Calhoun and recruiting

[Gurleyman]

I love how they have as a strength "ability to create" and then as a weakness "shooting off the dribble". Those two things usually go hand-in-hand, unless it's a point guard and you are talking more about creating for others when you say "ability to create".

 

[mauconnfan]

Huh? Really?

I admit to starting to follow UConn during its BE days, but UConn outside the Georgetown teams was the most black team in the conference. While others had Dan Calandrillo and John Pinone and Chris Mullin and Seikaly and Santifer and Donovan as the face of their teams, UConn was trotting out Tim Coles, McKay, Corny, Stormin' Norman, Giscombe, Hobbs and Kelley with a white Aleksinas thrown in. This was the early 80s. Before Calhoun got there, Cliff Robinson and Phil Gamble were leading the team.

Prior Al Weston, Jeff Carr, Al Lewis, Cal Chapman, John Thomas, Jimmy Foster, Lee Otis Wilson, Earl Wilson, Mike McKay, Ray Broxton, Eddie Williams, Al Frederick, Willie McCloud...........the list goes on and on. They were only as "white" as most of the Yankee Conference was nothing more, nothing less on top of the Bog East thereafter. UConn was never considered in that respect from what I remember?!?

 

[MarieM]

On the Scout.com 2010 Rankings he was ranked #88. You're right, amazingly he wasn't ranked by ESPN. On the RSCI Composite Rankings he was ranked #78 overall - Rob Harrington of Prepstars had him at 73, Hoopmasters at 77, Scout at 88, Brick Oettinger of Prepstars at 58, Rivals.com at 76 and Scouts Inc. (ESPN) didn't have him in the top 100. I think they all missed badly on this one!

scout and espn are the major rankings that everyone looks at ..