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Khalid El-Amin wants to join the UConn coaching staff

CL82 said:
Does he have a lot of experience, look, I love KEA, but unless he's suggesting he's slipping into the Nardi slot and Nardi is getting promoted, I don't see how he fits. Now, if he's got a lot of of a coaching experience that I'm unaware of, I retract my comment.
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Let's remember, Nardi was very experienced before he joined the staff. He was feisty when he played and is just as feisty on the UConn bench, which is exactly what you need. So glad he is on the staff!
 
Huskybass said:
Hiring an underqualified alum is not a good move in my opinion. Plenty of good choices out there.
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I want shea Ralph! Make history and prepare her for taking genos chair in the next few years. Vandy knows it. But with a few years on the men’s staff. That is gangster.
 
Sat next to DeAndre Daniels for an hour tonight. He got up and then Boo Willingham sat next to me for the next 3 hours. We talked everything you could imagine UConn and one of the topics was how El-Amin was the best leader we've ever had. 5 minutes later El-Amin came over and hung out with us. We told him how we just talked about him being the best leader ever and we wished he was on the staff. He told us it was his dream. I pop on here and I see this thread. The last 24 hours have been magical. Oh yeah, Boat and Bazz also came over for a bit to hang out.

Some out of control Illini fans tried to start stuff with everyone when the bar closed down but thankfully nothing happened.
 
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Old Man UConn said:
Brother Bobby!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No Way Randy GIF by Zack Kantor
 
danny already said bobby not an option. Love KEA as a player and leader but not a position for a first time bench coach . the hire won’t replace all that luke did recruiting , analytics , confidante ( before turning down lakers job he went to billy joel concert with luke) . need someone who is a strong analytics guy and is equally crazy ( in a good way) and can handle danny
 
MrJoe said:
danny already said bobby not an option. Love KEA as a player and leader but not a position for a first time bench coach . the hire won’t replace all that luke did recruiting , analytics , confidante ( before turning down lakers job he went to billy joel concert with luke) . need someone who is a strong analytics guy and is equally crazy ( in a good way) and can handle danny
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Bill Murray is available
 
Unless I'm incorrect, I believe you can now have up to five assistants on a staff. So it would at least be possible for Coach Hurley to add multiple coaches.
 
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We should add an assistant with strong AAU connections or one with relationships to 2026 5 stars that he might bring with him. I live KEA, but he's not the off the court role model the team needs. Fitness wasn't his favorite pastime.
 
I think he could def help but that’s an incredibly large personality on the bench with Danny. I could see them butting heads on certain things. Although Danny loves headbutts …who knows!
 
LStudfellow said:
I for one think Khalid would be a great hire, for the position under Nardi as Nardi is now moved up. Seems to me he would fit right into the same slot that Taliek Brown was hired for as Director of Player Development.

Anyone on this board who was not around for his time at UConn, and even some of you who were, do not realize how important Khalid was to leading us to that first, all-important Final 4, and ultimately National Championship. After all of the painful Elite 8 and Sweet 16 losses that preceded that first National Title run, just getting to a Final 4 seemed like a bridge too far. From the Dream Season of 1989-1990 to our first Final 4 and National Championship in 1999, we made the Sweet 16 6 times in total, and the Elite 8 in 3 of those years. And some of those losses were excruciating. Not just the Duke Elite 8 loss in 1990, although that one was certainly horrible enough. But then the losses to Florida and Mississippi St. where we were on paper the better team, and the losses to UCLA in California and North Carolina in Greensboro in the Elite 8's where we played well but ran into the eventual national champions who both had significant "home court advantages". That Florida loss used to haunt me because of how all we needed was our All-American Donyell to hit one of two free throws to seal a Sweet 16 victory and a rematch with a Boston College team that we had dominated through the year... and yet he inexplicably missed both and lost in overtime.

Khalid came to UConn knowing it was on his shoulders to get us over that very sizable 500 pound gorilla in the room. Obviously that group had all the components except for one... a guy who had the moxie to grab the bull by the horns and drag the whole group kicking and screaming forward to victory when it looked like all was lost. This is why I have believed for a long time that the tragectory of the 1998-1999 season, and ultimately everything that has come after it was changed on that January afternoon in Pittsburgh where Khalid stood up in the face of all the racial taunts that were thrown at him that day (which is why he got up on the scorers table at the end of the game) and showed that UConn wasn't going to lay down in the face of immense pressure any longer. Go back and watch it. He WANTED THE BALL to win that game. He made sure to get it, and then made the move and jumper to win the game against one of our hated rivals who we almost never beat at their place during that stretch. It was a house of horrors for us more times than I care to admit.

I'll say it straight out, as back then I lived and died with this team: Khalid, more than any other player before him in the Calhoun era, embodied the level of balls required to build us into being a championship team, not just a winning team. He embodied Calhoun's fire, guts, determination and willingness to stand up and be a leader in the most critical moments to drive us to win on the court. Their is a reason that Khalid, and nobody else said that we would "Shock the World" that night in Tampa in 1999 vs. Duke. Because he was the heart of that team.

Bottom Line: Khalid deserves the chance to be a part of our coaching staff moving forward, and hopefully instilling his winning guts and attitude into future Huskies.

Here is a clip of that famous ending, for those who have not seen it, or want to see it again. Like mainlining adrenaline straight into your artery:

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Loved how the announcers gave a Pitt player the play of the game just before he did what he did.
 
Scoe said:
The job needs to go to the best candidate possible regardless of being an alum or not. I'm cool with bringing Khalid onto the staff not sure what the rule is on number of coaches.
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Especially seeing as we’re replacing one of the best offensive minds in college basketball.
 
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UconnU said:
Especially seeing as we’re replacing one of the best offensive minds in college basketball.
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I'm very curious to see who Hurley brings in, it was very smart to bring in Nardi with Luke here for his last season. Nardi did a great job with the Michigan scouting report btw.
 
Bring him on. If he can relate to these kids and get them to play their butts off, bring him in!
HooperScooper said:
Thoughts?

Speaking to TMZ Sports about Hurley making his third Final Four in four seasons, El-Amin said: “”It just speaks to his testament how good of a coach he is, but I think how good of a coaching staff that he has been able to put together, and I look forward to trying to be on that staff one day in the near future.

“I think I have a lot to offer the game. I just need an opportunity to show my worth.”

]Khalid El-Amin wants to join the UConn coaching staff | Zagsblog
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HooperScooper said:
Thoughts?

Speaking to TMZ Sports about Hurley making his third Final Four in four seasons, El-Amin said: “”It just speaks to his testament how good of a coach he is, but I think how good of a coaching staff that he has been able to put together, and I look forward to trying to be on that staff one day in the near future.

“I think I have a lot to offer the game. I just need an opportunity to show my worth.”

]Khalid El-Amin wants to join the UConn coaching staff | Zagsblog
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How many coaches who spent time in jail do you want on your team. Dead beat dad and drug dealer. Hard pass if I am Hurley.
 
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