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Mike Rehfeldt Returning to Cincy

This is not good.

There is a disconnect here in who Hurley is hiring and how they perceive Hurley and the long term potential at UCONN and the effect that has regarding their work relationship with him.

Hurley goes out of his way to hire mercenaries and they drop him at the earliest convenience.

They view Hurley as a stepping stone and not a destination. This is a problem.

Bring back Glenn Miller.
 
Huskymagic said:
This is not good.

There is a disconnect here in who Hurley is hiring and how they perceive Hurley and the long term potential at UCONN and the effect that has regarding their work relationship with him.

Hurley goes out of his way to hire mercenaries and they drop him at the earliest convenience.

They view Hurley as a stepping stone and not a destination. This is a problem.

Bring back Glenn Miller.
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You haven't improved your posting in the offseason, geezus.
 
Sounds like it’s family ties pulling him back. Happens all the time. Dan Hurley will pull in another beast builder, and if not maybe he’s not our guy.
 
Huskymagic said:
This is not good.

There is a disconnect here in who Hurley is hiring and how they perceive Hurley and the long term potential at UCONN and the effect that has regarding their work relationship with him.

Hurley goes out of his way to hire mercenaries and they drop him at the earliest convenience.

They view Hurley as a stepping stone and not a destination. This is a problem.

Bring back Glenn Miller.
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Another perspective on this situation--Out of Dan Hurley's control-- Could be as simple as sometimes folks from the Mid-West aren't as excited about living in NE as well as New Englanders may not be excited about living in the Mid-West.

His wife and he have Mid-Western roots and she may have additional job opportunities in the area they want to settle down in long-term. Life happens.

Why do I bring this up? I'm married to a Mid-Western small town Iowa lady who I met in Denver where we were both living at the time. Moved back to CT after my Father passed away to help my Mother out. I am a native New Englander. After her first year of living here my wife says to me- "Ready to move back to Denver-- People aren't friendly around here and they never smile." Won't bore you with the rest of the story but we're still here.

Sometimes it's just about family and family preferences. The sky isn't falling because Dan Hurley hasn't been able to hold onto a SnC coach for sustained periods of time. It doesn't mean there are big problems in the BB Program under Dan Hurley. Yes it's inconvenient. It'll get fixed with another great fit.

Sometimes the "stuff" that happens in the BB Program is about Life.. Not just about BB.
 
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When you have a coach like Danny, who is more reliant on recruiting and motivation (than "X's and O's") to get wins, having a great strength coach is a much greater part of the equation.

We saw what the Strength Coach did to Josh after his "Most Improved" year. Josh's Junior year was taken from him because they misread his body.

Strength coaches are every bit as important as the HC. Those guys are in competition with their counterparts as well, and Rehfeldt was a great one.
 
BapeKidd88 said:
When you have a coach like Danny, who is more reliant on recruiting and motivation (than "X's and O's") to get wins, having a great strength coach is a much greater part of the equation.

We saw what the Strength Coach did to Josh after his "Most Improved" year. Josh's Junior year was taken from him because they misread his body.

Strength coaches are every bit as important as the HC. Those guys are in competition with their counterparts as well, and Rehfeldt was a great one.
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Isn't there some Saturday morning cartoons that you could be watching?
 
This is an interesting one. Very much understand the “want to go home” reasoning. Still seems odd. Don’t love the feeling of a staff in flux.
 
Consistency at the Sports Performance Director isn't our team's strength.
 
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Dan H is a vortex of phrenic activity wrapped around a cult of personality. He needs a squad of lemonade drinkers. There are a lot of folks that just can’t operate as super-pumped, genuflecting cogs in the dream factory. Steve Jobs was a classic, as is Elon Musk. They burned/burn through people like tissue paper. That said, it’s a high risk strategy that can be extremely effective if the cult leader has the right vision and can constantly pull the right strings. But, for every iconic success, there are thousands of crashes and burns.
 
One thing I noticed in the press release was that his title at Cincy now is not specific to the bball program. He may have an expanded role to cover other sports? I'm sure Fickell needs the help(lol), but his title doesn't look to be specific to bball as it once was.
 
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Mr. French said:
I'm a casual participant.

Buffalo is the "Queen City" not Cinci-tucky. F Cincy.
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About Cincinnati:

"And this song of the vine,
This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River."

Catawba Wine - Henry Wadworth Longfellow
 
Some interest narratives here, but it’s the off-season. What else is there to do? He lost coaches before because they could move up to better programs and make more money (Murray to Towson, Murray to Xavier, ARD to Clemson, Bobby to a head coaching job, etc). You can think whatever you want, but guys keep coming back to play for and work with him (Luke, Eric, Chris, etc.).

The Alosi hire was messed up. He likes giving people second (third?) chances but not everyone is deserving. I think the best strength and conditioning coach he had was Daniel Marshall at URI. He got him in with the university and Marshall earned promotions until he was able to be full-time with basketball... the changes in players over those four years was phenomenal. He and his wife left to go home to Arizona when Dan left URI (Marshall has been at ASU with the other one since then). Marshall knows Rehfeldt, which was a help when Dan targeted him last year. This last year was a rough one to break into a new market in the notoriously tough field of sports media. Props to Cincinnati, though. They did the right thing in taking the hit with Brannen, moving any slower could have set the program back really far.
 
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BlueDogs said:
Dan H is a vortex of phrenic activity wrapped around a cult of personality. He needs a squad of lemonade drinkers. There are a lot of folks that just can’t operate as super-pumped, genuflecting cogs in the dream factory. Steve Jobs was a classic, as is Elon Musk. They burned/burn through people like tissue paper. That said, it’s a high risk strategy that can be extremely effective if the cult leader has the right vision and can constantly pull the right strings. But, for every iconic success, there are thousands of crashes and burns.
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You're talking about two of the most notoriously people of the 21st-century.

Dan Hurley is not that guy.
 
BlueDogs said:
Dan H is a vortex of phrenic activity wrapped around a cult of personality. He needs a squad of lemonade drinkers. There are a lot of folks that just can’t operate as super-pumped, genuflecting cogs in the dream factory. Steve Jobs was a classic, as is Elon Musk. They burned/burn through people like tissue paper. That said, it’s a high risk strategy that can be extremely effective if the cult leader has the right vision and can constantly pull the right strings. But, for every iconic success, there are thousands of crashes and burns.
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Did you really mean "phrenic?"
 
Huskymagic said:
This is not good.

There is a disconnect here in who Hurley is hiring and how they perceive Hurley and the long term potential at UCONN and the effect that has regarding their work relationship with him.

Hurley goes out of his way to hire mercenaries and they drop him at the earliest convenience.

They view Hurley as a stepping stone and not a destination. This is a problem.

Bring back Glenn Miller.
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This board is deranged. Good god. It's the S&C guy. They move around all the time.
 
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NJHoops said:
This last year was a rough one to break into a new market in the notoriously tough field of sports media.
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regardless of the reason, the hits keep coming to the staff with the 4th and 5th most important positions both vacant. hopefully the 4th most important position is filled this week
 
I would add to the notion that this is family related. His wife is from the west side of Cincinnati, which is even a little more noted to have the folks who would be more likely to be home sick rather quickly. She went to college on the west side even.
 
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