We Played UConn Better Than Illinois
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If purdoo meets uconn, they're gonna get dog walked by the huskies.
Hurley is problem. He might be getting ready to dominate CBB for the next couple decades.
I thought with Wright, Roy and K retiring in a relatively compact amount of time Bill Self would have his chance to rule the roost for the decade or so.
He must be punching air right now. Such domination is quite incredible.
I thought with Wright, Roy and K retiring in a relatively compact amount of time Bill Self would have his chance to rule the roost for the decade or so.
He must be punching air right now. Such domination is quite incredible.
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Funny thing is, I believe all PU fans everywhere would celebrate anyway. All they want is FF.
Why shouldn't F4s be celebrated??? I mean, yes... ultimately the Championship is the goal, but a F4 should still be celebrated.
He’s got a great team but will he always? He didn’t do well until year 5. Will be interesting the next few years.
Wasn't UCONN under a cloud for a while with the Ollie stuff or is my timing off?
Also when we played Uconn they were missing one of there best players too.
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Calhoun was in hot water with the NCAA in his later years. Maybe 2010?
I remember that, but thought they were in court with Kevin Ollie over stuff within the last 5 years.
I think UConn has always been a sketch program. Calhoun was a scumbag. Ollie was simply doing what he’d been taught.
Sorry crappy copy paste from wiki follows.
He was fired with just cause on March 10, 2018, due to an investigation by the NCAA which led to a three-year show cause order from the NCAA for violations that took place over a four-year period ending in 2017. Ollie was charged with “failure to monitor” his program and not promoting an atmosphere of compliance. Connecticut also lost one scholarship for the 2019–20 class, was put on two years' probation, fined $5,000 and received various minor recruiting restrictions. The team also had to vacate victories in which an ineligible player participated during the 2016–17 and 2017–18 season.
Ollie was charged with three Level I violations stemming from the following: summer pick-up games that should have counted toward allowable team activities, a video coordinator engaging in impermissible coaching instruction and a booster providing extra benefits to student-athletes. The extra benefits were provided by a private trainer and included training, lodging, meals and local transportation. Ollie filed a grievance following his firing, seeking to get $10 million in back pay.
Should a school have sought to hire Ollie before his show-cause order expired on July 2, 2022, it would have had to meet before the NCAA committee on infractions to justify the move.[11][12] Ollie filed a claim under the University's grievance process, alleging disparate treatment due as his predecessor was retained despite committing NCAA violations.[13][14] UConn then refused to continue with the contractual grievance process when Ollie filed a separate claim through the courts. As of February 2019, Ollie and UConn administration were in arbitration related to his filing of the original grievance.[15] On January 20, 2022, an arbitrator ruled that UConn improperly fired Ollie and ordered the university to pay him back pay.[16]
He was fired with just cause on March 10, 2018, due to an investigation by the NCAA which led to a three-year show cause order from the NCAA for violations that took place over a four-year period ending in 2017. Ollie was charged with “failure to monitor” his program and not promoting an atmosphere of compliance. Connecticut also lost one scholarship for the 2019–20 class, was put on two years' probation, fined $5,000 and received various minor recruiting restrictions. The team also had to vacate victories in which an ineligible player participated during the 2016–17 and 2017–18 season.
Ollie was charged with three Level I violations stemming from the following: summer pick-up games that should have counted toward allowable team activities, a video coordinator engaging in impermissible coaching instruction and a booster providing extra benefits to student-athletes. The extra benefits were provided by a private trainer and included training, lodging, meals and local transportation. Ollie filed a grievance following his firing, seeking to get $10 million in back pay.
