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All this reminiscing is fun, but nothing is going to top the Fire Hurley! thread at halftime of the Iona NCAA tourney game.

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Official Fire Hurley Thread

I’m mad as hell and I can’t take anymore of this nonsense. Hurley has no clue how to coach. Get someone who can draw up plays and lead a winning program. Hurley basically is the worst coach I’ve ever seen in my entire life and I’m old.
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Tenspro2002 said:
Anyone remember in preseason when someone said that Clingan was basically no better than a warm body, super raw, and that we were only recruiting him as a favor and because it would look bad if we ignored a Top 50 in-state kid?

What happened to that guy?
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I would have guessed it was you.
 
My fave eat crow thread was the one years ago about 'Bazz being the "Worst Starting PG in Calhoun's Tenure" thread. That one was awesome.
 
pj said:
All this reminiscing is fun, but nothing is going to top the Fire Hurley! thread at halftime of the Iona NCAA tourney game.

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Official Fire Hurley Thread

I’m mad as hell and I can’t take anymore of this nonsense. Hurley has no clue how to coach. Get someone who can draw up plays and lead a winning program. Hurley basically is the worst coach I’ve ever seen in my entire life and I’m old.
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Nothing will top "No D, Heartless, Gutless" in 2011, but this comes close.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I promise this isn’t gonna happen two years in a row. I’ll delete my account if Singare is a first round prospect after his freshman year.
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You said his role will be just a "warm body." Lotta space between the 1st round prospect and warm body. Looks like you are using the Muntz playbook.
 
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HeGotGame said:
This is an everyday occurrence for @UConnSwag11
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I never left. You were pretty quiet during the losing streak, and after the BET though. Weird.

No complaints. Hurley lived up to the December expectations I had and shattered my preseason expectations. I probably was the most positive when we drew Iona and when Kansas was eliminated.

Enjoy the summer and stop thinking about me! :D
 
Huskyforlife said:
I promise this isn’t gonna happen two years in a row. I’ll delete my account if Singare is a first round prospect after his freshman year.
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Bookmarked.
 
Thankfully we don't keep receipts from the chat. It's absolute anarchy.
"Hurley ain't the guy" was the greatest hit but:
"put AJax at the end of the bench" also climbed the charts and:
"Newton is a liability" had a real catchy chorus.
 
I for one applaud anyone on this message board who has the energy and brain capacity to remember bad takes, who said them and then call them out for it.

I just assume every thread has comments from one extreme to the other extreme and everywhere in between. Sometimes you're right, other times you're wrong.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
I never left. You were pretty quiet during the losing streak, and after the BET though. Weird.

No complaints. Hurley lived up to the December expectations I had and shattered my preseason expectations. I probably was the most positive when we drew Iona and when Kansas was eliminated.

Enjoy the summer and stop thinking about me! :D
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Nah, I was not. I continued to let you know your takes were bottom of the barrel level basketball IQ. Especially after the SH game where you blamed the loss on the guy who was home with Covid. Check the receipts. Clowns talking about how the Nova game was a litmus test for the season and I laughed at them for not understanding this team could win a title.

But yea, I was at the BET and every NCAAT game, so I don't live online.

Pumped to hear how Dan Hurley cannot coach when he losses one game next year.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I for one applaud anyone on this message board who has the energy and brain capacity to remember bad takes, who said them and then call them out for it.

I just assume every thread has comments from one extreme to the other extreme and everywhere in between. Sometimes you're right, other times you're wrong.
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But some REALLY stand out.
 
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navery12 said:
No idea how to quote the post in this thread since they took that feature away, but definitely got the Karaban part of the quote right. The rest...

UConn Outside AP Top 25
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I just want to point out how right I was about this team from the beginning and everyone was coming for my throat in that thread for saying we should have been ranked.
 
navery12 said:
No idea how to quote the post in this thread since they took that feature away, but definitely got the Karaban part of the quote right. The rest...

