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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2139823, member: 5832"] Oh they have a plan now, but it wasn't the plan a year ago. The first attempt at a rebuild was a total, umitigated disaster. There's no other way to paint it. They painted themselves into this plan. They mis-recruited a lot of last year's class - they found talented kids, but not kids that meshed with their system, kids that lacked maturity and kids that seemingly lacked chemistry with their peers. I really don't care how good these kids look on mixtapes or what list they were on - they really weren't *that* good. It was a bust, a whiff, everything. Even if they go elsewhere and succeed - for Uconn- it's a bust. And with half those guys gone - it's just more bodies to throw on a whole stack of misses who haven't been as good as advertised, not good at all or in some cases, totally over their heads here. This year wasn't the first of these kinds of things. You could go on and on. They're not executing on this plan because they want to be. To me - it's a big of a miss to have Ollie in the hot seat already. I'm not ready to see him get fired, but this is pretty much rock bottom. For a program with the reputation UConn does in the realignment situation they're in, they don't have 3-4 years for Ollie to rediscover himself. The flip side of it is - that rebuilds are painful. And Ollie's ripping all the crap out by the roots. He's ripping it down to the studs. Soft kids, me-me kids, kids who don't really want to listen to their coaches, etc; see ya later. Good bye. Go be 'talented' somewhere else. There's enough raw talent for them to be decent this year, but a lot of stuff has to come together. Basically this year has to be a monster recruiting year for them. Not only do they need to put next year's team together, but they've gotta completely run the table next year, too. And if we don't see results or progress next year - there's not a single, solitary reason to keep Ollie around. If this teams' as bad next year as they were this year - he's gone. You don't get paid $3 million year to be absolutely atrocious. So again - I'm sure he's got a plan and so far I like what i'm seeing; but the rubber's gotta hit the road. I know there's a lot of fanny-pack wearing remember the 90's homers around here that'd let him burn their houses down with them in it, but I don't care where he came from. ya gotta win. [/QUOTE]

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