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Villanova Fires Kyle Neptune

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You could kind of sense something in the last minute when Neptune and Hurley were talking, something along the lines of I'm out of here.
Neptune has a lot of talent on those teams to not do better. I will say like us PG has been a weak spot for them including this year.
 
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If the rumors end up being true here then there's potential downstream impact to UConn here

I'm not making a case the facts show that Ollie was the right hire, turned a 2 year plan into a national championship, him falling off after that is on him. He was the right hire but didn't turn into THE GUY.
Olliie wasn’t even the hire he had a six month interim contract .
In Ollie 4th year we won 26 games and the AAC championship
Got a terrible break in the tournament as a 9
Beat an 8 and lost to the overall 1 seed . B
The Next year was a huge disappointment because expectations were high but as bad as that year was we finished 9-9 in the AAC and won 2 games in the AAC tournament losing in the semis with a makeshift lineup .
Comparing Ollie ‘s record to Neptune’s. Is really beyond ridiculous.
His last year we not only lost a bunch to graduation but team desertions , decommits , ineligibility, and injuries totally depleted the roster.
 
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Calhoun wasn't perfect but he earned that right and set up Ollie with a staff, Blaney stayed on in the tourney ban year. It's easy to be a genius in hindsight. Would you have trusted Jeff Hathaway to hire the next coach?
I was reading this and ready to disagree with it but that last sentence hit home and was like you’re absolutely right. The name Hathaway sends shivers down my spine. The depth of his incompetence was mind boggling. You wanna see a bad head coaching hire Hathaway would say hold my beer…..
 
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Unrelated to Nova/Neptune but related to prospective coaches that could be on the move. Drake Coach Ben McC is being mentioned as a potential candidate in the Indiana job.
Rumors suggest Iowa may also be targeting Ben McCollum. Would be a massive catch bringing McCollum back to his birthplace. IU NIL vs U of I?
 
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Would be interesting if Bobby Hurley came back to Uconn as an assistant if Kimani or Luke leave. . One year left on his ASU contract and they made it public they are not extending him.
Unlikely, particularly based on media reports suggesting ASU’s allowing Danny Hurley’s brother to return for another year in Tempe.
 
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Comparing Ollie ‘s record to Neptune’s. Is really beyond ridiculous.
Going by torvik rankings, Neptune's worst year was his first season, where Villanova was 61st.
Ollie had 3 seasons worse than that, 2015 (85th), 2017 (90th), and 2018 (185th), so I don't see why it's that ridiculous. I guess your point is that AAC records look deceptively okay?

If anything, Neptune is a bit unlucky that his merely "meh" seasons have felt so god awful. If he had had about the same torvik ranking but without the atrocious losses, maybe he'd be around still.
 
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From my understanding of mixed Trilly tea, Kimani is angling hard for VCU. It's unclear if they have interest in him, but Odom is either going Nova or UVA, so the job will be open either way.
That’s a great job for Kimani. Would love to see him there!
 

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Calhoun is responsible for essentially forcing the university to hire a wholly unqualified person who had 0 head coaching experience, resulting in a near death knell for the program. Yes.

It took a coach as transcendent as Hurley, what, 3 or 4 years to get us back in the top-25? That's how badly KO screwed this program top to bottom.
Yeah and half this board has 2 of our assistants going to head coach first time in major conferences.
 
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Rumors suggest Iowa may also be targeting Ben McCollum. Would be a massive catch bringing McCollum back to his birthplace. IU NIL vs U of I?
I believe Indiana’s budget is only surpassed by Kansas. Now, neither have done a great job with it.
 

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