telep- Kids like Kevin Ollie. They would like him more if UConn would remove the handcuffs and allow

[3uconn]

You mean like the way we were handcuffed when Dunn picked them over us?

Don't we have a similar player (Samuel) already coming in along with (likely) three quality guards returning? His decision could be based on how much he wants to play from day one, not whether KO is handcuffed.

The thing is is that with the commitments of Boatright and Calhoun UConn almost stopped recruiting Dunn.

 

[Waquoit]

Yeah, everyone is laughing at the Syracuse AD, SMU AD, Texas Tech AD, UNC AD, and every other school that's had coach-appointed successions. Those guys are laughing stocks. Manuel has a reputation to preserve, after all.

I don't think it's a bad idea to let the world know that JC doesn't run the athletic department.

 

[Hoophound]

The thing is is that with the commitments of Boatright and Calhoun UConn almost stopped recruiting Dunn.

Pretty sure we didn't have a scholarship to offer Dunn when he committed to PC.

 

[aceboon]

Pretty sure we didn't have a scholarship to offer Dunn when he committed to PC.

Not true, UConn chose to go hard after Rodney Purvis and stopped recruiting Dunn, Dunn himself said that UConn stopped recruiting him.

 

[Chief00]

I don't bear a resentment to Jamal Coombs-McDaniel. I hate double standards and I'm taking you to task on your double standard.

Jamal Coombs-McDaniel had the great play in the Pitt game, but who is to say some other player couldn't have contributed in a like manner if Jamal Coombs-McDaniel weren't playing that game. He got an opportunity and made the best of it, but that doesn't mean someone else couldn't have done the same or more if they were in that position.

My reproach was directed at you and your tirade against Jerome, and is not directed at Jamal Coombs-McDaniel. There were a lot of things JD did in the championship season before he went down with the ACL injury that contributed to UConn's success that season. But you chose to focus in on the negative aspects of the kid and refused to give him credit for those contributions. Whereas you lauded Jamal Coombs-McDaniel for two seasons. Fine.
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JD never bad mouthed a hall of fame coach. Unlike Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, who ran away from the challenge to prove the coaches wrong, JD got his teeth knocked out but returned to a game. What does that say about this aspect of the character of these two individuals? Jamal Coombs-McDaniel didn't stay at UConn to help the apr (although I don't believe he hurt it. Hopefully he will get his degree at his new university). JD got his degree in a timely manner.

I don't like JD more than Jamal Coombs-McDaniel. I point out these attributes of JD as compared to Jamal Coombs-McDaniel only to offer that both players gave something to UConn and both had flaws. But neither deserved the lynching that JD got during his senior year from his fan base. And you were one of the ring leaders of that mob.

It's not me but others that keep bringing up JD. For the record, ironically the more mature Jerome Dyson of today - views his college career similar to how I did. Calhoun made him a Captain and he did not meet those responsibilities on or off the court. He was 21/22 then, he has learned that now - I wish him the best but that doesn't change what happened. I actually like Jerome - always have - and probably unlike you actually know him.

 

[Waquoit]

Calhoun made him a Captain and he did not meet those responsibilities on or off the court.

JD graduated in 4 years. That's called meeting off-court responsibilities to me.