I have been a UCONN Men’s season ticket holder for 33 years and Woman’s 24 years, I looked up at the banners last night 15 and realized how spoiled we are as UCONN fans. We are not entitled to championships or NCAA tournament selections. We should be ashamed of how we are treating Kevin, he who played for us and coached us to a NC in 2014. It wasn’t just a few years ago that we were worried sick that Kevin would leave for the NBA. In his short coaching tenure Kevin has replaced a HOF coach, cleaned up the fall out of a academic progress probation and still won a NC. He deserves a chance to turn this around with his new coaching staff. Kevin has 3 years left on his contract, give him a chance to succeed, get off his back, he deserves our support.
Family season ticket holder since 1965 as well as football and Friend of Soccer
I hear your pain Big Jim but the more I sit and think about it as well as speaking with others close to the programs, my take on this is that I think KO was handed a position which he really had no hands on practice. It is even more difficult in replacing a legend like Coach Jim and these situations rarely work out for the new guy.
His recruitment strategy has been very very bad and I know he brought Chill on in hopes of a quick fix in recruitment but the league and quite frankly, the record of 2 recent seasons has hurt him more than I think he thought they would.
Yes he cleaned up the academic issue - kudos to him for that - something I think JC wasn't that much worried about in the scheme of things.
I feel on one hand he deserves another season to try and right the ship, yet, on the other, I am not sure he can really do so.
I do appreciate your attitude and lets hope all works for the best for our Huskies
Keep the faith
On a lighter side Jim - boy did you open a huge can of worms with this post - it's going to be fun because I know you have thick skin!!!!