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Taliek Brown Joining Staff

"During Brown's four years, the Huskies compiled an impressive 103-35 overall record, winning two Big East regular-season championships, two Big East Tournament titles, and making three NCAA Tournament appearances --- reaching the Elite Eight (2002), the Sweet 16 (2003), and winning the NCAA Championship (2004), with a combined 11-2 NCAA tourney record."

Granted, he did play with 3 of our all-time greats but you dont win ships without a great point guard. Welcome home Taliek!
 
I want to attribute the infamous quote to Gottleib, but can't remember for the life of me who actually said, "You can't win an NCAA Championship with Taliek Brown as your point guard."
 
CL82 said:
Are @Javjudah and @Whtdmd Siamese twins? Seems like Whtdmd is always there for the assist.
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There's gotta ascore for someone to get credit for an assist. And "conjoined" is the more neutral term these days. But yeah, they seem to do the inclusion drug together. Strong stuff.
 
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RichZ said:
I want to attribute the infamous quote to Gottleib, but can't remember for the life of me who actually said, "You can't win an NCAA Championship with Taliek Brown as your point guard."
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Possibly Gottleib but definitely 90% of the boneyard. Maybe 99%. Until we did it!
 
On the old Courant board there was a poster named TobyWes, who hated TB, hated JC. During the title game he had a meltdown when TB hit a jumper.
 
freescooter said:
LOLOLOL! I’m not obsessed with Kevin. But I admit that I enjoy tweaking the folks who dreamed up all sorts of reasons why he had to stay. Know anyone like that stairs?
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Stain was Ollie Out for a good while before the coach was let go.

Besides, who cares which boneyarder was Ollie In or Ollie Out at this point?
I don't think a single person on here would prefer Ollie over Hurley at this point. If anyone wishes Ollie were still here over Hurley, they deserve the handle strikethrough treatment.
 
HawkHusky said:
All-time assist leader joining the staff? Yes please!
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I came in to post just this. In our long and successful history, this guy is the all time assist leader. More than that, he imposed the flow of the game, dictated the tempo, forced our will. Maybe better than anyone else. The Moore/El Amin backcourt was different. Taliek ran our offense the way we wanted, no matter what the other team wanted.
 
Like many others here I'm sure, I have been to many of the Calhoun alumni games at Mohegan Sun. I can say without a doubt although most, if not all of the players are very nice, Taliek left a lasting impression on me above all of being such a friendly and engaging guy. Very happy for both him and Uconn
 
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Great move by Danny Hurley. The whole New York footprint recruiting wise, off court player and team development, older role model who walked in your shoes fellas, and some UConn family loyalty.
Much respect to Taliek and a rousing welcome from UConn Nation. Taliek bleeds blue, always has, and will testify to the rewards of hard work and determined effort. Taliek really wants to be here and carries that UConn pride, just a super messenger for the Huskies. Congratulations Taliek!
 
TB is one of my favorite Huskies of all time - not because he was the best player but due to the fact that he overcame all the crap from the naysayers and led UConn to a NC
This is a great pick by Coach Hurley
I got to know TB between his soph and jr years while I was working the soccer camp up at Storrs = great kid who despite coming from a not so great background really had his head screwed on straight
Always had time to say Hi while at JC's alumni games and when I saw him at MSG during the BE tournaments
WELCOME BACK TB
 
Jaybird65 said:
Nice to have Taliek back. Tom Moore once told me that he thought Taliek was the most under-rated player during Tom's 1st go-round at UConn.
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I guess he really liked Taliek. He told me during the 2003-2004 season that he thought the team could win the national championship not because of all the elite talent but because Taliek was playing elite defense on the other teams' point guards.
 
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RichZ said:
I want to attribute the infamous quote to Gottleib, but can't remember for the life of me who actually said, "You can't win an NCAA Championship with Taliek Brown as your point guard."
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It sounds like something Dookie V. would have said. In 1983 he proclaimed: "No team will ever win a national championship with a freshman point guard."
 
