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Post by stags1983 on Sept 9, 2021 9:27:26 GMT -5
Maybe someday this will happen again. The greatest Stag victory during my four years on campus. View Attachment Same for me. Remember being at that game and Pete was a force that night!
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Post by nashvillestag on Sept 9, 2021 13:02:25 GMT -5
Maybe someday this will happen again. The greatest Stag victory during my four years on campus. View Attachment Same for me. Remember being at that game and Pete was a force that night! The Stags actually defeated the Huskies again two years later at the same venue. I'm sure there were other reasons, but those losses against us probably contributed somewhat to the downfall of Dom Perno. Subject to debate of course and something that led to the subsequent hiring of Jim Calhoun in 1986. OTOH considering the pretty good success Terry O'Connor had against UConn, you would at first glance think the program was on the rise and had a bright future in the mid 80s. Unfortunately a lot of the other results weren't so good thereby hastening his departure. And while Mitch did come in and win a couple of championships, the fact is they both were mostly with the recruits TOC had brought in (T. George, Yerina, Wynder, Gromos, TOT, etc.). So in that way Terry should in retrospect deserve some credit for the connection. Would he have won like Mitch did in 86 and 87 if he hadn't been fired? This too is debatable, but my own feeling is he would have had pretty good teams in those years, but probably not of championship caliber. It did take a different voice to get the most out of the guys, and Mitch was the perfect man for the moment IMO.
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Post by stags74 on Sept 9, 2021 14:32:01 GMT -5
I thought terry and his staff did a very good job of recruiting talent to FF as was mentioned in a previous post. He was a good recruiter IMO who did far more with less resources then today. The knock on Terry was his teams were not in good game shape and it took more of a disciplinarian like Mitch to get the best out of the players. Terry was only given four years to implement a consistent program which proved to not be enough time. I firmly believe if given a few more years TOC would have produced better results!
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