How Jim Calhoun's coaching career started

[Tuna]

No, Tubby is not a great coach. How did he do once he didn't have Pitino's players? And how is Kentucky doing now?

Well he went to at least the sweet 16 6 times between 98-05 and went to the Elite 8 in 98, 99, 03 and 05. And oh yeah, national coach of the year in 2003. A real bum without his own players...

Missing out on final 4s wasn't good enough for UK fans so they looked to Billy Gillespie who didn't cut it and then had to shell out $32 million over 8 years to bring Calipari in. There are plenty of Gillespies out there, UCONN can't afford a Calipari.

I don't know if you're wrong about KO but you're definitely wrong about Tubby Smith and I don't think we should be in such a rush to push KO out the door.

 

[Huskybass]

Well he went to at least the sweet 16 6 times between 98-05 and went to the Elite 8 in 98, 99, 03 and 05. And oh yeah, national coach of the year in 2003. A real bum without his own players...

Missing out on final 4s wasn't good enough for UK fans so they looked to Billy Gillespie who didn't cut it and then had to shell out $32 million over 8 years to bring Calipari in. There are plenty of Gillespies out there, UCONN can't afford a Calipari.

I don't know if you're wrong about KO but you're definitely wrong about Tubby Smith and I don't think we should be in such a rush to push KO out the door.

Tubby Smith has had a very good coaching career. I wish I could have some enthusiasm for UConn under Kevin Ollie, but I highly doubt we will ever see another Sweet Sixteen while he is our coach. The problems with the program are simply too widespread and significant.

 

[Paesano]

Tubby Smith has had a very good coaching career. I wish I could have some enthusiasm for UConn under Kevin Ollie, but I highly doubt we will ever see another Sweet Sixteen while he is our coach. The problems with the program are simply too widespread and significant.

Good, but not great. Better than what we have but Tubby is too old for us now.

 

[August_West]

We don't need the next Roy Williams. Roy Williams isn't the next tier up from KO. There are a lot of tiers between KO and that level.

We just need to find a guy somewhere in between.

Its funny that you brought up Indiana, because it doesn't support your stance at all.

They got rid of Davis and brought in Sampson who actually did a good job but then was let go for violations. So they brought in Crean who also did a decent job for a while. Provided some stability, brought some enthusiasm and national spotlight back to the program. Re-invigorated recruiting. Ultimately, he couldn't get them to where they wanted to go so they let him go and now have one of the hottest young coaches in the country.

Are you saying this didn't work out for Indiana? Where would they be if they let Davis continue for another 3-5 years? Are you saying coaches the level of Sampson or Crean aren't available to us? Not home run hires, but they would do a much better job than is currently being done.

Cool you want to wait 17 years ?

 

[HuskiesAllDay]

Cool you want to wait 17 years ?

Still waiting for you to make an actual valid point on all of this.

Not sure if you intentionally play dumb or what because all you do these days is contradict yourself.

You’re entire stance with ko is “let’s just wait and see what happens. I can’t give you any actual reasons as to why I think he will turn things around. But let’s just wait and see what happens”.

At the current trajectory, if we wait 17 more years with ko we will be finishing in the bottom half of the America east. Actually at this rate it wouldn’t even take that long. More like 7. But yeah good plan!