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OT: Your hot takes from the past

Here's a mixed bag of hot takes, some good (Bennett) some bad (Otto Porter), Marcus Smart I guess inconsistently consistent.
From 2013 NCAA's
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I've got some really bad ones.

1) I thought Scottie Haralson would be the next Rashad Anderson
2) I thought Ater Majok would be the next Kevin Garnett
3) In 2010, I thought the idea of Butler being ranked ahead of UConn was laughable. They went to title game and we lost to VTech in NIT. I think it was v tech...
 
UofCT2009 said:
I've got some really bad ones.

1) I thought Scottie Haralson would be the next Rashad Anderson
2) I thought Ater Majok would be the next Kevin Garnett
3) In 2010, I thought the idea of Butler being ranked ahead of UConn was laughable. They went to title game and we lost to VTech in NIT. I think it was v tech...
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I thought Majok was going to be a great 3-4 year player for us. In fairness, that was entirely possible; he probably would have become really good in college. It's just none of us took into account his family/cultural situation.
 
One that I'm guessing the majority on the Yard bought: UCONN was DOA after that 30 point drubbing from Louisville in 2014.
 
intlzncster said:
One that I'm guessing the majority on the Yard bought: UCONN was DOA after that 30 point drubbing from Louisville in 2014.
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To be fair if we had to play them in the tournament, we probably would've been DOA

That team had us pegged
 
amory said:
To be fair if we had to play them in the tournament, we probably would've been DOA

That team had us pegged
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Without a doubt. People always talk about the good fortune of Brimah's and-1, but I've long maintained that the luckiest we got in 2014 was Louisville landing on the other side of the bracket.
 
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intlzncster said:
Without a doubt. People always talk about the good fortune of Brimah's and-1, but I've long maintained that the luckiest we got in 2014 was Louisville landing on the other side of the bracket.
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And being in Kentucky’s region. Who had already beaten them.

I know I’ve posted it before. But the wildness of Peer matchups in that title game (with Florida and Louisville beating Kentucky/Uconn 3 times each) is just staggering.

Also that Florida team will probably never get the respect it deserves.

30 game winning streak heading into FF.

Undefeated sec champs and tourney champs.

3 losses all year. All to final four teams.

Two road games in December to Uconn and whisky. then Uconn in the FF.

That was a truly great team that just ran into a team that (for whatever reason) had its number.
 
I'm working on it. Trying from 2011...so far I've been spot on up to 2013. :-) I'm sure there is a clunker in there somewhere.
 
And boom, there it is. Surprising since I was so negative on Ollie even in the beginning. I'm an optimist I guess.
 
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Random post from August 2012 when we were thinking about JC's successor and it was rumored KO would take over at some point:

"If this is really where we're leaning, it's time to can Blaney, promote Ollie to associate head coach, and hire a new assistant who Ollie will want to work with. Give Ollie 2 years in an elevated coaching capacity to learn the ropes, and hand him the reins after JC retires when his contract expires in 2014."

I didn't buy KO as ready to take over right away. Maybe there was something to that.
 
amory said:
Jump into your old posts and find a hot take you had that was either very right or very wrong. Looking at your past "likes" list from a long time ago is a good jumping off point. I'll start...
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Honestly, looking at my past likes from a long time ago only makes me realize how much more densely populated this board, compared to now, was when I first started posting. :(

I recognize some twitter handles, but there seemed to be more opinion thrown around yesteryear.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Random post from August 2012 when we were thinking about JC's successor and it was rumored KO would take over at some point:

"If this is really where we're leaning, it's time to can Blaney, promote Ollie to associate head coach, and hire a new assistant who Ollie will want to work with. Give Ollie 2 years in an elevated coaching capacity to learn the ropes, and hand him the reins after JC retires when his contract expires in 2014."

I didn't buy KO as ready to take over right away. Maybe there was something to that.
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He was ready right away but not 5 years later.
 
In terms of missed hot takes, my biggest one was no school who does not also sponsor a Div. 1A football team will ever again win the NCAA basketball Tournament. Thanks 'Nova. Thanks a heap.
 
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I try not to make my takes too hot. Not because I'm afraid to put my opinion out there, but I don't think it's helpful for our program to be too negative. My worst hot takes on this board are when I would go in a chat room during games. I tend to give up quickly and declare the team to be trash. It's even worse in my house. My family tends to prefer that I watch alone.

My worst Boneyard hot take was following the UConn women's opening game loss in overtime at Stanford a few years back. I thought they looked pretty pedestrian and said that the team would lose a number of games. Pretty sure they went on to win 111 in a row after that. I couldn't post the quote here because I couldn't find it in a search. Maybe it's old enough that it's gone, in which case I'm making this up and would NEVER doubt Geno! Prove me wrong!

My "best" hot take, I guess, would be after the 2016 / 2017 basketball season where I said: "Perception is reality with basketball recruits. You don't typically come back from where KO is right now. Maybe PJ Carlissimo at Seton Hall? I have to assume we'll be looking at a new staff after this season. It could change, but I think the train is heading into the station." Not a Nostradamus moment, but I felt there was no way Ollie could come back from the position he and/or the transfers put him in.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
He was ready right away but not 5 years later.
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That's the irony.

Is my initial skepticism of KO a good take or a bad take? It looked silly in April 2014, but bang-on in 2015-2018. Here's another take of mine from September 2012:

"What narrative seems more likely 5 years from now?

1) Calhoun shoehorns his hand-picked, inexperienced choice into the job; nepotism backfires

2) Ollie is a coaching prodigy and despite minimal experience, excels at the job

It seems like there are a lot more ways for #1 to turn out to be correct."
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Random post from August 2012 when we were thinking about JC's successor and it was rumored KO would take over at some point:

"If this is really where we're leaning, it's time to can Blaney, promote Ollie to associate head coach, and hire a new assistant who Ollie will want to work with. Give Ollie 2 years in an elevated coaching capacity to learn the ropes, and hand him the reins after JC retires when his contract expires in 2014."

I didn't buy KO as ready to take over right away. Maybe there was something to that.
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Can't believe you wanted to can Blaney though. That guy was an underrated piece of our last however many years. Great coach.

And as a special add on, he's one of the guys that really drove home the UCONN opportunity to Dan Hurley.
 
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