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I believe that JC attributed that quote to Carneseca.Rest in piece.
My favorite Massimino story comes from when Calhoun was just starting out. He felt that Massimino was running up the score and told him so. Massimino replied. "Jim there are two teams on the floor. You only get to coach yours."
Um, never mind then.I believe that JC attributed that quote to Carneseca.
I thought that was Louie Carnesecca who said that. He got the same thing from Massimino?Rest in piece.
My favorite Massimino story comes from when Calhoun was just starting out. He felt that Massimino was running up the score and told him so. Massimino replied. "Jim there are two teams on the floor. You only get to coach yours."
Ugh, as everyone reads that post, I'm going to get one of these.I thought that was Louie Carnesecca who said that. He got the same thing from Massimino?
Calhoun on one of his most memorable stories about St. John's coach Lou Carnesecca, who will be honored at The Garden tonight: ``They were drilling us down there by 30 and they got 32 and I'm not sure who it was, it may have been Mark Jackson, made the last basket. And I'm screaming and I'm really really discouraged that a guy would drill you. And all of a sudden, I feel a little tug, and of course he's down here someplace,'' Calhoun said pulling on his waist. ``And he says: `Irish. Irish. Come here.' I said, `What?' He said, `Remember the great thing, you can only coach one team at a time.' And it's probably one of the really insightful, Al McGuire-type things or in this case, Louie, because really it was true. He's 100 percent right. If you just coach your own team, it's amazing how all the good things happen and it really stuck in my mind.''
Uconn At St. John's
IIRC that story was about Lou Carnasecca.Rest in piece.
My favorite Massimino story comes from when Calhoun was just starting out. He felt that Massimino was running up the score and told him so. Massimino replied. "Jim there are two teams on the floor. You only get to coach yours."
Most fired up I ever saw Calhoun was after beating 'Nova at Gampel the freshman year of Ollie/Marshall/Marshall/Fair/Ashmeade/Boo. Student slow chanted "Rollie" all game.....Jim seemed to appreciate that.
Miss those old big east battles ....Remember that game, Was there. We also beat him 53-51 on a John Gwynn offensive rebound at the buzzer.
The real Big East was a Coaches league and Rollie was never intimidated and rarely out coached (as all the others).
The BE had a lot of great Coaches, and Rollie was one of them. RIP
At what point is is okay to say that I didn't think he was nearly as good a coach as the other big-time Big East coaches and that he really ran kind of a loose ship everywhere he went?
Probably tomorrow?
At his funeral.At what point is is okay to say that I didn't think he was nearly as good a coach as the other big-time Big East coaches and that he really ran kind of a loose ship everywhere he went?
Probably tomorrow?