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Fishy said:
If you think that’s not the case, thanks for stopping by, but you’re a moron.

This new venture is an exercise in lighting VC cash on fire - there’s a 100% chance this thing is a rocketship into the side of a mountain.

Hiring Kevin Ollie to help kids improve...lol. UConn paid him three million dollars a year to do it and he wasn’t interested, so good luck with that!
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but he was interested, got divorced, and wheels fell off. It wasn’t the first wont be the last time in this world that is the case. Sucks that his time was a NC program. No doubt. But selling ko short on hoops tutoring? I’d bet against you.
 
Will Jim Calhoun, or someone like him, attend nearly every practice and home game as in his first two years at UConn?
Or will KO not want to share credit, as in his last three years at UConn?
 
August_West said:
but he was interested, got divorced, and wheels fell off. It wasn’t the first wont be the last time in this world that is the case. Sucks that his time was a NC program. No doubt. But selling ko short on hoops tutoring? I’d bet against you.
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Stop. Please, for the love of God, stop.

The divorce angle is the stupidest thing going. Say, want to know why he got divorced? It wasn’t because he was paying so much attention to his job....

He got divorced in 2015 - he stopped picking up the phone to call recruits a year earlier.
 
Fishy said:
Stop. Please, for the love of God, stop.

The divorce angle is the stupidest thing going. Say, want to know why he got divorced? It wasn’t because he was paying so much attention to his job....

He got divorced in 2015 - he stopped picking up the phone to call recruits a year earlier.
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Stop . He won a national championship the year before. I bet you’re here to tell me @Dove could’ve won a title with that team. I’m preemptively here to tell you are mistaken.
 
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Good for Ollie, but I have serious questions about the league. Look at how few really make it to the league and the increasing presence of oversea players in the draft. Are more kids going to get hurt by this when they don't receive a free college education and some never get to the NBA or even attend college. Plus, won't they constantly be one bad injury away from a lawsuit and bankruptcy?
 
August_West said:
Stop . He won a national championship the year before. I bet you’re here to tell me @Dove could’ve won a title with that team. I’m preemptively here to tell you are mistaken.
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2014 was a rocket ship built by Jim Calhoun. Ollie rode that rocket ship to the moon and pressed all the right buttons along the way. Ollie also got the parade and hero treatment when he landed, but make no mistake about it, Jim Calhoun built that rocket.
 
August_West said:
Stop . He won a national championship the year before. I bet you’re here to tell me @Dove could’ve won a title with that team. I’m preemptively here to tell you are mistaken.
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I would have told the team to just watch Bazz go.
 
August_West said:
Stop . He won a national championship the year before. I bet you’re here to tell me @Dove could’ve won a title with that team. I’m preemptively here to tell you are mistaken.
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By the time we won a title, he was already pulling the plug on recruiting,

They don’t expect this guy to mentor anyone - he was the biggest name they could find who would attach his name to this disaster. It’s one step above lending his name to the yoga studios or whatever the last bit of nonsense was.
 
metsfan2323 said:
2014 was a rocket ship built by Jim Calhoun. Ollie rode that rocket ship to the moon and pressed all the right buttons along the way. Ollie also got the parade and hero treatment when he landed, but make no mistake about it, Jim Calhoun built that rocket.
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Whose name do you remember from the moon landing the engineers or the guys who actually stepped out of the LEM?
 
tcf15 said:
This will probably get you there a little quicker:
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If I took over a team decimated by transfers from a coach that wasn't smart enough to game the APR system and in my second year with Bazz, Boat, Daniels, Giffey and Nolan as the starting team win it all; and then the lame fans give more credit to the ex-coach than me - I'd have a serious case of the ass.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
The program would have nose-dived under Calhoun. Being the northern outpost in a weak southern mid-major conference was a terrible idea, as some of us pointed out from the very beginning. I predicted it was going to destroy both football and men's basketball back in 2013. Either I am a genius, or it was obvious to anyone that wasn't a moron. People can choose for themselves which they think it is.
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Please remind me what 3 choices that you favored at the time were available to the Athletic Department and the UConn Board of Trustees.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
This is like complaining about the food on the Titanic. The chicken may have been a little dry, but the chef wasn't the problem with that ship.
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After the Titanic sank, nobody complained that the chicken was dry. Instead, it was salty. It's always something.
 
Fishy said:
Say, want to know why he got divorced? It wasn’t because he was paying so much attention to his job....
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LOL - very true, that’s not where his attention seemed to be focused.
Moreover, the last 3 years his attention was focused on an employment related lawsuit against UConn, despite the NCAA banning him from performing his $3.5 million a year coaching job for 3 years. So his contention is that UConn should have paid him $10 million dollars to “coach”, despite KO not being eligible to actually coach a game or run a practice because he decided to break the rules. While UConn would have had to hire someone else and paid them something similar to actually coach games and run practices.
Despite, all that I wish KO well and hope this job means he is closing that chapter, yet based on his quotes it doesn’t appear that he is. Finally, and for Chief this is the most important thing, his disloyalty to a guy who stuck his neck out and forced the university to hire him as head coach in the first place, is something that doesn’t sit well and he should clean-up. That doesn't mean Chief approves of the nonsense GM did, I don’t. But, KO needs to make things right with Jim Calhoun.
 
