Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
kinds nor per played
In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.
nor talk
He doesn't want to talk about it. Nor do I.
added fact normally occasional recognize
He normally doesn't recognize the fact how good, how long he is. He has the occasional scoops like (Kevin) McHale did. He's kind of added that recently, but you don't see it all the time.
great kids normally voting
When I did my voting, it was very difficult. Normally I can get a better feel. But there were so many kids that had so many great seasons.
anybody ask
I never ask anybody anything. I told him he better go out and be much more assertive. And he was magnificent.
In basketball, sometimes those things happen. We kind of overwhelmed them.
came far held player point remember
In all my years of coaching, I can't remember a player who came as far as he did at that point of his career. He should be held up as an example.
harder scores talent work
I know what it's like to be A) at another level, and B) overwhelmed with talent. Tonight, it didn't come easy. ... We had to work harder than we have had to work recently. Sometimes scores can be very deceptive.
both given matching mixing nature planned unless
I'm mixing and matching both those things, ... Given my nature, unless I had planned that this would be the summation of everything, then I'm going to keep going on with my job.
imagined
It's something they probably never imagined. We've imagined it, and we've done it. They could never have imagined it.
joy
It's something they probably couldn't have imagined. There is joy in Fairfield County, I'm sure.
Every one of those threes were like daggers.
praised stuck
Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'
beat figure hope
Everyone else is going to try and figure out a way to beat us. I just hope we don't find a way to beat us.