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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3455334, member: 833"] At least half the board refuses to give Ollie credit for anything, including winning the national championship. The fact is that he did an OK job recruiting despite the conference realignment disaster. Three things hit our recruiting: [LIST=1] [*]UConn transitioning from the top conference in basketball to a mid-major was going to dramatically hurt recruiting. [*]Transitioning from a legendary coach to the next generation is incredibly difficult, and no program pulls it off successfully without a few bumps in the road. Ollie's issue was compounded by the Interim Coach title, which effective froze recruiting for a year and a half, since it is impossible to recruit if the coach doesn't know if he will be coach nor not. We lost at least one class from this. [*]Transfers - I think this is a combination of factors. Ollie definitely created an environment where players wanted out, but I also think the conference situation combined with the dirtiest program in college basketball coming after Enoch also impacted the exodus. [/LIST] That said, Vital, Polley, Whaley, Carlton, Gilbert and even Wilson are not a terrible junior and senior class given the circumstances. Before any of the usual idiots jump in with "Ollie sucked as a coach", no one is arguing he didn't deserve to get fired. Everyone can play amateur psychologist, but something happened after 2016 and Ollie stopped working hard, and the school had to let him go. But it doesn't mean that everything he did was wrong or bad. [/QUOTE]

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