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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2781838, member: 488"]
Calhoun built the program and to a lesser extent the school.  Since his retirement, other people have taken the wheel.  One of them has been Ollie, but he's not the only one.  Benedict and Herbst have made plenty of decisions, as well.

You tell me what they've done.  Stable conference?  No.  Stable basketball program?  Can't blame them for Ollie, can blame them for this ugly buyout and NCAA investigation.  Respectable football program?  No.  Sensible ticket pricing and marketing strategies?  No.

Somehow they've managed to skirt responsibility on all that.  Meanwhile, they're now lauded for making a hiring that exactly anyone could have made.

If people want to like them because they work at UConn, fine.  But it's impossible to overlook how rigged the deck is in their favor.  All things considered, Ollie has been 10x as valuable to the school in the last six years and yet he'll depart millions shy of what was owed to him and on the wrong side of public sentiment.  It's disgusting.
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