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Post by professorhoya on Apr 4, 2023 8:17:28 GMT -5
So much for getting a fresh start with a new coach Makes sense. You have to get rid of alot of the people associated with the losing culture if you want to make a champion. Pitino is a smart man.
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Post by professorhoya on Apr 4, 2023 8:18:32 GMT -5
"Dan Hurley shudders thinking about the UConn program he inherited back in 2018. UConn had just endured a miserable 14-18 campaign and to make matters worse, prized bucket-getting recruit James Akinjo asked out of his National Letter of Intent before landing at Georgetown. UConn finished the season rated No. 179 on KenPom sandwiched between Wagner and, uh, Pacific. The once-proud UConn program that had won a national championship four years earlier was in the depths of despair... UConn's best players are homegrown. Sanogo, Jackson and Hawkins have bought into everything Hurley and the UConn coaching staff have asked. Instead, of going to the transfer portal to find one-year, go-to guys, UConn intentionally searched for reliable role players. It had the star talent in place. It just needed to plug the holes, and the transfer portal could do just that... "I'm proud of how we've gotten here," Hurley said. "This was pre-portal. It was pre-NIL where you could just -- back then you had to develop a culture, develop young players. A recruit had to believe in your vision. You couldn't necessarily purchase it. So, yeah, I'm proud of how we've gotten here. We built the program. And we still continue to do it the same way. Majority of this team and majority of our teams in the future, it will all be young players coming in, developing, and then supplementing them from players from the portal that fit us. Not the other way around." 247sports.com/LongFormArticle/From-No-179-to-No-1-How-UConn-built-a-new-template-for-March-Madness-glory-in-transfer-portal-era-207807993/#207807993_2Dan Hurley = 1 NCAA championship
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Post by EtomicB on Apr 4, 2023 9:35:54 GMT -5
So much for getting a fresh start with a new coach Makes sense. You have to get rid of alot of the people associated with the losing culture if you want to make a champion. Pitino is a smart man. St. John's did that by firing the head coach, Pitino should be able to instill his own culture on the program. In my view, players like Posh or Wsu or Storr would have fit well in his system
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Post by professorhoya on Apr 4, 2023 9:38:52 GMT -5
Makes sense. You have to get rid of alot of the people associated with the losing culture if you want to make a champion. Pitino is a smart man. St. John's did that by firing the head coach, Pitino should be able to instill his own culture on the program. In my view, players like Posh or Wsu or Storr would have fit well in his system As should Cooley. Should be able to bring on his players and install his culture
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Post by EtomicB on Apr 4, 2023 9:44:58 GMT -5
St. John's did that by firing the head coach, Pitino should be able to instill his own culture on the program. In my view, players like Posh or Wsu or Storr would have fit well in his system As should Cooley. Should be able to bring on his players and install his culture Of course but you have to admit Cooley or Pitino or English can still instill thier cultures on players who played for the previous coach. Pitino did that at Iona recently
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