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This has become just plain sad

FWIW my cousin is close with a member of the coaching staff. Started talking a little UConn basketball and apparently the staff member told him he doesn’t expect to have a job at the end of the year.

Is it just me or does that sound like the staff has thrown in the towel? Pathetic. These next 19ish games will be tough to get through.
 
lange10 said:
FWIW my cousin is close with a member of the coaching staff. Started talking a little UConn basketball and apparently the staff member told him he doesn’t expect to have a job at the end of the year.

Is it just me or does that sound like the staff has thrown in the towel? Pathetic. These next 19ish games will be tough to get through.
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At the car wash, or is he drying cars with a towel at the car wash?
 
UCweCONN said:
So hard to follow this cat fight when you have one key participant on ignore.
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For me, it's almost the opposite. I have you and many others on Ignore but not the oh-so-right one. Wishing you well...
Stairmaster said:
I don't care if a bunch of overly emotional rubes dislike me. I wear your dislike as a badge of honor, as well as proof that you can't handle the truth.
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Yes, that's it.
Stairmaster said:
Being right isn't a popularity contest.
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No, it's more an unpleasant fixated confusion of self and power greater than oneself that is mutually exclusive regarding happiness, self-caricaturing, and in your case forecasts glee in others' confidently predicted unhappiness. A trifecta of sorts.
Stairmaster said:
I don't care about likes. This isn't a popularity contest. Likes have nothing to do with how right I am.

Also, you have 75% of the board on ignore, so it's not surprising that you don't realize I am not the only one espousing similar views.

I have made plenty of posts laying out the financial issues facing the program. The fantasies about negotiating the buyout down are being crafted by people trying to talk themselves into an "everything will be okay" scenario because they can't handle the alternative. I have also made plenty of posts illustrating the increasing comparative advantage mid-tier P5 schools are gaining within the college basketball landscape as a whole. Again, if you don't read my posts, that's on you -- take a search through my history.
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Thanks for so freely revealing yourself.
 
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JMick said:
LOL what? Billy Donovan doesn't need to use UConn as a stepping stone. That's the stupidest thing I've read all week; and there's been a lot of stupid around here.
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I was responding to some else's post ass wipe. That person said Billy would come here to retire. I said no way. Quite the jerk you are.
 
Stairmaster said:
Oh, it can very well be worse. Seeing you start to realize that will give me glee to no end.
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Stair you have recently seen the light that people like myself saw when everyone(yourself included) were patting themselves on the back on how great Kevin Ollie was. Congrats on being to 2 years late to the party.

Now you argue that its OK if Ollie gets canned but then imply that his replacement will be worse than him and you will take great satisfaction that UCONN fans wanted to get rid of a garbage coach for an even worse one. Even if that happened(though the chances are very small), the decision to remove Ollie will still have been the right one.

PS: You've carved out a nice niche as the Pollyanna cynic of the boneyard whose job is to be the gatekeeper of ideas on the yard namely that Ollie was great, UCONN sucks since AAC purgatory, and we will suck in perpetuity, but take some time off to reflect that you have been consistently wrong.

PS: UCONNWILLRISEAGAIN if they take the opinions of people who are ahead of the curve like @Huskymagic @Tenspro2002, @superjohn, @Fishy, @SouthBayHusky, @JMick, @Huskybass and @Chief00
 
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I find it funny how the extreme length of this topic has gone totally inversely with the quality of the dialogue!
 
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August_West said:
stainmaster is living rent free in so many heads here.

Im a fan.
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I remember feeling like he sounds when I returned home from college for the first time. My father told me to knock it off but I kept going. He warned me again and I just started sighing loudly and rolling my eyes. Then he backhanded me off my chair. I shut up after that.
 
Stinger92860 said:
Doing nothing for the next 2-3 years will deliver the same or worse results. I hoping AD Dave can work some magic here also. Buy out Ollie and get JC back on a contract so that the total does not exceed what Ollie is making. Sign him for 2-3 and hire a coach in waiting. I don't see other options. Can you buyout Ollie and get a guy like Hurley? I don't think so.
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Only problem with that is, most of if not all of these kids are not what Calhoun would have recruited. At this point, bringing him back would result in same result we had with football this year. He’s not a miracle worker.. but the good thing with basketball is it only takes one or two players to turn a season around, here’s to hoping!
 
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Stairmaster said:
I don't care if a bunch of overly emotional rubes dislike me. I wear your dislike as a badge of honor, as well as proof that you can't handle the truth.
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Stairmaster said:
I don't care if a bunch of overly emotional rubes dislike me. I wear your dislike as a badge of honor, as well as proof that you can't handle the truth.
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LOL - says the guy who flies off the handle at the mere mention of Mansfield being anything but a bucolic paradise inhabited by titans of industry and scholars.
 
August_West said:
stainmaster is living rent free in so many heads here.

Im a fan.
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Still waiting for the day you, you know, actually make a post pertaining to that orange bouncey thing on hardwood we all come here to talk about.

Seeing you use this place as your pal's hangout for discussions of smoked meats really is a huge waste of bandwidth and electricity powering the pixels on my screen.
 
BUConn10 said:
Still waiting for the day you, you know, actually make a post pertaining to that orange bouncey thing on hardwood we all come here to talk about.

Seeing you use this place as your pal's hangout for discussions of smoked meats really is a huge waste of bandwidth and electricity powering the pixels on my screen.
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suite m3lt - queso style
 
8893 said:
I remember feeling like he sounds when I returned home from college for the first time. My father told me to knock it off but I kept going. He warned me again and I just started sighing loudly and rolling my eyes. Then he backhanded me off my chair. I shut up after that.
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Nice avatar too.
 
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Stairmaster said:
Oh, it can very well be worse. Seeing you start to realize that will give me glee to no end.
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How exactly can it get any worse, w/o KO were not going to go winless which is where this program is headed in the ACC at the rate the team is getting worse.
 
auggie22 said:
There is a lot of dry ground between Kevin Ollie and Jim Calhoun. Most on this board ( from what I have seen ) expect to carve out a spot somewhere in between. Each of your posts ( until recently ) have implied that we cannot do any better than Kevin Ollie, and those who insist we can must be expecting another Jim Calhoun.

I think you are fighting ghosts. I have not seen any posts expecting another Jim Calhoun. I have seen many that expect an experienced and competent coach. If we find the $$$ to make a move this year, we will have plenty of options.
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Stairs never cared for or respected Calhoun - so take that reference point away.
 
Chief00 said:
Stairs never cared for or respected Calhoun - so take that reference point away.
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Chief,

I am no fan of the Stainmaster, but I have to say that he does give Calhoun respect, credit and a fantastic overall ranking. It's one of the few things I agree with him on.
 
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