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nelsonmuntz said:
No player, especially no big man, has ever gotten better in the history of UConn. Got it.
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So then you argument is that not only does Wolf need to be present he needs to improve. Oh and Wolf can improve but Nolan can't. Even though players improve the most between their freshman and sophomore years. Way to keep your points coherent.


Good job avoiding the actual point - I expect nothing less. Thank God Ollie and the Athletic Department make their decisions on action and character and not height like you do.
 
Wolf's assault gets worse every thread. I had no idea that he had beaten her so badly.

The charges were dropped. The self-righteous drama queens have to stop making up stuff that Wolf did to justify their self-righteousness.

One other thing, which is completely un-PC but I will say it anyway. I know people that were victims of domestic violence. The terror and helplessness of someone who is in a truly abusive relationship is something that I hope no one I know ever experiences again. So we need to stop comparing this situation to domestic violence. It demeans true victims of an awful crime to conflate it with two drunken idiots screaming at each other in a dorm at 2 in the morning.
 
FlaHusky said:
Ever since laptopgate though, there's a perception about our program that gets kept alive unfortunately every time something minor happens.
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laptopgate. Cam Newton stole a laptop, threw it out a window when he got caught, and then won the Heisman. Jerime Anderson stole a laptop at UCLA, plead guilty to two misdemeanors, and missed a grant total of two cupcake pre-season games. We have two bumbling idiots who make a boneheaded decision to try to cover up the crime of a friend from home and we're the dirtiest program in history.

There is no question that UConn's athletes are more highly scrutinized over like this. There was a glowing, practically masturbatory profile of Louis Nix of Notre Dame on espn.com last season where his sense of humor was gushed over. One of his delightful pranks? Putting on a scary mask and jumping out of the bushes terrifying students. Do that at UConn and you get locked up. Ask Rashad Anderson.

Louis Nix is scary.
Some nights, he slaps on a "Saw" mask, goes out on the Notre Dame campus, jumps out from behind bushes and scares students. When a 330-pound nose guard leaps out at you, your pancreas tends to leap out of you. One poor girl cried. "I've had campus police called on me," Nix admits.
Which is weird, since Nix loves nothing more than to laugh.
One Halloween, he dressed as , and as he walked around he'd freeze every 20 feet or so into a Touchdown Jesus pose.
The question is, can he save Notre Dame?
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Wolf's assault gets worse every thread. I had no idea that he had beaten her so badly.

The charges were dropped. The self-righteous drama queens have to stop making up stuff that Wolf did to justify their self-righteousness.

One other thing, which is completely un-PC but I will say it anyway. I know people that were victims of domestic violence. The terror and helplessness of someone who is in a truly abusive relationship is something that I hope no one I know ever experiences again. So we need to stop comparing this situation to domestic violence. It demeans true victims of an awful crime to conflate it with two drunken idiots screaming at each other in a dorm at 2 in the morning.
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Yet a program that has had too many missteps takes a stand and you are offended because the person in question is tall.

The idea that this demeans other victims might be the stupidest thing you've ever posted.

You are comfortable allowing different behavior from someone because you think they can help win basketball games. I'm glad that Ollie or someone else at the University is willing to take the opposite stand.
 
UConn990411 said:
After reading most of this thread, I can't tell if I wanna laugh or cry.
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I think that removing Wolf from this team severely decreases our chances of a NC. We need his body and skills. I don't agree or condone what he did yet I have to align with the justice system who dropped the charges. Either you are guilty or not. Once he is found*not guilty* that should be it. He lost 1/4 of the season as punishment. It would not cost a regular guy 48K$ if someone in a passionate moment grabbed his girlfriend by the hair--it certainly isn't right--but I cannot chime holier than thou in this case. To listen to a few posters who think they know Wolf--come on. Does the fact that this girl forgave him and his his girlfriend now weigh on anything? If she forgave--that's that.
 
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HuskyBballFan said:
NCAA sanctions and APR postseason bans most certainly do not happen at hundreds of programs around the country.

I'm as big a defender of this program as anyone. I was just pointing out to a previous poster that the perception of us as a dirty program (regardless of how true or fair it is) is primarily because our name has been in the paper a lot lately. And if that hadn't been the case, maybe Wolf still has his scholarship.
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Doubt it, but KO's history is still a too short to make those kinds of predictions. Still he seems a bit too sincere to be sanctioning a guy for the media and other fans reactions.
 
scrappy2.0 said:
I think that removing Wolf from this team severely decreases our chances of a NC. We need his body and skills. I don't agree or condone what he did yet I have to align with the justice system who dropped the charges. Either you are guilty or not. Once he is found*not guilty* that should be it. He lost 1/4 of the season as punishment. It would not cost a regular guy 48K$ if someone in a passionate moment grabbed his girlfriend by the hair--it certainly isn't right--but I cannot chime holier than thou in this case. To listen to a few posters who think they know Wolf--come on. Does the fact that this girl forgave him and his his girlfriend now weigh on anything? If she forgave--that's that.
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I like Wolf, but seriously, when did he become Okafor? He was better than Olander, but , when pressed into the C spot I liked Giffey there more than I did Olander, being better than him ain't that hard to do. You guys are overrating the hell out of his ability.
 
I love the people who say that now we're going to get killed on the boards if Wolf doesn't come back...as if that's any different from the 22 games with Wolf in the lineup last year.