Should a school have sought to hire Ollie before his show-cause order expired on July 2, 2022, it would have had to meet before the NCAA committee on infractions to justify the move.[11][12] Ollie filed a claim under the University's grievance process, alleging disparate treatment due as his predecessor was retained despite committing NCAA violations.[13][14] UConn then refused to continue with the contractual grievance process when Ollie filed a separate claim through the courts. As of February 2019, Ollie and UConn administration were in arbitration related to his filing of the original grievance.[15] On January 20, 2022, an arbitrator ruled that UConn improperly fired Ollie and ordered the university to pay him back pay.[16]
They were. Ollie got a show cause. UConn lost 1 scholarship but not much else. Ollie won his court case. Looked like another NCAA overreach.
Calhoun was an outstanding coach going back to his time at Northeastern. Besides going to Indiana I went to UConn. Calhoun could not have accomplished what he did without the creation of the big east conference. Since the Hoosiers won the championship in 1987, the Huskies have stepped up and won five national championships and they’ve got the rest of the competition on the ropes this year. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers were entertaining themselves by trying to jump over speeding cars.
"They're cheaters!"
This refrain from our fans has grown tiresome. Stale.
And aside from that. We now live in the NIL era. It doesn't even make sense.
The Wild West is open we have NIL money most teams wish the could have time to take advantage of it. No excuses we should be able to get anybody with kids in our backyards and through NIL.
Despite the success, the final decade of his career has been tainted by controversy because of perceived questionable recruiting tactics. In 2003, UConn paid $25,000 to play an exhibition game against the former summer league team of Rudy Gay, whom UConn was recruiting. The scheme was permitted at the time by NCAA rules but raised eyebrows nonetheless.
UConn's tactics during the recruitment of Gay, who signed with the Huskies, rankled another national championship-winning coach, Marylands Gary Williams, for years and underscored the sentiment among coaches that Calhoun, at the very least, operates in a recruiting gray area.
"If (Gay) wanted to come here, and we recruited him, and we offered him a scholarship, why didn't he come here?" Williams said in 2009. "It had to be for another reason, right?"
Then in 2011, after the NCAA found recruiting violations at UConn, Calhoun was cited by the NCAA for failing to create an atmosphere of compliance. He was suspended for the first three Big East games of last season. The NCAA also reduced scholarships and restricted UConns recruiting.
UConn's tactics during the recruitment of Gay, who signed with the Huskies, rankled another national championship-winning coach, Marylands Gary Williams, for years and underscored the sentiment among coaches that Calhoun, at the very least, operates in a recruiting gray area.
"If (Gay) wanted to come here, and we recruited him, and we offered him a scholarship, why didn't he come here?" Williams said in 2009. "It had to be for another reason, right?"
Then in 2011, after the NCAA found recruiting violations at UConn, Calhoun was cited by the NCAA for failing to create an atmosphere of compliance. He was suspended for the first three Big East games of last season. The NCAA also reduced scholarships and restricted UConns recruiting.
So because “we now live in the NIL era” everything that ever happened previously is moot? Got it.
Not totally moot. You can still complain about it. That’s pretty nice right?
yeah but that was early in the year. How would we do against them now when they look unstoppable.
And yet Bill Self roams the streets. Sometimes the world is not fair. All of the things Ollie did I could see Bill Self doing. I also could see that cheating Houston coach doing a lot of those things too.
….except a good coach.
When your coaching is lousy, all this other stuff makes no difference.
You want to open a discussion on Jim Calhoun at UConn?
"But Calhoun should also be questioned for the criminal element that hovers around UConn's athletic programs.
Ben Gordon is an NBA All-Star. He was a national champion at UConn. On or around Valentine's day of 2003, while a sophomore at the University of Connecticut, Gordon was arrested for assaulting a female student. You might ask yourself what type of man hits a woman? Perhaps you should have asked yourself, what type of coach plays a kid 36 minutes on national television the day after he is arrested for hitting a woman? So much for disciplining players."
Maybe she was.bigger than him and hit him first.I actually don't remember this incident.
Hurley is a hell of a good coach - from building his team, to supporting his players, to the Xs and the Os.
That all being said, he has been open that he ultimately sees himself making a leap to the NBA to try his hand there. Will be good for the rest of the NCAA when he does!
