KO allegedly cheated. We must remember these allegations are one sided by allegedly a disgruntled fired employee. The NCAA has not had any final ruling. We are all jumping the gun here. UConn had to fire Ollie because he wasn’t winning. Their savior was headed to Pitt. They had to make a hasty, risky move and push allegations because they couldn’t afford to pay 2 coaches. I’m no Ollie apologist but we know he had 4 pretty good players transfer at once and an all American decommit. He never had a healthy Gilbert and other horrific injuries. Ollie was forced to put together a roster overnight. The deck was stacked against him. He held his head high and didn’t make excuses. We on this board act as if we own Ollie and forget that he is a man. The way we turn our back on one of our own is disheartening. I was as uncomfortable as anyone to see Ray Allen have his jersey retired as he himself is in the middle of this show. This is how we do our own family to keep from paying Ollie. We have to compete against other universities for recruits, universities that are willing to do a lot more than take a couple of shots with a recruit to sign them. This is embarrassing and most on this board prefer to waddle in their own mud than to take a stand and have respect for one of our own!
The only hate I spewed toward Ollie had to do with his lack of player development and his incompetence as an in-game coach. I never touched the off-court stuff.
What he alleged is he was treated differently for the same (or in his case lesser)violations. Good luck with your "countersuit"...laughable.
What do you base that on Kathy? Serious question.
How do you figure KO's violations are lesser? I don't so I'm curious as to why you do.
He alleged the reason was race. That is a serious accusation if he follows through on it. I would laugh if KO ends up with a negative settlement when he could have had 2.5M.
Because first off, he has ONLY been accused...still open. 2nd They were all considered level 2 except the false or misleading information. At any rate he has been fired for allegations? Really?
And that is why your handle is Engineer90 and not Lawyer90.
You can't just brush off the fact that every single one of the actors were different. Because President Hogan and AD Hathaway acted one way 7 years prior, current President Herbst and AD Benedict are somehow obligated to follow suit despite a completely different landscape? Utterly absurd. Ollie's meager appeal to race is as pathetic as his coaching.
You don't think paying for travel, meals and a hotel for 3 players to attend illegal training session is problematic. Check out the contract. If UConn determines their is a violation of rules the contract terminates. KO is about to get a show cause order from the NCAA. Did Calhoun ever get one?
JC had a final report and was given a slap on the wrist. KO has open accusations and was fired without due process. Does that make it rasism, no. It became rasism the day KO was born black. That simple. If there is a minory involved and there is injustice or a claim of unequal treatment then we have to look at racism. Not saying that this equals racism but it definitely doesn’t exclude it. As a white man myself, I had to look in the mirror and ask myself am I a racist based on the privileged life I grew up in in CT and can I relate to someone from Compton that had to fight for everything his whole life and worked his ass off. I will say I’m not a rasist but I have to ask myself to see things from the other side. That’s all we can do as Americans and especially as Huskies.
Except he asks the question many are dodging. Ollie never claimed he was fired due his race. He alleges he was not treated the same as his white counter parts/predecessors. Those are 2 distinctly different things.
No, they aren't. Once he brought race into it, he was insinuating racism. Being treated differently because of race is the actual definition of racism. If he wanted to just point out that UConn was inconsistent, he could have said that without pointing out the races of those involved.