If this doesn't seem like a Calhoun coached team

[Palatine]

it's because it isn't.

Remember the Tennessee game and especially the Notre Dame game at the XL Center. I do. I remember thinking that JC was taking a new approach. That he was much calmer on the bench.

I was wrong. JC was in intense pain. He wasn't calmer. He just couldn't move without his back reacting. He wasn't coaching, he was hanging on. Trying to fight the pain and losing. The fire hadn't gone out. It was burning up his spine. He wasn't coaching, he was surviving.

Remember when Coach K had back pain. I think Duke won 18 games that year.

So if you want to be pissed at Calhoun for not being immortal, go right ahead. But how long was JC suffering before anyone knew about it? How well could you do your job with the same pain? How diminished was JC as a coach this year?

Yeah, making Blaney the coach was pretty stupid. That's on JC. A move made out of loyalty. There are worse things.

But when the morons get on here and say this team has no heart, the only sense where that is true is that they don't have their heart in practice or on the bench. He's just came out of surgery. They don't have a Hall of Famer in their corner. They have Blaney. The effort is good. They're not lazy but they are missing something. The real Calhoun would have demanded more, pushed more, screamed more and gotten it out of them.

So act like a bunch of idiots dancing in a circle if you like. Blame the entire season on one bad pass by Bazz or blame it on Lamb's eyelids. Or blame it on Rio.

I'm going to bed.

 

[Palatine]

I woke back up.

And I still think this is right on. And I truly question if JC is ready to comeback.

 

[freescooter]

It isn't like we've never seen this before. 2010, 2007, 2002. sometimes teams just don't get it, don't come together or have the wrong mix of players. that's my take on this one. Doesn't have the right mix. Napier and Boatright are essentially the same guy. Drummond messed up the front line rotaion. Lamb was not quite as good as advertized. We don't have a consistent 3 point shooter. Roscoe Smith is too good to be on the bench but not good enough to beat out Oriaki at the 4, not quite quick enough to take out Lamb at the 3...this team is a mess and I suspect would have sturggled to get very far even with Calhoun. We'll never know, of course.

 

[businesslawyer]

I woke back up.

And I still think this is right on. And I truly question if JC is ready to comeback.

You thought it was news that you didn't change your mind on something?

 

[willie99]

2007 was a team of freshmen, no experience
2010 was the most disappointing team in JC's career. The only team of upperclassmen to not ever get it. Also had many of the same players from 2007
2002 went to the E8. I presume you mean 2001, another team led by freshmen that happened to win 20 games

throughout JC's career, teams led by freshmen play poorly, and then evolve. 2010 was the one exception