Mount Rushmore of UConn basketball players
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I don't agree with Omar Calhoun being on there but hey whatever floats your boat.
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He deserves more than Jeff.
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Many names can be debated but Donyell, Kemba and Emeka dominated during there times. So they are mainstays. In no order Ray, RIP, Rudy, Ben, Cliff Robinson, Cris Smith, Shabazz and Thabeet (was great and consistent) Just not good in NBA. Can fill in the next slots. But Ray would be my next pick.
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Actually these are the people or rather their he era’s that define each epoch in our history.
1.Hugh Greer
2. Development of a Great UConn Fan Base
3. Dee Rowe
4 Jim Calhoun
1 Hugh Greer for taking a little Aggie School in the middle of nowhere
and making it the number one Basketball School in the State and one of the best in the region
Thus creating that incredible fan base pretty unduplicated by other Northeast Schools
2. The Great Fan base or Subway Alumni many of whom never went to college who created that potential
3. Dee Rowe for being a great guy who happened to be friends with
with Dave Gavitt who had the dream of the resurrection of Eastern Basketball. Dave along with being friends with Dee understood the underlying support for Big Time Basketball in Ct and included UConn as a founding member of the Big East
4. Jim Calhoun because that potential could not be met without a great coach who could compete against the heavyweight basketball minds gathered in that conference . I think 7 HOF coaches. We never could have attracted a top coach without
1,2, and 3
Those are the people and events
Now for Players
Each Step has its own group that enabled the next step to happen.
Limiting it to 4 leaves significant holes in the UConn saga .
Maybe four per era with Calhoun’s reign divided into 2 or even three parts
1.Hugh Greer
2. Development of a Great UConn Fan Base
3. Dee Rowe
4 Jim Calhoun
1 Hugh Greer for taking a little Aggie School in the middle of nowhere
and making it the number one Basketball School in the State and one of the best in the region
Thus creating that incredible fan base pretty unduplicated by other Northeast Schools
2. The Great Fan base or Subway Alumni many of whom never went to college who created that potential
3. Dee Rowe for being a great guy who happened to be friends with
with Dave Gavitt who had the dream of the resurrection of Eastern Basketball. Dave along with being friends with Dee understood the underlying support for Big Time Basketball in Ct and included UConn as a founding member of the Big East
4. Jim Calhoun because that potential could not be met without a great coach who could compete against the heavyweight basketball minds gathered in that conference . I think 7 HOF coaches. We never could have attracted a top coach without
1,2, and 3
Those are the people and events
Now for Players
Each Step has its own group that enabled the next step to happen.
Limiting it to 4 leaves significant holes in the UConn saga .
Maybe four per era with Calhoun’s reign divided into 2 or even three parts
Waquoit
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Let's be honest, the only era that means squat is post-1986.