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Jim Calhoun 'couldn't be prouder' of UConn men's basketball, Dan Hurley's growth as coach (Borges)

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Would have loved for a bit of a deeper dive on the Ollie situation. Clearly not something that will be easily mended
 
WrenchFan69 said:
Would have loved for a bit of a deeper dive on the Ollie situation. Clearly not something that will be easily mended
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Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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“Eventually, Kevin Ollie and my relationship didn’t go the way I would want it to be…” Calhoun said. Calhoun hasn't spoken to Ollie since Ollie was fired. “It was very unfortunate for everybody involved. But, all of us make choices in life.”

Those are JC's words. So you can spin this all you want, but KO made the choice to exclude Calhoun, not the other way around...
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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We all know that KO distanced himself from Calhoun and had an issues with Miller. Everything is on KO's shoulders why Calhoun has distanced himself now from KO. I'm just so happy we have a better representative for the school in Hurley.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Part of me wonders if Calhoun was really sick, or he knew UConn would win and he didn't want to steal the spotlight. The Final Four was Hurley's championship, and if Calhoun was in the stands, the cameras would be on him every 2 minutes at the end of the championship game.
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We took the 8am united flight out of Bdl to Houston on Saturday morning. Calhoun was waiting at the gate with everyone until all of a sudden about a half hour before the flight boarded he got up and left. It didn’t seem like he was sick but I can’t make sense of the situation otherwise. There were 2 empty seats on the plane so I don’t think that he was waiting for a standby seat
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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It depends what I did wrong, and whether I deserved it. I understand that you like KO, and i have no issue with that. But this post would lead an uneducated observer to believe that KO had nothing to do with what happened, and that it was all somebody else's fault.
There was surely more to it than that. Like the entire other side of the story.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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Did we forget Calhoun hand picked Ollie and due to timing, UConn had no choice other than Ollie. Have “heard” Ollie turned on JC and shut him out for whatever reason. It’s a thick plot and delicate (awkward) situation.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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You maybe right but Ollie made Glen Miller the scapegoat fired him and ruined his career. One could argue Calhoun took on the St Joseph coaching job to land a job for Miller who has always been a good coach.
 
Npp123 said:
We took the 8am united flight out of Bdl to Houston on Saturday morning. Calhoun was waiting at the gate with everyone until all of a sudden about a half hour before the flight boarded he got up and left. It didn’t seem like he was sick but I can’t make sense of the situation otherwise. There were 2 empty seats on the plane so I don’t think that he was waiting for a standby seat
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Wow, thats unusual.
 
superjohn said:
It says it right in the article, he felt sick and broke out in a cold sweat waiting to board the plane. At his age that's a concern and he also didn't want to get others sick.
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I guess if he's doing interviews today (by phone or otherwise), he must be feeling better.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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Because Miller knew that Ollie was f...... up and was letting Calhoun know. Ollie wasn't doing his job and he nearly destroyed what Calhoun built. Ollie also told Calhoun to get lost.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Glenn Miller was part of the attempt to destroy Ollie, and may have lied about Ollie in an investigation that ended Ollie's collegiate coaching career. As I have said many times before, I am quite positive every poster on this board would hate everyone involved if their boss A) fired them, B) attempted to (and in this case succeeded in) destroying their career, and C) tried to break a contract to avoid paying $11 million. Actually, I am certain many on this board would go past being pissed about it.

Ollie has a right to be pissed at Miller, and Calhoun chose Miller. None of us know why Calhoun did that. People get in messy situations and the choices are not always clear cut. The only thing we know for sure about what happened is that Ollie kicked UConn's butt in court. We will probably never know the rest, and honestly, it is none of our business.
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I wish the people who know would just air Ollie’s dirty laundry so we can stop arguing this.

@Fishy
 
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kobebeanbryant said:
Great article.

Also telling that Calhoun still has not spoken with Ollie, and yet most here are ready to make amends and invite him back to campus. Not happening anytime soon, nor should it.
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Mazhude said:
“Eventually, Kevin Ollie and my relationship didn’t go the way I would want it to be…” Calhoun said. Calhoun hasn't spoken to Ollie since Ollie was fired. “It was very unfortunate for everybody involved. But, all of us make choices in life.”

Those are JC's words. So you can spin this all you want, but KO made the choice to exclude Calhoun, not the other way around...
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We already knew that
 
August_West said:
We already knew that
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Agreed. But some Boneyarders seem to gloss right over that piece of history, as if it had no bearing on everything that happened afterwards.
 
"I learned to handle the media, because it is very dominating here," he continued. "But Danny, you can't worry about that. You get paid a lot of money to win. If you don't, don't worry, they'll fire you. If you take care of the things you need to take care of ... Do as you do, you're a very good coach. You evaluate talent very well. You put the team together very well. Stop worrying about things you can't control. It doesn't mean you can't get pissed. But you can't drag it on. We all get pissed on certain things, everybody does every day, but you can't carry it over. My thing was; 'Next.'"

ummmmmm, @Zionn …..you have some serious explaining to do. Think you just exposed yourself to the national/BY media.


Time to come clean, coach.
 
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