Kevin Ollie and OKC

[Matt1010]

Not meant to freak people out but this needs to be posted. I firmly believe Ollie will stay with Uconn even if he is offered the OKC job but still don't like seeing this.

 

[tcf15]

FWIW Zags also had sources telling him that Lavin was close to resigning with St. John's.

 

[UconnFanNVa]

SHould help us with recruiting? lol

 

[Inyatkin]

It's only Zagoria for now, as far as I can tell. Which is good.

 

[CallMeBruce]

If Ollie was considering jumping to the NBA, that would have come up during Miller's visit. Since Miller committed, I'm confident that Ollie isn't leaving.

 

[aceboon]

It's Zagoria

 

[huskiesnyc]

He just posted a pic working out a UConn about 20 minutes ago. Oh yea, and he's also not paying UConn a 5 million dollar buyout to leave...

 

[huskyniner]

I'm pretty sure a buyout is the last thing OKC is worried about. There is no monetary limit on whoever Durant wants.

 

[FartMan69]

He just posted a pic working out a UConn about 20 minutes ago. Oh yea, and he's also not paying UConn a 5 million dollar buyout to leave...

He's not leaving but if an NBA owner wants a specific coach they'd have no problem handing over 5 mil.

 

[James]

Considering the buy out numbers, he isn't going anywhere. Also he legit just posted this to his instagram when that report came out,

 

[Kauffmak10]

NOT GOING ANYWHERE

 

[azescobar]

The wording of this is also important. OKC may be considering Ollie (among others), but that doesn't mean Ollie is considering OKC. After last year's dance, saga, and contract renewal, it just doesn't seem to make sense for KO to leave this summer. This may become an annual torture event for us, but I think he'll be back.

 

[CTBasketball]

Money talks. If they offer enough he's gone.

 

[huskiesnyc]

He's not leaving but if an NBA owner wants a specific coach they'd have no problem handing over 5 mil.

Perhaps, but KO makes more than plenty of NBA coaches right now and there's also that job security thing.

 

[James]

"coachkevinollie You Funny! My buy out is too much.. @feznets" KO is laughing at this senseless report ( edit: although i'm not sure if he's talking about a ten day contract lol)

 

[jfuchs91]

I truly believe that Ollie bleeds blue. I think he views UConn as his home, and would love to coach here for as long as he can. That being said, OKC is a very intriguing NBA job, as they have two top 5 players in the league. It's one thing to turn down an NBA job for a mediocre team, but it's another to turn down the chance at coaching a potential contender.

In the end though, I'd be surprised if Ollie left. He's invested in UConn.

 

[HuskiesAllDay]

I really don't want to have to do this every offseason for the next 20 years....

 

[FeedTheDove]

 

[aceboon]

Zags is mindless and is just parroting off of Wojo's report, he does this all the time. Last year when Stefan Bondy, the NYDN Nets beatwriter, reported that the Nets had reached out to KO after JKidd left, Zags followed up later on that his "sources" reported the Nets had reached out to KO. A few days later Bondy retracted that report and said it wasn't true...Zags then followed up with the same exact thing. I wouldn't pay this any mind.

 

[The Viking]

I want KO to say again he's not going anywhere but this time let it slip that one of the things keeping him here is the chance to coach against Izzo on a yearly basis.

 

[6xChamps]

KO is already super rich and is a family man. His son is about to start playing college football at Fordham. You think he wants to be chilling in Oklahoma, missing out on his son's games? I obviously don't like seeing the reports, but I don't think he really wants to make the jump at this point in time.

 

[8893]

Wonder if that "source" has an interest in Gilbert or any other recruits we're zeroing in on.

Or maybe an interest in driving down Donovan's asking price.

Given Ollie's buyout, the final year on Brooks's contract and OKC's generally conservative fiscal spending habits, I'd say this is premature speculation at best.

 

[johnhuskies95]

If Ollie was considering jumping to the NBA, that would have come up during Miller's visit. Since Miller committed, I'm confident that Ollie isn't leaving.

It's pretty easy to deny interest in a job that isn't even open yet.

 

[PcketknfNiels]

Hoping he doesn't leave but it's not a great look for recruiting and for Ollie staying here long term that these "leaks" continue to come out. I wish the program would get some of their own sources to leak that Ollie isn't going anywhere so that Coach himself doesn't have to say it but that these rumors will stop.

 

[UConnDad]

Warde, KO needs a raise.