Calhoun coming back

[Hurleyman216]

The last thing I want to do is to turn myself into a witness. Keeping a low profile and letting the litigation run its course. Chief’s predictions will return at the appropriate time.

Translation: “Chief’s predictions will return once the media starts reporting who our new coach is.” Then Chief will be able to tell us how it went down and how he had the inside scoop. I love having all the insider info, keep it coming Chief!

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

Sources up at UConn are telling me that Calhoun will be returning. Details are vague. Discuss below:

Isn't Omar out of eligibility?

 

[Block C]

I didn’t think Edsal would be back. Nothing would surprise me. I love Jim, but a move like this signals that the Athletic Department is unable to attract quality candidates either financiallyor other reasons.

I understand the Edsall hire because the football team won’t attract top coaches in there. The basketball team is different we can attract top coaches depends on how the AD sells it

 

[Austin316]

It would please me if he came back as Hurley’s associate HC... make some room Chill

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Go dogs

 

[Bonk]

Do you think a guy like Ray Allen or Caron Butler would be interested in coaching with Calhoun for a year or 2? Calhoun probably wouldn’t be there long and I doubt Ray or Caron would want to be there for the long haul but it’d be interesting to see if they’d be interested in getting the program back on its feet/see if they have a long term interest in coaching.

 

[8893]

Do you think a guy like Ray Allen or Caron Butler would be interested in coaching with Calhoun for a year or 2? Calhoun probably wouldn’t be there long and I doubt Ray or Caron would want to be there for the long haul but it’d be interesting to see if they’d be interested in getting the program back on its feet/see if they have a long term interest in coaching.

You mean, repeat the exact same formula that got us here?

 

[Bonk]

You mean, repeat the exact same formula that got us here?

Not as a head coach but as assistant coaches. Helping w player development. Definitely don’t want to go down the same road

 

[Ewekon]

Sources up at UConn are telling me that Calhoun will be returning. Details are vague. Discuss below:

You have neither facts nor sources.

 

[SubbaBub]

I, for one, would be elated. I get all the downsides, but if he commits to 3-4 year period (like Larry Brown whose same age), they will come. There are few Hall of Fame Coaches (let alone of JC’s caliber) that recruits would’nt jump on. JC can also point to all those first rounders and lottery picks he got to league. And, even in JC down years at end of his career, when coaches used his leaving and age against him, he still delivered ranked teams with results we would be all be drooling over today. The man is a legend, and if Larry Brown could take the slim pickings he walked into at SMU and deliver what he delivered, I am hopeful Calhoun can match or exceed with far better starting point. Plus, Uconn becomes relevant, prestige will return, and we will have no problem bringing in a top-notch coach later. I am stoked if this happens.

Ps. And you could bet Gampel and XL will be packed again. I myself would arrange at least three flights during the season all the way from California just to see that man coach in person again. Legend

I am not for JC coming back for a few reasons, but the Larry Brown argument is a good one.

 

[Marat]

Do you think a guy like Ray Allen or Caron Butler would be interested in coaching with Calhoun for a year or 2? Calhoun probably wouldn’t be there long and I doubt Ray or Caron would want to be there for the long haul but it’d be interesting to see if they’d be interested in getting the program back on its feet/see if they have a long term interest in coaching.

But how would that be different from Ollie 2.0 ? Great players but no coaching experience.

 

[August_West]

 

[August_West]

Anybody else know Daddy Rich?

 

[Robertelamin]

He is a guy that lives off his dividends in South Carolina.

 

[August_West]

He is a guy that lives off his dividends in South Carolina.

nope

 

[8893]

Anybody else know Daddy Rich?

This guy?

 

[uconnphil2016]

We're now hanging on the words of someone named 'Daddy Rich.' This is why being a college sports fan is strange.

 

[August_West]

This guy?

Nope and Im shocked and (a little disappointed since I hold your knowledge of such minutiae in high esteem) that you didnt get it right away.

 

[Penfield]

Maybe JC can get a deal that is similar to what Tommy Heinsohn has with the Celtics - He will coach all of the home games, and Donny Marshall will do the road trips

 

[Bonehead]

Anybody else know Daddy Rich?

Randy Edsall?

 

[Sonofabeach]

He loves that guard for Prince Tech. He would be a real steal. He also saw him against New London.

Waterford has a pretty good Guard also (Mikey Buscetto #5)

He loves that guard for Prince Tech. He would be a real steal. He also saw him against New London.

 

[Ewekon]

What about if Jim only coaches for home games and does zero travel. Then bring in a new coach for away games only, pay 1/2 a salary. I would hire Beck Hammon, she lives in AAC territory, so it will be like coming home for her. This will work. The team can play two styles. Which ever style works better, we use in the post season.

Stupid

 

[tzznandrew]

If they bring back JC time to close up shop. It means the AD is so broke, and so barren of new ideas, that the program is pretty much dead anyway.

That people in this thread think it is a good idea to bring back a coach who will be 76 at the start of the season, and who hasn't coached a game since 2012--and the last few seasons he did coach he missed multiple games a season--is insane. The Boneyard I grew up with was crazy, but this is insane.

 

[HuskyHawk]

He’s returning more powerful than you can possibly imagine

But in all seriousness, although he has had several years off the road, he couldn’t tolerate BE travel at 70. How’s he gonna handle AAC travel?

And how in the hell does this work with recruiting? Is chill being kept around for that alone? And even if so, what does that pitch sound like?

So Calhoun is back to coach via holographic projection, while he's actually on the golf course? That might be the only way he'd do it.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I am not for JC coming back for a few reasons, but the Larry Brown argument is a good one.

Larry Brown brought credibility to a program that hadn't won anything since Jon Koncak was there in 1985. It's a bit different with a team that has won 4 titles, and 2 in the last 7 years.

 

[tzznandrew]

Larry Brown brought credibility to a program that hadn't won anything since Jon Koncak was there in 1985. It's a bit different with a team that has won 4 titles, and 2 in the last 7 years.

One hire says: Yes, we're actually for real.
The other says: We used to be for real.

 

[SubbaBub]

Larry Brown brought credibility to a program that hadn't won anything since Jon Koncak was there in 1985. It's a bit different with a team that has won 4 titles, and 2 in the last 7 years.

Which program has more credibility right now? UConn or Cincinnati?

 

[tzznandrew]

Which program has more credibility right now? UConn or Cincinnati?

UConn.

Two years doesn't make a team have more "credibility." We make the right hire and all is good.

 

[8893]

Which program has more credibility right now? UConn or Cincinnati?

Saturday is the only day on which a team coached by a leprechaun has any credibility.

 

[Rocktheworld]

So Calhoun is back to coach via holographic projection, while he's actually on the golf course? That might be the only way he'd do it.

Actually the analogy is even more apt with KO being the prophesied chosen one fallen from grace