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Fatroony5 said:
Pretty sure it’s Nardi, now the reason as to why now is the mystery. Guessing it would be:
- Hurley grooming a new young coach, knowing Luke/Kimanis days are numbered.
-Maybe Tom Moore is moving to full time GM.
- Tom Moore retiring soon?
- Hurley felt like they needed another coach to help handle everything in this landscape.

Curious to hear more on it.
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Tom is 59 but soon to be 60. Seems young to retire but you never know.
 
Keep in mind that a few years ago they expanded the number of coaches a team could have that work with players and basically function as assistants, regardless of title. There’s some recruiting differences for off-campus stuff but that’s about it. They can still work directly with players. Tom has been VERY busy with GM-like duties. Changes on this staff are done with the approval of all. It’s all good, very good even.
 
Can anyone provide any insight as to what Nardi's player group responsibilities were at Nova (guards? wings?,etc) and if he had a certain geographic focus/strength in recruiting? Being a St Pats grad I would imagine it would only strengthen our ties there and in NJ in general.
 
Waquoit said:
Didn't this guy used to bother me as a player? He's become a good coach, has he?
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I remember that entire group of guards well but he is a blank spot in my memory on that team.
But then again I lost any memory of David Onuorah as a Husky.
Just means I'm old or smoke too much.
I would really like this hire though.
 
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Danny must know him really well. He was at St Pats when Danny was coaching St. Benedicts. I watched him play a lot when he was in HS and yes he was annoying
 
Huskyforlife said:
I’m sure Jay either called Hurley or Hurley called Jay on this, and I doubt Jay would steer Hurley wrong on this. Another young guy that’s probably hungry to prove himself, especially away from his comfort zone at Nova. Go get us some studs from Philly.
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I think between Diggins and Nowell, Philly recruiting is going to be sparse going forward.
 
uconn_jack said:
When can we steal back Taliek from Pitino?
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I wish this hire was Taliek Brown
Nothing against Nardi
Taliek deserves the career bump and would bring so much to the program, he is family and has paid his dues, at uconn and st.johns

How big a part has Tom Moore played in the history of success @ UConn.
His contributions are way underrated
 
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Hoops01 said:
I wish this hire was Taliek Brown
Nothing against Nardi
Taliek deserves the career bump and would bring so much to the program, he is family and has paid his dues, at uconn and st.johns

How big a part has Tom Moore played in the history of success @ UConn.
His contributions are way underrated
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I would love to have Taliek on our staff at some point but he's going to need a year or so of decontamination before I'd let him near any of our players.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I would love to have Taliek on our staff at some point but he's going to need a year or so of decontamination before I'd let him near any of our players.
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Lol true! Nardi does have a lot of great experience, nice move to have such an experienced coach in case one of the current assistants leave
 
Umami Zen said:
Can anyone provide any insight as to what Nardi's player group responsibilities were at Nova (guards? wings?,etc) and if he had a certain geographic focus/strength in recruiting? Being a St Pats grad I would imagine it would only strengthen our ties there and in NJ in general.
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That's my question, Tom was a great recruiter.

Also, isn't he basically our big man coach? Who fills that void.
 
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HCCForever said:
Tom is 59 but soon to be 60. Seems young to retire but you never know.
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He’s been in the coaching world for almost 40 years. I hope he sticks it out for a bit longer, he’s a really valuable coach to have & we know he won’t leave at this point. But I can’t blame him if he’s about ready to hang it up, he can draw on his retirement accounts at this point.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I’m sure Jay either called Hurley or Hurley called Jay on this, and I doubt Jay would steer Hurley wrong on this. Another young guy that’s probably hungry to prove himself, especially away from his comfort zone at Nova. Go get us some studs from Philly.
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Yeah like Jay gave the okay on the guy that took over for him.
 
BGesus4 said:
Would be weird to see nardi on our bench. Don’t think I’ll ever get used to taliek being on the stj bench
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Nardi was me and my roommate's Public Enemy #1 while we were at UConn.

My roommate used to do this gag where he would heckle players/coaches from the first row of the visitors' bench side of the student section, but only use "clean language", which allowed him to walk the line between annoying POS vs. guy deserving to get kicked out of a game. It kept security on their toes and mostly flabbergasted.

His go-to when Nardi on the bench was: Hey Nardi, you are a weiner! Only one time, probably his senior season, which lined up with my junior season, Nardi made eye contact with my roommate and low-key flipped him off.

Anyways, should Nardi join UConn's bench, my hopes is that he receives my penance, representing both myself and my college roommate.
 
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HCCForever said:
I agree on this point. And he makes about half of what Kimani and Luke make. Seems to be low ego guy who retains the connection to Calhoun.
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Less than half. Which is why I'm under the impression that Tom is already the de facto GM and not really a full assistant coach like Luke and Kimani are.

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Fatroony5 said:
He’s been in the coaching world for almost 40 years. I hope he sticks it out for a bit longer, he’s a really valuable coach to have & we know he won’t leave at this point. But I can’t blame him if he’s about ready to hang it up, he can draw on his retirement accounts at this point.
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He actually said in a podcast last year he wouldn’t mind trying to be a HC again if the right opportunity presented itself. I think it was the same pod where he told the story of Rip being dressed for the game when he did bed check the night before final
 
And also take this one for what it’s worth- a former Nova teammate of Nardi’s who I randomly live close to just told me it is indeed true, MN will indeed be on our staff.
 
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