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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2769967, member: 1528"] Well, it's hard to say that with a straight face if you remember the history. Yes, only Ollie was considered for the job, but that's because Calhoun retired on the eve of the season and there was no one else who could have been considered at that point. It was totally a JC power play against the AD, who was Warde at the time, right? So Warde only offered Ollie a 9 month contract to start. Nine months! Talk about a slap in the face. But he did phenomenally well at first. (Afterwards, not so much.) It was only with that success that he was given the big boy contract with the ridiculous buy out number. So, it's rational for Ollie to have some lingering hard feelings about the way he was treated by UConn at the outset of his tenure, even if strings were pulled to get him the job in the first place. [/QUOTE]