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Message: [QUOTE="DMIL, post: 2771425, member: 8539"] When you look back and think about it at the time no one could figure out what was going on with the team, K.O., the staff, K.O's relationship with Calhoun, the defections, silence from the AD among a number of other things. Clearly there was a deficit of trust and K.O. had to bring it in and close up like a recluse. he became robotic at the press conferences, aloof and lost for the right words at times. Internally it was a "Crap" show and that is what translated on the court. That is what we witnessed. There are only a couple of narratives that now make sense and actually fit. You can now directly look back and tie them going back a number of years. The results were all lagging factors and completely exposed K.O.'s strategic mis-management of the internal politics and related power structure putting him in a more desperate position to hit a home run. UCONN continued to miss on major recruits, then the injuries, then defections (3 year set back). He shakes up the staff in year 5 and 6 but it is really too late at this point. The last gasp he had to pull a rabbit out of a hat was for a healthy Gilbert and Jalen Adams completely dominating the league taking that next step which did not happen. Too much pressure was put on a young, poorly constructed team lacking any chemistry. No one could figure out what was really going on behind the scenes. The picture is slowly coming together now. It's a lot deeper and complex than simply "K.O." forgot how to coach and wasn't committed. Certainly J.C. was the glue early on and once that relationship fractured K.O.s fall here at UCONN was foreseeable. It's tough to determine how much of this was paranoia by K.O. feeling undermined by GM and JC or if the fracture was secured when K.O. decided to go a different direction with G.M. A healthy environment with the political support was critically needed for any shot he had at turning things around. Neither was there and everything storm balled painfully. There wasn't enough time; the clock ran out and here we are. The last few years we were all like "What the Hell is going on!". [/QUOTE]

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