Literally everything.
In 1986, I was a your average 10 year old kid, but I truly believe that when Jim Calhoun took over our UConn program, it set in motion events that would dictate the path I took in my life.
The NIT season a couple years later drew me in and then The Dream Season happened and it was over. All I cared about was UConn hoops. Watching games, studying box scores, wearing Husky gear.I got to meet Calhoun for the first time (with Chris Smith) at a Kolbe Cathedral fundraiser in B'port when I was 14 and I was so starstruck I could barely talk.
In 1993 I applied to probably 10 schools...all by picking teams from the AP Top 25. All the acceptance letters would come in, and of course I would be excited and proud...but the day that "fat" envelope came from Storrs, you couldn't pull me off the ceiling. Cuse, BC, Maryland, etc... could all take a hike.
20 years and 2 UConn degrees later, I'm your typical fan dealing with the high and lows of life and sports. Late 30's, beautiful wife, 3 kids, a job I hate but with a company I love, a great town to live in but a mortgage that's killing me, the passing of parents and the births of new children. I was talking with my wife a few months ago over a of couple bourbons and I confessed to her, that with all the "stuff" going on in our lives that cause stress or drama...the thing that worries me the most, that keeps me up a night...is if UConn will be OK when Conference Realignment shakes out. Literally pains me.
The one and only constant in our life is Uconn. God, I love this school!
oh, and my first boy was born 4 months ago, his name.... Tim Calhoun Bxxxxx