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The Boneyard has always been a great information exchange zone. A place where we exchange our thoughts and views, supplemented with a modicum of oft-questionable reasoning. Now we whine about losing recruits we wouldn't have even wanted Ollie to consider a year ago. We have dozens of threads about songs. freaking songs! We use rankings to become excited about potential recruits or to denigrate potential recruits. This is becoming a sad place to visit and yes I hear in the background then don't visit.
Here are some thoughts from someone who has lived through the good and bad times of UConn basketball.
Two recruit character. I don't care how good you are, you won't win without character (ask Shabazz, Caron, Allen, Okafor and Kemba) and this last bunch of recruits had little to none. Durham, given a scholarship while potentially having a second career ending injury never had character and when he played it showed.
Three play unrelenting defense. If you can't remember us in that manner look for a Rod Sellers game video.
I am a big Kevin Ollie fan, have been since he played! If he merely held his athletes to the same standards he set for his game, preparation and effort we won't need them to recognize we are bluebloods, it will be raining blue!
AND when he holds them to those standards, even if they leave we should have his back!
Here are some thoughts from someone who has lived through the good and bad times of UConn basketball.
- We don't play UConn basketball anymore - We used to run and press an entire game. The other team was running back on defense as a matter of their game plan because we could beat them down the court with a long pass and get a layup seconds after their shot. By the fourth quarter they were exhausted and we were just getting started. Ollie promised that would be back. This NBA type offense and defense is just that, fast, bad shots and often lazy defense.
- Our fans showed up all the time. In the early 70's we drove thru a major ice storm blizzard to get to an NIT game. Amtrak used to be the UConn express to the Big East tournament.
- Ollie has to take responsibility for several very important things;
Two recruit character. I don't care how good you are, you won't win without character (ask Shabazz, Caron, Allen, Okafor and Kemba) and this last bunch of recruits had little to none. Durham, given a scholarship while potentially having a second career ending injury never had character and when he played it showed.
Three play unrelenting defense. If you can't remember us in that manner look for a Rod Sellers game video.
I am a big Kevin Ollie fan, have been since he played! If he merely held his athletes to the same standards he set for his game, preparation and effort we won't need them to recognize we are bluebloods, it will be raining blue!
AND when he holds them to those standards, even if they leave we should have his back!
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