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Some Hurley quotes from Coaches Road Show

Huskyforlife said:
You constantly act like you have contact with the coaches and players. Why should I believe it was a joke this one time? Because you typed “LOL?”
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Chief is Chief. Believe me, Hurley has a couple guys in the coaching profession who give him serious unvarnished feedback. He doesn’t need it from me. The reaction to Chief is more humorous - On the Sal hire - Are you satisfied now? (With a smile) Knowing how Chief feels about rebounding, physicality and the bad dude eye test.

That’s what I meant as a joke. Perhaps humor would have been a better term.
 
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Chief00 said:
Chief is Chief. Believe me, Hurley has a couple guys in the coaching profession who give him serious unvarnished feedback. He doesn’t need it from me. The reaction to Chief is more humorous - On the Sal hire - Are you satisfied now? (With a smile) Knowing how Chief feels about rebounding, physicality and the bad dude eye test.

That’s what I meant as a joke. Perhaps humor would have been a better term.
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Chief is Chief....possibly a new Boneyard low
 
MadDogRevival said:
It's not just the sit-ups . . . it's the entire culture change that we're seeing, as well as the fact that this is a proven coach, not a former player who, you know, tries hard.

But I guess when your goal is to piss in the communal punch bowl you're not going to be real particular about why you're doing it.
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I thought the knock on Ollie was that he didn't try hard? I mean, if anything, the proven version of Ollie was a lot worse than the unproven version.

I don't think his intent was to piss in the punch bowl. That's apparently my job now. I can't actually think of a scenario where intz would do that unless we were celebrating the 2010 Jets.
 
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Chief00 said:
If it’s a BY low, it’s truly historic - LOL.

Note: Chief is now using LOL temporarily to assist the casual fan in knowing when Chief is using a little humor. While to most humor is intuitive and recognizable, it’s not to everyone. Hence, my commitment.
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Thanks for the clarification Chief!
 
superjohn said:
First off we're going back to the final 4 because Hurley and Alosi have them doing situps. Secondly, we have the most harcore "in shape" fanbase on the interwebz with none of our posters struggling to finish a set of their workouts. Thirdly, pj should be our new strength and conditioning coach.
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One out of three correct -- about your usual percentage!
 
JimOllie said:
Polley, Carlton, Vital
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Essentially the only guys in position to transfer were Carlton , Polley.
Vital had two years invested , he would have gone only if forced or if Adams left .
Whaley was also a possible but probably by taking a step down,
Adams could have declared but he had a wrist injury which would have hurt his stock. I think that and the Hurley hire sealed him returning
No question the hire was critical. A lesser one and losing
Carlton, Polley, Adams, Vital, in addition to Larrier and the three recruits and the future would look extremely bleak.
 
Feel really good about where Hurley is taking the team because we know right now we will not lack for conditioning, effort or good coaching.Ultimately you can be the best chef in the world but if the ingredients lack the result is compromised. No expert looking at our roster thinks this is top 25 but Hurley wants and thinks he can pull a JC this year, maybe he can. Last season before the start looking at the schedule we knew what we would have by Dec 30. We were not competitive against good teams. Many here said that the team was still jelling. Most of us knew better.
We have one of the most demanding fan bases in the country but if Hurley can show us competitiveness with this roster and we are in all of the games he will have a lot of rope to play with. This is where Geno is right about being patient. Then next he has to create the buzz to get some real talent to start to come here.
 
Chief00 said:
If it’s a BY low, it’s truly historic - LOL.

Note: Chief is now using LOL temporarily to assist the casual fan in knowing when Chief is using a little humor. While to most humor is intuitive and recognizable, it’s not to everyone. Hence, my commitment.
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LOL.
 
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jibsey said:
Feel really good about where Hurley is taking the team because we know right now we will not lack for conditioning, effort or good coaching.Ultimately you can be the best chef in the world but if the ingredients lack the result is compromised. No expert looking at our roster thinks this is top 25 but Hurley wants and thinks he can pull a JC this year, maybe he can. Last season before the start looking at the schedule we knew what we would have by Dec 30. We were not competitive against good teams. Many here said that the team was still jelling. Most of us knew better.
We have one of the most demanding fan bases in the country but if Hurley can show us competitiveness with this roster and we are in all of the games he will have a lot of rope to play with. This is where Geno is right about being patient. Then next he has to create the buzz to get some real talent to start to come here.
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You over estimate the top 25. That’s certainly within reach . I believe we were preseason top 25 two years ago . Last year with only two returning players we were unimpressive but unfeated battling MSU until Gilbert went down .
Change that one result and as imperfect as last years team was at that moment in time a ranking was in our grasp. Sustaining that against the schedule we had was overly optimistic but rankings are a snapshot.
We certainly have missing pieces as of now but we have 10 returning players . Almost all have experience against the best teams in the country That’s unheard of in today’s game
One of those players is a top pick for conference player of the year.
Every team has questions. Who in this basketball era goes into any season with a pat hand?
I really can’t understand the lack of optimism on this years board for a team that on paper should be darn good.
 
