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Should UConn hire Ryan Odom?

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UConn_Top_Dog said:
Not sure why the mods don't ban people who personally attack other posters. Pretty ridiculous.
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It happens more often than you think. Sadly.

Is it so much to ask for people not to be adult online bullies? What sad life's, calling strangers names.
 
GoUconn7961 said:
Honestly, I never heard of Jim Calhoun before he came to UCONN, so despite the snark the OP will have to endure for this thread I get his thought process. Geez guys - take a breath.
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That statement says a lot more about you than it does about Jim Calhoun:

"During his final three seasons, Northeastern achieved automatic bids to the NCAA tournament and had a 72–19 record. He received six regional Coach of the Year accolades at Northeastern and remains the institution's all-time winningest coach (245–138)."

That doesn't sound like Odom to me, but maybe I'm missing something.
 
Odom’s roots are in the Virginia-Carolina area, I doubt he leaves it.
 
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tcf15 said:
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Uconnfanatic said:
His father is Dave Odom, who was a very good coach at Wake forest for many years. He coached Tim Duncan among others. . Don't know much about Ryan but obviously he was exposed to basketball & coaching all of his life.
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Means he can coach bigs
 
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JeepCSC said:
Odom’s roots are in the Virginia-Carolina area, I doubt he leaves it.
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He would absolutely leave it for us. Hell, he might leave it for URI after we hire Hurley.

But if he's good there, he'd be on the radar of every ACC or SEC team, and he'd almost certainly head back down south eventually.
 
I’m not advocating for him, but this is not a guy who won 1 game.

He was named the winner of the 2017 Joe B. Hall Award, which is presented annually to the top first-year coach in Division I.
 
JeepCSC said:
UMBC has won 46 games (and counting) in his two years at UMBC. From 2010-2016 (7 seasons), UMBC won 41 games. Odom will make some team happy this offseason.
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There is a "ladder" that college coaches usually have to climb. Odom's next step up the ladder will be a mid-major like URI, the same way Danny Hurley went from Wagner to URI. Unless you think URI and UCONN are at the same level, UCONN seems a bit of a jump, for now.
 
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There is a ladder, though sometimes you can hop a step. Low-hanging fruit in a major conference could suffice.
 
gioff23 said:
I’m not advocating for him, but this is not a guy who won 1 game.

He was named the winner of the 2017 Joe B. Hall Award, which is presented annually to the top first-year coach in Division I.
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I’m aware you’re not advocating for him by noting that, but I can’t not counter with a reminder that Bob Diaco won the Broyles award for best assistant coach a couple years before turning a dumpster fire of a program into a nuclear melt-down of a program
 
JeepCSC said:
There is a ladder, though sometimes you can hop a step. Low-hanging fruit in a major conference could suffice.
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You can hop a step, especially when you your success is that much greater than those around you. His isn't.

He may be able to hop up past ECU though I hope that's where he ends up.
 
Rocktheworld said:
I’m aware you’re not advocating for him by noting that, but I can’t not counter with a reminder that Bob Diaco won the Broyles award for best assistant coach a couple years before turning a dumpster fire of a program into a nuclear melt-down of a program
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This is the perfect thing to remind people. Always go with the bigger sample size. You may not be right, but it's a better bet.
 
tzznandrew said:
You can hop a step, especially when you your success is that much greater than those around you. His isn't.

He may be able to hop up past ECU though I hope that's where he ends up.
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Enfield went straight from Dunk City to USC. It really isn’t that unusual. The best mid-major coaches are where the upper-half of the power conferences shop. For everyone else, assistant coaches and lower-tier success stories provide a steady stream from which lower-tier power conference schools can gamble on.
 
JeepCSC said:
Enfield went straight from Dunk City to USC. It really isn’t that unusual. The best mid-major coaches are where the upper-half of the power conferences shop. For everyone else, assistant coaches and lower-tier success stories provide a steady stream from which lower-tier power conference schools can gamble on.
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How's he doing there...
 
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