Jacobs Weighs In

[Jimmy Serrano]

If people think he has flatly denied this you all are kidding yourselves. He has denied this in the same way that Clinton denied he ever had sexual relations with that woman. I like JC. I'm the last person who would go on a personal jihad against him. But he does not walk on water in my eyes.

Whether or not this has effected the team, I sure hope not.

 

[CL82]

I find it hard to believe that this entire thing was invented out of thin air without any help from JC.

It wasn't created out of thin air. It was based on the fact that JC said 'he would say never' regarding coaching again. A reasonable response. It's a manufactured event. Applying that vague statement to BC sure seems to be a deliberate attempt at misinformation.

 

[CL82]

If people think he has flatly denied this you all are kidding yourselves. He has denied this in the same way that Clinton denied he ever had s e xual relations with that woman. I like JC. I'm the last person who would go on a personal jihad against him. But he does not walk on water in my eyes.

Whether or not this has effected the team, I sure hope not.

Jimmy, you are wrong. Read the quoted language in this thread.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Typical Jacobs stuff. He seemed to enjoy the "fact" that it was BC who wasn't interested in Calhoun and not the other way around. He basically calls Calhoun an attention whore who took the spotlight off the UConn team. I don't think there is any evidence to support this. Jimmy is an all time great HOF coach. Jacobs is a mediocre writer at a dinosaur newspaper. He deserves a punch in the throat along with Mick Cronin.

For your punch I would suggest aiming 3 feet below the throat, although its been suggested on the BY that there may be nothing there.

 

[intlzncster]

If people think he has flatly denied this you all are kidding yourselves. He has denied this in the same way that Clinton denied he ever had s e xual relations with that woman. I like JC. I'm the last person who would go on a personal jihad against him. But he does not walk on water in my eyes.

Where the Clinton analogy fails a bit is that Clinton is a very good speaker and a politician. He can and will talk you in circles. Calhoun, when he's riffing, just talks in circles in inadvertently. JC as a politician would essentially be Mayor "Mumbles" Menino.

From huskymedic in another thread:

FWIW:

DaveBorges3:04pm via Twitter for iPad
Source close to Calhoun: "Theres no story here." Zero conversations with BC. If perfect job opened, might think about it. Not where he's at.

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2014/03/jim-calhoun-to-boston-college-nothing.html

 

[8893]

BTW, here is how it was reported in the NYT:

TALK OF A CALHOUN RETURN Connecticut Coach Kevin Ollie said Jim Calhoun, 71, had “earned the right” to return to coaching if that was what he intended to do. “If that’s what he wants to do, I’m going to be supporting him,” Ollie said. “I know he’s got passion for the game.”

Several reports Friday morning indicated that Calhoun had interest in returning to the sideline two years after he retired from UConn. At the time, Calhoun had some health concerns, having defeated cancer. He also fractured his hip after a bicycle accident the previous summer.

He has remained a visible part of the Huskies’ program; he handpicked Ollie as his successor and is mentoring him. But his new role has not been easy. Huskies forward Niels Giffey said he could sense some eagerness from Calhoun about a possible return.

“You can just feel his desire to be involved in basketball because he loves this game and he’s such a great basketball mind,” Giffey said. “He’s such a great resource for us, just having him in the office in Connecticut and always having him there on the sidelines.”

Calhoun told The Hartford Courant that he was not trying to get a job but that he “wouldn’t rule out talking to anybody about basketball.”

 

[whaler11]

Calhoun to BC would be the best news UConn got in a long time.

It's insane because obviously they would never hire him, and he is too old to take over a total rebuild.

If the guy wants to coach he has that right, I really can't see any way the talk impacts this year's team

 

[BostonHusky3]

Lets keep in mind Jeff Jacobs doubted Kevin Ollie as a replacement for JC. JJ just wants to make some noise and say controversial things to get his name out there. Sort of like a poor man's Dan Shaughnessy. I don't like it, but I guess thats what columnists are supposed to do.

 

[tykurez]

Lets keep in mind Jeff Jacobs doubted Kevin Ollie as a replacement for JC. JJ just wants to make some noise and say controversial things to get his name out there. Sort of like a poor man's Dan Shaughnessy. I don't like it, but I guess thats what columnists are supposed to do.

I guess you have to applaud the man for doing his job. I mean look how much we're talking about him.

Still doesn't change the fact that it's deplorable. He even managed to insert himself into the narrative of his own column. Guy is a gem.

 

[CL82]

Lets keep in mind Jeff Jacobs doubted Kevin Ollie as a replacement for JC. JJ just wants to make some noise and say controversial things to get his name out there. Sort of like a poor man's Dan Shaughnessy. I don't like it, but I guess thats what columnists are supposed to do.

Nah, he violated one of the fundamental aspects of journalism reporting rumor as fact. Either he is inept or he deliberately misstated this rumor as a fact. He is what he is. Look for him to write another column complimentary to program as a pseudo penance. He is nothing, if not predictable.