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[nhHusky]

T.J. Weist.

 

[blackbird]

Brad Stevens.

He’s from New England. Or he’s from somewhere else, but he’s in New England now. Anyway, he’s used to the traffic because you people drive like jackasses.

He knows a lot of the Celtics and other NBA players. He’s connected to the scene, as the young people might or might not say. I don’t know any young people, really.

He’s younger and he doesn’t ride bikes, so we avoid a lot of the trouble we had with Jim Calhoun. He’s familiar with UConn basketball because we tore his heart out in 2011 and he might think if he comes here we might give it back. His offense involves plays and doing things on purpose which is something we could use.

He’s quite wealthy already so he won’t mind working here for $350,000 and a sweet leased Accord. (10,000 miles a year, Brad, anything more and it’s 12 cents a mile. We are not made of gold here.)

Frank Vogel. For the same reason, except I like him better.

 

[noeynox]

How about Jamie Dixon. Getting bounced in the 1st two rounds of the NCAA tournament would be welcomed right about now.

 

[Hurleyman216]

Georgia just fires Mark Fox and ESPN spews on for 5 minutes about what a great coach and person he is and how Georgia is a terrific job. This is 2 minutes after talking about Ollie and UConn. They spent the whole time talking about how UConn is not in their ideal conference, can’t recruit and the school is in the middle of nowhere...gotta love ESPN backing their state university in the state they reside

 

[JMick]

Georgia just fires Mark Fox and ESPN spews on for 5 minutes about what a great coach and person he is and how Georgia is a terrific job. This is 2 minutes after talking about Ollie and UConn. They spent the whole time talking about how UConn is not in their ideal conference, can’t recruit and the school is in the middle of nowhere...gotta love ESPN backing their state university in the state they reside

they were not nearly as negative as you're making it out to be. Bilas was pretty nice to us

 

[Stainmaster]

Georgia just fires Mark Fox and ESPN spews on for 5 minutes about what a great coach and person he is and how Georgia is a terrific job. This is 2 minutes after talking about Ollie and UConn. They spent the whole time talking about how UConn is not in their ideal conference, can’t recruit and the school is in the middle of nowhere...gotta love ESPN backing their state university in the state they reside

One of the things I’ve never understood is this expectation that because their headquarters is in Bristol, they should be nicer to us than they would otherwise.

They clearly have some sort of bias (cough cough Newhouse cough cough) that I’d like to see pared down, but the whole “they should be nice to us because they’re located in the state” thing really isn’t a good rationale.

 

[ZachCT12]

Geno Auriemma

 

[Hurleyman216]

they were not nearly as negative as you're making it out to be. Bilas was pretty nice to us

You must not have watched it then...I never said ESPN should be “nice” to us because they’re in CT. They also shouldn’t openly be lobbying for us to be in a non-football conference after they were part of screwing UConn in conference realignment. The last thing ESPN wants is another strong conference in football and b-ball...keeping UConn down is in their best interest from a media contract standpoint

 

[Milo65]

P.J. Carlesimo - no reason, just ludicrous

 

[80shusky]

Taylor Rooks. Opposing teams won't be able to play defense. Or offense.

 

[CL82]

Ah, a Russian talent pipeline. Good call.

Collusion!!!

(I apologize to everyone. Just conditioned to scream that whenever the R word is mentioned.)

 

[CL82]

2x NCAA Champion Tyler Olander

He'd be twice the coach that Beoheim is, am I right?

 

[joober jones]

Coach Reeves, if Carver doesn't have him under contract.

 

[jibsey]

How about Jamie Dixon. Getting bounced in the 1st two rounds of the NCAA tournament would be welcomed right about now.

Dixon used to recruit muscular players who looked like they just finished a stretch in the slammer.

 

[Skiblets]

Nell Fortner

 

[UconnU]

Big splash, that's right baby Dickie V. Give him 4 years see what he can do.

 

[Mano]

Taylor Rooks. Opposing teams won't be able to play defense. Or offense.

I like it, but I'd rather we put her on the team. I wanna see her athleticism.

 

[SouthBayHusky]

Tate George

 

[UconnU]

In all seriousness does Ray Allen have any interest in coaching?

 

[CL82]

Norman Dale, obviously. He'd break those young bucks.

 

[FlakeyFoont]

Gene Hackman. The swinging gate becomes a signature piece of our offense.

 

[junglehusky]

Jonathan XIV. There's nothing in the rule book that says a dog can't coach! And we can pay him in dog food.

 

[06029]

Gene Hackman. The swinging gate becomes a signature piece of our offense.

That was Shooters go to play not coach Dale. So the ghost of Denis Hopper. If the spirit is not willing, some drunk basketball savant.

 

[Bobol]

Norman Dale, obviously. He'd break those young bucks.

Below is a link to the final seconds of the 1954 Indiana State basketball championship when the player from the small rural school hit the winning shot for the upset victory upon which the movie "Hoosiers" is lovely based.

Footage of the final seconds of the 1954 basketball state championship

 

[krinklecut]

Ol' George Blaney, with Karl Hobbs and Glen Miller next to him.

But really I've been warming up to Tom Crean.