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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2207820, member: 488"] My $.02: First, this thread is all the things wrong with the internet, and I say that as somebody who thinks very highly of this board in general. There are a lot of thoughtful opinions that not absorbed because everything is always about winning the argument. I like to be right, too, so I certainly understand how this goes. I'm no different. When somebody disagrees with me, I read the retort first with my ego and then I'll go back with my brain later to try to figure out how to assuage things. But ultimately nobody is keeping score - I've said some really intelligent things and been wrong and I've said some really dumb things and been right. So honestly, I don't care whether you're hyper positive guy or hyper negative guy...just be original. Myself, I've been pretty damn positive about the direction of this program since the day Ollie took over. I think he has all the tools to be not just a good coach, but a Hall of Fame coach. The idea that we could even be having these conversations was sacrilege to me one year ago, much less three years ago when he could have run over my sister without drawing my slightest objection. But things started to change two years ago and they became even more pronounced this year. The origin of that change was at first notable only to depraved souls like me who would dig through the game tape, compare sets, and decipher statistical models. He was getting out-coached. And he got out-coached a lot last season even as extenuating circumstances - the injuries, the erratic play of our seniors, more injuries, etc. - blurred the bluntness of it. Truth be told, I think Glen Miller was the first to realize it. And you can say what you want about him, but he's been around a lot of basketball and coached a lot of teams. A lot more than Ollie. After the season, I was thoroughly dissatisfied the performance of the coaching staff. But I chalked it up to a bad year. I chalked it up to some combination of stubbornness, luck, and inevitable growth. The Purvis, Facey, Brimah era, to me, represented, in Ollie's mind, an epiphany of sorts - he wanted to play his way, and he wanted to do it with his players. Enter Jalen Adams, Christian Vital, Terry Larrier, Alterique Gilbert, Juwan Durham, Vance Jackson, etc. I was sure that somewhere beneath the rubble of that disastrous season was a sprouting flower that Ollie would laugh maniacally about all off-season. If I saw it from the upper bowls he must have seen it from the bench. Jalen Adams, over the span of about 20 Hartford hours, became great. That made a lot of the other problems seem a lot less daunting. Then one quiet Friday a couple weeks later, that vision blew to a million pieces. Enoch, I think, was the first to go. Then Jackson left, then MAL...then Durham. In the middle of all this, Glen Miller was fired. The alarm from all of that did not derive from their cost of replacement so much as it did from the foreboding optics. Here were a couple of top 50 type big men with an opportunity to play for a powerhouse program with an all-American point guard walking out the door. It almost seemed...[I]audacious. [/I] And I think that's the word. There is a distinct foulness about all of this - from hardly getting a look from any noteworthy grad transfers to being unable to replace them with high school kids - that is incompatible with reality. [I]Something [/I]had to be up that wasn't meeting the eye. By the time various rumors had circulated to my inbox Sunday night, I had kind of already put the pieces together. This was confirmation of something I had already suspected, and while none of this merits rehashing on a public forum, there is enough at this point in the way of smoke to qualify that [I]other [/I]component as something extremely pertinent to the long-term health of the program. That's where a lot of the gray comes in, though. Nothing that I heard is scandalous or capable of assassinating character. It's nothing that can't be rectified and maybe it already has been. In the meantime, though, we're in an awkward position, if only because we are applying a precedent to a situation that may not have one. And that's kind of where I'm at. If everybody is on board here like they were in the past, I'm still optimistic about the future, optimistic about Adams, Vital, Gilbert, and Larrier as the cornerstones for the next couple years. I'm optimistic that Chill will resurrect our recruiting and that UConn basketball will role into the third decade of the millennium as strong as before. I love Kevin Ollie and that will be true whether he coaches here or not. I have no thirst to see him replaced and no interest in finding a scapegoat for something that doesn't need one. He doesn't owe me anything and I'm sure I can say the same for most on this board. But he does owe something to Jalen Adams and it is about time he starts to do right by the kid who passed up a chance to play at Kansas or Louisville to play for you. Right now, he's the one getting screwed more than anybody. That needs to stop or we will have to find somebody else to stop it. [/QUOTE]
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