- Joined
- Jan 28, 2015
- Messages
- 1,970
- Reaction Score
- 10,557
I will say though my one point of snark through all of this is that a lot of the pro-Ollie/hand-wringers were indescribably wrong.
-UConn fired one of their own
-UConn figured out the buy out
-UConn found the money for the new guy
And I'm glad they did. I'm not glad it all happened, I've never wanted that for Ollie; but what separates the really great programs from the ones that fizzle is sometimes a willingness to close the book on the era of the past and look forward. And there's a lot of reasons those programs can't do that - blind devotion to yesterday's heroes, immense Alumni pressure, etc. It was a pretty brave thing for ADB to do and he did a remarkable job in pulling this all off. We've been really spoiled being one of like - five programs in the US who haven't had to go through this kind of a thing in 30+ years, so it's unfamiliar territory for a lot of people... But this was a change that was needed. Just the general attitude now as opposed to a week ago is just something else.
It feels like the first "UConn" kind of day i've had since we won our last National Championship. And the more I get to 'know' this coach, the more excited I am. He seems utterly fantastic. Long ways to go, but if we head back in the right direction, today was a top-5 day/event/week in program history.
-UConn fired one of their own
-UConn figured out the buy out
-UConn found the money for the new guy
And I'm glad they did. I'm not glad it all happened, I've never wanted that for Ollie; but what separates the really great programs from the ones that fizzle is sometimes a willingness to close the book on the era of the past and look forward. And there's a lot of reasons those programs can't do that - blind devotion to yesterday's heroes, immense Alumni pressure, etc. It was a pretty brave thing for ADB to do and he did a remarkable job in pulling this all off. We've been really spoiled being one of like - five programs in the US who haven't had to go through this kind of a thing in 30+ years, so it's unfamiliar territory for a lot of people... But this was a change that was needed. Just the general attitude now as opposed to a week ago is just something else.
It feels like the first "UConn" kind of day i've had since we won our last National Championship. And the more I get to 'know' this coach, the more excited I am. He seems utterly fantastic. Long ways to go, but if we head back in the right direction, today was a top-5 day/event/week in program history.
Last edited:
