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HuskyHawk said:
These threads remind me of this:
Man in Black: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right... and who is dead.
Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You've made your decision then?
Vizzini: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini: Wait till I get going! Now, where was I?
Man in Black: Australia.
Vizzini: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You're just stalling now.
Vizzini: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.
Vizzini: IT HAS WORKED! YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS!
Man in Black: Then make your choice.
Vizzini: I will, and I choose - What in the world can that be?
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So, Ollie's gonna murder Warde and take over the whole UConn athletic department himself? Time to run to Twitter and report on what my source says!
 
UCONNfan1 said:
I'm with you on feeling "no threat of him leaving", but I'm getting a sour taste in my mouth with how he's handling this. Much as I hate the Squid, he came right out and said "not now, not interested".

Instead of doing that and telling LA "thanks but no thanks", he's actually going out to meet with them. I'm disappointed no matter what Ollie's reasoning is. I could see if LA were to offer some ridiculous salary of maybe $6-8 million per year, but what I'm learning about Ollie is it's only 10 toes in if nothing better comes along.
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I'm surprised at how many people on this board either work for themselves or don't know how one goes about getting a raise.

Calipari's statement was all show. A move to the NBA isn't something he's interested in and it is unlikely he'd get a big enough offer to bump his already considerable pay, so he gets to play it off as loyalty to his players, who probably aren't dumb enough to buy it, though it seems some on this board are.
 
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BankShot said:
If KO leaves, which will be disheartening to say the least. There is a guy we can go out and get








. . . . Jim CALHOUN
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Then we get to see if JC can win with Ollie's guys? Man this is getting confusing and complicated.
 
Rico444 said:
So, Ollie's gonna murder Warde and take over the whole UConn athletic department himself? Time to run to Twitter and report on what my source says!
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The Boneyard is Vizzini.
 
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HailUConn said:
Gurleyman- as always, thanks for the info. I hope the future article title in the Courant writes like this "Ollie at heart is always with Uconn Family".
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Calhoun's dabbling/flirting with other jobs all happened in the pre-social media era, so it was kind of over and done with before it even hit the news. Ollie's is a little different - can't keep anything on the down low, since everyone Tweets everything.
 
HailUConn said:
Instead of second guessing/doubting KO or ourselves, why is no one pointing fingers at our AD? What's the ing hold-up? Just pay the man and focus on winning next nth NC Champions.
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I just had a thought, just maybe KO is making him sweat, like what WM did to him. Would be sweet vengeance (although I doubt that's Ollie's character but its surely mine, hence the thought).
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Vegas has him tied with (I think) Byron Scott as the leading candidates for the job.

Vegas casinos aren't in the business of losing money, right?
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I don't think you can actually bet on this. They put lines out for stuff like the Acadamy Awards for entertainment purposes.
 
Waquoit said:
I don't think you can actually bet on this. They put lines out for stuff like the Acadamy Awards for entertainment purposes.
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You can bet on it and Ollie is not the universal favorite for the job at +250. Next closest are Byron Scott and Thibodeau at +500 and Mark Jackson at +600
 
I would be more worried for KO than for UConn when it comes to the NBA. Look at Mark Jackson: fired after 3 seasons after making the playoffs for the last two. It's a constant coaching carousel, which would provide no stability for a young head coach who is still learning and growing.
 
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The average current tenure length in the NBA is 2.4 seasons accordingn to SBNation.
 
What is wrong with speaking to them? Other "big splash" names mentioned are Steve Kerr (who last week was a given to take the Knick job) and Fred Hoiberg. So, three of the "splashers" have zero NBA head coaching experience, combined.

A major difference between Ollie, Kerr and Hoiberg is that Kerr and Hoiberg have had NBA front office jobs. That could be a factor down the road for another NBA head coaching vacancy.

Byron Scott is the best fit for the LAL job.

Why would Ollie want to deal with with Kobe Bryant for at least 2 years? I am relatively sure they'd get along as players, but Ollie being Kobe's superior?

Bottom line is that Ollie's Head Coaching cache consists of 70 games of coaching 18-22 year old (or so) kids. If I were Kerr or Hoiberg I'd stay the hell away from there too, a bad team run on the court by a has-been bully.
 
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