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Can I get an "Amen!"?
Ordinarily, excluding the two one-and-done epicenters, if you heard, "yeah, they lost their best guard, their leader, a NC player, and they don't have a returning point guard," a person might think, "there is no way on G-d's Green Earth this team has any shot of going deep in March."
Ordinarily, he'd be correct.
In this case, however, wrong.
What Ollie has done is, frankly, brilliant. He essentially took what would have been a "rebuilding year" for which the goal would have been to make the tourni and get better for next year, and transformed it into a year in which it is not unrealistic to expect to be playing on the second weekend. The brilliant part of it is that he, essentially, applied a stop-gap that gives us great potential for this year, yet also allows for the continuation of return of perennial dominance, which his recent recruiting successes strongly portend.
Brilliant, and, as near as I recall, unprecedented.
The great personal irony here is that my only concern about Ollie when he was in his trial period for Warde was that I thought he might be too religious, while now, I can't stop thinking, we'd be a done program without him: "thank God we got Ollie. Thank God we got Ollie" [in the voice of Doug Williams at Emmitt Smith roast].
Ordinarily, excluding the two one-and-done epicenters, if you heard, "yeah, they lost their best guard, their leader, a NC player, and they don't have a returning point guard," a person might think, "there is no way on G-d's Green Earth this team has any shot of going deep in March."
Ordinarily, he'd be correct.
In this case, however, wrong.
What Ollie has done is, frankly, brilliant. He essentially took what would have been a "rebuilding year" for which the goal would have been to make the tourni and get better for next year, and transformed it into a year in which it is not unrealistic to expect to be playing on the second weekend. The brilliant part of it is that he, essentially, applied a stop-gap that gives us great potential for this year, yet also allows for the continuation of return of perennial dominance, which his recent recruiting successes strongly portend.
Brilliant, and, as near as I recall, unprecedented.
The great personal irony here is that my only concern about Ollie when he was in his trial period for Warde was that I thought he might be too religious, while now, I can't stop thinking, we'd be a done program without him: "thank God we got Ollie. Thank God we got Ollie" [in the voice of Doug Williams at Emmitt Smith roast].
