Last I checked we suck and were a rebound away from getting bounced in 2014 tourney. Stop defending the guy.. I like him too but I'm sick of losing games we should win, other teams improving, and for goodness gracious, stop the morale victory speeches... we are UCONN and shouldn't accept mediocrity. What are we back in the late 80s???
We certainly are trending down and you can't deny that. That's not saying we're eternally doomed but.. Remember when we were a #1 or #2 seed and winning conference regular seasons as a wire to wire top 25 team? Because that's our history and for us who remember that, the last 3 seasons aren't anywhere near that level. Does that mean "Ollie sucks" uhhh no but he better start living up to the UConn standard soon or those voices you're deflecting are only going to get louder. When was the last time we missed the tourney 2 out of 3 seasons?
OP not to worry if Ollie keeps this up his salary will go from 3 million to nada in 2019. The only good thing Ollie did today was yell at Albatross Rodney and Vital for playing so horrendously, and sit Adams at the end last 5 minutes for his poor performance. Props to Kentan and Vance for playing like UCONN level players
I'll bite. I want UConn to compete. I want Ollie to adjust instead of doing the same thing every game and hoping that this is the 40 minutes when we make shots. Sh#t, start someone new one time. Get a technical foul. How bout get close to getting a technical foul when the game is out of reach just to show that you can't stomach losing like this or that you have your team's back when the whistle isn't going your way. And I know the injuries have greatly impacted Ollie's options. Really. I do. But SMU lost three of their top four scorers from last year and just blew our doors off with only 7 players and a new coach. I'm not expecting him to figure out how to get this team into the tournament. But I also don't think it's unreasonable to expect better effort, better execution and better coaching than what we're seeing. All three of those coaches you mentioned above (all Hall of Famers) would have us playing better than this. They might not be miracle workers, but my money says we'd have won more because they would have gone to plan B,C, D etc or exhausted themselves trying to find a way to compete.
Not really. Ollie didn't win the national championsip in 2014. Brimah's 3-point play against St. Joe's, Napier draining 30-foot threes throughout the tourney, and Deandre looking like MJ against Iowa State won the title. Ollie still has not figured out how to break down a basic zone. He is an excellent recruiter but they don't play like that when they first get here unlike similar players that go to Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Kansas, etc. If we miss the tourney this year, that will be 2 of 3 years out (with the third needing a miracle shot to avoid the NIT). Ollie can have until next year, but the excuses are starting to wear thin.
Head meet sand.
He's not the only one. Lot's of fans approaching the cliff.
Have you discussed this with Bazz? Or are you chief's relative and get your info from Bunky?
I'm not sure if you're trying to tell me that Kevin Ollie is as good as Tom Izzo but knock yourself out, sport. If you're satisfied with the results these last 2.5 years what are you doing wasting all of this precious, blissful time on the Boneyard after a blowout loss? You might want to pick a better performance to "convince" folks that we're doing the best we can and that the program is in good shape. You're welcome for playing btw.
Most teams really go only eight or nine deep. Start with 11. Diarra played all last year and now can't, Larrier looked great to start the season then blew out his ACL, Gilbert didn't have a major problem until the post season all-star game and even had surgery to stabilize his shoulder, and Enoch hadn't had a previous foot problem but now has one. I'd call that all unpredictable.