Huskybass said:
A very good and talented team... that his predecessor found a way to win 14 games with and lose 8 games by 20 or more points. Dont set unreasonable expectations for Hurley to flourish in year one. This is a 2 to 3 year rebuilding process to get the program back to where it should be.
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Now 14 wins with what a few of you describe as a horrible disgusting coaching job and we can’t expect anything yet? I mean you got the guy you’ve been asking for and he won a lot of games with similar talent where he was so he needs 2-3 years? They basically have everyone back (let’s nit overrate Larrier please) and they’re a year more mature in body and game. Also he’s doing great things to prepare them for the rigors of the college game while adding a couple nice pieces including Sid Wilson. Sorry but for me 18-20 wins is the least we should see if he’s as good of a coach as it would seem. I know you’d prefer to sandbag his expectations so you could say “see what he did with Ollie’s team” when they dance again but I’m not having it.

I think he gets it done, wins a couple big recruiting battles and gets them back to our expectations in 1 year tops. He has enough to work with now, especially “if” Alterique is able to give him a healthy year.
 
fleudslipcon said:
A solid choice to strengthen the metro NY area for recruiting.
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Also puts someone in place that could be developed as the next assistant coaching hire should Kimani Young move to another coaching job in the next few years.
 
UConnNick said:
It sounds like something Dookie V. would have said. In 1983 he proclaimed: "No team will ever win a national championship with a freshman point guard."
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Except Dookie, for all his faults, would never rip an individual player like that.
 
mauconnfan said:
Mau is excited about this hire. Never said he wasn’t tough as hell and a great defender, 2nd to only Ricky. These are coaching requirements and he can be very good helping to instill these things.

This is dope! :cool:
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Except that in his position he cannot do any coaching.

I like the premise of his job though, as I've long felt the colleges need to develop several "life skills" type classes that would help these kids manage their lives when they leave their sheltered college days. Of course, what they really need is to make decisions for themselves and discover there are consequences to their decisions that could be minor or could negatively or positively affect the rest of their lives.
 
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intlzncster said:
Except Dookie, for all his faults, would never rip an individual player like that.
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He did in 1983...he was specifically ripping Alvin Franklin. You can argue he qualified it with the freshman remark, but he was talking about Franklin by name.
 
UCfor3 said:
Like many others here I'm sure, I have been to many of the Calhoun alumni games at Mohegan Sun. I can say without a doubt although most, if not all of the players are very nice, Taliek left a lasting impression on me above all of being such a friendly and engaging guy. Very happy for both him and Uconn
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Confirmed.
 
Javjudah said:
“Inclusion is a hell of a drug”

I am a fan of Uconn basketball but I am not delusional like some on this message board. I look at things from every perspective and not what I want or hope things to be.
@JMick @CL82
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Lol kind of the opposite of how you post though. You post as if Kevin Ollie wasn't a phenomenally bad coach the past few years, who alienated his player, his bosses, the fans and oh yeah, the guy who handed him the job on a silver platter. On top of that he violated NCAA rules and lied about it to his bosses. Then he threatened to smear the school and two beloved Hall of Fame coaches if he wasn't paid $10M to which he, as we all can agree at this point, is not entitled.

Yet these things are conspicuously absent from your posts. Kind of surprising for a man of all perspectives like yourself.
 
gtcam said:
TB is one of my favorite Huskies of all time - not because he was the best player but due to the fact that he overcame all the crap from the naysayers and led UConn to a NC
This is a great pick by Coach Hurley
I got to know TB between his soph and jr years while I was working the soccer camp up at Storrs = great kid who despite coming from a not so great background really had his head screwed on straight
Always had time to say Hi while at JC's alumni games and when I saw him at MSG during the BE tournaments
WELCOME BACK TB
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I was a TB apologista. I was accused of making excuses for TB when I pointed out he was playing with turf toe and sufferered the loss of his best friend to a shooting the same year.

Kid was tough as nails. When he hit the 3 pointer at MSG there wasn’t anyone happier for him.
 
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