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Originally posted by jbduke
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Originally posted by 26 Year Gap
A lot of Calhoun's time was spent at Northeastern, which actually won some upset games in the tournament. Put Coach K at Northeastern for a few years and see what happens.
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Ah, Calhoun's been at UConn since 1986. He's been to all of two Final Fours.
By the time K had been at Duke that long, he'd been to nine.
K spent five years at Army, and was apparently impressive enough to Tom Butters to give him an opportunity at Duke.
Sure, Calhoun was very successful at Northeastern, but are you telling me that he was turning down jobs at major programs in order to stay at Northeastern? Please.
If you don't think K could have gone somewhere and built a program, you're out of your mind. Hell, once the seniors he inherited at Duke graduated after his first year, Duke was in absolutely horrible shape. Considering the league he was in, he did his own major construction job. The results of that project: since 1985, exactly one senior class has left Duke without having been to a Final Four, and that group lost by two in a regional final.
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Where did I ever say that Coach K couldn't build a program? No place. But you are so draped in Dukedom that you cannot recognize the accomplshments of a guy who took a program that nobody ever heard of before he got there to where they are today. Gminski's team was around long before Connecticut was on the map--UConn was in the old Yankee Conference around that point in time. And even after Connecticut decided to move their program to the next level, they were pretty much doormats in the Big East. You are just like any other Dukie--Anyone who challenges anything you say will set you off on a tirade. I know he was at Army--he was at the basketball camp I attended that Bobby Knight ran the summer between his run at Army and his move to Indiana.
And you will prove my point by going off on another tirade, which makes you the leader in this thread.