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Is anyone else excited?

RJScootin said:
A lot more concerning if Ollie came back. There’s at least some hope now.
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Does that mean you're excited too, even if it means two horrible seasons?

Sorry, I can't get excited about that. There absolutely no reason a UCONN fan should be "excited" today.

We don't even know who our next coach is, and we may lose players too.

If you don't like Ollie and you want to say you're more optimistic, I can respect that, But "excited", there's no respectful way to describe what I think about that.
 
06029 said:
For Benedict, This hire needs to be 100x better than his football hire. No unemployed older coach that is coming into his retirement job.
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Edsall was a good pick. And he has a larger hole to dig out of than a new B-ball coach.
 
Cautiously optimistic, hoping we can land a great coach and recruits, but know the next couple of seasons could be rocky.
 
I cannot wait to see who stays. You know the players are waiting to see who the new guy is. At this point, I am in favor of wiping the slate clean. Again all depends who stays. The Freshman(soph) next season, need their skills honed. Plus bring in Freshman. LEAVE THE IVY LEAGUE ALONE!!! No more 10th year seniors. Hopefully get recruits that can gel together. Are we in a tournament next year? Is there one at the Garden? I may be the only one but, we had no business playing in Portland. The hardest and largest tournament that I have ever seen. Not counting the NCAA. Plus the nations best teams. Okay we beat Oregon. We didn't need to start the year coming off a 1-2 tournament. One thing to gain experience but to start off getting beat up did not do us any favors. Next season the team needs to get some confidence. Our cupcakes we played looked a bit more than a cupcake. A few of those cc's didn't look that bad. Would you call next season a rebuild season? I think with a good hire it will be no more than to file off the rough edges. I cannot wait until next year. I'm excited. Hopefully the players are.
 
And if Billy D. is a realistic option, we should go all in and open up the purse strings.
 
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Not excited. Ollie was a UConn guy. We were supposed to hand the reigns to UConn people and let them do the same when their time was up. The “family” aspect of the program is dead. And it’s about to get ugly. Should have used a capital U there actually. If we were frustrated this year, wait till next. To answer the question again, no - I’m not excited. I’m terrified.
 
Count me in the excited camp. Turning on and watching our games the past couple years were painful and made me think what it must be like to be a Tulane fan. For the first time, in a long time, I have hope. #BleedBlue #UConnNation
 
I'll be excited once the new team and coaching staff come together or at least begin to be considered. As for this moment, I'm feeling some sympathy for Ollie even though this was a measure that needed to be taken.
 
Not really excited just nervous. Just never know which hire you get and where the program goes. Then you never know about the recruits and where and how they are going to fit in with the program. Just nervous.
 
D$ said:
I am excited for the next chapter of UCONN basketball, even if that means a year or two of rebuilding.

A new day will dawn for those that stand long.
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No. This is a sad day for Uconn mens basketball and it amazes me how many of you are so giddy over this terrible situation. Sure im ready to move on and look forward and am really interested in seeing whos next but excited? No! Ill get excited when its announced that BIlly Donovan is hired.
 
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Honestly I'm really not so excited. I'm more sad.
I remember in the St Joe's game he came out at halftime and said "we'll win this game". Few games later, he let out that last gasp, celebrating the 4th national championship for our program. I thought to myself that this was the man to deliver us excellence for the next 2-3 decades. It honestly is depressing at this time because I really defended him til the moment he was fired. I thought he would turn it around. He's still one of our own, let's not forget. Heck, we nicknamed the student section Olliewood for a bit. As a fanbase we gotta take this step by step because I know for a fact that all of us instilled our trust in him after the 20-10 season he managed during our post season ban.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Edsall was a good pick. And he has a larger hole to dig out of than a new B-ball coach.
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Wrong thread to ask you to defend your opinion but I was/am not a fan of the hire.

