[26 Year Gap]

You pulled a bait-and-switch on me in bringing Knight into the discussion after starting with Calhoun, but it's an instructive example. My knock on Calhoun is that he hasn't been consistently excellent.

My knock on Knight is that he didn't prove to be adaptive at all. He won three titles in 12 seasons, then made only one Final Four in his last what, 13 seasons?

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I am mildly surprised that you are disparaging the guy who gave Coach K his start in coaching.

Your knock on Calhoun is based in ignorance [as in lack of knowledge, not as in namecalling]. He was a consistent winner at Northeastern and I saw his club many times at UVM. He went to a fledgling UConn program that was in a doormat position in the Big East after it left the Yankee Conference. Yes it took a few years to build up the program, but let me ask you this: Is it easier to recruit a kid by saying 'We are ready to take the next step here. We are not on TV that often, but once we build up, we will be.' OR 'We are in one of the most storied basketball conferences in the country. You can count on national TV games when we play UNC & NC State and our conference from top to bottom is second to none.' ? And who do you suppose had a tougher job recruiting between Calhoun's start at UConn and the NIT championship? I think you know the answers to these questions but they are not important considerations as your tai chi would be disrupted.