jibsey said:
No expert looking at our roster thinks this is top 25 but Hurley wants and thinks he can pull a JC this year, maybe he can.
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I think Hurley is pretty realistic about the tools he has this year. He's committed to make the most of them and I do think that we will all be happier with the product but this isn't the prototype team he wants and it will take time to get Hurley guys on the roster.

I am interested in seeing what Coach Hurley can do with our existing squad, but I've tempered my optimism about their upside will look like. We will be more fit, better organized and make more sensible personnel decisions. I'm not sure that that will be enough to get us back to the NCAA tournament.
 
I have said before, of course he wants to play hard and win as many games as possible this year - but the critical program focus needs to be on recruiting talent for 2019/2020.
 
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Chief00 said:
I have said before of course he wants to play hard and win as many games as possible this year - but the critical program focus needs to be on recruiting talent for 2019/2020.
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And early success this season could kickstart that, because media will be focused in on Hurley and UCONN and give us a lot of airtime if good things are happening.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
You over estimate the top 25. That’s certainly within reach . I believe we were preseason top 25 two years ago . Last year with only two returning players we were unimpressive but unfeated battling MSU until Gilbert went down .
Change that one result and as imperfect as last years team was at that moment in time a ranking was in our grasp. Sustaining that against the schedule we had was overly optimistic but rankings are a snapshot.
We certainly have missing pieces as of now but we have 10 returning players . Almost all have experience against the best teams in the country That’s unheard of in today’s game
One of those players is a top pick for conference player of the year.
Every team has questions. Who in this basketball era goes into any season with a pat hand?
I really can’t understand the lack of optimism on this years board for a team that on paper should be darn good.
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I don't expect to be top 25 next season, but if UConn somehow wins the 2K Sports Classic and takes care of business in the games before that then they will probably be top 25.
 
One thing I am counting on is a visible change in strength and endurance. Most of these guys are very young and can make significant physical gains in 3-4 months. I remember going from out of shape to ripped over summer breaks at that age. In high school, I raised my athletic ability by about 50% in one offseason by getting serious. These guys can be meaningfully better by getting in the gym with the new strength coach for the next 4 months. No they can’t add 20lbs of muscle in that time but they can make enough progress to be better defenders and rebounders and to have a lot more gas in the tank. Raising the physical ability of a kid like Polly by a small amount will be very noticeable on the court.
 
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Hoophound said:
One thing I am counting on is a visible change in strength and endurance. Most of these guys are very young and can make significant physical gains in 3-4 months. I remember going from out of shape to ripped over summer breaks at that age. In high school, I raised my athletic ability by about 50% in one offseason by getting serious. These guys can be meaningfully better by getting in the gym with the new strength coach for the next 4 months. No they can’t add 20lbs of muscle in that time but they can make enough progress to be better defenders and rebounders and to have a lot more gas in the tank. Raising the physical ability of a kid like Polly by a small amount will be very noticeable on the court.
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I have to admit I'm not a workout expert but haven't these guys always had a strength and conditioning coach with perfect facilities and individual programs for each one of them?
 
Yes, but frankly, most of them look fit but not muscular. We were a very lean, stringy team. We didn’t look like a team with a ferocious strength coach. Someone needs to destroy their muscles in the gym then supervise their meals. I’m not sure KO’s staff was doing it, but back in the 90’s, guys like Travis Knight were pretty much force fed 6 eggs and 6 pancakes for breakfast with milk, sausage, fruit and cheese to wash them down.
 
CL82 said:
I think Hurley is pretty realistic about the tools he has this year. He's committed to make the most of them and I do think that we will all be happier with the product but this isn't the prototype team he wants and it will take time to get Hurley guys on the roster.

I am interested in seeing what Coach Hurley can do with our existing squad, but I've tempered my optimism about their upside will look like. We will be more fit, better organized and make more sensible personnel decisions. I'm not sure that that will be enough to get us back to the NCAA tournament.
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I think that’s fair - be optimistic about improvement both in culture and on floor but also be realistic about talent level.

My only watchout is in this day and age, can you successfully recruit the 5 and high 4 star players willing to make the sacrifice that Hurley and Sal are going to require? Will some prefer an easier route?
Thus far, Danny’s been able to get that sacrifice out of 3 and low 4 star type players. The chip on the shoulder types.
 
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