Mike Anthony: How long will Jim Calhoun coach? ‘For as long as I can coach’

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Mike Anthony: How long will Jim Calhoun coach? ‘For as long as I can coach’

>>“I'm committed to continuing,” Calhoun said. “It's not one day at a time, but I want to make sure at the start of the season I'm ready to go. I'm doing the job to get there.” <<

>>He’s on an upswing. I’ve seen Calhoun up close and often through many of his health problems over the past 15 years. This is one of those times when he’d typically return to his 100 MPH, move-or-I’ll-run-you-over way of operating, waking up to find a battle to fight because that’s what keeps the engine turning. I’ve always said he’s great for the same reasons he can be difficult.

But there’s something different this time, something additional. That fulfillment. There is hope. New fields are being built. Ground will be broken on a new basketball facility in August. Heck, Calhoun got excited Wednesday while describing a makeover to the USJ cafeteria. He has new neighbors on the little campus, new friends, “a commonality that you find [that] should never be wiped away by time and circumstance.”<<

Not bad considering there were some who said he would never actually coach a game @ USJ.

 

[Whtdmd]

I am always grateful for what Calhoun is doing for USJ. The St Joseph expansion into health sciences, coed enrollment is suceeding beyond the highest expectations. Calhoun is a great ambassador for it. He/They are doing great things for Hartford

 

[RichZ]

I am always grateful for what Calhoun is doing for USJ. The St Joseph expansion into health sciences, coed enrollment is suceeding beyond the highest expectations. Calhoun is a great ambassador for it. He/They are doing great things for Hartford

I'm as grateful for what the USJ opportunity has done for Coach. It put some bounce back in his step, and fuels his energy and excitement level, every day.

 

[UConnNick]

Calhoun needs coaching just as much as he needs air, food and water to survive. It gives him something to look forward to, and live for. He's a basketball coach, through and through.

I was once working at a county courthouse in a small population county researching land records. Sometimes small counties close their County Clerk offices on election days because the staff are working on the election and can't do both jobs. The clerk's office was closed on Tuesday, so rather than the day being unproductive, I went over to the local title company which had an abstract plant. I worked all day there. The manager was an 88 year old woman. She was a wonderful lady, and as sharp as any 88 year old person I've ever met. I could name a family I was researching and off the top of her head she could remember the names of their ancestors and how they were related to the people I was researching. She had been the County Clerk and was forced to retire at age 65 due to mandatory civil service retirement rules. She told me she sat at home for a week and realized she'd be dead within a year without something to do. She got the job at the title co. and had been there ever since.

Calhoun is one of those people. Here's hoping he lives to age 88 and beyond doing the job he was born to do.