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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2081697, member: 5832"] This is pretty much where i'm at with things right now. You can cut the cake an which way you please - at the end of the day this is the worst season this team has had in decades - and to be completely honest - by a pretty safe margin. And there's a lot of reasons for that and they all deserve a lot of scrutiny. This whole 'oh whatever, you guys are being negative or spoiled' is just nonsense. This was a bad basketball team by almost every conceivable metric - and not just by 'UConn standards.' And a lot of those habits that bubbled over this year have been going on for a few years now. It's not a trend YET, but it's sure starting to look like one. I have a hard time laying it at the feet of probation and sanctions. In the past three years he's roped in three or four top-50 guys and the two top grad transfers in last year's class. Purvis was a ****+ guy out of high school and transferred here. Larrier was a ****+ guy who transferred here. They were in it to the end on Diallo and Stone. To me - recruiting has been the least of their problems. They've put plenty of talent on paper here in spite of everything but they don't have much to show for it. To me the problem strictly has been the lack of development across the board. The team having the basketball IQ issues. The same cohesion issues. It's like watching the same play every year with different actors. There's a disconnect somewhere with something. And if the talent's just not good enough to be here - then that's on Ollie. If the talent's not developing - that's on Ollie, too. It just kind of all comes back to him. He's gotta be better. I don't want to see him fired or asked to leave or any of that. I think he can be a long-term guy. We've seen what he's capable of before and to me - that just doesn't disappear. If he did it once, he should be able to do it again. But there's gotta be improvement next year. If this looks anywhere close to what it did this year, I don't know how he saves his bacon. But something's gotta happen. Given the whole backdrop of everything with the Big East money drying up, the conference and almost an odd race against the clock - the leash is almost a bit shorter. If next year DOES look like this season, then how much worse does it have to get for him to get tossed? That's an honest question. What *in addition to that* would have to happen for you to not make a move? I'm not there yet, but it's all stuff that I think should be on people's radars. What I DO think - is that it's time to seriously shake up his staff. That's a place to start. Cause if things aren't clicking with the group, you've gotta find some new voices. So I think there are some necessary changes due, but I don't think one of them involves Ollie being tossed off a flaming boat. [/QUOTE]

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