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Message: [QUOTE="DMIL, post: 2560368, member: 8539"] I’all say it again. It’s all the above. This is what it looks like and feels like when a everything stormballs. The Administration, the coaching staff, recruiting misses, bad recruiting strategies which include not having an adequate contingency plan. Recruiting the wrong mix of players. Current group is bad group because of the team mix and a ton of missing pieces needed for success in today’s game. It’s like making a gourmet meal and all the ingredients matter even the most innocuous ingredients i.e. salt, pepper. So think of it as a gourmet meal because that is what our program has been for 25 years not including the last 3 seasons but including the current one. We know what is missing so let’s stop looking for it on this current team. - Effective Leadership …Not getting this from upper class men, not enough of it from the current coaching staff. It’s not there but needed. - Talent …Unbalanced mix of raw talent and this includes youth. In addition, significant gaps here driven by lack talent at critical positions i.e. true point guard, center, and shooters which include 3 point specialist starting or coming off the bench. Again, not there but needed. - Strategy …Significant recruiting misses. You cannot put all your eggs in this basket and if you do you have to hit. There was no real plan B or contingency in place and this caused an over reliance on grad transfers. With back to back losing seasons and that is what this is looking like this current team simply does not know what great looks like or even good. These examples are needed in real time on this team and we don’t have it. I think a lot of folks have missed the mark blaming all of this on x’s and o’s. I believe Ollie is solid there meaning he knows what he wants to do and how he wants to do it. The vision is solid. The execution is the biggest thing missing and it has all to do with the other parts of the coaching job at a program like UCONN that Ollie has failed at. Within your strategies you have to include some failsafe controls and essentially our Coach, the program has been caught with our pants down for the world to see. I think if Calhoun did not have to prematurely retire another 2 or 3 years of seasoning from a hall of famer would have benefitted Ollie significantly. The early success of Ollie lead to an arrogance and an inflated sense of confidence that is now blindsiding him and has the last few years. The venom has always been out there for our program because of how we did what we did. From ground up, gritty coaching, landing tough hard nose players and not recruiting soft choir boy pre madonnas we were able to claw our way to the top of the mountain knocking off traditional basketball powers one at a time including the quote “Bluebloods”. We did it our way. And Guess what......they don’t want us in the club and that is o.k. We will get back in the mix at some point and I believe sooner than what some would think. Certainly Ollie is at a point where he needs a Hail Mary and maybe that is landing an elite recruit to the incoming class or flooring class. He has to find a way to change the narrative and build some positivity for the near future. Without that the environment is just too toxic for anyone to be effective at this point. I like what we have coming in and do feel it addresses a number of gaps we have now. I also think Chillious was a nice change but it could be too little too late. When the pressure is up that is when a persons character is tested and ultimately revealed. We will never get used to this losing. [/QUOTE]

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