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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4048504, member: 44"] None taken. We're here to talk about sports and don't always have to agree with each other. FWIW, I have respect for you VOD, both for your life experience for the fact that you here on the BY, but you're wrong on this. There are plenty of programs that have never seen that level of success. At the time we pretty decent, just not national, at least in the way that is conceived now. You remember those days, most competition was regional. Your memory is close. In '64 UConn beat Princeton to advance to the elite eight. That's a very good year by everyone but Geno's standards. (Future UConn coach Dom Perno stole the ball from Princeton great, and future senator, Bill Bradley, which was memorialized in the great play by play call "Perno stole the ball! Perno stole the ball!") Dom Perno was the UConn coach right before Calhoun. He struggled a bit (although I am pretty sure the team was ranked in the '82 season.) That's what people are remembering when they say UConn wasn't good before Calhoun, but that was one coach, not the program's history. [/QUOTE]