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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 2444966, member: 1522"] Not many but he got the big ones when he needed to, Smitty and Burrell. Most of Calhoun's tenure here, CT. and New England basketball was pretty much dead and he knew he had to recruit the whole country and even internationally. Getting Chris Smith was huge because it showed everyone it was okay to spurn the bigger boys (at the time) and go to UConn but after that was a down period for local hoops. Calipari snaked Camby which sucked because we would have been totally unbeatable with him but we still were top #3 in the country without him. The point is everything has changed with local basketball, New Englad prep is the best in the country and we need to recruit it way better, it's ridiculous we have let Providence kick our butts with the locals. [/QUOTE]