Former Husky Jake Voskuhl was a guest on WTIC SportsTalk with Joe D. today and said he asked Jim Calhoun about his plans for next year.
“He told me he just hasn’t decided yet,” said Voskuhl, who has retired as a player since being waived by the Pistons last winter and is moving to Fairfield County with his family next week.
Calhoun has remained noncommittal about coaching the Huskies next year, although he continues to work at the job every day and remains active in recruiting. Calhoun, 70, has said he will probably decide in September if he has “100 percent to give” to coaching. So that’s where we are with this issue: no resolution yet.
Click here for replays of Joe D’s interviews.
Voskuhl and other former Huskies will be at the Mohegan Sun for Calhoun’s All-Star event on Aug. 4.
Meanwhile, I’m dropping in on the Greater Hartford Pro Am doubleheader tonight. Niels Giffey is here. Enosch Wolf is expected, too.
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Since this season is lost, due to lack of monitoring of his players grades, it probably would be better if he left and the new coach can start with a clean slate.
Lack of monitoring his player’s grade? Clearly you don’t know what APR is.
A player’s grade is low, he cannot play.
APR instead looks at eligible students who do get the necessary GPA, but the flaw is if they transfer they can tank their current semester at UConn and that gives a 0.0 GPA and counts against the APR.
So we now have a team who had good grades punished because former players that left weren’t team players enough to care.
Could there be somewhere else I can get details about this? I’m thinking I might write my term paper on it.
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I bet Calhoun has one of the greatest coaching seasons ever. He brings out the best in his players.
I agree with Herman. Two years ago, many said UConn couldn’t recruit big time anymore and program was on a decline. Then they won it all. I’ll bet on Calhoun.
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it’s time he stopped leaving his players hanging on the line and tell them one way or another whether he’s coming back. he is absent more than he’s there lately and it’s time for him to turn over his whistle to someone who can commit for the whole season.
for those of you who think he’s so wonderful, remember that he will not commit and is leaving his team hanging. he brings out the best in his players well guess that doesn’t apply to academics.
This guy brings more drama to the scene…of course he is coming back…ego, ego, ego is the name of the game…
the dude can coach
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He’s always committed to his players and staff, not the media. And I don’t disagree with him. You naysayers behave as if your lives are perfect, and quite honestly, no one is.
Sound alike that he knew his team isnt going to play in the post season this coming season at the same time he may know that he could retire right after his contract run out. So by seeing his team not being part of the NCAA tourney next year, he could just let his newest coach to take over his position, and learn how to run the program as a rookie college basketball coach before he can finally try to prepare for his team to make into the NCAA tourney in year two of his coaching career. That is my only thought why Calhoun is still undecided!!
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I have always been thankful in the past for what Jim Calhoun has done for the men’s program since he was hired back in the mid 1980′s. I am an alumnus of UConn and formerly held season tickets at the former Hartford Civic Center for years. To think back in circa 1984 that the men’s program would have 3 NCAA championship banners hanging from the rafters was simply ludicrous thinking on even the most ardent and loyal fans of the team. Back then, the team basically was in over their heads competing against the big boys of the Big East – Georgetown, Syracuse, St. Johns, Villanova, etc. I was even in the stands at the last Big East regular season game that Dom Perno coached the team. The Huskies were absolutely crushed by a Pearl Washington led Syracuse team, losing by 30+ points in an embarrassing fashion. Fans seated around me that afternoon were reduced to laughing at the sheer ineptitude of the Huskies as it looked as if a high school team was competing against a big-time Division 1 college program.
Jim Calhoun hired to coach the very next year beginning in 1986 slowly turned around the program, first by being able to successfully recruit 4 and 5 star high school players. Beginning with Chris Smith out of Bridgeport, no longer were top shelf CT high school athletes leaving the state to commit to other schools. As I said above, through the years the UConn program was elevated to not only the top of the Big East (having won as many Big East regular and tournament titles now as any other program) and on par with the Dukes, UNC’s, Kansas’ and other programs in the USA.
Now, however it might be best for Calhoun to retire. The last several off-seasons because of health issues mainly, Coach has waited until September before making a commitment to coaching in the upcoming season. It’s not fair to the players that he has recruited, (or those in the process of being recruiting) that Coach has waited so long before making a commitment to the team for the upcoming season.
Coach has always been a feisty, strong-willed and sometimes ill-tempered individual – his emotions on full display during many a game. More than once in the past several years I have felt that Calhoun has almost completely lost it on the sidelines when his team was not playing up to his expectations; many a Husky player feeling the full wrath of his anger when they fail to execute mentally during the course of a game.
Finally, I almost fear a sad and tragic ending to Calhoun’s career – along the lines of what happened to Woody Hayes years ago, (when he punched a player during the course of a nationally televised Bowl game) and Bobby Knight (when he came close to irrationally attacking a professor at a Texas Tech campus coffee shop which led to his “resignation” ie. firing by the University). Could the coach put on a similar boorish act during a game, ala Hayes or Knight in the near future?
Coach, long-time UConn fans owe you a debt of gratitude for the fact of your being able to build such a national program from NOTHING during your tenure. Now, because of your age and ongoing health concerns perhaps it’s better that you turn over the reins to the apparent coach-in-waiting Kevin Ollie. Retire, sit back, relax and enjoy the company of your extended family and friends Coach. I for one thank you for all that you’ve done for the University!
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Jeff just penned one of the all-time great posts. Frankly, better than most articles. It was perfect, right up to the point about turning the program over to Ollie. We simply cannot afford to turn this precious program over to an unproven head coach let alone someone with very little coaching experience. One of Calhoun’s negatives is that his coaching tree looks like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It is lame when compared to Coach K, or Dean Smith etc… In all events, we can’t risk it. Look what happenned to UNC when they inisted on keeping it in-house and chose Matt Doherty. Doherty had far more experience as an assistant than Ollie and even had a year or two as HC at ND. We need a proven coach like Shaka Smart or Brad Stevens or even a guy from lower tier like the Bucknell coach who has won D-III national championship at Williams, is in the New England basketball hall of fame and has coached Bucknell to two straight tournament appearances.
go back to your mothers basement
Why? We’re still at all yours.
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Could there really be any where else We can get information and facts about this? I’m thinking I could write my term paper on it.
I have to agree with those who think that this could be a good time for Calhoun to step aside. He has had several health issue over the past few years. I do blieve he can still coach but what does uconn need. The thing that changed uconn around was his abbility to asses talent and convince them that uconn was the place to be. To me that is the biggest question. There are several good coaches out there but if uconn wants to continue to prosper they need to begin to look now.
FREDDYKOOL: WHAT EVER U DO COACH CALHOUN I WILL GO ALONG WITH IT AND THANK U FOR ALL U HAVE ACHIEVED HERE AT UCONN U JIMMY BABY R “KOOL”
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I can appreciate the opinion that “it might be a good time or Jim to step aside,” however; I think it is honorable that he will likely come back in an attempt to stabilize the program before he leaves. While I understand the argument that it would be a good time to bring in a coach, who would essentially have a year without post-season pressures; I think that strategy is not without risk of pushing the program back to a pre-calhoun era. By Calhoun staying this year, it keeps certain national attention on the program and should allow UCONN to remain relevant while hopefully providing another year of valuable experience to Kevin Ollie.
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