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Husky68 said:
If I took over a team decimated by transfers from a coach that wasn't smart enough to game the APR system and in my second year with Bazz, Boat, Daniels, Giffey and Nolan as the starting team win it all; and then the lame fans give more credit to the ex-coach than me - I'd have a serious case of the ass.
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Jim wasn’t exactly the “ex coach”, he was a guy who observed nearly every practice and game and gave priceless feedback. IMO, KO’s coaching decline started when he stopped listening to that pain in the neck but brilliant mentor. KO did not want to share credit associated with winning, instead the next 3 years he owned failure.
 
metsfan2323 said:
2014 was a rocket ship built by Jim Calhoun. Ollie rode that rocket ship to the moon and pressed all the right buttons along the way. Ollie also got the parade and hero treatment when he landed, but make no mistake about it, Jim Calhoun built that rocket.
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Rocket ship? Omg you are so far off it’s unbelievable. That rocket ship started as a 20-10 last Big East season which a bunch of kids who stayed despite the APR, not many of whom played meaningful minutes for JC, worked their tails off for their new coach. Then the new coach drove that”rocket ship” with a bunch of hard working kids to a NC. Please stop with your insane view. He was awful for whatever reason a couple years later but to give JC credit for 2014 is just plain lame!
 
mauconnfan said:
Rocket ship? Omg you are so far off it’s unbelievable. That rocket ship started as a 20-10 last Big East season which a bunch of kids who stayed despite the APR, not many of whom played meaningful minutes for JC, worked their tails off for their new coach. Then the new coach drove that”rocket ship” with a bunch of hard working kids to a NC. Please stop with your insane view. He was awful for whatever reason a couple years later but to give JC credit for 2014 is just plain lame!
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My view? More like 60% of the fanbase's view, and Twitter skews young which would probably be in Ollie's favor.

Why do you not want to give any credit to Calhoun, Hobbs and Miller for 2014? Did you forget about Miller's free throw shooting routine that was vital to that season? How about Hobbs bringing in his former player Kromah? You think it was all Ollie and his inspirational quotes? LOL!! You are the one who is lost in space.

You don't like the rocket analogy? How about this one, Jim Calhoun was very much the general manager of the 2014 team. He hired all of the coaches including the head coach, he brought in the 4 key starters and mentored them. He still had a desk in the building and watched the practices and most certainly gave feedback. Jim Calhoun was the Theo Epstein of the 2014 team, or do you not give Epstein any credit for what happened with the Red Sox?
 
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Fishy said:
The program nose-dived because Kevin Ollie stopped working.

If you think that’s not the case, thanks for stopping by, but you’re a moron.

This new venture is an exercise in lighting VC cash on fire - there’s a 100% chance this thing is a rocketship into the side of a mountain.

Hiring Kevin Ollie to help kids improve...lol. UConn paid him three million dollars a year to do it and he wasn’t interested, so good luck with that!
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P6 and all that. Got it.
 
Husky68 said:
If I took over a team decimated by transfers from a coach that wasn't smart enough to game the APR system and in my second year with Bazz, Boat, Daniels, Giffey and Nolan as the starting team win it all; and then the lame fans give more credit to the ex-coach than me - I'd have a serious case of the ass.
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Of course if you took over a team that started Bazz, Boat, Daniels Giffey and Nolan would it really be decimated by transfers?

( Also, you realize that the NCAA changed the APR rule, applied retroactively to Connecticut, using prior data for which they had already been punished, and refused to use current data which would have prevented any punishment. Kind of tough to “game” a moving target of a rule which rejects the principles of ex post facto and double jeopardy.)

Stunningly bad post, 68.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
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Thank you.

Your response and link was better than I'd expected, and I enjoyed my free trip to the Conference Alignment Board.

It was similar/not similar to the days when I only dropped into the Cesspool when a thread got moved, and didn't know how (or want) to access it otherwise. While it served as a pleasant diversion and revisit to 2013, I could easily recognize that I'm too ignorant to form an informed opinion and don't care that I don't care to.
 
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metsfan2323 said:
My view? More like 60% of the fanbase's view, and Twitter skews young which would probably be in Ollie's favor.

Why do you not want to give any credit to Calhoun, Hobbs and Miller for 2014? Did you forget about Miller's free throw shooting routine that was vital to that season? How about Hobbs bringing in his former player Kromah? You think it was all Ollie and his inspirational quotes? LOL!! You are the one who is lost in space.

You don't like the rocket analogy? How about this one, Jim Calhoun was very much the general manager of the 2014 team. He hired all of the coaches including the head coach, he brought in the 4 key starters and mentored them. He still had a desk in the building and watched the practices and most certainly gave feedback. Jim Calhoun was the Theo Epstein of the 2014 team, or do you not give Epstein any credit for what happened with the Red Sox?
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60% lol, what a joke. Yes it was Ollie for the APR year and the NC but feel free to embarrass yourself.
 
So, here is some objective evidence-Ollie was an assistant from 2010-12-then HC from 2013 on-
Wouldn't it be fair to assume he played a significant role as recruiter and development?
Just sayin.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Thank you.

Your response and link was better than I'd expected, and I enjoyed my free trip to the Conference Alignment Board.

It was similar/not similar to the days when I only dropped into the Cesspool when a thread got moved, and didn't know how (or want) to access it otherwise. While it served as a pleasant diversion and revisit to 2013, I could easily recognize that I'm too ignorant to form an informed opinion and don't care that I don't care to.
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Of course that the revisionist version. Here are some of the many, many originals:

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CL82 said:
Of course that the revisionist version. Here are some of the many, many originals:

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Thanks, I think.
It lands as an opportunity for me to again recognize & register my ignorance on the matter and my lack of interest in remedying ihe ignorance. I've abandoned all hope of creating a happier past around Conference Realignment, and intended no criticism toward you or Nelson.
 
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