Calhoun Retiring

Say what you will about Calhoun, he is a tough Irish Catholic from Boston area, with a chip on his shoulder and no silver spoon in his mouth and he got to the top of the mountain three times, and put a legion of guys in the NBA. He also disliked Jarvis.

He has a tremendous number of loyal disciples, including good guys like Donnie Marshall, Ray Allen and Omeka Okefor and many others. When they hold get-together's at Mohegan Sun, almost all of his important guys come back, there is a real camaraderie within the BB alumni that Calhoun gathered up there in no-wheres-ville Storrs.

He must have done something right.

This announcement leaves GENO A. as the undeniable Big Man On Campus.
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Donnie Marshall = Good Guy? Ever since that fight with Minlend he's been dead to me!
 
Say what you will about Calhoun, he is a tough Irish Catholic from Boston area, with a chip on his shoulder and no silver spoon in his mouth and he got to the top of the mountain three times, and put a legion of guys in the NBA. He also disliked Jarvis.

He has a tremendous number of loyal disciples, including good guys like Donnie Marshall, Ray Allen and Omeka Okefor and many others. When they hold get-together's at Mohegan Sun, almost all of his important guys come back, there is a real camaraderie within the BB alumni that Calhoun gathered up there in no-wheres-ville Storrs.

He must have done something right.

This announcement leaves GENO A. as the undeniable Big Man On Campus.
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Donnie Marshall = Good Guy? Ever since that fight with Minlend he's been dead to me!
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Wow great memory I forgot about that.
 
Have to wonder if any players will fly the coop; his leaving and no post season tournaments. 
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Doubt it. Writing's been on the wall a couple years that he wasn't long for the job. The transfers of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith were the result of that and no tourneys. The new guys were recruited by the new coach. If he doesn't get the job permanently in the spring then I guess you might see a decommit or two from the class of '13 or a transfer but if Ollie stays i think there will be little change.
 
Have to wonder if any players will fly the coop; his leaving and no post season tournaments. 
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Doubt it. Writing's been on the wall a couple years that he wasn't long for the job. The transfers of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith were the result of that and no tourneys. The new guys were recruited by the new coach. If he doesn't get the job permanently in the spring then I guess you might see a decommit or two from the class of '13 or a transfer but if Ollie stays i think there will be little change.
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Ollie may be able to recruit...for now....because Uconn is still a hot brand but can he coach? We do not know yet. Coach C was a great game coach....one of the best! That was obvious evey time his associate head coach had to coach the team and they were disorganized.
Best wishes to coach C as he did the Big East more good than any coach in the conference.
 
Have to wonder if any players will fly the coop; his leaving and no post season tournaments. 
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Doubt it. Writing's been on the wall a couple years that he wasn't long for the job. The transfers of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith were the result of that and no tourneys. The new guys were recruited by the new coach. If he doesn't get the job permanently in the spring then I guess you might see a decommit or two from the class of '13 or a transfer but if Ollie stays i think there will be little change.
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They were recruited by Ollie but with Calhoun still as the head coach and holding his hand. Norm was a monster recruiter for KU because Bill Self had been behind him forever. Big difference when the legend Jim Calhoun is off the books. Calhoun has been priming Ollie for the job. He has his work cut out for him replacing Jimmy C and has no head coaching experience to speak of.
 
Have to wonder if any players will fly the coop; his leaving and no post season tournaments. 
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Doubt it. Writing's been on the wall a couple years that he wasn't long for the job. The transfers of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith were the result of that and no tourneys. The new guys were recruited by the new coach. If he doesn't get the job permanently in the spring then I guess you might see a decommit or two from the class of '13 or a transfer but if Ollie stays i think there will be little change.
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They were recruited by Ollie but with Calhoun still as the head coach and holding his hand. Norm was a monster recruiter for KU because Bill Self had been behind him forever. Big difference when the legend Jim Calhoun is off the books. Calhoun has been priming Ollie for the job. He has his work cut out for him replacing Jimmy C and has no head coaching experience to speak of.
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Kenton Facey has never even met Jim Calhoun. Can't speak for Samuels. Ollie now has 6 months or so to prove his worth. That's all I'm saying.
 
