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MbergCat

MbergCat

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There has been a lot of discussion on here about all the teams having a down year. It made me think, what in the world happened to UConn? They were a premiere program just a few years ago and they've completely fallen by the wayside.

I know some teams are good in cycles. Georgetown, Syracuse, UNLV, etc. Do you guys think they are in that same boat? What happened?

On the other side of the coin, I wonder why some teams like UK and Duke, KU, etc. tend to stay good and rarely have those lulls?
 
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Glenn's Take

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MbergCat said:
There has been a lot of discussion on here about all the teams having a down year. It made me think, what in the world happened to UConn? They were a premiere program just a few years ago and they've completely fallen by the wayside.

I know some teams are good in cycles. Georgetown, Syracuse, UNLV, etc. Do you guys think they are in that same boat? What happened?

On the other side of the coin, I wonder why some teams like UK and Duke, KU, etc. tend to stay good and rarely have those lulls?
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U Conn actually has an FBS major bowl win. Sadly enough, sports actually went that way. U6 is a great example in football. They have won 3 of the 4 big bowl games in football. The beat Wale Forest in a Orange Bowl they were in the Big East and Wake somehow won the ACC that year. They won with Teddy Bridgewater against a Florida team that didn't want' to play in the game. They won the Fiesta Bowl (against a team that finished 7-5 on the season) because the people of Arizona voted down replacing Columbus Day with Martin Luther King Day. That is U of L football.
 
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Glenn's take said:
U Conn actually has an FBS major bowl win. Sadly enough, sports actually went that way. U6 is a great example in football. They have won 3 of the 4 big bowl games in football. The beat Wale Forest in a Orange Bowl they were in the Big East and Wake somehow won the ACC that year. They won with Teddy Bridgewater against a Florida team that didn't want' to play in the game. They won the Fiesta Bowl (against a team that finished 7-5 on the season) because the people of Arizona voted down replacing Columbus Day with Martin Luther King Day. That is U of L football.
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Lol what? MLK Day is already a national holiday I thought? It replaced Robert E Lee's birthday in January.
 
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michael895

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They missed on their first hire after Calhoun and they haven't been able to recover. When Uconn is good, they are a top 15 brand in the sport, it's just that the Ollie hire set them back big time. I think Hurley has them on the right track though.
 
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MbergCat

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michael895 said:
They missed on their first hire after Calhoun and they haven't been able to recover. When Uconn is good, they are a top 15 brand in the sport, it's just that the Ollie hire set them back big time. I think Hurley has them on the right track though.
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Kinda what I thought as well. Amazing what a bad hire can do for a program.
 
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Kevin Ollie happened. The title he won against us in 2014 was with a Calhoun-recruited team. After he lost those guys, they fell into complete irrelevance, he gets caught committing NCAA violations in the program, is fired, and slapped with a show cause. This to me made Ollie the worst coach ever to win a national championship. It seems that Hurley at least has them on the right path.
 
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UConn and Calhoun got caught cheating to get players. They had to stop cheating.
They no longer got the players needed to win.
They are now a losing program.
The End.
 
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Hopefully what happens when K retires from Duke. But the reality is that the coach matters more in college and there isn’t an abundance of star coaches right now.
 
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UCONN's struggles look to be quite clear. They haven't recruited at nearly the same level as they once did. In the early and mid 2000s, they were consistently in the top 10 or 20 recruiting classes. The latter half of the last decade, their classes weren't even ranked. Hurley looks to have signed some decent classes recently and has inked some good players in future classes, so we'll see. I personally loath the UCONN Huskies and hate them for all the heartbreak they have caused us through the years, so will certainly be pulling for their continued demise haha.
 
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mhroe1984

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I've always been more upset about the 2014 title game loss to those hacks than I am about the Wisconsin game. That was the one title that truly got away. Thought we were destined for that one after the run we had up to that point but man, the guys laid an egg that night. Still can't believe Kevin freakin Ollie beat us.
 
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KyFaninNC

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MbergCat said:
There has been a lot of discussion on here about all the teams having a down year. It made me think, what in the world happened to UConn? They were a premiere program just a few years ago and they've completely fallen by the wayside.

I know some teams are good in cycles. Georgetown, Syracuse, UNLV, etc. Do you guys think they are in that same boat? What happened?

On the other side of the coin, I wonder why some teams like UK and Duke, KU, etc. tend to stay good and rarely have those lulls?
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When they busted up the Big East conference lots of teams disappeared.
 
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shadyCAT said:
UCONN's struggles look to be quite clear. They haven't recruited at nearly the same level as they once did. In the early and mid 2000s, they were consistently in the top 10 or 20 recruiting classes. The latter half of the last decade, their classes weren't even ranked. Hurley looks to have signed some decent classes recently and has inked some good players in future classes, so we'll see. I personally loath the UCONN Huskies and hate them for all the heartbreak they have caused us through the years, so will certainly be pulling for their continued demise haha.
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Don't blame U Conn. You know where the blame should be put. We had much better players then they did. They basically used a one man team to beat us twice, once with a new coach.

OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!
 
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AdamWebberGBB

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willievic said:
Don't blame U Conn. You know where the blame should be put. We had much better players then they did. They basically used a one man team to beat us twice, once with a new coach.

OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!
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Hate to say it but UCONN had the better players in 2011. Kemba Walker is a perennial All Star, Jeremy Lamb is still a career double digit scorer in the league and Shabazz Napier is still making rosters. Those dudes were objectively more talented than us.

You're spot on RE: 2014 - we had the best player on the floor (Randle), missed FTs and let Napier control the game. We blew it.

Regardless, still hate those guys LOL
 
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I've always been more upset about the 2014 title game loss to those hacks than I am about the Wisconsin game. That was the one title that truly got away. Thought we were destined for that one after the run we had up to that point but man, the guys laid an egg that night. Still can't believe Kevin freakin Ollie beat us.
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All we had to do was zone them to death. Pitino and Louisville did that twice during the regular season and destroyed that UConn team each time.
 
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FrankUnderwood

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BradleyCrawford08 said:
Kevin Ollie happened. The title he won against us in 2014 was with a Calhoun-recruited team. After he lost those guys, they fell into complete irrelevance, he gets caught committing NCAA violations in the program, is fired, and slapped with a show cause. This to me made Ollie the worst coach ever to win a national championship. It seems that Hurley at least has them on the right path.
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It kind of sucks that the worst coach to ever win a title won it against us lol.
 
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The Ollie hire is a shining example of why you don't hire an assistant that has zero head coaching experience for a top program (at the time.)
 
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ESPN brought them their players under Calhoun, same as the women's team. But what doesn't make sense is why that dried up when he retired
 
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