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Message: [QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 2605860, member: 7275"] Here's my interpretation of the graph: you need to be in that time 50 to at least have a shot at dancing. What UConn needs is a coach who can consistently keep the program in the top 50. UConn since 2013 has not been able to do that. I can't compare Hurley's & Ollie's accomplishments to date because it's apples and oranges. One was given something and beat a couple HOF coaches in the span of 3 weeks, that's about the extent of his accomplishments in 6 years -- 3 weeks of eliteness. The other has consistently been given nothing and turned it into something. Not once in 6 years has Ollie exemplified he is a program builder (partly due to sanctions, party due to being given something at the outset, and party because he couldn't do anything when he finally had the opportunity), which based on the current talent on the roster and the uphill battle UConn needs to climb to build back the brand, is necessary for the program. I don't believe we have any evidence that Ollie has more potential of bringing UConn back than Hurley. I have just as many question marks about both but a better track record follows Hurley. All coaches have ups and downs but your down can't be a house of horrors and you're up can't be just showing up in March. It's a dangerous way to live, especially in a OK to mediocre conference. Even in the best of times with Ollie, regular seasons had some serious warts. When you win the National Title fine who cares, but when you do these things and have a losing season or miss the tourney and this becomes a consistent theme, it's no longer an outlier, it's reality. Even if Ollie's ceiling is higher than Hurley's (which I don't agree with), if the floor is back to back losing seasons, the risk outweighs the benefit. On Ollie's weakness, they are 100% fixable except they aren't getting fixed. Bad players are still getting significant PT, players are not being used to their strength, and guys are standing around. He already tried the let's switch out the assistant coaches and see if that helps technique and maybe they change things up on the recruiting trail but they certainly haven't developed and strategized much. Again, in the last 2 years: [LIST] [*]Ollie has pushed out players (Enoch, Durham, Jackson) [*]Ollie has pushed out coaches (Hobbs, Miller) [*]Ollie has pushed out fans (apparently we're the rats because we don't like back to back losing seasons) [/LIST] ...and things have gotten worse. Whether you support Ollie or don't, we all want the same thing...to win. The problem with Ollie is I feel like we are going to mental gymnastics to try and prop him up to the coach we thought he was and not currently is. The support Ollie camp is based on wishing & hoping he figures it out and not any evidence that he can fix the very mess he created and I haven't even mentioned up to this point the program is under investigation! [/QUOTE]

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