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Message: [QUOTE="gtcam, post: 2628333, member: 2844"] I hear some of what you say but bottom line that in this league you have to recruit to the league not as if you are sitting pretty in a P5. KO didn't do that and has cost him and the program. I know KO and the guy has not given up or is lacking any desire to succeed or any of the other things that some have accused him. He has allowed himself to take kids that just don't match up against a league where upper class kids are more the norm than the exception. We have seen 3 years of boys vs men because KO has lost out on the cream of the crop that just were not coming to the AAC. Period. KO is gone and the program needs to recruit for the AAC not the ACC because until you are in the P5, you are not going to get the top players. How many top 100 kids are playing in the AAC? I don't think the program is going to rue this change. There is plenty of NBA talent that are not the players that KO was and now Chill is hunting. I am not the biggest of Hurley fans - I don't see the experience I really want, but if he is to be the next coach, I will continue to retain my tickets (30+ years) and back the team 100% - the same as I would have done if KO was allowed to return - not sure there many others here who would do the same. I will never bad mouth KO, the guy bleeds UConn blue and thank him for all he has done. However, I feel that due to the overall negative tenor against him, for the good of the program and his own mental health, a change is due. He will survive and he will coach again. Time to move on................................. [/QUOTE]

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