Talk of Jim Calhoun retiring restarts
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I think he's gone. No tournament this year and banned the next two years. The poor guy doesn't have three years of coaching as hard as he does. This is different than football...it takes a lot out of you to get up and coach 30+ games a season.
Say what you want about the man, but he is a great competitor and an INCREDIBLE coach.
Say what you want about the man, but he is a great competitor and an INCREDIBLE coach.
Della9250
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They could go to the ACC with someoen to get to 16.
Or the long shot of the Big 10 with someone and make 14.
If I were looking at swiping a school from the Big East for either conference, they are down the list though.
1. Notre Dame (meaning football is included)
2. Louisville
3. Cincinnati
4. South Florida
5. UConn/Rutgers
Or the long shot of the Big 10 with someone and make 14.
If I were looking at swiping a school from the Big East for either conference, they are down the list though.
1. Notre Dame (meaning football is included)
2. Louisville
3. Cincinnati
4. South Florida
5. UConn/Rutgers
Every bracket has UCONN in the field this year.
He is an incredible coach but by your standard he deserves some SERIOUS criticism. The only coach to be suspended by the BIG EAST for games coming from NCAA sanctions.
Also hard to argue with the fact that UCONN, with its talent especially the fact they landed the no. 1 2013 high school player a year early and a top 15 recruit in DeAndre Daniels, is a combined 24-30 in Big East regular season games over the last 3 years including 8-10 this year with losses to PC and Rutgers. That is worse then mediocre.
Think about this. Over the last 3 years there have been 5 teams that have played on Tuesday of Tourney week all 3 years. In other words there have been 5 teams that have failed to finish in the top 8 at any point in those 3 years. Those 5 teams are Rutgers, DePaul, Providence, Seton Hall and believe it or not UCONN. Hard to believe. I mean what school does not belong in that group?
I wonder if Bill Self could have avoided that fate? LOL!!
Not suggesting he is not. Already concede that. What he has done at UCONN is tremendous.
But you and I know that matchups, where you get put, other teams losing before you meet them and just plain LUCK play a huge role in winning these things. Remember UCONN never played a 1 seed and only 1 2 seed in the NCAA's last year. The Final Four was made up of a 4 seed-UK, a 3 seed-UCONN, a 8-seed Butler and an 11-seed VCU. Probably the weakest Final Four in the modern era and only the 2nd time since the modern field started in '85 that a no. 1 seed failed to make it to the Final Four (2006 the only other year).
Again that is not UCONN's fault what I am saying is to suggest coaches should not be judged on an entire body of work but rather a handful of games in a 1 and done format is ludicrous.
Put it to you this way. For a 3 year period, 1994 to 1996, UCONN won 3 straight BE regular season titles and the Tourney title in '96. At that point they had established themselves as the dominant team in the Big East. Did they win a NC in any of those years (Donyell Marshall, Ray Allen, Donny Marshall, Kevin Ollie, etc) ? NO. Yet the team last year did win it. Does anyone believe that last year's UCONN team could run with those UCONN teams in the mid 90's over a 16-18 game league schedule? Not on your life.
For the record the 94 team was a 2 seed in the East and lost to 3 seed Florida in the Round of 16. In 95 they were a 2 seed and lost to 1 seeded UCLA in the Round of 8 out West. In 96 they were the 1 seed and lost to Miss St in the Round of 16.