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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 2470889, member: 1609"] You implication is when JC inherited UConn he had no players That’s not true in fact he had better Bigs than KO has ever had in Cliff Robinson. Future NBA all-star and sixth man award winner Plus 6-10 Jeff King and Gerry Bessilink 5 guys averaged in double figures on that team. (The Big East was a brutal league mid 80’s ) Cliff and Gary averaged close to double figures in rebounds. He had a guy who was a very good shooter at the 2-3 in Phil Gamble the NIT mvp as a sophomore. He had a young Tate George and a more experienced but injury prone Steve Pikell Boy would I love to have a Cliffy, Phil,and Tate on this years team. Talk about the exact missing pieces. JC Big East record his first three years was the same as Perno’s last three and worst years. The Big difference is Perno’s teams kept getting worse culminated by the suspension of his star player Earl Kelly over a gun incident. Jim Calhoun came into the picture that year when Perno’s 8-0 UConn team was blown out by his Northeastern team in our own Christmas tournament that we use to call the “Cupcake Classic”. That was shocking and There was the sense Dom had lost control of the program. Even though JC had an unauspicious Big East start there was little doubt the program was headed in the right direction and that he was in complete control. The fact he won the NIT with Perno players never seemed to come up.LOL [/QUOTE]