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Message: [QUOTE="UCfor3, post: 5204366, member: 567"] Oh stop it. I remember Calhoun not playing Marcus White at all. Calhoun then missed a few games for something(probably health related) and the coach that took over(Blaney?) played White and he rebounded like a demon and carved out significant playing time. When Calhoun returned, he admitted that he should have given White more run and that he was happy his assistant didn't listen to him and gave him a chance. White was in the rotation the rest of the year. Calhoun is my favorite coach of all time in any sport. While he was one of the best coaches ever and the best program builder ever, he was not the infallable god that never made mistakes, had player misses or had disappointing seasons. We tend to remember the glory days (there were many) and forget a lot of the not so great years or the players that didn't work out. We just won back 2 back titles and people are flipping out on Hurley like we have never had a down season. People lose their collective minds when they don't get what they want these days. I expected that from a few of the same obvious agenda driven anti-Hurley crowd, but the rest just seem so fragile like they can't handle one disappointing season where we will still probably make the dance. Did you really think it would be as easy as the last 2 years every year? The mistakes made look obvious in hindsight now but it's not an exact science and sometimes it just doesn't come together like you had hoped. Ask Bill Self about these last two seasons. As for the "I don't like Hurley's ego or behavior on and off the court" crowd. Yeah, his 3 peat talk was maybe a bit much and his treatment of officials is a bit much at times and often counterproductive. Saying he is the best coach to a ref is kind of lame and yapping at fans at away games is stupid. He's an intense dude from Jersey. Self belief is big for him. Part of what makes him a little crazy is probably what also makes him great. Hopefully in the coming years he can learn to channel it a little better. He can work on some of these things, but you take the good with the bad, and there is way more good. Same with Calhoun. Never really loved the berrating of players right on the court after a timeout was called. He had a very quick hook which was sometimes funny and a good thing and sometimes not so good. He also was cranky and combative with the press. Sometimes deserving and sometimes not. It was also on his watch that we got in trouble with the NCAA(Yeah many of those infractions look silly now and are absurd including APR and text messages) but he did bring Nate Miles into the program. Again, the good far outweighs the bad. [/QUOTE]

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