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Message: [QUOTE="UCFan1513, post: 2136193, member: 5603"] I like what you're saying here. I also think that a lot of what has happened has actually been a product of KO's casting a wide net with recruiting. It seems we have offered more players than ever, granted with the recruiting ban we needed to throw a high volume of offers out there and see if anything would stick, but we saw this last year that Ollie brought in a high volume of players off his high volume of offers. I think his offers are based more on purely talent than knowing if a player has the UConn mentality, and I think we saw that with what has gone down the last couple weeks. Players seem to have been brought in on talent alone rather than their grit, determination and will to play UConn basketball. This is where I believe Calhoun thrived. He didn't have to bring in the top talent, but he knew the players he could work with and also the players who had the mentality of team first and what we all know it means to play UConn basketball. I think Ollie may have realized that with this latest batch of transfers and decommits, and rather than coddling the players and trying everything to get them to stay, it is my hope that he told them like it was and realized they weren't UConn material. Here's to hoping KO goes into the coming years with that mentality when recruiting, and starts to be the fiery, hard nosed and pissed off coach we saw in 2014. I think he has it in him, and hope he has learned from what has happened these past couple weeks. [/QUOTE]

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