Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
greatness kids room sacrificed talented teams
I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.
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My understanding is the athletic director is going to now, hopefully, put it on the front burner this year. In my personal opinion, they were going to fix football before they fixed basketball. I know a couple of the people are basketball people who gave money to football and that's fine. They gave money to the university.
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He said something remarkable to me that I still remember to this day, ... He said, ?The people you?re hanging around now and go out with at night -- and I know you?re doing it out of frustration but nevertheless -- those people don?t want you to leave, because if you leave, you?re being successful and they are struggling with their own agenda and success.?
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Obviously they're a tournament team. I thought they were a tournament team yesterday.
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He was one of the icons of basketball. He knew every coach and so when you would attend the Final Four he would say, 'I like the job you're doing.' He was a real gentleman and a classy, classy person.
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Their big guys stood up and knocked our guys off the block. Our guys took it, accepted it, and weren't really much of a factor.
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Our 3-0 record and their 3-0 record is going to clash. Whichever team is able to impose its will and style on the other team is going to win.
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I thought our big kids dominated the game. The difference in the game was our power.
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Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..
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Sometimes on the road it's been more difficult. You can go ask him now and he'll look you right in the face, 'Nothing bothers me.' I don't believe him. I think he's a human being.
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Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. We were equally, if not better or more magnificent, the last 10 minutes of the basketball game.
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Exact opposite teams. We've got to be good at what we do.
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said Calhoun. ''I was in graduate school and my car got repossessed. I remember not knowing who to turn to financially.
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This is making me, for once in my life, sit down and look at the past,