Jeff Jacobs clarification on NCAA investigation

[Paesano]

In another post meant to celebrate the SMU win I saw this for the first time and I saw one of us gleefully posting "now we will have cause." The next thing we will read is "Ollie sucks. He can't recruit at all." Like it is easy to do in the AAC, while the fan base is in mutiny feeding the competition the "Ollie is out" story line and even those who are not avowed negative nancys are ready to pronounce him dirty without before they know the specific allegations. Hope you are more thoughtful in your personal and professional lives.

Listen, I get what you are saying and, IF Miller is the sole guilty person and IF Ollie fired him for it THEN he escapes this clean. But that is it. Pretty much every other scenario leaves Ollie soiled to some degree.

 

[Towney007]

Well if this is serious - it’s over for the foreseeable future. Amazing what a totally incompetent disaster this state is.

 

[HuskyBandDad]

So we cheated and still couldn't land the kids?!?!?! Bwahahahahaha at the Ollie supporters. This trainwreck is so bad it's comical!!!!

Ok Paesano we get it all ready. Give it a rest.

 

[willie99]

So we cheated and still couldn't land the kids?!?!?! Bwahahahahaha at the Ollie supporters. This trainwreck is so bad it's comical!!!!

caution, brilliance at work

 

[UC990411]

im pissed off and want answers. What is happening at UConn is one of the worst disasters in sports history.

Also, not to call out Chief and all those with inside info, but no one on here is a reliable “source” if you don’t have info on this situation.

 

[Horatio]

If they were winning more, you'd live with the drama.

Because Calhoun's era had a lot more drama than this.

Good points but I doubt the drama was this thick and its impossible to have this many negative situations and "rebuild" at the same time.

 

[upstater]

Good points but I doubt the drama was this thick and its impossible to have this many negative situations and "rebuild" at the same time.

Oh, but what about Kirk King, Ricky Moore, Khalid El-Amin, Ben Gordon, AJ Price, Marcus Williams, Nate Miles, Doug Wrenn, Curtis Kelly, Jerome Dyson, APR... there was a ton of drama.

 

[intlzncster]

im pissed off and want answers. What is happening at UConn is one of the worst disasters in sports history.

Been paying attention to what's going on at MSU?

 

[JMick]

Been paying attention to what's going on at MSU?

the hyperbole in these threads is crazy. I am fully in the fire-ollie camp and have been for about a year, but some of these people on both sides of the aisle...

 

[Stainmaster]

So we cheated and still couldn't land the kids?!?!?! Bwahahahahaha at the Ollie supporters. This trainwreck is so bad it's comical!!!!

This is what he gets for taking your advice...

 

[JMick]

This is what he gets for taking your advice...

the wrong program cheated. I've been telling you for a while and I posted in a thread a few weeks ago but if this was football being caught I'd be 100% fine with it

 

[Horatio]

Oh, but what about Kirk King, Ricky Moore, Khalid El-Amin, Ben Gordon, AJ Price, Marcus Williams, Nate Miles, Doug Wrenn, Curtis Kelly, Jerome Dyson, APR... there was a ton of drama.

true . But that stuff never made me feel like the program was dangling by a very thin thread and " OMG , it's over". Different climate , different drama. The closest incident for me was the Nate Miles stuff right before the championship game. I was nervous about that.

 

[JeepCSC]

the wrong program cheated. I've been telling you for a while and I posted in a thread a few weeks ago but if this was football being caught I'd be 100% fine with it

Cheating is a badge of honor in football.

 

[UCweCONN]

I've been a vocal advocate of cheating for several years, and a strong proponent of not getting caught.

 

[upstater]

true . But that stuff never made me feel like the program was dangling by a very thin thread and " OMG , it's over". Different climate , different drama. The closest incident for me was the Nate Miles stuff right before the championship game. I was nervous about that.

Because they were winning!

 

[Chief00]

Even fake classes are nothing.

Ok - I will take the bait. It’s interesting a law firm that traffics in SEC athletics apparently discovered nothing. Nothing rose to hit their radar screen considering the stuff they usually see. Emmert is holding us to a standard that can only be explained as revenge.

 

[Chief00]

im pissed off and want answers. What is happening at UConn is one of the worst disasters in sports history.

Also, not to call out Chief and all those with inside info, but no one on here is a reliable “source” if you don’t have info on this situation.

Hold the phone - who called out the “cause” scenario on Sunday beating Jacobs by 4 days.

 

[Paesano]

Oh, but what about Kirk King, Ricky Moore, Khalid El-Amin, Ben Gordon, AJ Price, Marcus Williams, Nate Miles, Doug Wrenn, Curtis Kelly, Jerome Dyson, APR... there was a ton of drama.

That occured over how many years? If you are going to compare Ollie to Calhoun, at least TRY to be honest.

 

[Stinger92860]

Here is my newest theory:

Ollie realized we had to cheat to play w/ the big boys.

Then he is not very good at cheating either.

 

[uconnbill]

the wrong program cheated. I've been telling you for a while and I posted in a thread a few weeks ago but if this was football being caught I'd be 100% fine with it

Come on cheating is the SEC way and has been for years.

I wish we would drop our standards a little bit in football, but that's just me I guess.

 

[Jaker]

nothing to see here, move along

 

[upstater]

That occured over how many years? If you are going to compare Ollie to Calhoun, at least TRY to be honest.

As usual, you missed the entire point.

 

[Scrutiner]

Interesting that it's not self reported after we conducted an internal review and Herbst publicly stated we are clean. Maybe it's nothing at all

Hard to believe the NCAA has time to do over 100 hours of interviews already if there's nothing to it. Wilson's recruitment has been mentioned as a possible trigger, if St. John's wanted to hit back, but the clarification said something about three players. Who would they be?

 

[Scrutiner]

Because Herbst has really had her pulse on this whole athletics thing.

Hey, don't get on Suzie's case. She has a hard enough time keeping her hair looking clean and neat.

 

[Stainmaster]

Hey, don't get on Suzie's case. She has a hard enough time keeping her hair looking clean and neat.

Nice one, bro.