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Message: [QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 5103916, member: 15"] [I]“We’re not in a recruiting area where a lot of players are growing up,” Auriemma said recently. “We are not in a major city or major community, so to speak. We didn’t have a great arena on campus. The university itself was a commuter school, pretty much. I can’t think of any positives that there would have been, 40 years ago, to come to school here.”[/I] I've said many times that what Geno and Jim Calhoun built at this university is among the top accomplishments in the history of college sports. They did it with the power of their personalities and hard work. Some of their contemporaries coached at schools with better facilities and existing national brands. Geno and Calhoun had to build the UConn brand in basketball. [/QUOTE]