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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2206442, member: 5436"] Here are a few for you, SouthBayHusky. Direct quotes from other threads: - "it appears that not even the staff has an idea of who wants to be here and who doesn't. [B]it's pathetic[/B]." - "What the majority of people want is competency. We haven't had that since 2014." Calling Ollie incompetent because the 2015 team was shallow on depth due to issues caused by others is unfair, and frankly untrue. That falls under the realm of "bashing" to me. - "But please, tell me how your pathetic standards were misrepresented by me? Tell me how your logic is sound? Your reasoning for keeping Ollie around is that he won a championship. By that metric he could literally be here forever and be awful forever and it wouldn't matter to you. Stop being so emotional about the coach and care about the health of the program." Seriously? Upstater was not saying he supported Ollie being here forever if things stay on their current course. As he, I and others have stated quite reasonably, the National Championship should buy Ollie the chance to turn his recent mistakes around. No more, but certainly no less. To me, that means 2 years. How JMick gets "forever" out of a reasonable amount of time is beyond me (I read the whole thread and Upstate did not say that). And again, he uses the word "awful" to describe Ollie's coaching. The guy had a bad year. So did Calhoun. Several times. I can name the years, if you like. Doesn't mean you through the guy out. If that mentality had won out after those years, we would have never won the 4 NC's we have, for Calhoun would have never made it to 1998-1999 to begin with. - "and beyond that the staff seems to be clueless. what a combination" - "They don't want to come here because of Ollie" And those are just a few of the ones he made over the last few days. I mean seriously... You guys are all the same. Bash away, but oh my gawd, don't call me or my merry band of Ollie haters out for it! All in the last 3 days he has referred to Ollie, either directly or indirectly, as: pathetic, incompetent, clueless, and no one wants to come to UConn because of him. Dictionary: Bashing: "verbal abuse" - I think pretty much all of that qualifies as verbal abuse, huh SouthBay? As I have said before, I would defy anyone on here to have coached our 2013 team with nothing to play for to 20 wins and the 2014 team to a National Title. I mean any one on this board. No one here could have. And frankly, I doubt Calhoun could have either. Why JMick or any other of you anti-Ollie guys can not give him credit for things like: out-coaching Jay Wright, Fred Hoiberg, Tom Izzo, Bill Donovan and then Calipari (admittedly the easiest of the bunch to outcoach, but still) in those 5 games is beyond me. The only honest explanation is that it does not fit into your "anti-Ollie" narrative. And by the way, that would be outcoaching Tom Izzo both times he has faced him so far in his young coaching career... You negative guys do realize that Ollie doing an amazing job in his first two years, a credible (not great, but credible) job in his third and fourth years and a poor job this year are not mutually exclusive, yes? And that any reasonable human being would be willing to give him at least one year and realistically two with this new staff (unless next year is an utter disaster of epic proportions) to turn the downward trend around? [/QUOTE]

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