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Senior night, 34 years ago (dream season)

Some more pics from that night:

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Some old timers may remember the old Memorial Stadium on campus, right next to Gampel.

UConn played its first night football game there in 1989, I still have the t-shirt that says "I was there when the lights went on!".

Here are a couple of pics from that night, you can see the newly erected, massive Gampel dome in the background.

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maxw said:
Some old timers may remember the old Memorial Stadium on campus, right next to Gampel.

UConn played its first night football game there in 1989, I still have the t-shirt that says "I was there when the lights went on!".

Here are a couple of pics from that night, you can see the newly erected, massive Gampel dome in the background.

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Old timers?!? They were there in 2001.
 
The uniform shorts when they were still actually shorts. Look at these pictures and the pictures of our first championship team. The change is kind of funny. Khalid shorts were below his knees.
 
Secure Dog said:
When you see who is on the bench and who was on the floor, that team was nine men deep. On the court Glenn, Smith, Burrell, Murray and Sellers. On the bench George, Henefeld, Cyrulik and DePriest. If only George had held onto that ball. We could have won it all. They may have been the best pressing team we ever had. At that point the skill sets and athleticism had not elevated to current levels for some of the mid major lower level teams. There were games with Nadav playing centerfield that we would just completely dominate the game with our harassing press. Nadav could bait the passer so well, he was truly special like an all pro safety looking one way getting the jump when the passer through it the other way. Thanks for sharing the memory.
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Tate holds on to the ball and it would have been Arkansas and Nolan Richardson's 40 minutes of hell for the Final Four match up. That would have been so much fun to watch. Lee Mayberry, Todd Day, Oliver Miller.

If UConn got past them it meant The Shark's UNLV team with Greg Anthony, Stacey Augmon, Larry Johnson and Anderson Hunt.

I would have loved to have seen UConn team play either one of them.
 
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StllH8L8ner said:
Even without a title that year, my favorite season of all-time. Great memories….except for the last 2.6 seconds when I experienced my first true heartbreak and began my distain for all things Duke.
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Any Uconn fans who were Yankees fans learned what it sometimes felt like to be a Red Sox fan here.
 
Secure Dog said:
The uniform shorts when they were still actually shorts. Look at these pictures and the pictures of our first championship team. The change is kind of funny. Khalid shorts were below his knees.
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They started lengthening their shorts right after that. I remember going to a game when Donyell was a freshman and noticing how long and baggy his shorts were when he ran out of the tunnel. That was two years after Huskymania.
 
maxw said:
A friend and I got family tickets from Marc Suhr for Senior Night during the dream season. Sadly, families didn't travel long distances to visit their kids' senior nights during those days.

We sat right behind the players' bench for the first time. It was fun to watch coach Calhoun trying restrain himself in front of players' parents :) He was an intense man.

Here are a couple of photos from that game that I took with my Nikon point-and-shoot:

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How much did Coach Calhoun yell at Cyrulik that night and was Cyrulik’s mom & dad there? I had hear a rumor that was one of the reasons the parents seats were moved to the other side of the floor.
 
Stinger92860 said:
How much did Coach Calhoun yell at Cyrulik that night and was Cyrulik’s mom & dad there? I had hear a rumor that was one of the reasons the parents seats were moved to the other side of the floor.
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F-bombs used to flow freely from coach's mouth :)

He was trying to be polite in front of the players' families, and I distinctly remember him trying to curtail himself, angrily gritting his teeth, a sight familiar to all who watched him in person or on TV. He did slip and muttered a few curses, quickly looking up at the parents' area to assess the damage.

My friend remembers coach yelling at Gwynn for some of the shots he took.

Don't remember which families were there that night.
 
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husky429 said:
No one taught a 2-2-1 press better than Calhoun. I had a video of it on VHS and learned it from the GOAT himself when I first started coaching AAU. Such a difficult zone to run well, but absolutely stifling while having layers of safety nets when running it well.
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Would love to see that video!
 
metsfan2323 said:
Toraino's performance in the BET came out of nowhere and was amazing. It would be like Singare making an impact in this year's BET.
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Can you say more about this?
 
husky429 said:
Just a snippet is all I could find.
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I used it use quite a lot when I coached. If it was run against me I would put 2 players in each deep corner on our offensive end and then have my 2 guards reverse ball in backcourt , act like was going to go into sideline trap, and then throw it deep cross court after looking off the back man. Worked when I had a guard who was a pitcher lol, and when defensive back man wasnt athletic freak or have Nadav iq. Get a couple layups and they d pull it off. Not sure if thatd work as well to break it at high college level though
 
Stinger92860 said:
How much did Coach Calhoun yell at Cyrulik that night and was Cyrulik’s mom & dad there? I had hear a rumor that was one of the reasons the parents seats were moved to the other side of the floor.
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Players parents actually complained to John Toner who apologetically asked Calhoun if he could do something about it. Calhoun said "sure no problem" and then moved the players parents seats to the other side of the arena.
 
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FreeKlaiber said:
I used it use quite a lot when I coached. If it was run against me I would put 2 players in each deep corner on our offensive end and then have my 2 guards reverse ball in backcourt , act like was going to go into sideline trap, and then throw it deep cross court after looking off the back man. Worked when I had a guard who was a pitcher lol, and when defensive back man wasnt athletic freak or have Nadav iq. Get a couple layups and they d pull it off. Not sure if thatd work as well to break it at high college level though
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Generally speaking, you want to match a zone with the opposite of odd/even. Not quite sure how to phrase that for it to makes sense. 2 at the top of a 2-2-1? You want 3 in the back-court. 1-2-1-1 press? You want 2 in the back-court.

The real secret to beating a 2-2-1 is good fundamentals and finding the middle of the floor, turning and chucking it into the front court to cutters. 2-2-1 is all about using the sideline for traps and TOs. Rotations and coverages in the middle of the floor are much tougher. That's why if we ever saw a 2-2-2-1 I'm sure we'd be throwing our tallest passers (Castle or Karaban) in the middle of the floor to hit ahead.
 
husky429 said:
No one taught a 2-2-1 press better than Calhoun. I had a video of it on VHS and learned it from the GOAT himself when I first started coaching AAU. Such a difficult zone to run well, but absolutely stifling while having layers of safety nets when running it well.
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Ever hear of john wooden
 
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