Weren’t all 5 starters recruited by JC, just sayin, what did KO accomplish on his own ..... without Shabazz as his point guard. The answer to that ? Is why most of this fan base will not give KO credit for 2014. And I think they are right .... KO sucked in just about every facet of his job as UConn coach.
KO came into a winning culture, created by Calhoun, and KO inherited players recruited by Calhoun under that culture. Napier was also incredibly talented leader who organized and ran plays and continued the Calhoun culture. KO was effective at motivating his players, at least in the beginning, and was deferred to Calhoun and others until 2014. We know what followed the next 4 years.
You will probably be a very happy man.
Imagine if their main guy played too.
Just to be a turd but what about this team we crawled into the tournament and lost very early with.
I think after the last few games and if this continues Hurley will be done giving chances to those who don’t deserve to be here. I won’t name names but I suspect we will actually have more than 4 new guys next year. I’m thinking 5 or 6 now
We'll get to see it in 2 weeks at Nova, yay!!!
Cole should be an upgrade over Alterique and Jackaon has a ton of talent but it's nowhere near enough. We need major overhaul type stuff for next year.
The AAC is a disaster. Another year of 3 bids and doing nothing in the tournament.
Pervfect straight man. The upper class leadership in that special PG role we are familiar with was in the oven.
I don’t know if Hurley is the guy. But there have been some troubling signs so far it seems to me. Poor preparation. Little or no year over year improvement to key guys. No discernible offensive strategy. He wouldn’t be the first and certainly not the last hot mid major coach to flame out at the next level if that’s what happens. It looks like this year is toast and it is only 2 games into the conference season. I don’t know that we can stand another 3 bad years so 20-21 is make or break for this coach.
He's not going anywhere so you can think 20-21 is make or break for him, but it isn't.
Sorry you are dreaming
If you want to know how much KO meant to that team and how much he led them - please hunt down Bazz and/or his mother and ask them -find Kentan, Rodney and Tyler and ask them. I have had conversations with all these young men and they think very highly of KO and the job he did in that 13-14 season.
Two incoming and two who are already on board practicing and competing every day. Much how Akok has benefitted, it will only be better for Springs and Cole as well.
It's not rocket science, his program started falling apart the moment Shabazz and Daniels left town. Every coach struggles when they cannot bring in talent, which as we are well aware of this point, was Ollie's down fall. Now Dan is baring the brunt of Ollie's incompetence in recruiting, but you'll never acknowledge that. Players win championships.
