Ollie lands a new job

[August_West]

Yes, yes I can. What did we save? Not scholarships, not coaches salary. Just the rent on the Rent, and uniform laundry fees.

Travel costs.

 

[CL82]

Calhoun blew up the rocket ship when he was too lame to game the APR system

Ignores the fact at the NCAA changed the APR rules and then applied them retroactively to year for which UConn had already been sanctioned and did so while refusing to apply current the teams current APR data which would have made it compliant with the new rules. Kind of tough to game ex post facto penalties and double jeopardy. In the criminal law world both are unconstitutional.

 

[CL82]

Travel costs.

Fair, and it is a relatively big number.

 

[Madmannsucks]

This board is horrendous at nuanced takes. All of these things are true:

• JC stupidly thumbed his nose at the NCAA by blowing off the APR instead of gaming it like everyone else and practically begged Emmert to hammer us with penalties
• JC did a horrible job coaching in 2012, probably the worst of his career
• KO did a good job coaching up the 2012 players over 2013-2014
• KO benefited tremendously from JC's recruiting. He could not have done what he did with his own recruits, he needed JC's tough-minded recruits. In fact, we know this because KO failed spectacularly at identifying talent and coaching up his own recruits.

tl;dr: JC gave KO the pieces, but KO molded them from there. Both deserve some credit.

One question, at that stage in his career, who do you think was doing most of the recruiting, my guess is the assistants.

 

[uconnfan68]

The program went into a ditch because the conference situation was untenable. We were lucky the program was not completely wiped out by the stupid decision to join the AAC.

None of that was Ollie’s fault.

As if we had any real choice in that? Or were you ready to jettison football too?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

As if we had any real choice in that? Or were you ready to jettison football too?

Uconn effectively did jettison football by joining the AAC. Look at the program.

 

[Madmannsucks]

Uconn effectively did jettison football by joining the AAC. Look at the program.

The AAC COULD have been fine-the problem was not geography or Creighton, Depaul and Marquette would not be in the BE-the problem is and always was the teams trying to remove them selves from the conference.

 

[Husky68]

Ignores the fact at the NCAA changed the APR rules and then applied them retroactively to year for which UConn had already been sanctioned and did so while refusing to apply current the teams current APR data which would have made it compliant with the new rules. Kind of tough to game ex post facto penalties and double jeopardy. In the criminal law world both are unconstitutional.

Doesn't change the fact all Calhoun had to do is game the rules and he was too lame to do it. Another story how the NCAA went out of their way, once they had UConn in their cross hairs, to GET UConn (we know what current NCAA president ran that show).

 

[CL82]

Doesn't change the fact all Calhoun had to do is game the rules and he was too lame to do it. Another story how the NCAA went out of their way, once they had UConn in their cross hairs, to GET UConn (we know what current NCAA president ran that show).

Game the rules which were changed and then applied retroactively? Pretty hard to do without a time machine.