Serious shaka love to uconn

[inWV]

Ha...Calhoun was the king of wandering onto the court!

I saw JC run down the court to chew Johnny Selvie’s ass at the front of a timeout.

 

[August_West]

You do know that there was about a million percent chance that he was going to be our head coach post-Calhoun if JC hadn’t done the retire-in-September gambit, right?

I wouldn’t have hated it. But I don’t know if I would’ve loved it either. A natty with he who must not be named and then being here 10 years later ( despite 5 years of purgatory) I think might’ve been worth that miss.

 

[Hoophound]

I wouldn’t have hated it. But I don’t know if I would’ve loved it either. A natty with he who must not be named and then being here 10 years later ( despite 5 years of purgatory) I think might’ve been worth that miss.

Only Kelvin Sampson could deliver UConn like results in the AAC. Shaka is a step below that. I don’t know if he’d have survived here or not.

Things worked out for us, but man, it was rough for a while.
I remember members of this board declaring the program dead and insisting we’d never win another natty.

 

[tzznandrew]

I wouldn’t have hated it. But I don’t know if I would’ve loved it either. A natty with he who must not be named and then being here 10 years later ( despite 5 years of purgatory) I think might’ve been worth that miss.

Can't give up two titles. Hurley is awesome, and currently the best coach in college basketball.

That doesn't mean I don't really like Shaka as a coach. Nor does it change the fact that those dark years in between would probably have been much better with Shaka. But the best case scenario with Shaka, IMO, is one title between 2013-2023. Maybe more deep runs, maybe another Final Four. But more than one title doesn't seem reasonable. And we have two in that time. Give me that.

 

[tzznandrew]

Only Kelvin Sampson could deliver UConn like results in the AAC. Shaka is a step below that. I don’t know if he’d have survived here or not.

Things worked out for us, but man, it was rough for a while.
I remember members of this board declaring the program dead and insisting we’d never win another natty.

Shaka's legit. Maybe not Sampson, but that's not fair. They're just different. Sampson has, what, one more Final Four than Shaka and is a million years older?

Shaka would have won here. And he would have won a lot. But probably not like we're seeing now.

 

[HuskyNan]

Shaka is a great coach, but they absolutely need to get his ass off the court. He basically defends the corner three.

Like this?

 

[ctchamps]

Kudos to both coaches on praising each other. I admit, as a fan, I love the fire Cam brings. Hurley perfectly answered the press in relation to the 3pointer and technical foul called thereafter by simply saying we can’t disrespect this fanbase like that. Karma got him by missing the next couple attempts. But the respect between the programs is definitely elevating a bit between Hurley-Shaka. Blood on court, respect/admiration off-court. It’s great for big east.

He also stated twice in that second 54 second segment Cam did it too early. That was Hurley code to Cam not to take himself out of any game. That was his primary concern. After the way Hurley was treated at Creighton people are that naive to think Hurley gives a s- - - about the feelings of opposing fan bases?

 

[CL82]

I wouldn’t have hated it. But I don’t know if I would’ve loved it either. A natty with he who must not be named and then being here 10 years later ( despite 5 years of purgatory) I think might’ve been worth that miss.

Exactly. Would Shaka have been able to get us that championship with Bazz, Boat, Giffey, Daniels and company? We will never know. We do know that Ollie did. The other thing that we know is that unless Shaka decided to phone it in after the championship, we probably weren't going to be in a position to hire Hurley, who may be the second best hire in program history.

Smart would have been a good hire, but with the benefit of hindsight, I'm sure everyone is glad how things turned out, bumps in the road not withstanding.

 

[JohnFSilver]

If Calhoun left, and there was a search for a replacement and Ollie wasn’t promoted. smart was someone who would have been a favorite for UConn job.

 

[UConNick]

I’ve heard the Shaka-UConn post-Calhoun talk before but don’t really know the details (only really became terminally-online in terms of the program in 12-13 or so). Would anyone mind giving the cliff notes version or pointing me to an old thread that has a good description?

 

[auror]

Shaka is the most on-the-court coach I’ve seen.

Calhoun was a big out of the coach’s box guy, but not really on the court.

Shaka is a great coach, but they absolutely need to get his ass off the court. He basically defends the corner three.

A lot of coaches go on the court when the ball is on the far side half court. Shaka is the only coach I know of that goes on the court when the ball is in the half court right in front of him.

 

[TheChamps990411]

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Dan Hurley has such a strong handle on how to be and stay classy towards those who have earned it and are worthy adversaries versus those programs and fan bases that deserve any and all attitude we can throw at them.

Not like Prov. They messed with Mrs. Hurley. You dont mess with the first lady of our program.

 

[jibsey]

I love what Dan said here re: Cam's S%!$ talking this particular program and fan base.

"I think he (referring to Cam) caught a little bit of karma there. I just think he went to that too early and he's got to reign that in... I know that there is some other fan bases and programs that I don't mind him s%!$ talking them but, um, I did not like him doing it near their bench and to their fans because these people here............ it's a classy program, it's a championship program and Cam should not be yelling s%!$ at their bench."

Dan Hurley has such a strong handle on how to be and stay classy towards those who have earned it and are worthy adversaries versus those programs and fan bases that deserve any and all attitude we can throw at them.

Stay classy UConn because we’re kind of a big deal.

 

[Fishy]

A lot of coaches go on the court when the ball is on the far side half court. Shaka is the only coach I know of that goes on the court when the ball is in the half court right in front of him.

Same. I’ve never seen a coach on the floor within feet of the other team.

Honestly, have Hassan Diarra send him to the shadow realm once and he will never do it again.