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Huskyforlife said:
What makes him such a great hire? I've seriously been wondering what exactly makes everyone so hype for his guy. Just because he "found" Fultz? He's got a solid resume, nothing specacular. His players did nothing at Washington last year.
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Its known across the country that this guy is an ace recruiter. When multiple reporters who would know all refer to the hire as a great addition, i tend to take their word for it over a random fan. Then on top of that just look at his resume. Isaish Thomas an NBA all star and MVP candidate chooses to work out with chillious every summer. That speaks volumes. Im sorry but there is no negative to be found in his hiring no matter how hard you dig
 
Huskyforlife said:
What makes him such a great hire? I've seriously been wondering what exactly makes everyone so hype for his guy. Just because he "found" Fultz? He's got a solid resume, nothing specacular. His players did nothing at Washington last year.
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Because he is on our side now.

I actually like Chillious, and I personally feel he is a step up and a general upgrade in the state of the coaching staff.

But the honest truth is 99% of the members of the Boneyard had never heard of the name Raphael Chillious 1 week before Doc's thread predicting he replaces Miller.
 
You basically have to rely on the media to determine the quality of assistant coaches IMO. Unless you are compulsively obsessed with recruiting, you are not going to know the point man on recruits for different teams throughout the country. Head coaches are judged on wins and losses. People outside the program don't even know the assistants' responsibilities or the dynamics of the coaching staff so it hard to judge on any tangible metric. I had heard of Chillious quite a while ago because he has had a great reputation for years but I can't say for sure that I know he is some stud. I just know that the Jeff Goodmans and Evan Daniels of the world think he is a stud.
 
Do media members ever tweet negative responses when someone is hired?
 
I'm not too keen on the Chillious hire, mainly because it broke our PSA relationship with Miller getting let go. But you have to admit Chillious had a role in getting kids to Washington, but most everything else about him is questionable at this point.

Either way, you need to give the guy time to show what he's got. And if people are rooting for him to fail then you got problems.
 
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BUConn10 said:
Wait, that's what you deduced from my post? That I was criticizing Chill? A number of people in this thread are discussing Chill's claim to fame in recruiting and are referencing him discovering Fultz, that's what I'm talking about. I'm saying we will soon know who the mastermind at Washington was all those years as its something I've been personally curious about for nearly a decade as a fan of college and the NBA, where have they been getting all this talent? But you think Miller hired Romar for his COACHING accumen? Have you watched a minute of college basketball or know anything about Romar?

I'll tell you what the problem is, people who are just way to overzealous at defending to the point where some of you are just looking for reasons to take offense. Frankly mau the boneyard needs its board fool back to posting scantily clad photos of women half his age, the serious basketball analysis and rah rah doesn't suit you.
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The scantily women half my age part, congrats on that. Like to have some fun, I'm guessing the only fun you have is trying to take apart the UConn coaching staff and program? I am sure your 1 or 2 friends stand next to you and say "you show those guys on the BY how much you know about everything BU, you're the man and damn you know coaching acumen" LOL

Hilarious pal, hardly worth even replying to. Basketball analysis, is that what you call your replies that's funny because there's hardly anything learned from your spew. Anyway back to Romar, knew who he was when he was at Pepperdine and St Louis, up and comer and expected more out of him at UW for sure. The guy is known to have a good basketball mind which by the way, doesn't always coexist with being a good HC, did you know that? Some of the best assistants are ex head coaches who failed, check the benches in the NCAA hero maybe you can learn something!

Now do yourself a favor and check that mirror - there you have your board fool you're looking for! ;)
 
CTBasketball said:
I'm not too keen on the Chillious hire, mainly because it broke our PSA relationship with Miller getting let go. But you have to admit Chillious had a role in getting kids to Washington, but most everything else about him is questionable at this point.

Either way, you need to give the guy time to show what he's got. And if people are rooting for him to fail then you got problems.
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PSA has been relevant as a basketball school for like 3 years, so these long lasting Miller connections with PSA is just dumb. You really think that Chillious can't have the same kind of relationships with the players there? Thats not even considering the fact that Ollie has been going there for years and has plenty of connection with them. Just stop.
 
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temery said:
Ah, thanks. I was worried the team had a prostate problem.
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Miller's relationship with the prostate was good. One of our trolls thought KO couldn't get along with the prostate, but he was just making it up.
 
CalsNeighbor said:
PSA has been relevant as a basketball school for like 3 years, so these long lasting Miller connections with PSA is just dumb. You really think that Chillious can't have the same kind of relationships with the players there? Thats not even considering the fact that Ollie has been going there for years and has plenty of connection with them. Just stop.
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Considering Miller was the POC for almost every recruit there I would be a little worried.