UConn Outside AP Top 25
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I'm comfortable with my takes in that thread. I could see why UConn wasn't given benefit of the doubt but expected them to end up better than the preseason. Not a sizzzling hot take, but it worked.

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I didn't intend for this to devolve into "remember all the s____y takes from the preseason", though I suppose I could have predicted that outcome.

Now that we're here, I think we can clearly put to bed the idea that the outbound transfers were a big loss or that the inbound transfers weren't up to the task. Newton, Alleyne, Calcaterra, and even Diarra were more than adequate replacements and played a huge role in our run.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
I didn't intend for this to devolve into "remember all the s____y takes from the preseason", though I suppose I could have predicted that outcome.

Now that we're here, I think we can clearly put to bed the idea that the outbound transfers were a big loss or that the inbound transfers weren't up to the task. Newton, Alleyne, Calcaterra, and even Diarra were more than adequate replacements and played a huge role in our run.
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Going forward there will always be threads in September and October trying to compare the inbounds and outbounds and it will almost always take until end of season to see the real answer. A few years will be outliers where clearly there was a step up in talent or a big gap, but for the most part, we're stucking hemming and hawing to see if the news pieces work better than the old pieces. And, as you probably know, it's not a pure comparison, since the returning talent will vary.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
I didn't intend for this to devolve into "remember all the s____y takes from the preseason", though I suppose I could have predicted that outcome.

Now that we're here, I think we can clearly put to bed the idea that the outbound transfers were a big loss or that the inbound transfers weren't up to the task. Newton, Alleyne, Calcaterra, and even Diarra were more than adequate replacements and played a huge role in our run.
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I hated the exodus last season. I thought both.
 
The kid can play, and if you don’t believe me ask Bill Walton or Coach K.
 
husky429 said:
I'm happy to eat crow in my Clingan takes early on. Anyone calling him a scrub was delusional, but I had no idea he'd be a potential Conference POY his sophomore year. He's outperformed expectations at every turn.

Credit where it's due. The kid has put in the work--that ain't easy.
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Respect to you sir. I was always a believer. I knew he`d come here and had no doubt he`d contribute immediately. Must admit though i didnt think he`d be as good as he was.
 
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Jaydumo20 said:
Oooooh. I like this.
another example of how Hurley and Staff took a player with room for improvement and filled up that room in short order:
They turned Sanogo into MOP, they turned his "backup" into the best big man in the country, they turned a non-scorer into a potential first round pick, they made Whaley a Monster and they turned a no-d Joey C into a little pest.

There's more...
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In handing out credits I think it is also important to remember that their high school coaches are to be commended. Adama came out of high school in NJ with all that footwork and finishing with either hand. Just go back and look at the videos; its all there. That is remarkable and a credit to both Adama's teachability and work ethic as well. Dan Hurley and staff brought his game up to the next level along with the S & C he needed to play at this level. They must have been thrilled to get a big with all that development.

I did not see much of Clingan's tapes but more than a few people did and said he was skilled already at playing the post and could shoot from outside (something we haven't seen yet).

My favorite thing about these two and which would make a nice highlight film is those two playing against each other in practice. That must have been truly epic.

Maybe someday we will get more insight on what that was like.

We have a great staff and they have a remarkable way of not only recruiting great talent but getting them to excel at playing unselfishly and together as a unit. Watching them in the NCAA tournament
was like a textbook classic on the combination of player talent and the finished product of a season of great coaching. Truly a jaw dropping performance!
 
Whether you trashed Hurley and Clingan or were one of the ones who believed in them there was No one on this board who after that January losing streak knew were going to a national championship. So.... that makes us all fallible and dumb. Let's stop dunking on each other. (none of us can actually dunk).
 
jibsey said:
Whether you trashed Hurley and Clingan or were one of the ones who believed in them there was No one on this board who after that January losing streak knew were going to a national championship. So.... that makes us all fallible and dumb. Let's stop dunking on each other. (none of us can actually dunk).
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Some of us never wavered in our doubt even in the middle of the January losing streak

Rate your top 10 UConn wins
 
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