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Calhoun getting back into coaching?

My contacts are telling me its St. Joseph's (West Hartford)
This is a perfect fit for Jimmy.
 
Waquoit said:
I think Ollie should get back into coaching as well.
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UC313 said:
My decoder ring says AD Dave reached out to Jimmy C because he's worried about the program. That got Jim's juices going again. Come home coach. Come. Home.
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Ding Ding Ding. Calhoun easing back into coaching with a year in D3. Then back to UCONN for the 2018-2019 season. Confirme_ .
 
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CL82 said:
I heard RE2 offered him the receivers job if the state makes him get rid of Corey.
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Keeping it in the family once again. Loving our AD's incestuous approach to hiring.
 
Assuming Coach pulls the trigger; look for Glen Miller to be his assistant and take over when he retires. Not confirmed but that's the rumor. Tom Moore is another possibility but I doubt he would go D3? But, crazier things have happened.
 
JC on coaching again (right at the end of the interview):
LINKY
What happened?
 
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BIGGER than losing Vance Jackson, Durham and Enoch ... would be Kevin Ollie failing to "hold" together the Culture of UConn basketball and what Jim Calhoun built. I guess after last year, I am nervous that we are fraying at the edge. With Ray Allen, Donny Marshall, Caron Butler ... and pressing Ollie and others WE remain a force. We don't put up with mediocrity crap. One year where Alterique, Mamadou, Larrier are down ... you have to see this coming year as perhaps the most important in 20.

I expect Kevin Ollie to have put extra thought into all details on this coming season.

I do think - contrary to what some have posted - that Chillious and Killings were absolutely the right tack to make. We had gotten complacent as we left Calhoun to go to Blaney, Hobbs, Miller. This is KO placing his thumb on the scale - Program. I don't flake out on missing on some kids. But, we need Calhoun and the full weight of 30 years past to come to bear on this Program. NOW
 
This sounds like a teaser for some kind of charity promotion JC agreed to do. Likely has nothing to do with D1 college basketball.
 
CL82 said:
St. Joes?
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Not what I would have guessed--and I think that's still just a guess right now in any event--but it could qualify for what's special to him now, in terms of it being low-key, local and the start of something new; and it will also allow him to do what he loves at a level where he doesn't have to worry about competing against guys he mentored or a program he still considers his baby.
 
Article says its St. Joe, in West Hartford.

The article also mentions that Calhoun wants to continue to work with UConn and David Benedict and Susan Herbst, like he is now.

Can anyone tell me exactly what Calhoun is doing at UConn? Have he and Benedict spoke about our predicament? Does he really not speak to KO anymore? Its hard for me to believe that he wouldn't at least attempt to reach out to KO...its only been 5 years of giving up his program.
 
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I like this move by St Joseph. It's more then basketball. They r trying to expand the college with coed enrollment this yr. What better way then to have a men's basketball team with a legendary coach. I see the St Joes nursing students all the time. They r all so nice n hard working. Nice job by coach Calhoun to support a local college. I think he will do more then. coach
 
UConnfan8 said:
Article says its St. Joe, in West Hartford.

The article also mentions that Calhoun wants to continue to work with UConn and David Benedict and Susan Herbst, like he is now.

Can anyone tell me exactly what Calhoun is doing at UConn? Have he and Benedict spoke about our predicament? Does he really not speak to KO anymore? Its hard for me to believe that he wouldn't at least attempt to reach out to KO...its only been 5 years of giving up his program.
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Calhoun gets around $300k a year at UConn; why wouldn't he want to continue that?
 
Chief00 said:
Calhoun gets around $300k a year at UConn; why wouldn't he want to continue that?
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Not saying he wouldn't want to, nor that he shouldn't. Just wondering if anyone knows what he actually does. Or if he speaks with Benedict, in an advisor sense. I would be extremely interested in being a fly on the wall for a Calhoun-Benedict conversation about KO now.
 
Not gonna lie, itd be pretty funny to have 2 coaches come back after the program was a disappointment after they left. [Randy Edsall]

(I dont believe JC is coming back to UC at all though...)
 
Kemba429 said:
Not gonna lie, itd be pretty funny to have 2 coaches come back after the program was a disappointment after they left. [Randy Edsall]

(I dont believe JC is coming back to UC at all though...)
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Do you understand how outlandish this statement is ... you fool.

Kevin Ollie won a National Championship. Do you understand the circle of men that have that qualifier. So saying that ... after this 15-17 ... I understand. But, he is far from the judgment that his years are a disappointment ... yet. This is the CRAZY corner many of you have backed your self into. I suspect this is just a result of many that have not broad experience.
 
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UConnfan8 said:
Not saying he wouldn't want to, nor that he shouldn't. Just wondering if anyone knows what he actually does. Or if he speaks with Benedict, in an advisor sense. I would be extremely interested in being a fly on the wall for a Calhoun-Benedict conversation about KO now.
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You win 3 NCs at a school - you do whatever the heck you want as an advisor.
 
Whtdmd said:
I like this move by St Joseph. It's more then basketball. They r trying to expand the college with coed enrollment this yr. What better way then to have a men's basketball team with a legendary coach. I see the St Joes nursing students all the time. They r all so nice n hard working. Nice job by coach Calhoun to support a local college. I think he will do more then. coach
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Thanks for the clarification (coed) My mother graduated from St Joes and I was trying to figure out why JC would go the Geno route at a DIII school.

Not to stereotype but won't the male students be a bit, um, well, less athletic than most ? ;)
 
Pudge said:
Do you understand how outlandish this statement is ... you fool.

Kevin Ollie won a National Championship. Do you understand the circle of men that have that qualifier. So saying that ... after this 15-17 ... I understand. But, he is far from the judgment that his years are a disappointment ... yet. This is the CRAZY corner many of you have backed your self into. I suspect this is just a result of many that have not broad experience.
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I do understand that he won a national championship and I credit him with that and I will give Ollie this year and next to get back to making the field of 68. Yes he won a championship and I did not mean that 2014 was a disappointment but with 4 championships since 99 the bar is set high. With that being said with out a miracle two years ago, that championship team is the only team to make the tournament since Ollie took over.
 
sportsart said:
Thanks for the clarification (coed) My mother graduated from St Joes and I was trying to figure out why JC would go the Geno route at a DIII school.

Not to stereotype but won't the male students be a bit, um, well, less athletic than most ? ;)
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This is more then basketball. This is about increasing the enrollment and given cover to the initial 80 or so male students. I dont care if tjey go 0 and 30. St joes is expanding its mission with pharmacy n allies health programs. It needs more male students. Much respect to coach Calhoun for helping a local college expand
 
If KO got fired JC would never step foot on the UConn campus again
he is old school
I know it's hard for younger people to grasp but if a school fired your kid what would your future relationshio.
with that institution be.
JC takes that kind of thing seriously.
I never bought into the rift just one more of how can we hurt UConn stories.
Like JC is dying to KO going to the NBA. Now it's KO is going to be fired
and he never speaks to JC.
It's been going on for years
 
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