Ollie attended some games, but Miller was there all the time talking to these kids.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Has anyone is this thread said anything negative about Diarra? There's like 15 replies and I don't see one slight against him.
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True as your assertion may be, there are already numerous posts that reflect poorly on the fanbase that a recruit is considering, whether it's front and center or not. The profanity filter is helpful for when posters shoot their mouths off in one way. Calls for decency, self-moderation, and perspective aren't at all unreasonable requests to make of fans. Yes, there are those who want to put their precious life energy toward being intentionally negative, but unless it's for financial gain toward (supposedly) more favorable ends, why bother? It's withering enough to suffer the trolls without adding so-called friends who post to the same effect as enemies.
 
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upstater said:
It had to be much much more than that. This happens to the best of college recruiters everywhere. I have seen top recruiters get stiffed at the last minute You can't hold Diallo against Glenn Miller. You just can't. It is a common story.
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No, but it could have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
 
djct1999 said:
This. Miller had one job to do, went all in, and came up empty. The time for change was painfully obvious.
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Should we have fired JC's coaching staff for missing on Gomes or Kevin Durant?

KD was rumored to have verballed on campus. Shouldn't have let that go.
 
, Miller was a holdover from the JC era, was miscast as a big man coach, served the school with distinction for many years as a student, player and coach. Not to mention he has a ring or two.

The program thought it was time for a change. There doesn't need to be any shade thrown. It could just as easily be that KO was using him as a crutch like he did Hobbs, Blaney, and the others.

If Miller wants to be a HC again then it's better for him to get out from under the programs shadow.
 
CTBasketball said:
Should we have fired JC's coaching staff for missing on Gomes or Kevin Durant?

KD was rumored to have verballed on campus. Shouldn't have let that go.
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They never actually recruited Gomes. The list of misses under JC was long and distinguished,as it is with most coaches.

Oddly, some of UCONNs most noted misses led to backup plans that led to championships... Guys like Okafor, Lamb, even Bazz... I think he requalified because of misses and they needed him on campus ASAP.
 
intlzncster said:
They never actually recruited Gomes. The list of misses under JC was long and distinguished,as it is with most coaches.

Oddly, some of UCONNs most noted misses led to backup plans that led to championships... Guys like Okafor, Lamb, even Bazz... I think he requalified because of misses and they needed him on campus ASAP.
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Wasn't Kemba also a backup plan to Brandon Jennings? Or am I remembering that wrong?
 
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CTBasketball said:
Should we have fired JC's coaching staff for missing on Gomes or Kevin Durant?

KD was rumored to have verballed on campus. Shouldn't have let that go.
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I don't recall ever passing on talent because we were all in on Durant, to then not get Durant, and have a depleted roster.
 
intlzncster said:
They never actually recruited Gomes. The list of misses under JC was long and distinguished,as it is with most coaches.
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I'll never blame them for not recruiting Gomes, I don't think anyone saw him becoming as good as he was. I played against him a ton growing up and in HS/AAU and never thought he was a UConn-caliber player and we played against plenty future DI players in the tri-state area and at national tournaments. I was surprised when he went to Providence, I thought he'd be in over his head there. He was a late bloomer but it's also a testament to how hard he worked, the kid earned it. Even playing against him in the last few years when he's been home, he's not what you picture athletically when imagine an NBA player. Such a crafty, smart player.
 
We also lucked out on Freeman. I believe he really wanted Duke and he knew he had a UConn offer and we were hitting on stride and getting to be a hot ticket and Duke held him off for a while pursuing some one else and he also knew uconn wouldn't wait much longer and he finally committed. Ranked somewhere in the 30's I kinda remember. Didn't exactly fall into our lap. He made a wise choice.
 
intlzncster said:
They never actually recruited Gomes. The list of misses under JC was long and distinguished,as it is with most coaches.

Oddly, some of UCONNs most noted misses led to backup plans that led to championships... Guys like Okafor, Lamb, even Bazz... I think he requalified because of misses and they needed him on campus ASAP.
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I stopped getting attached to recruiting when we didn't get Brandon Bass and Randell Jackson. Things worked out pretty good up until now. I root for whoevers here. Remember, Shabazz's mom was a Uconn fan and a huge KEA fan and other schools can't recruit against things like that.
 
djct1999 said:
I don't recall ever passing on talent because we were all in on Durant, to then not get Durant, and have a depleted roster.
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This is the thing. We didn't get Durant and we ended up with Stanley Robinson. We didn't get Diallo and we got...
 
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