Funny - I was just talking to my wife about this. She grew up in socal and isn't a sports fan generally (likes soccer). I was trying to explain where UConn was 25 years ago. How people thought it was stupid to join the Big East and be a doormat and haha win for other teams. How it was ridiculous to think that we could compete for BE championships, forget NCAA championships. How if I could time travel to 1986 and suggest to people that we would have 3 national championships and be one of the 3 best programs over the next 25 years that they would look at me like I had two heads. Or if I could tell folks in 86 that we would have as many BET championships as GT and two more than Syracuse, and 4 more than St Johns by 2011 that I would have been labled the RutgesAl of UConn fans (ok, I didn't say that cause she obviously wouldn't understand). How our current coach will retire being at least the 4th most wins all time with the possibility of being 3rd easily or 2nd if he lasts longer than JB. She of course couldn't understand and I couldn't explain to someone who hasn't lived through it.
Just think about - our head coach will retire with the 2nd, 3rd or 4th most wins all time with over 600 of them coming at UConn. He will retire with at least 3 national championships , one of only of five all time to accomplish that.
No one could fathom what has happened in Storrs since 1986.
When people think we'll just continue on after he retires have no perspective about how good he really is. However, he may have set the program up so that the next coach can continue at a really high level. If they do, it's still all about JC.
I'd love to see him surpass 900 wins and obviously, I'd love to see him get a 4th, but he has already done way more than expected. He can retire tomorrow if that's what he wants as far as I'm concerned. He's given UConn fans way more than they had any rational reason to expect. Way more.
