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Dove said:
KO lost a key allie today.

Chief weeps.
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Fairfield_1st said:
That was a big up, yes. I think they have been far more competitive than last year. As others have said, losing to Cincy by 4 was far more encouraging than losing by 20+. SMU hurt, but in my mind still a better and encouraging season. Would be nice to get 1 road victory.


I saw that too after the post and should have amended. I was fixated on the 12.8 ppg or whatever the number was. But for a freshman guard, still a good start.
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Over 5 assists too.
 
superjohn said:
Making up a race issue out of thin air.
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well uconn made up it was about violations...

and in the past ignored violations...

what did they think was going to happen
 
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Dove said:
KO lost a key allie today.

Chief weeps.
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Every dude has a breaking point - even the most patient. KO, when you have totally lost Chief, who went to bat for Clyde V and Nate Miles when it was unpopular, that should be a huge wake-up call.
It seems to me that your attorneys are trying to save professional face after bragging down the Big East Tournament how they were going to win all that money for you.
The last FOI they pulled brought up all kinds of Miller’s gossip about how you paid a player’s mom. This request will damage you more.

Pull the plug man and let the forgiveness begin. I will be first in line.

Chief
 
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UofCT2009 said:
Wasn't there difference language in Ollie's contract about breaking rules?
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Same language as Calhoun's contract iirc, except delivered with a "this time we really mean it" emphasis, per UConn AD.
 
And this is all from the guy who once stated “money don’t move me”. Rings more than a little hollow now.
 
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Ollie has badly overplayed his hand, apparently due to a combination of lousy legal advice and his own desire to exact a measure of revenge against the university and everybody connected with it. Once he chose that path, Calhoun just became another enemy on UCONN's team. The word loyalty apparently means very little to Ollie, or is blindly trumped by the lure of chasing after $10.7 million unearned dollars. He had apparently kicked Calhoun to the curb well before the excrement hit the fan, so loyalty had already been thrown out the window.

As for the legal aspects of this circus, the longer it drags on the worse it gets for Ollie. Whether his attorneys took this case on a contingency fee or are billing him by the hour is largely irrelevant when you're up against a huge corp. or major governmental agency. At some point in the proceedings, being on the right or wrong side of the law doesn't matter much anymore. The side that can better weather the costs of protracted litigation always has the upper hand. In this case, it's pretty obvious that UCONN holds almost all of the cards, both practically and legally.

At some point, Ollie either runs out of money to pay any legal fees and expenses, or his attorneys grow tired of throwing their own time, effort, and expense money into a bottomless abyss with no positive result reasonably expected. That's when the case either gets settled, or the attorneys decide to part company with Ollie. That's how our civil litigation system works. Deeper pockets have the advantage and usually prevail.
 
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UConnNick said:
Ollie has badly overplayed his hand, apparently due to a combination of lousy legal advice and his own desire to exact a measure of revenge against the university and everybody connected with it. Once he chose that path, Calhoun just became another enemy on UCONN's team. The word loyalty apparently means very little to Ollie, or is blindly trumped by the lure of chasing after $10.7 million unearned dollars. He had apparently kicked Calhoun to the curb well before the excrement hit the fan, so loyalty had already been thrown out the window.

As for the legal aspects of this circus, the longer it drags on the worse it gets for Ollie. Whether his attorneys took this case on a contingency fee or are billing him by the hour is largely irrelevant when you're up against a huge corp. or major governmental agency. At some point in the proceedings, being on the right or wrong side of the law doesn't matter much anymore. The side that can better weather the costs of protracted litigation always has the upper hand. In this case, it's pretty obvious that UCONN holds almost all of the cards, both practically and legally.

At some point, Ollie either runs out of money to pay any legal fees and expenses, or his attorneys grow tired of throwing their own time, effort, and expense money into a bottomless abyss with no positive result reasonably expected. That's when the case either gets settled, or the attorneys decide to part company with Ollie. That's how our civil litigation system works. Deep pockets have the advantage and usually prevail.
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LOL "Deep Pockets"

we were 40 million in the hole last year, our BigEast carry over money dried up, and we and chose to nickel and dime swindle on a signed contract to save 10 million to get rid of a coach.


Yeah that screams of "Deep Pockets" to me.
 
August_West said:
LOL "Deep Pockets"

we were 40 million in the hole last year, our BigEast carry over money dried up, and we and chose to nickel and dime swindle on a signed contract to save 10 million to get rid of a coach.


Yeah that screams of "Deep Pockets" to me.
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i cant get over how many people pretend they would walk away from 11 million dollars. it’s like 5.5 times the LIFETIME earnings of the average poster. its hilarious.
 
August_West said:
LOL "Deep Pockets"

we were 40 million in the hole last year, our BigEast carry over money dried up, and we and chose to nickel and dime swindle on a signed contract to save 10 million to get rid of a coach.


Yeah that screams of "Deep Pockets" to me.
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All that matters is the university has the ability to outlast Ollie financially. They've got their own staff attorneys on salary, and they won't quit paying their outside counsel until it gets resolved. Ollie doesn't have that luxury. This business has nothing to do with the athletic dept. budget.
 
UConnNick said:
All that matters is the university has the ability to outlast Ollie financially. They've got their own staff attorneys on salary, and they won't quit paying their outside counsel until it gets resolved. Ollie doesn't have that luxury. This business has nothing to do with the athletic dept. budget.
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spend millions in legal fees to cover for athletic department ineptness. solid plan.
 
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Forget about the $10million for now. Spending money and time to defend one's reputation is something we all should do. The lawyers are not going to bankrupt KO. They will see the case through with a flat fee. UCONN should settle it now and then fire DB. This AD is destroying UCONN
 
Whtdmd said:
Forget about the $10million for now. Spending money and time to defend one's reputation is something we all should do. The lawyers are not going to bankrupt KO. They will see the case through with a flat fee. UCONN should settle it now and then fire DB. This AD is destroying UCONN
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*UConn.
 
Whtdmd said:
Forget about the $10million for now. Spending money and time to defend one's reputation is something we all should do. The lawyers are not going to bankrupt KO. They will see the case through with a flat fee. UCONN should settle it now and then fire DB. This AD is destroying UCONN
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Why do St. John’s fans care what UConn should do?
 
Whtdmd said:
Forget about the $10million for now. Spending money and time to defend one's reputation is something we all should do. The lawyers are not going to bankrupt KO. They will see the case through with a flat fee. UCONN should settle it now and then fire DB. This AD is destroying UCONN
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Ollie hasn't defended his reputation, he's destroyed it. He lied to the school and the NCAA, got called on it, and now makes pathetic attempts to play the race card? He's well on his way to bankrupting himself because he's ruined most of his potential job prospects, at least at the college level.

As for our Athletic Director, no argument there. It was ridiculous to give him such a huge buyout in the first place, while writing in an exit clause for yourself and the university president.
 
Funny. Around here(Colorado)the consensus is a)almost no one knows or cares and b)those that do think KO is getting a raw deal. So it does not seem the publicity is doing the school any good. Sad. Should have never come to this.
 
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Madmannsucks said:
Funny. Around here(Colorado)the consensus is a)almost no one knows or cares and b)those that do think KO is getting a raw deal. So it does not seem the publicity is doing the school any good. Sad. Should have never come to this.
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Well when you present scientific research like that...
 
8893 said:
At this point I don't think he should be paid, at least not much. I think he misplayed this badly.
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Teddy KGB concurs with the reaction you see everywhere.
 
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