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Message: [QUOTE="DMIL, post: 2773355, member: 8539"] His contribution to UCONN is the contribution and it starts when he committed to UCONN and Jim Calhoun respectively. He has contributed since that time being 1990, 1991. His last 2 years of head coaching the program is not going to erase that. All of the horrible losing the last 2 years was not solely due to his coaching and we all know that. When you take your emotion out of it you know that I'm correct factually. His contribution in it's entirety speaks for itself and is undeniable. Have at it if you will. Continue to beat a dead horse about Kevin Ollie's last 2 years as UCONN's head coach. There is a documented contribution that started in 1990 / 1991 that you are writing off and I'm just not going to let that slide or go unspoken for and this was before the titles and accolades the program accumulated over the next 25 years. Kevin was one of those building blocks with Jim Calhoun and part of that UCONN talent pipeline that went on to represent us in the NBA. There was a whole lot of winning by Kevin Ollie including as head coach of UCONN. The reason he is no longer the coach is partly because of the losing the last 2 seasons but more around is inability to manage the key executive functions of the role specifically around the internal politics and those key relationships. The light turned on too late and there was no coming back from the defections and back to back injuries. Essentially that was his "Fail safe", his "Firewall" and at that point nothing short of a miracle was going to reverse it. We all knew it when Gilbert went down the second time. 2 years of beating this horse I'm sure has become a habit that is I fully understand must be hard for you to break but we've moved on with a new coach. The time to break this habit is now. [/QUOTE]

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