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Okay I’m off the Ollie train

Tenspro2002 said:
Completely unprepared physically and mentally for a key OOC game. No accountability or pride. Guys basically going through the motions, and KO completely uninterested in laying into anyone.
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Couldn't agree more.

It's almost as if Ollie doesn't want to show any individual player much needed tough love in fear of having ANOTHER player transfer, reinforcing the narrative that kids don't want to play here.
 
I look at the program and the number of transfers, grad transfers playing plus isn't Kwintin Williams like 23 years old? The team he put together is just so odd. Sure we can have one transfer like Ed Nelson but you're going to get a player like ... Ed Nelson. Grow the program with high school players... Ollie recruited me players and it's why we are where we are.

Calhoun recruited team players who picked up other team mates and made them better... think Kemba... then think Larrier...
 
InKembaITrust said:
Couldn't agree more.

It's almost as if Ollie doesn't want to show any individual player much needed tough love in fear of having ANOTHER player transfer, reinforcing the narrative that kids don't want to play here.
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lol trust me that's not the problem
 
He (and all us fans) knew we needed a shooter or two, a reliable one. We got no one in two years.

That's a coaching/recruiting fail big time.
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
Sure the talent level on this team doesn’t stack up to good UConn teams of the past but this is straight up embarrassing. Losing by thirty to a mediocre Arkansas team? Body language is terrible, not even a halfhearted effort defensively, no plan whatsoever. He’s lost the team in November? After the season they just had? Blow it up and start over.
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Is there room in the caboose? I want on.
 
Forte said:
I look at the program and the number of transfers, grad transfers playing plus isn't Kwintin Williams like 23 years old? The team he put together is just so odd. Sure we can have one transfer like Ed Nelson but you're going to get a player like ... Ed Nelson. Grow the program with high school players... Ollie recruited me players and it's why we are where we are.

Calhoun recruited team players who picked up other team mates and made them better... think Kemba... then think Larrier...
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What's wrong with Ed Nelson, huh?
 
UConn_Top_Dog said:
UConn got blown out by Louisville the same year they won it all. Just sayin...
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And it should be noted in an off season interview it was Kevin Ollie said who after that game, when he was "yelling like a mad man" which was the wrong approach, Shabazz Napier gathered the team around and told them calmly "We are gonna win the National Championship". Ollie basically credited Napier for taking control of the team at that point.
 
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Forte said:
I look at the program and the number of transfers, grad transfers playing plus isn't Kwintin Williams like 23 years old? The team he put together is just so odd. Sure we can have one transfer like Ed Nelson but you're going to get a player like ... Ed Nelson. Grow the program with high school players... Ollie recruited me players and it's why we are where we are.

Calhoun recruited team players who picked up other team mates and made them better... think Kemba... then think Larrier...
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You see, this argument doesn't hold water when a JUCO guard just absolutely torched us, and a team with JUCOs in its rotation and DI transfers just hung 100+ on us.

Why does everyone who's (rightly) upset with the state of the program have such stupid, illegitimate reasons why?
 
The knock in the AD is Ollie wants to be buddies with players and not their coach. He’s had a whole rash of personal issues with a myriad of guys.

It reflects itself in how he coaches. It’s a disaster. I felt like I was coming around on Ollie a few days ago but I’m cooked. The lack of preparation for this game was just jarring.

Losing is one thing. But how you lose is
Everything. The same problems, different cast every year. Just general lack of preparedness. Not much fight. Not much size. It’s just the movie Groundhog Day over and over again.
 
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Stairmaster said:
You see, this argument doesn't hold water when a JUCO guard just absolutely torched us, and a team with JUCOs in its rotation and DI transfers just hung 100+ on us.

Why does everyone who's (rightly) upset with the state of the program have such stupid, illegitimate reasons why?
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Tell me who do the TOP programs the vast majority of the time have more success with... Juco's or High school recruits?
 
Have to say, no excuse for this team including KO. No heart or pride. No accountability and that's sqaurely on the coach.

This team has the intesity of an AAU highlight video. Rediculous.
 
Forte said:
Tell me who do the TOP programs the vast majority of the time have more success with... Juco's or High school recruits?
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2/13 scholarship players on this team are JUCO players. Why are you even arguing this?
 
It’s horrendous but firing Ollie especially after all the turnovers with staff n players, I’ll have to holdout nw and see how this team respond for the remainder of this year.. I mean Ollie’s still figuring out who to start games & play off the bench, roles are going to be defined during aac play, didn’t like Anderson starting tho n Larrier is too soft for me, vital might not be here next year , & as a person who played basketball when u throw it down to the post the opposite player from the wing cuts to the basket for easy shots, y are we standing on the perimeter like we’re a great 3 point shooting team is mind blowing!!
 
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krinklecut said:
A really, really, really good Louisville team. Comparing this Arkansas team to that Louisville team is a joke.
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Because at this point in the season you know every team that is really really good? Did everyone expect us to be very very good and win it all in 2014? Let me know when we fill out the brackets, I want to be in your pool. I'm going to be a millionare in April.
 
ASweet3781 said:
And it should be noted in an off season interview it was Kevin Ollie said who after that game, when he was "yelling like a mad man" which was the wrong approach, Shabazz Napier gathered the team around and told them calmly "We are gonna win the National Championship". Ollie basically credited Napier for taking control of the team at that point.
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That wasn't the last time Bazz gathered the team that season to be the voice of reason....
 
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