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nelsonmuntz said:
I saw the games too. Ollie struggled at the end.

The debating strategy of using Ollie's own words about his team against him is weak. Should we go digging around in Calhoun's post-game press conferences for times he lit up his own teams and then use it as evidence that he couldn't coach? If it works for Ollie, it must work for Calhoun too, right?

Or should we use a single, off the record source. You want to use some of them against Calhoun? Because there were a lot of coaches that freaking hated him. One of the reasons that UConn was so easy to game plan against by the end of Ollie's tenure was that the talent was not very good.
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I agree he struggled at the end, and there is no excuse for a man of integrity and making millions to be putting so little effort into his job at the end. That’s why his X’s and O’s Come into question because of how bad the team was prepared and played at the end of his tenure. And there’s nothing wrong with people pointing out that truth and calling into question his coaching acumen because of it.
 
Fishy said:
Say, why’d he get divorced?

Also, darned shame that millions of dollars a year wasn’t enough to keep him interested in doing his job.

He’s really a victim if you think about it.

The waterboys on this site are embarrassing.
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There were a lot of teams willing to pay him millions a year to do that job. He stuck with his alma mater though and all they did was give him grovel for it.

If you had to fight for your job wherever you worked and didn’t get rewarded for it and kept getting put in worse situations, would that motivate you to work harder? Especially when you stayed on despite offers at better companies?
 
Jbirdp5 said:
Not putting effort into the teams effort and execution falls on nobody’s shoulders but his own. Can’t blame the admin for that
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I think multiple things can be true.

He was terrible down the stretch

Administration did him no favors

He can still be a hell of a coach when he’s actually trying to be
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Not trying to attack Hurley’s character when I say this, but he already lied for no reason about the whole being on the phone with a recruit when the president called thing. It’s not out the question that he may have said something that just sounded good about being at UConn, even if we were in the American, to rile up a fan base. He has no reason to answer that question honestly.
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That was a sort off the cuff remark where he was trying to sound cool that he blew off the president for a recruit. He later admitted it was a lie. The not knowing about joining the Big East was many years ago and he's said it many times since then. I see what you're saying but I don't equate the 2 as similar circumstances.

He could have lied because he didn't want to throw UConn under the bus. I think Benedict and Herbst said joining the Big East came together rather quickly. So if they told Hurley that over a year before it officially happened that would make them liars.

But for now I will have to take him at his word about this. Or else I'll never be able to believe anything he ever says. :)
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
There were a lot of teams willing to pay him millions a year to do that job. He stuck with his alma mater though and all they did was give him grovel for it.

If you had to fight for your job wherever you worked and didn’t get rewarded for it and kept getting put in worse situations, would that motivate you to work harder? Especially when you stayed on despite offers at better companies?
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This is a) inaccurate and b) very stupid.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Divorce and being stuck in a non P5 basketball conference probably led to a lack of care by the end of his tenure. Just my theory.

I don’t think Hurley comes here without the assurance of getting us in the Big East. But the AAC was Ollie’s reward for not taking the Lakers job after winning a NC and having to fight for his job in the first place. Tough pills to swallow. He got bent over by the administration at every turn during his time here.
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The divorce happened in January 2015. Ollie got fired in March 2018.

I’m not trying to diminish the impact something like a divorce can have on one’s job performance. But it doesn’t excuse the 3+ years he stopped doing a job he was paid millions of dollars to do.
 
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HooperScooper said:
That was a sort off the cuff remark where he was trying to sound cool that he blew off the president for a recruit. He later admitted it was a lie. The not knowing about joining the Big East was many years ago and he's said it many times since then. I see what you're saying but I don't equate the 2 as similar circumstances.

He could have lied because he didn't want to throw UConn under the bus. I think Benedict and Herbst said joining the Big East came together rather quickly. So if they told Hurley that over a year before it officially happened that would make them liars.
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I can agree the circumstances aren’t 1:1.

Don’t think admin had to lie to him about the Big East necessarily, but in the article it states the rumors were already out about it when he was being interviewed. He probably had a good idea that it was going to happen, especially if Benedict and Herbst wanted it to happen.

Sounds like the whole set low expectations and be excited when we pass them thing on their side. On Hurley’s side it’s reasonable to expect they would be able to get it done. Public facing wise he gains nothing out of saying he would not have came if the Big East wasn’t on the table but gains a lot more saying otherwise. It’s a smart way to go about it.

Our problem during Ollie’s tenure I think was that we were shooting for the AAC and Big Ten trying to hold onto our football teams relevancy. Once they gave up on those the Big East was a no brainer. That’s my rough memory of it at least.
 
