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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2598275, member: 1414"] I actually think anyone but Ollie would be a short term improvement. Clearly not the long term solution. But Kevin is simply not working here, and given who he is, the pressure is higher for him. I'm sure they will get it right. If not Hurley, the guy at Vermont would be an instant upgrade. Now what will happen? I don't know which players will stay, or transfer or honor commitments, or decommit. Neither does anyone else here. It's just as likely that any of those players would be excited about the new coach as it is that they'd be upset with Ollie being gone. So it is pointless to speculate on whether we win or lose with players and recruits by letting him go. If we lose lots of players, we'd be in the situation Tubby Smith was in at Memphis. Having to build an entire roster on the fly. That's what he did. His team beat ours by over 20 points...twice. Look at the roster. [URL="https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/college/memphis-tigers/basketball/2017/09/29/memphis-tigers-2017-18-mens-basketball-roster-preview/714333001/"]Memphis Tigers 2017-18 men's basketball roster preview[/URL] They returned a total of two players who appeared in more than 15 games from the prior season. The rest are freshmen and transfers. They lost 8 guys to transfer or graduation from 2016-17. They brought in five JUCOs. Yes, the team that kicked our asses twice had five JUCO transfers. None of the new freshman are higher than 3 stars. Yet people think UConn stinks because of a lack of talent. We have vastly more talent than Memphis. It isn't close. [/QUOTE]

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