pj]

If he wasn't working hard enough, it would explain why he got so few minutes when the team was desperate for any big to step up.

That's a good reason for a coach to advise a player to leave. But, I'm not sure you want to advertise that you are doing that.

Regardless, I hope they can recruit some players, or we'll be in for another down year.

Losing MAL really hurts right now, relying on Larrier to play the stretch 4 would be much easier if we had 4 guards to support the 3 guard lineup.

 

[huskyniner]

Sounds like cleaning and restarting.

But... he was a freshman with a ton of potential? Are we only accepting guys who can go pro right out of high school?

 

[JMick]

Maybe Ollie did ask him to leave.....Oz is the messenger....stop killing the messenger. If it was good news you'd be kissing Oz's freaking feet, but because its not great news everyone wants him to shut up now. The real question is if KO asked him to leave then why? Is someone coming in? Or is he really just cleaning house?

No, these tweets are inexcusable. Honestly they're bad enough that the athletic department should be made aware. If we're cleaning house then oz should be gone too. He's been a psychopath lately.

 

[Tommyboy]

Sigh.

 

[intlzncster]

Say what?

Who the hell else is going to leave now?

People were talking Gilbert considering it earlier in the week. I'm not speculating, just relaying what others were saying. Hoping for the best.

 

[UConnfan8]

Someone needs to let UConn athletics know about Oz. It is absolutely NOT a good look for this program, it's coaches and its fans. You think Durham isn't going to see those tweets?? It's COMPLETE dirty laundry airing. Someone needs to tell administration, who hopefully will then tell KO to get his boy to STF U.

 

[ctchamps]

Maybe Ollie did ask him to leave.....Oz is the messenger....stop killing the messenger. If it was good news you'd be kissing Oz's freaking feet, but because its not great news everyone wants him to shut up now. The real question is if KO asked him to leave then why? Is someone coming in? Or is he really just cleaning house?

Two things. @UConNation had inside information that Juwan was contemplating leaving even after Oz made his post. It's policy not to disclose this but he pm'd me last week so this announcement was not surprising to me
Second, if KO is using Oz as a mouthpiece he would never have told Oz to make a statement there were no more transfers if he was in the process to tell the kid to leave.

 

[upstater]

Ollie's messenger should be official team press releases, not some hanger on with a twitter account. It's not a great look for Uconn. Come play for us, but if it doesn't work out, my buddy will air all our dirty laundry on twitter.

They should really shut up.

It is a cover-your-butt move.

This is why I don't need the coaches to address any of the departures. Wanting "explanations" is lame.

Hypothetically, if this is true, I can understand cleaning house to bring in players willing to work much harder, but you can't allow kids to be disparaged on Twitter, nor can you provide official "explanations." You decide what is best, even if the fans are clamoring, and then you go about your work. You don't try to cover your butt. It is unprofessional, and worse it is lame.

I'm not saying Oz has any real insight, since he has been VERY wrong on his "no more transfers" claim.

He was also unhinged with regard to Glen Miller.

 

[AntG168]

Ollie's messenger should be official team press releases, not some hanger on with a twitter account. It's not a great look for Uconn. Come play for us, but if it doesn't work out, my buddy will air all our dirty laundry on twitter.

I dont want to get into this discussion again because ive done so before. But Oz isnt ollie's msnger. Oz is a fan that has info. I wont argue that calling durham soft was out of lind because it was. But saying he was asked to leave is not out of bounds to me

 

[Blue Blood]

Sounds like cleaning and restarting.

Everyone wants pros I'll take bodies at this point

 

[polycom]

Better become football fans next year.

 

[EBonz30]

Just being honest with everyone....

Can't lie how I feel, the only recent player to leave Uconn that hurts me is MAL and he didn't leave, he just decided not to show up.

Enoch & Durham were both horrible & Jackson is not a Uconn type of player.

I am over it, go get some players now Mr. C.