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Rodney Purvis on campus

tcf15 said:
Aligns with what a lot of people have already said - 2012-2014 KO was a lot different than 2015-2018 KO.
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KO deserves credit for the championship run. Even the most talented college player in history would likely not be able to beat 4 or 5 hall of fame coaches in a row en route to a title without some coaching help. But KO also got lucky that Shabazz probably had the highest basketball IQ of any player to ever step foot in Storrs. Bazz masked so many of the areas where KO was deficient (which evidently was quite a lot lol), and it showed immediately after Bazz graduated.
 
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Hell yeah I hope players keep talking about their time with KO like this. Lots of talented young men trusted him and put their futures in his hands and he failed them.

A job in amateur athletics is about more than just winning (which he also failed at). I’ll never get the apologists.
 
aburks41 said:
KO deserves credit for the championship run. Even the most talented college player in history would likely not be able to beat 4 or 5 hall of fame coaches in a row en route to a title without some coaching help. But KO also got lucky that Shabazz probably had the highest basketball IQ of any player to ever step foot in Storrs. Bazz masked so many of the areas where KO was deficient (which evidently was quite a lot lol), and it showed immediately after Bazz graduated.
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aburks41 said:
KO deserves credit for the championship run. Even the most talented college player in history would likely not be able to beat 4 or 5 hall of fame coaches in a row en route to a title without some coaching help. But KO also got lucky that Shabazz probably had the highest basketball IQ of any player to ever step foot in Storrs. Bazz masked so many of the areas where KO was deficient (which evidently was quite a lot lol), and it showed immediately after Bazz graduated.
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I would love to see Shabazz as a assistant coach at uconn
 
krinklecut said:
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I agree with what Purvis is saying but KO’s defensive gameplans in the 2014 NCAAT were legit HOF worthy. That entire team executed to perfection, especially in crunch time. I don’t think we win the title in 2014 with Calhoun and he’s the best college coach of all time. Beyond that title, KO doesn’t deserve any credit for anything. He torpedoed the program and the biggest victims were the players who had their entire futures squandered because of his negligence. They trusted him and he cost them the opportunity to make generation wealth in the NBA, and then he walked away with an $11M check
 
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Beachview said:
I would love to see Shabazz as a assistant coach at uconn
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Me too but sometimes those super high IQ guys don’t want to be coaches because it’s a completely different skillset. Look at Tom Brady, highest IQ ever for a QB but he’s said numerous times he could never be a coach.
 
I remember hearing that it was Miller that developed all the defensive game plan during that run, especially against UK. But I could be out in left field.

KO gets the title next to his name, but I’m not sure it’s because of him or in spite of him and that’s only partially in jest.

Purvis is great, he got hosed, no player development at all by that staff.
 
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And people will still defend KO when player after player points to his gross negligence as coach which led to some of the darkest years in UConn history for both its fans and its players. Kids with an insane amount of talent who should’ve gotten drafted had their careers derailed because of this guy.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I believe what he’s saying about everything, but this does give him motive to dunk on KO out of spite.
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That gives anyone motive to dunk on KO for being utterly incapable. Push out one of your best players??? Purvis shot 39% from 3 his junior year and played the 3rd most minutes on the team. Alterique was going to be a freshman.

KO should have been preparing and developing Purvis to be a senior leader and perhaps our best player.
 
It's no surprise from what we have heard here and elsewhere over the years.

In the past I was happy to give credit to KO where he had success and put blame on him where he failed but this just tells me what happened is no different than any of us laymen becoming CEO of Apple.

At first nothing would change, the place would just operate as usual, but 3-4 years in the cracks would become apparent then the dam would break since we'd have no idea what we are doing.

It was all an act.
 
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Storrs South said:
It's no surprise from what we have heard here and elsewhere over the years.

In the past I was happy to give credit to KO where he had success and put blame on him where he failed but this just tells me what happened is no different than any of us laymen becoming CEO of Apple.

At first nothing would change, the place would just operate as usual, but 3-4 years in the cracks would become apparent then the dam would break since we'd have no idea what we are doing.

It was all an act.
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Something changed with Ollie.

You can say that.

Calhoun made him the heir apparent afterOllie was his assistant.

NBA guys swore by Ollie.

Rodney says he wasn't genuine but yet so many people were in Ollie's corner before it went south.

He wasn't genuine but all these NBA players touted him and Calhoun believed in him.

That doesn't make sense.

Something changed, whatever it was, and it was rumored here a lot. Purvis really came at the end of the situation when it unraveled. Has nothing to do with what NBA players and Calhoun saw in Ollie before that.
 
upstater said:
Something changed with Ollie.

You can say that.

Calhoun made him the heir apparent afterOllie was his assistant.

NBA guys swore by Ollie.

Rodney says he wasn't genuine but yet so many people were in Ollie's corner before it went south.

He wasn't genuine but all these NBA players touted him and Calhoun believed in him.

That doesn't make sense.

Something changed, whatever it was, and it was rumored here a lot. Purvis really came at the end of the situation when it unraveled. Has nothing to do with what NBA players and Calhoun saw in Ollie before that.
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That “something” was his divorce
 
Psolo12 said:


Sid chimes in.
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I’m confused. Is this Sid supporting Rodney? Sounds like a dig to me.

And Rodney’s response to Sid is his first non genuine statement. He definitely is ripping KO. Why mute it?
 
I really liked Rodney as a player. Perhaps more than what I observed by the majority of members of this forum while he was in a UConn uniform.

I fear this heartfelt set of tweets by Rodney might catalyze a division between past alumni. I hope Bazz/Boat aren’t drawn into responding. Unless Bazz’s post championship behavior towards KO was not genuine he might be forced to challenge Rodney’s take.
 
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