If UCONN is eligible next year, would you take Oriakhi back?

[mauconnfan]

NO way NO how..........he was good for about 20 games out of 100 plus at UConn.......all in all not a very good career and as captain of a defending NC program you go "down with the ship" or sink in my mind. He's out, he stays out!! Later

 

[sammydabiz]

Ha! No way, no how.

I know many of you hate on me for pointing out the truth, but I truly believe we'd be a much better squad THIS year without softee. Last year, probably not, he was a necessary clog in the championship machine. but this year, I've seen guys play curling with more passion than AO ever exhibited.

 

[willie99]

no, he was great in Mar of 2011, but a distraction ever since Nov 2011

lets part ways

 

[Northbound]

We all make mistakes in life. It a would be a good lesson in sometimes making decisions prematurely have unintended consequences. Sorry AO, sit out a year and play somewhere else. Seriously, he bailed faster than the capitan of the Costa Concordia.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

would you let your gf or wife come back if she cheated on you?

 

[61cygni]

would you let your gf or wife come back if she cheated on you?

Depends, need pics.

 

[rw005]

How do you bring back a Captain/Leader who chose to leave 'his' team?

Exactly.

 

[UofCT]

I think we can find 3 pts, 2 rbs, and 6 TO's with guys who don't carry that much baggage

 

[caw]

Theoretically, if Calhoun welcomes him back and his teammates welcome him back, I have no problem welcoming him back.

Alex is a good kid who had a frustrating season. He obviously has some issues with how he is being used and wants a chance to play in the NCAAT his senior year. I can't fault him for the second part and am willing to forgive the first if his team does.

Alex is a student-athlete and did his job academically to the point where he should be able to leave to play in the NCAAT. If he had grades that hurt the team and were the cause of the APR being low, I wouldn't want him back. He wasn't. He was a good UConn student and at least for one season a good UConn basketball player.

 

[AfgHusky15]

I'd take him back in a heart beat. Teams like UK, unc, duke are going after him for a reason. At the end of the day Alex has got to do what's best for him. If he truly feels the path in which he has the highest chance of playing pro is through another school then he has the right to pursue that path. We watch uconn for entertainment, this is his life not just entertainment.

Besides we were all raving about how great of a guy Alex was in the off season and how key he was to last years run especially during the final four. He had one bad year and we all jumped on him throughout the season. So in the end who was disloyal first the fans or Alex?

 

[8893]

So in the end who was disloyal first the fans or Alex?

Oh that's easy. When Alex was good, the fans were loyal. When he sucked, he was disloyal.

 

[joober jones]

Give me Boo Willingham

 

[sammydabiz]

I'd take him back in a heart beat. Teams like UK, unc, duke are going after him for a reason. At the end of the day Alex has got to do what's best for him. If he truly feels the path in which he has the highest chance of playing pro is through another school then he has the right to pursue that path. We watch uconn for entertainment, this is his life not just entertainment.

Besides we were all raving about how great of a guy Alex was in the off season and how key he was to last years run especially during the final four. He had one bad year and we all jumped on him throughout the season. So in the end who was disloyal first the fans or Alex?

I had a better chance of winning the MegaMillions, than AO making it to the NBA. Maybe you were referring to turning pro in Slovakia

 

[caw]

I'd take him back in a heart beat. Teams like UK, unc, duke are going after him for a reason. At the end of the day Alex has got to do what's best for him. If he truly feels the path in which he has the highest chance of playing pro is through another school then he has the right to pursue that path. We watch uconn for entertainment, this is his life not just entertainment.

Besides we were all raving about how great of a guy Alex was in the off season and how key he was to last years run especially during the final four. He had one bad year and we all jumped on him throughout the season. So in the end who was disloyal first the fans or Alex?

In a way his life (if he were to play pro) is entertainment. If it weren't entertainment he wouldn't have a chance to play pro. That said, I agree with you.

 

[Husky Dad]

I don't think I would let him come back. Let him go somewhere and have to sit a year.

NO NO NO

 

[Huskies320]

Nope

 

[UConn5]

I'd take him back in a heart beat. Teams like UK, unc, duke are going after him for a reason. At the end of the day Alex has got to do what's best for him. If he truly feels the path in which he has the highest chance of playing pro is through another school then he has the right to pursue that path. We watch uconn for entertainment, this is his life not just entertainment.

Besides we were all raving about how great of a guy Alex was in the off season and how key he was to last years run especially during the final four. He had one bad year and we all jumped on him throughout the season. So in the end who was disloyal first the fans or Alex?

The reason I say no isn't because I don't think AO is great player or a great kid. By all accounts he is both. Similarly by all accounts he seems to have become disenchanted w/JC and UConn. What good would it be if he came back under those circumstances? I don't blame him for his fathers comments or anything like that. I just think that once you make a decision like this there is no going back.

 

[Fishy]

If Calhoun wants him back, it's fine by me.

Come back, graduate, help get this APR monkey off our backs - fine, fine and more than fine.

No sense getting all emo about this - it is what it is.

 

[freescooter]

I'm pretty surprised by the responses. I expected a more even split, I guess. I am of the opinion that once you decide to go, you really need to go. I don't have anything agaisnt him, and I don't dislike him. In fact, I think we'd have been a better team had he been the 5 from Day 1. I don't think this team ever figured out what it wanted to be with he and Drummond in there. I do think that if UCONN gets a reprieve on the torney next year, the NCAA will be pretty tough about granting him any waiver, so it will mean he sits for 2012-13, so that's the risk you take. I think UCONN has taken guys who have only a year to go, so probably someone else will too.