When Calhoun retired Uconn was a top 10 job. Name coaches from power conferences would have been honored to be considered. Today it is maybe a top 75 job. Top coaches in secondary coaches will have better options. This is a hard sell to a new coach and I hope Benedict has the ability and vision to sell it. I hope he is not handcuffed by finances and paying on multiple years of buyouts. I hope he has a basketball consigliere to advise him. This hire is huge and there is no sure fire 100% turnaround coach guaranteed to be hired.
 
06029 said:
When Calhoun retired Uconn was a top 10 job. Name coaches from power conferences would have been honored to be considered. Today it is maybe a top 75 job. Top coaches in secondary coaches will have better options. This is a hard sell to a new coach and I hope Benedict has the ability and vision to sell it.
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Or perhaps we can wait and see who UConn brings in to be the new coach before we decide on its current level of attractiveness?

Maybe after that we'll know whether UConn is "maybe a top 75 job now" ....or you can just keep creating a narrative based on a subjective opinion without any factual anchor....
 
Love Ollie. Couldn't wait till he got fired. But I feel more melancholy, not excited.
Also sad this will turn into a legal battle.
 
06029 said:
Wrong thread to ask you to defend your opinion but I was/am not a fan of the hire.

When Calhoun retired Uconn was a top 10 job. Name coaches from power conferences would have been honored to be considered. Today it is maybe a top 75 job. Top coaches in secondary coaches will have better options. This is a hard sell to a new coach and I hope Benedict has the ability and vision to sell it. I hope he is not handcuffed by finances and paying on multiple years of buyouts. I hope he has a basketball consigliere to advise him. This hire is huge and there is no sure fire 100% turnaround coach guaranteed to be hired.
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The 75th coach's salary is about $300k. The salary of the next coach at UCONN will be $2m+. That alone makes it Top 40 by default. Combine that with the facilities, name brand, recruiting location, etc and you can bump that up even higher.
 
I really want to see JC come back in some sort of Consultant/Basketball ops job and obviously try to get Glen Miller back in the mix. This freaking NCAA investigation hanging over our heads sucks though, imagine if we get hit with sanctions NOW? Ugh.
 
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intlzncster said:
The 75th coach's salary is about $300k. The salary of the next coach at UCONN will be $2m+. That alone makes it Top 40 by default. Combine that with the facilities, name brand, recruiting location, etc and you can bump that up even higher.
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I had a long reply but the bottom line is that I hope I am wrong and you are right.
 
willie99 said:
"Excited"? More like gravely concerned and hoping for the best

And I find the thought of two more bad seasons appalling.

I guess it's a a matter of perspective
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I hear you but if two more bad seasons are used to redirect the program then you have to accept it. I really think KO lost control of the program. The player's may have liked him, but it did not seem like they were able/willing to follow whatever his game plan was and every game we came out looking unprepared. The incoming recruiting class was not going to drastically the direction; they are average/slightly above average recruits. But I'd be shock if any of them become more than solid four year players. Akinjo is the wild card, but assuming the guards come back and are healthy, he would not have been a huge piece next year anyway. Like I said, I like KO. He seems like a good person who just had things get away from him. However, he has shown himself to be a very poor coach the last few seasons and I do not see that changing. It was not just that we did not have the talent, we did not have the drive, effort, any semblance of x's and o's/fundamentals, and perhaps worst of all, it did not seem like the players bought into whatever KO was selling. That's a huge problem and even if it means there is a mass exodus for a new coach, at least we will have someone in place who is going to bring something new to the table.
 
fleudslipcon said:
I’m with you. It’s natural to be excited about change when things are miserable. That’s the norm. But too much history argues against these emotional reactions. Hope I’m wrong.
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Me too, I so desperately want to be wrong right now

If a good coach comes in and manages to salvage the key parts of our roster, we could be OK
 
Maybe I’m being naive, but with the right hire I don’t invision two terrible years. Depending on who stays, I think there are certainly pieces that a coach can build off of. I’m not expecting us to see Ohio State improvement like they saw with the new coach, but I can certainly see a > .500 finish.
 
willie99 said:
Does that mean you're excited too, even if it means two horrible seasons?