Say what you will about Calhoun, he is a tough Irish Catholic from Boston area, with a chip on his shoulder and no silver spoon in his mouth and he got to the top of the mountain three times, and put a legion of guys in the NBA. He also disliked Jarvis.

He has a tremendous number of loyal disciples, including good guys like Donnie Marshall, Ray Allen and Omeka Okefor and many others. When they hold get-together's at Mohegan Sun, almost all of his important guys come back, there is a real camaraderie within the BB alumni that Calhoun gathered up there in no-wheres-ville Storrs.

He must have done something right.

This announcement leaves GENO A. as the undeniable Big Man On Campus.
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Tough Irish Catholic from boston? :blink: WHO did he ever fight or box to make him tough.I never read or heard one story about him being street tough %-) please let me know all the tough guys legend stories from boston
maybe he was picked on as a young man & lumped up some bullies???? :nerd:
More like hard dinking,spitting-stuttering irish! Catholic did you see him in church every morning or at sundays mass? If he was such a great catholic why leave Holy Cross for Pukonn{$$} not BC. Yes he done something right recruited great players$$$ to a desolate backwood Puconn school with states approval.   
 
The man won 3 national titles in 25 years at a school with no bball history, please lets all give the man the credit he deserves. His players love him and he has raised millions of $$$ for cancer. Like him or not he deserves credit for what he achieved which was incredible.
Do I believe Ollie will fill his shoes, absolutely not, but time will tell.
On a personal note I like him and respect him far more than Boeheim or Huggins, both of whom are very good coaches.  
 
Kevin Ollie may very well turn out to be a good coach and do a good job but the odds are against him duplicating the success Calhoun had and that would be the case for whomever they hire. Love him or hate him one thing about Calhoun was his unique ability to push his players and team to the absolute limit and wind up getting the most out of them witness 5 wins in 5 days in winning BE T and than 6 more wins to win the NCAA T with a team that finished what  10th or 11th in BE.
 
 I haven't read all the press coverage, so my apologies. But any word on if George Blaney is staying with the UConn program? A true gentleman, to counter the Calhoun boorishness. Thanks.
 
 I haven't read all the press coverage, so my apologies. But any word on if George Blaney is staying with the UConn program? A true gentleman, to counter the Calhoun boorishness. Thanks.
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Yes he is staying on the staff
 
 And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East.

Read that last (really long) sentence again.

It's ugly.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ent-and-lacking-talent-yep-its-time-to-retire
 
 And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East.

Read that last (really long) sentence again.

It's ugly.


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Great post tommy! No one but God knows whats in a mans heart & I have faith that the Good Lord will do justice.
If you compare Uconn to UNLV its very similar but one schools coach was treated like a nazi war criminal the other
a war hero by ncaa & media.

 
 
 And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East.

Read that last (really long) sentence again.

It's ugly.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ent-and-lacking-talent-yep-its-time-to-retire
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No arguments here on your assessment. Unfortunately, there are a legion of guys with very successful programs who will do anything to win it all and didn't have half the success that Calhoun did. Given the opportunity, most of us would have been thrilled had he come to SJU 20 years ago and done the same here.
 
 And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East.

Read that last (really long) sentence again.
It's ugly.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ent-and-lacking-talent-yep-its-time-to-retire
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No arguments here on your assessment. Unfortunately, there are a legion of guys with very successful programs who will do anything to win it all and didn't have half the success that Calhoun did. Given the opportunity, most of us would have been thrilled had he come to SJU 20 years ago and done the same here.
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Not my assessment, I just posted the article.
 
 And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East.

Read that last (really long) sentence again.

It's ugly.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ent-and-lacking-talent-yep-its-time-to-retire
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No arguments here on your assessment. Unfortunately, there are a legion of guys with very successful programs who will do anything to win it all and didn't have half the success that Calhoun did. Given the opportunity, most of us would have been thrilled had he come to SJU 20 years ago and done the same here.
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Not me and I would hope not many here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East.

Read that last (really long) sentence again.

It's ugly.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ent-and-lacking-talent-yep-its-time-to-retire
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Do you want a big laugh? Calhoun at his press conference - "Character, that's what I want to be judged by." Be careful what you wish for.
 
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