Glen Miller not a good recruiter?

[Chief00]

Sure. The problem isn't that he didn't come here. The problem is that we were so sure he would that we messed up elsewhere and lost recruits that wanted to come here.

Pin that on whom you want, but you can't can't avoid good players because you're sure you're getting a great one, and then not get the great one.

Lots here I agree with.

 

[goblue2220]

I think it was more about Bigs development and recruiting loses despite optimistic feedback during the process.

I know injuries, etc, but just give me your knee jerk answer - Do you think JC was happy with UConn tearing down its man tradition that he built for 3 decades for gimmick zones? Otherwise who would be Glen's biggest defender?

You say the stats indicated they worked but big picture our record did not reflect success. I think it's really about the tough culture man builds from within.
Also, the very guy Glen was the point recruiter on listed playing man D as a reason for going to UK.

Chief you are a complete Fraud. Anyone who knows anything about Glenn Miller's coaching career knows he was a straight man to man defensive coach and a fast break, motion offense coach. Always highly regarded as an offensive coach. His team's both good and average always either led or were at the top of the league in scoring. He is a Jim Calhoun disciple and Calhoun has publicly stated on numerous occasions how good of an offensive mind coach Miller has. Kevin Ollie's defensive decisions were owned by him and his offensive schemes didn't resemble anything Glenn Miller ran as a head coach at any of his stops.

 

[Chief00]

Chief you are a complete Fraud. Anyone who knows anything about Glenn Miller's coaching career knows he was a straight man to man defensive coach and a fast break, motion offense coach. Always highly regarded as an offensive coach. His team's both good and average always either led or were at the top of the league in scoring. He is a Jim Calhoun disciple and Calhoun has publicly stated on numerous occasions how good of an offensive mind coach Miller has. Kevin Ollie's defensive decisions were owned by him and his offensive schemes didn't resemble anything Glenn Miller ran as a head coach at any of his stops.

I am not getting in the middle of this KO vs GM reincriminations after a decision has already been made. As someone said I have said at least 5 times - I wish GM the best and hope he finds a new job this weekend.

 

[UCweCONN]

Two year relationships that could be swept away in a week by Coach Calipari.

Diallo's recruitment was the equivalent of getting the captain of the cheerleading squad who you've been crushing on for two years to go to the prom with you, renting a limo, renting a tux, buying her an expensive corsage, getting a hotel room, running out for some booze and returning to find out that the star quarterback snuck in and boinked your date....

 

[UCweCONN]

To put it another way, we could be entering next season with this starting 5 if recruiting had gone better:

G: Adams
G: Brown
F: Larrier
F: Colson
F: Facey (RS-Sr)

That's a Final Four team right there.

 

[CTBasketball]

Chief you are a complete Fraud. Anyone who knows anything about Glenn Miller's coaching career knows he was a straight man to man defensive coach and a fast break, motion offense coach. Always highly regarded as an offensive coach. His team's both good and average always either led or were at the top of the league in scoring. He is a Jim Calhoun disciple and Calhoun has publicly stated on numerous occasions how good of an offensive mind coach Miller has. Kevin Ollie's defensive decisions were owned by him and his offensive schemes didn't resemble anything Glenn Miller ran as a head coach at any of his stops.

Yeah this is pretty spot on.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

I am not getting in the middle of this KO vs GM reincriminations after a decision has already been made. As someone said I have said at least 5 times - I wish GM the best and hope he finds a new job this weekend.

You continually attribute the "gimmick zones" to Miller. You already are in the middle of it.

 

[gtcam]

This whole GM vs KO, KO is the culprit, GM is a defensive dummy, KO is a defensive idiot, GM lost the UK DB. KO lost the UK DB, this is KO's make or break year, JC is PO'd at GM for forcing the zone - all of it speculative BS
As CTBB stated - this is a business, after a tough year something had to happen
There's no smoking gun, my guess is the KO feels some pressure so he had some real heart to heart discussions with players and 2 left - too bad, get over it
AD Benedict had a heart to heart with KO and KO shook up his staff because he probably heard that the Washington debacle was coming and saw it to his advantage to hire Chili and had to lose someone - Miller was highest ranked AC, Chili had to become the highest ranked AC so naturally, GM is out
That's business boys

 

[milesbran32]

Chief you are a complete Fraud. Anyone who knows anything about Glenn Miller's coaching career knows he was a straight man to man defensive coach and a fast break, motion offense coach. Always highly regarded as an offensive coach. His team's both good and average always either led or were at the top of the league in scoring. He is a Jim Calhoun disciple and Calhoun has publicly stated on numerous occasions how good of an offensive mind coach Miller has. Kevin Ollie's defensive decisions were owned by him and his offensive schemes didn't resemble anything Glenn Miller ran as a head coach at any of his stops.

X's n O's ..Wooden couldn't get this team to win in this conference ...

 

[The Funster]

I figured we went to the zone when we had niggling injuries that further hampered an already depleted squad. A non zone team will employ the zone when a coach becomes concerned about his players "legs".