Sorry, I can't get excited about that. There absolutely no reason a UCONN fan should be "excited" today.

We don't even know who our next coach is, and we may lose players too.

If you don't like Ollie and you want to say you're more optimistic, I can respect that, But "excited", there's no respectful way to describe what I think about that.
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I am excited to see something different next year. Excited for a reboot of the program.

Not back flip crazy excited but excited that I feel optimistic about the program for the first time in a couple years.

I understand this could all change quickly but until then it’s healthy to be excited as fan.

I look forward to cheering for Ollie in future years at XL when they honor the 2014 team. But right now it’s not about Ollie, he’s gone.

Good time for fan base to come together and get excitied for next year.
 
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willie99 said:
Does that mean you're excited too, even if it means two horrible seasons?

Sorry, I can't get excited about that. There absolutely no reason a UCONN fan should be "excited" today.

We don't even know who our next coach is, and we may lose players too.

If you don't like Ollie and you want to say you're more optimistic, I can respect that, But "excited", there's no respectful way to describe what I think about that.
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"Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things..." AD

 
willie99 said:
Me too, I so desperately want to be wrong right now

If a good coach comes in and manages to salvage the key parts of our roster, we could be OK
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Even if there are no more defections there are a lot of holes that have to be plugged and I don’t see players available with the type of quality that will be better than what KO had to desperately grab after last years defections. And I expect more to leave. So next year will be the same as this year at best imo.

Unless the hire is an individual who has an incredible reputation, his results next season will be used against him by other programs even as the hopeful in this forum give him a pass. So the odds of him getting a good recruiting class two years from now are not great.

You and I are looking at probabilities, not absolutes. We’ve also checked our “anything is better than KO” at the door. On the one hand I’m relieved that the situation is changing. On the other hand I can envision a lot of scenarios that can end up just as negative as now or worse. Difficult to be excited when the odds are stacked against us.
 
fleudslipcon said:
Even if there are no more defections there are a lot of holes that have to be plugged and I don’t see players available with the type of quality that will be better than what KO had to desperately grab after last years defections. And I expect more to leave. So next year will be the same as this year at best imo.

Unless the hire is an individual who has an incredible reputation, his results next season will be used against him by other programs even as the hopeful in this forum give him a pass. So the odds of him getting a good recruiting class two years from now are not great.

You and I are looking at probabilities, not absolutes. We’ve also checked our “anything is better than KO” at the door. On the one hand I’m relieved that the situation is changing. On the other hand I can envision a lot of scenarios that can end up just as negative as now or worse. Difficult to be excited when the odds are stacked against us.
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Please. UConn had become irrelevant over the past two seasons. Now there is hope that in time that will change. It was clear to anyone being objective that things were not going to turn around under KO. By any objective measure, the last two seasons were terrible. A very good coach can change lots of things for the better within 2 to 3 years. This notion that we should be afraid of change is mind boggling.

The next time I see crisp ball movement and high basketball IQ on the court I will be grinning from ear to ear, because just those two little things will signal that the program is on the road to recovery.
 
I have a little more confidence in our roster than some, if not most, fans.

I believe the best thing about our young bigs is that they get older.

I think Gilbert can be special, he can be the motor and the moxie that makes the engine run.

I'm hoping Wilson is very good.

Adams and Vital will be better, especially with a healthy Gilbert.

I'm ready to move on, but I don't want to suck again or suck more
 
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Please, injuries and inexperience matter, for us as much as they do our opponents.

Please, there are numerous reasons for our decline

Please, tell me why some people are so offended by a dissenting opinion.

Please, go buy yourself a comfort dog or something, can only help
 
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willie99 said:
Please, injuries and inexperience matter, for us as much as they do our opponents.

Please, there are numerous reasons for our decline

Please, tell me why some people are so offended by a dissenting opinion.

Please, go buy yourself a comfort for or something
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You have been wrong about everything for years. Keep up the good work.
 
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