who was the 1 recruit that got away calhoun years..

[superjohn]

Camby

This, UConn would've won a national championship or two before '99 if they got Camby and probably would've had one of the best teams ever.

 

[superjohn]

I would think so. Curley was a back to the basket post players. Donyell was a face up stretch 4 before it was fashionable.

Donyell was one of those that sort of fell into our lap.

 

[husky99]

Kevin Garnett.

Not sure hevwas ever going to play college ball... he would have been as good as melo

 

[husky99]

Camby

I did an internship at hartford public and buckley in like 97. The stories about camby where crazy and umess cal

 

[August_West]

Easy. Durant

I know the urban legend of that. I still don’t buy it.

 

[TheHorde]

 

[August_West]

Donyell was one of those that sort of fell into our lap.

We swiped him from under Boeheims nose while he was busy picking it. ‘yell to cuse was pretty much a done deal.

 

[superjohn]

I did an internship at hartford public and buckley in like 97. The stories about camby where crazy and umess cal

Haha, I heard them too. Can I get a mic check?!??

 

[alexd]

Bill Curley to BC. Calhoun really loved his hard nosed game and he was from the Boston area.

Travis Best and Bill Curley

I remember reading that Best and Rick Brunson, both from MA and Fair and Ollie were the backcourt guys we were really after. Ollie and Fair committed to us first. Then Best went to GA Tech and Brunson to Temple.

 

[superjohn]

I remember reading that Best and Rick Brunson, both from MA and Fair and Ollie were the backcourt guys we were really after. Ollie and Fair committed to us first. Then Best went to GA Tech and Brunson to Temple.

Yep, Best was another big miss. Ollie was a good point guard but Travis Best was on a whole other level.

 

[TheHorde]

I’m kind of surprised we didn’t get Jordan Williams over Maryland. Particularly since Jordan’s uncle, Murray Williams, played for Calhoun. I’m not sure if we were in on him hard or not, but he’s one I’ve wondered about.

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

I know the urban legend of that. I still don’t buy it.

Tom Moore was on Dauster's podcast a couple months ago and mentioned that they were actually reasonably close at one point. I know he took one of his visits to Storrs.

 

[husky99]

Haha, I heard them too. Can I get a mic check?!??

Drove cars that where gifts or loaners....jewelry. cash

 

[superjohn]

Drove cars that where gifts or loaners....jewelry. cash

Women

 

[husky99]

Obviously all second hand

 

[TheHorde]

Women

How did Pitino not get him then? Lmao

 

[SportsFan88]

KG or KD, I read in Calhoun’s Dare to Dream book that we coulda had baron davis too but he didn’t wanna leave the west coast

 

[Drame]

I thought Durant was big. That class could have also brought Wayne Ellington and Ty Lawson if I recall. I think once sticks committed Durant felt slighted.

Durant got paid.. That was the only thing that mattered.

 

[Viet Vet]

Just a few CT boys who went away.........................

John Bagley (Warren Harding, Bridgeport): BC
Charles Smith (Warren Harding, Bridgeport): Pitt
Mike Gminski (Masuk, Monroe): Duke
John Pinone (South Catholic, Hartford): Villanova
Sylvester (Sly) Williamson (Lee, New Haven): Rhode Island
John Williamson (Wilbur Cross, New Haven): New Mexico State
Walt Luckett, Jr. (Kolbe Cathedral, Bridgeport): Ohio U.

Probably the first "big time" CT high school player that UConn landed in the Big East era was Middletown's Corny Thompson. Unfortunately, he regressed under Perno's tutelage. The first major in-state recruiting coup by Calhoun was Kolbe Cathedral's Chris Smith. That broke the pipeline of Connecticut's best emigrating elsewhere.

 

[XLCenterFan]

Well, the whole world knows he effed up on Ryan Gomes.

Shocked it took that many posts to read Gomes.

 

[TheHorde]

Shocked it took that many posts to read Gomes.

No the videos posted about Calhoun liking word are about Gomes lol

 

[XLCenterFan]

John Wallace

Not a Cuse fan but he was one of my favorite college players ever. Put the team on his back.

 

[superjohn]

Not a Cuse fan but he was one of my favorite college players ever. Put the team on his back.

He was awesome. He lives in New Milford, CT.

 

[Rich]

Felipe Lopez
Zendon Hamilton

 

[HooperScooper]

Tom Moore was on Dauster's podcast a couple months ago and mentioned that they were actually reasonably close at one point. I know he took one of his visits to Storrs.

Calhoun said Durant told Rudy Gay he was going to commit to UConn.

“He was going to come,” Calhoun, who had led UConn to NCAA titles in 1999 and 2004 ahead of the Durant recruitment, said in a phone interview after he made similar comments Saturday on Sirius NBA Radio. “He didn’t tell me personally, no. He told Rudy that.”

He added: “That summer [2006], he and Rudy Gay went to France, I believe it was, with Nike, and as he got off the plane [in the U.S.], he told Rudy, ‘I’m going to see you. I’m going to see you. I’m going to room with you.’ So they made their plans to be together.”

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