He's probably the best center of the bunch (which isn't saying much) and I hope he comes back. But let's ease up on pinning our Final Four chances on a center who averaged 3 rebounds a game last year.

I recall people being seriously concerned about our inside play when we found out that Ater Majok wasn't coming back for the 2011 season. Turns out, it wasn't that big of a problem.
 
He gives us a few minutes and 5 fouls at the 5 spot. His short range jumper improved last year and he d was ok. That's what we get.
 
FlaHusky said:
I think that's the bigger story here Mau. Do you think the Wiggins/Dyson car incident gets enforced or reported at almost any other college? We've certainly had our share of indiscretions but our Mayberry police department certainly hasn't helped. The laptop incident and the few domestic battery incidents aside, many of the other things cold have been handled internally. Ever since laptopgate though, there's a perception about our program that gets kept alive unfortunately every time something minor happens.
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That's the problem with a small-minded horde. There are more than a few things that should have remained none of anyone's business but the team's.
 
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huskymedic said:
DaveBorges 12:55pm via Twitter for iPhone
Herbst says Enosch Wolf decision made by collaborative effort between Kevin Ollie, Warde Manuel, student affairs and academics department.
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I'd be interested to know when it was made. Kind of weak if they waited until recently to drop that financial bomb on wolf. Knowing a few months ago would have given him a lot more opportunity to formulate a plan.
 
There is a double standard to how Wolf was treated vs. Tyler. I don't like it.
 
Olander wouldn't leave a hotel room when asked. Wolf (supposedly) got violent with his girlfriend. Sort of an apples and oranges kind of thing.
 
Chief00 said:
There is a double standard to how Wolf was treated vs. Tyler. I don't like it.
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What's the double standard? German vs American, abusing women vs being a drunken idiot?
 
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Completely different situations. Also it makes a HUGE difference if an offense occurred ON or OFF campus.
 
Here's the thing. We will have a center by committee next year. Wolf would hold a decent chunk of the time. Not the end of the world if we lose him, but he will make a difference. Five more fouls some decent offensive potential. Love to have him back, but I hope it works out for the best for him, whatever that means.
 
Wolf was guilty of beating his girlfriend? Is there a link for that claim? Surely no one would make up or exaggerate such a vicious accusation.
 
No ones buying the angle that Herbst put pressure on Ollie after the wild feminist got her coverage? Herbst joined the femdom collective
 
joober jones said:
Olander wouldn't leave a hotel room when asked. Wolf (supposedly) got violent with his girlfriend. Sort of an apples and oranges kind of thing.
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Wolf was arrested because he wouldn't leave his girlfriend's room when asked.

He was neither arrested for nor charged with assault.
 
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Waquoit said:
Did he hit her? Yes or no?
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I'm not sure he 'hit' her... but he definately grabbed her hair, pushed her, and knocked her glasses off.. Either way if you can't see the difference between that and not leaving a hotel room while on spring break... I can't help you.
 
IMind said:
I'm not sure he 'hit' her... but he definately grabbed her hair, pushed her, and knocked her glasses off.. Either way if you can't see the difference between that and not leaving a hotel room while on spring break... I can't help you.
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I thought Tyler refused to leave a private beach area, not a hotel room.
 
HuskyBballFan said:
NCAA sanctions and APR postseason bans most certainly do not happen at hundreds of programs around the country.

I'm as big a defender of this program as anyone. I was just pointing out to a previous poster that the perception of us as a dirty program (regardless of how true or fair it is) is primarily because our name has been in the paper a lot lately. And if that hadn't been the case, maybe Wolf still has his scholarship.
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Exactly right. reading this board sometimes seems like listening to the new Rutgers AD. And it doesn't matter what happens at other schools. Or whose fault it is. Though i think a pretty good case can be made that if Price and Williams don't steal laptops, Wiggins and Price Dyson don't decide its a good idea to illegally buy liquor and smoke a doobie the night before major game, Miles doesn't get physical with a woman then ignore a court order 5 minutes after it was handed down, a bunch of guys actually make a minimal effort to complete assignments over 4-5 years, Wolf left hsi girlfriend's dorm when asked by the cops and that chucklehead stayed home instead of going off to Florida and getting wasted, then refusing a cop's request to leave the premises, then there's nothing to cover, and we're never having this discussion at all. In fact, I think you can make a case that had Williams and Price been dealt with more harshly for their actions, had their scholarships been yanked for example, this snowball would have been contained. But what happened in Calhoun's final seasons is that nobody cracked down hard so the rep grew. The annual low graduation rate, then the APR all built on it. UConn recruited some pretty marginal characters over the past 8 or so years and then didn't keep tabs on them very well. The end result was what some of us said it would be. Now the new sheriff is in town and he isn't going to put up with much. For the long term impression of the program Wolf not returning would be a very good outcome.
 
CL82 said:
I thought Tyler refused to leave a private beach area, not a hotel room.
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Thanks... it's too early in the morning. That just reinforces my point even more. ;)
 
It's amazing how so many posts assume that Wolf was found guilty of assault when he was never even charged with assault ever in this case. That disregard for our justice system that so many have, including a University President, is very disturbing.
 
If Wolf does decide to come back and his family is in need, he may qualify for grant money. Perhaps in the 10K range. Also, if they are agreeable he could board with fellow countrymen Tolksdorf or Giffey at a nominal charge to them. All told instead of 40K his charges could be more in the 20K range.
Just a thought for him......
 
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