I never said he is definitely coming. You said he isn't. Get it?
The coaching fraternity is somewhat of a farce. There’s a general respect for fellow coaches (emphasis on “general”), but NO ONE is going to give a rat’s behind about Kevin Ollie being fired. 50% of the coaches won’t care. 10% will be glad it wasn’t them. And the other 40% will be disappointed because they knew that they could beat UConn by outcoaching him! It’s a cutthroat business. Someone else’s failure is another person’s gain. They’ll feign outrage b/c of the personal threat of that happening to them someday. But not one guy won’t take the UConn job because of it. Not one.
Don’t know. This April was always my final litmus test for Ollie. If he retained the players he should and the recruits all came in I was very much wanting to give him one more season.
I guess you ignored the Tennessee search after the Schiano fiasco. Good coaches with options certainly do care. UConn is not the same job it was 5 years ago and I strongly feel the next hire will be underwhelming. Especially if Benedict fired him mid season.
Yeah I “ignored” the TN search. I also ignored the dismissal of Gordon Chiesa at Providence and Jeff Skilling at Enron. On what planet is the TN football search fiasco remotely comparable to KO being fired before the season ends? Tennessee’s AD got fired for that. Benedict would be justified and applauded.
We are talking about the coaching fraternity and how other coaches react to the mistreatment of one of their own. The Tennessee fiasco and how many coaches after the fact turned them down is quite relevant to what might happen at UConn if the firing is mishandled. If UConn lands their fourth or fifth option.......welll, good night.
your posts make no sense. So Hurley isn't good enough for us but we also wouldn't be able to get him to coach here? that's basically what you've said all day
I don’t know a better way to explain this to you. It’s apples and oranges. Firing Kevin Ollie tomorrow wouldn't be viewed at mistreatment by anyone whose last name isn’t Ollie. Every single coach in America would “get it.” Whether they thought that UConn could have waited until the season ended, it wouldn’t turn one single guy off to Dave Benedict or to the job itself. There may be other reasons, but a mid/late season firing given all that’s going on is not remotely one of them. In comparison, you are talking about a biblical level of incompetence from an AD that resulted in the University of Tennessee being a late night show punch line and ended up costing the AD his job within the week.
Congrats for acknowledging the situations are different, however, the reaction by coaches would be quite similar. Multiple coaches would turn UConn down over this. A mid season firing would certainly cause hesitation for many to come here. Your dismissal of this is idiotic.
Knock yourself out sport. There isn’t a single coach who would otherwise take the UConn job, that would do that. Not one. But keep telling yourself whatever you’d like. I’m done with this conversation.
All you can do is laugh. It is comical.
You think it's inconceivable that a coach of the caliber you would want (i.e. has options) might think twice about a job where the last guy was an alum, won a national championship 4 years ago, made it to the second round 2 years ago and they kick him to the curb mid-season? People have different risk tolerances and value job security differently than you might. Come to think of it you might be right about a mid-season or post-season firing being no different, it might be really hard to find a worthy candidate who wants this cutthroat job in either scenario.