This article was from 2016. It’s crazy how much things changed in 2 years (it was really just two really bad years).

www.courant.com

Kevin Ollie’s Name Surfacing Again Now That Lakers Job Is Open

Here we go again. The NBA coaching carousel is turning and that means Kevin Ollie’s name is coming up. The Lakers, Ollie’s hometown team, parted ways with coach Byron Scott on Sunday ni…
www.courant.com www.courant.com
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
This article was from 2016. It’s crazy how much things changed in 2 years (it was really just two really bad years).

www.courant.com

Kevin Ollie’s Name Surfacing Again Now That Lakers Job Is Open

Here we go again. The NBA coaching carousel is turning and that means Kevin Ollie’s name is coming up. The Lakers, Ollie’s hometown team, parted ways with coach Byron Scott on Sunday ni…
www.courant.com www.courant.com
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Neither of those articles said he was offered a job. The 2nd lakers situation was literally just a reporter throwing some names out, most of those names listed were never considered for the lakers job
 
kemba said:
Neither of those articles said he was offered a job. The 2nd lakers situation was literally just a reporter throwing some names out, most of those names listed were never considered for the lakers job
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“He was contacted by the Cavaliers, but told them of his desire to stay at UConn, where he signed a five-year extension.”
 
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kemba said:
Where does it say he would have been offered the job?
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Kind of hard to be offered a job if you turn it down in the first place.

We’re doing some real revisionist history here if we’re going to say Ollie wasn’t a super hot commodity in NBA circles after the most impressive NCAA tournament coaching performance of all time.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Kind of hard to be offered a job if you turn it down in the first place.

We’re doing some real revisionist history here if we’re going to say Ollie wasn’t a super hot commodity in NBA circles after the most impressive NCAA tournament coaching performance of all time.
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His name was written in articles. There probably even was some real interest in him. That’s completely different from “there were many teams willing to pay him millions to do the job.”
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
There were a lot of teams willing to pay him millions a year to do that job. He stuck with his alma mater though and all they did was give him grovel for it.

If you had to fight for your job wherever you worked and didn’t get rewarded for it and kept getting put in worse situations, would that motivate you to work harder? Especially when you stayed on despite offers at better companies?
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What were the "a lot of teams?" Because I thought it was only the Lakers job which he wasn't guaranteed to get. Also his reward was his paycheck .
 
Waquoit said:
If he was the coach you say he was, we would have seen evidence of it after Napier graduated. Instead, we got 3 years of coaching-free basketball.
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So you don’t count the 2014 Championship as legitimate? You should write the NCAA to have it vacated because you didn’t like the coach.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
So you don’t count the 2014 Championship as legitimate? You should write the NCAA to have it vacated because you didn’t like the coach.
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Waquoit said:
If he was the coach you say he was, we would have seen evidence of it after Napier graduated. Instead, we got 3 years of coaching-free basketball.
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Wow, what a surprise that a guy who hasn’t coached a meaningful game in half a decade and was banished by his beloved university for his horrendous coaching job didn’t get a head coaching job in the best basketball organization in the world.
 
Psolo12 said:
Wow, what a surprise that a guy who hasn’t coached a meaningful game in half a decade and was banished by his beloved university for his horrendous coaching job didn’t get a head coaching job in the best basketball organization in the world.
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Sick burn dude! You killed it! Let’s keep this going as long as it takes to forget the fact that UConn had to write him a gigantic check!
 
WOTS is that Weaver wanted Ollie but the owner Gores fought against it.

Then backed up a brinks truck for Monty to seal it.
 
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Psolo12 said:
Wow, what a surprise that a guy who hasn’t coached a meaningful game in half a decade and was banished by his beloved university for his horrendous coaching job didn’t get a head coaching job in the best basketball organization in the world.
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It is official. UConn has the absolute worst fans of any college. The Big 12 should read this board, then run as fast as they can as far as they can.
 
It was so obvious that he is a great coach that just had a couple of tough years that the Pistons didn't want him. I'm sure he told him that he wanted to stay loyal to....whatever.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
It is official. UConn has the absolute worst fans of any college. The Big 12 should read this board, then run as fast as they can as far as they can.
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Is Mr. Stripclub still part of our program? I must have missed it.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
WOTS is that Weaver wanted Ollie but the owner Gores fought against it.

Then backed up a brinks truck for Monty to seal it.
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That would be surprising given how far back Weaver and Monty Williams go

 
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