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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2460586, member: 1414"] Before you engage in this kind of analysis, you need to look at all the facts. I think we all wanted Kevin Ollie to succeed (although I admit I didn't even want him to be hired). Question 1: Do you still want him to succeed? If the answer is no, then you are rooting for him, and the team, to fail. That disqualifies you for any further input on this subject. Question 2: Do you think it is impossible for him to succeed, or do you think it may just take too long and you're tired of waiting? After all, he won a title 3.5 years ago. If you said take too long, then changing coaches will take even longer. So we give him the time. Question 3: If it is impossible for him to succeed, what is your clearly superior alternative. Do you have funds to pay him and this alternative coach? Because UConn doesn't. How certain are you that this clear and obvious upgrade will make the improvement you seek? New coaches are brought in to right the ship at various schools all the time. Most of them don't. When they do, it usually takes several years. See question 2 for that. In short it is irresponsible to advocate for a change for the sake of change. If you have a clearly superior alternative, and if that alternative is affordable and won't put the school in an even bigger budgetary hole, then yes, you make that move. Benedict just did that with Diaco. At present, there does not exist such a situation with Kevin Ollie. His team isn't among the worst in D1, as Diaco's was. His remaining salary is much higher. And there is no young, cheap version of Jim Calhoun walking through that door. I am not pleased with the job Ollie has done. But I think the damage to program from removing him would be greater than from retaining him, and riding this out. [/QUOTE]

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