more whiteflag talk

[pj]

This is a much better quote. Shabazz comes off as saying "Warde is about more than wins". He was not at all controversial.

No, he said, "Warde doesn't care about wins or on the court results, he cares only about off the court results." To have an AD who cares about the basketball players' scholarship but not about their wins? That's an Ivy League AD, not a big-time athletics AD. It should be controversial.

 

[huskymedic]

No, he said, "Warde doesn't care about wins or on the court results, he cares only about off the court results." To have an AD who cares about the basketball players' scholarship but not about their wins? That's an Ivy League AD, not a big-time athletics AD. It should be controversial.

Where are you pulling that quote from?

 

[freescooter]

Can you imagine Kemba Walker bitching in the media that Jim Calhoun's contract extension isn't done? I can't. Calhoun would have kicked his back to Brooklyn, but Kemba wouldn't have gotten involved in this kind of nonsense anyway. He knew his job was to win basketball games and stay eligible while doing it. I would hope Ollie has a strong talk with his captain and tells him to just pipe down about things that aren't his concern.

 

[Waquoit]

paul pend comes in:
-bball facility $ jumps quick
-donations are up or solid i forget what a article said on that
-helps susan with end and jc with his goals also

Let's not get carried away. When "paul pend" came in, his introductory speech didn't contain one word about CA. He was lost. All he did was mandate saying the pledge every game.

 

[Waquoit]

Im sure KO is not happy. Puts him in a very uncomfortable spot.

This is a real opportuinity for KO to show he's the guy. Beating Stony Brook is one thing, confronting his best player is another. Does he address it or keep his mouth shut? I know the qualitative metric for this one.

 

[Dann]

Let's not get carried away. When "paul pend" came in, his introductory speech didn't contain one word about CA. He was lost. All he did was mandate saying the pledge every game.

Not a fan of the pledge but i liked the way he got $ flowing quick. Hes good fund raising wise. We should have 5 of those guys like other schools.

 

[pj]

Where are you pulling that quote from?

It was a paraphrase of the verbatim quote you cited earlier:

"A lot of people don't care how we do on the court, but off the court, how we conduct ourselves in society, and how we do in class. I think our AD is one of those people."

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-men/hc-uconn-men-advance-1221-20121220,0,7468691.story

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-men/hc-uconn-men-advance-1221-20121220,0,7468691.story

Napier thinks "our AD" = Warde is one of the people "doesn't care how we do on the court" but only cares how we do "off the court ... and how we do in class".

 

[freescooter]

Given the history of the program since 2006, that might not be such a bad thing. Especially considering UConn is sitting home come March due to failure to perform in the classroom. And we are still suffering the ill effects of recruiting a guy who never played a minute because he got expelled for violating a court order.

 

[pj]

Yeah, the recruiting sucked for a time, Jim was tired and the assistants took the easy road and some low-character players. But Ollie is not going to attract that kind of kid, he is a hard worker who will bring in high-character kids. We also lost the AD who refused to invest in academic support and increased our support for tutoring players. And we instituted the summer programs and between-semester programs that circumvent the APR just like all other top schools.

With those changes, you don't need to over-emphasize academics further.

 

[APA]

One would hope that a college could NEVER overemphasize academics.

 

[uconnfan68]

Given the history of the program since 2006, that might not be such a bad thing. Especially considering UConn is sitting home come March due to failure to perform in the classroom. And we are still suffering the ill effects of recruiting a guy who never played a minute because he got expelled for violating a court order.

Failure to perform? Seriously? Ask Upstater about the APR process. It has nothing to do with academic performance. Ask UNC how they blow off the NCAA every year with fake classes for athletes and tell me WE have an academic issue. There was a witch hunt orchestrated by Emmert, a former UConn official, who apparently rubbed a lot of people at UConn the wrong way, and decided to get back at them once at the NCAA kangaroo court. Can you say double jeopardy? We went through 2 punishments for the same issue. One was retroactive for God's sake.

 

[sdhusky]

Failure to perform? Seriously? Ask Upstater about the APR process. It has nothing to do with academic performance. Ask UNC how they blow off the NCAA every year with fake classes for athletes and tell me WE have an academic issue. There was a witch hunt orchestrated by Emmert, a former UConn official, who apparently rubbed a lot of people at UConn the wrong way, and decided to get back at them once at the NCAA kangaroo court. Can you say double jeopardy? We went through 2 punishments for the same issue. One was retroactive for God's sake.

Its because Calhoun put players on the waiver wire and messed around with the scholarship issue with Drummond.

You can't show up the NCAA and then be surprised they act irrationally.

 

[FAIRTIDES]

do u want to go to the b10 and get stomped in every sport, be exposed as a crapy school and get asked to leave faster then a fat girl after midnight at a frat party? susan has the b1gharder under control from that side of it. warde has created a mess, hole place is up in flames. we need contract extensions months ago, a new staff or the coreect in house change months ago. we needed new marketing months ago...and so much more. nothing has gotten done. i dont want to go to the b10 and become umass. i want to go to the b10 and become michigan, florida or texas. if all we can do is umass levle bull ****, then we shouldnt go anywhere and we should burn down the ad and apply to the ivy league only to get rejected anyway.

As to the "fat girl after midnight" comment; you've obviously never heard "the girls all get prettier at closing time" from the Country song.

On WM. I'm starting to suspect that he feels he's in a big d#$ contest with JC.

On your other "rant." You are aware that it all may be irrelevant, I mean, with the world going tits-up and all.

 

[FAIRTIDES]

No, he said, "Warde doesn't care about wins or on the court results, he cares only about off the court results." To have an AD who cares about the basketball players' scholarship but not about their wins? That's an Ivy League AD, not a big-time athletics AD. It should be controversial.

Ivy League AD's get more crap from alumni than you might think; especially as it relates to football.

 

[J187Money]

All I know is that he gives KO a deal tomorrow and then he goes 4-14 in the BE he will get killed for that also.

 

[huskysupporter]

Hopefully KO told Napier to zip it.

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