You mean the years we got 5* Daniel Hamilton and Jalen Adams back to back to go along with Enoch who everyone was excited for?
If I’m remembering correctly, they lost Prince Ali because Ollie stopped reaching out or responding to him.
This is it, but people’s views of Ollie (including my own) have hardened to a point where it’s just a waste of server space. The same names always show up as likes on anything vaguely pro-Ollie, and the reverse is often true (though much less predictably). I will always be bitter and unobjective about this period, and I own that. I hope that he is investing more of himself in whatever he is doing these days.
I fully recognize that this is trolling, but this is about the process. Ali reopened his recruiting because he was blowing up at the time and was receiving no attention from the staff.
Maybe he didn’t want him anymore? Realistically, Ollie had one bad recruiting class and that was 2017. After Gilbert’s injury, the mass exodus of transfers, and even Daniel Hamilton leaving earlier than he was suppose to.
I appreciate your honesty here.
If this were an isolated incident, then sure. By many accounts, this wasn’t the only time something like this happened.
They always are, 50% of the time, because, inevitably, they are on both sides of any issue.
Yeah I wasn’t aware. If recruits stayed on after all that that’s just remarkable.
Lubin had that one good game against Cincy back in the day
Indeed. This revisionist history nonsense is getting thick. They fired him for a reason and it wasn't just having a losing record, which somehow wasn't Ollie's fault.
Where in this thread was this stated?
In the end it was ten toes up and tagged.
Revisionist history is pretending he was fired for cause. He was fired for losing but they wanted to get out of paying him. That is why he won his arbitration case. And if you read the ruling it was a pretty clear rebuke of the school’s behavior. So now you have a storied player who also coached them to a title estranged from the program. And I am trying to understand why this is his fault. Perno was fired but is welcomed. To read here about his issues the Yarders would have to spend countless hours at these establishments to observe this instead of reading one poster’s comments and then repeating it as you were there.
What does Dom Perno have to do with Kevin Ollie? Perno was a hair before I got obsessed with UConn basketball so I don't but did he get a show cause, pull shady stuff behind the scenes, and accuse the University of racism?
He was fired. If you really think his program was not shady you are speaking from a lack of knowledge. The arbitration hearing determined that during the same period as Coach Ollie 3 white coaches had as many or more as egregious or worse violations than Ollie and none of them were fired. FYI that is a textbook definition of institutional racism. The same group ignored the NCAA findings because it was based solely on Glenn Miller and additionally found numerous NCAA investigations with much more serious occurrences with no such penalty. So what shady behind the scenes stuff are you referring to?
You might want to proofread your post.