kyle o'quinn

 6'10 raw, that can run and some athleticism in your backyard.. Our program hasn't been getting the Magic Johnson's of the world, so it was a bad miss. Smh...
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Hindsight is 20/20. Get a grip!
 
Norm would have been killed over recruiting this kid. 1 DI offer and it wasn't even from a local school. Even the ones Norm got hammered over had more than that (except maybe Lawrence who was thinking of prepping but Norm had just taken over and had a depleted roster).   And sorry, no one who have given him the benefit of the doubt because he was 6'10", they would have just claimed he was another Keita or Diakite.
 
 O'Quinn said in an interview that, looking back, he didn't take school or basketball very seriously. Sometimes, going away and landing into the right environment helps a kid grow as a person and as a basketball player. Maybe we can just be happy for the kid without indicting the previous staff for their failure to recruit him.
 
I absolutely hate Norm and would love to pin a whole bunch of crap on him, but missing on Kyle O'Quinn is not one of them. The kid was not a Big East player coming out of Campus Magnet. Put him on last year's team with a healthy DJ and we win it all, though. Ugh...

I love his numbers, but sadly, the thing that most impresses me about the kid is that he qualified for college coming out of the PSAL without needing two years of juco. Immediate qualifiers seem to be a rare breed these days.
 
We "took a chance" on Abe Kieta. How is that (still) working out?
As for O'Quinn, he's great and I would like to have him as a neighbor and a friend; he is a wholesome guy who knows how to communicate .EVERYBODY missed him includingEVEN the bright guys at redmen,com!
As for Norm Roberts, his recruits went to the dance and performed wonderfully in their senior year.
Let me say, I love Coach Lavin, his staff, and this team, especially the one man student body D'Angelo, who will run for mayor of NY before he is done, But, the record is the record. Norm had some years as bad as this year but he still had one or two better that noone noticed. Lets let him enjoy his current run in the sweet sixteen with Florida and let the man rest, at least here.
How do we here give a current free pass to the real bad guys who screwed us royally while blaming everything but global warming on a guy and staff who busted their butts for 5 years to make things right .He had an almost impossible job as we are starting to see right now with one of the most powerfull coaching staffs ever assembled .
 
 Old fan, I agree. The program was an embarrassment when Norm took it over. He restored order, established a discipline with his players, and recruited some decent talent. Things certainly didn't progress to the level that Norm, the administration or any of us hoped for, but his tenure here was an important step to getting us back to prominence. I'd also mention that there weren't too many coaches lining up to take on our mess of a situation, but he saw hope. I'll pull for Norm to have success because he's a good guy and I appreciate what he did for us here. Remember the 1 BE win season guys? Without Norm, who knows if Coach Lav sees the promise and opportunity here. I love where the program is headed, but won't forget Norm's important contributions.
 
Roberts took over a team that was 2-21 in the prior season and had no one recruited nor had no recruiting future after the former coach announced that he had little interest in NY's prep stars. He was looking for more mature Juco's and foreign ballplayers.
Norm had a modest budget and an accountability to restore our dignity and play the game the right and honest way. Many missed the point that we set an all time, never to be broken record in the NCAA by graduating 10----count 'em-----ten-----seniors from the basketball program last year. To some of us guys that said we have restored our dignity. That's also something that twenty wins would not do.
Now we have a chance to fix the win column. Let's look forward not back but always respect the contributions of the people who got us back to this place from a couple of graduates and 2 wins. Let's also never forget the guy who put us in that spot.
 
Roberts took over a team that was 2-21 in the prior season and had no one recruited nor had no recruiting future after the former coach announced that he had little interest in NY's prep stars. He was looking for more mature Juco's and foreign ballplayers.
Norm had a modest budget and an accountability to restore our dignity and play the game the right and honest way. Many missed the point that we set an all time, never to be broken record in the NCAA by graduating 10----count 'em-----ten-----seniors from the basketball program last year. To some of us guys that said we have restored our dignity. That's also something that twenty wins would not do.
Now we have a chance to fix the win column. Let's look forward not back but always respect the contributions of the people who got us back to this place from a couple of graduates and 2 wins. Let's also never forget the guy who put us in that spot.
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I just threw up in my mouth reading this. Norm was left with two all-Big East players and left Lavin with two scholarship players total for this year. Why do you people insist that Norm Roberts is the only person that could have cleaned up the program or that you can't be successful and clean at the same time?

Norm was a TERRIBLE coach and a below average recruiter. Stategy and x's and o's have nothing to do with running a clean program, but Norm was as bad as it gets.

And let's not make Norm a saint. He went hard after a lot of bad character kids that decided to go other schools. Doug Wiggins could start off the list.
 
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