Jim Calhoun Addresses Huskies: ‘Full of Drive, Determination and Direction’

By On 2012/08/27 · 11 Comments

STORRS – The school year has gotten underway and Jim Calhoun, characteristically, has not allowed his ritual to be stopped by his fractured hip. He made it to campus on Sunday night and addressed the Huskies, something he does on the Sunday night before classes begin each year.

“He was full of drive, determination and direction,” assistant coach Glen Miller said. “The same coach I’ve known since I played for him [at Northeastern]. There’s a lot going on with his rehab, but with his competitiveness, it looks like he is ahead of schedule.”

Calhoun, 70, who fractured his left hip in a biking accident on Aug. 4, still has weeks of rehab to go. He arrived using crutches and took the elevator down to  his “bunker” area, where he sat at a study table and addressed 11 players.

“He was the same old ‘coach,’” Tyler Olander says. “He told us we’ve got a long season ahead, so get ready for the grind. It was great to see him and see that he’s doing well - and see that nothing is going to stop him ’til he’s there.”

It’s expected that Calhoun will stop by the campus when he can, perhaps on Tuesday.

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11 Responses to Jim Calhoun Addresses Huskies: ‘Full of Drive, Determination and Direction’

  1. John Flynn says:
    2012/08/28 at 2:02 pm

    Drive, determination and direction is what I’d like to see in the Courant Husky coverage. I’ll give D. Amore a pass for last season ( his first on the beat) but would love to see him step up with some D D and D of his own this time around.

    John Flynn

  2. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/08/29 at 12:03 am

    Sven hopes that John’s not holding his breath for improvement in Dom’s DDD. Dom’s a D student and we have no reason to think he going to get better. He’s consistently a lousyand lazy writer who pretty clearly has no access to Jim.

    Mrs. Dom says that he’s low energy everywhere. Thankfully she has Sven to take care of some of Dom’s many shortcomings.

    Like UConnFan suggested, Sven looked under his bed for Dom’s pride. It wasn’t there. Sven did find his long missing seat cushion from Tampa in 1999. Sven was happy to find it. It reminded Sven of being in the building and watching Uconn kick Duke and Ohio State’s ass on the way to becoming a basketball powerhouse that deserves a beat writer that cares. And Sven found Mrs. Dom’s spare set of car keys too. Sven remembers that night fondly. That was the night Sven and Mrs. Dom stayed up all evening laughing after reading Rev Kev’s plans to shake Dom’s hands at a game. That had Mrs.Dom in stitches. Like Dom actually attends games. He’s too busy retweeting stuff that other people write.

    BTW, Sven’s started tweeting this week too. All original tweets, all bashing Dom for doing a lousy job. Sven’s got focus. Give us a good beat writer and put Dom back on the high school beat and Sven and Mrs. Dom crawl right back under Sven’s bed.

  3. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/08/29 at 12:23 pm

    Sven Svenson new twitter name – ?@MrSvenSvenson

    @AmoreCourant – Mrs. Dom called, she really wants u to start writing Husky stories everyday. Said something about pulling a Lorena Bobbitt.

    Sven’s now all “new media” too. Main difference between Sven and Dom’s tweets is that Sven will not be retweeting nonsense constantly and all of Sven’s tweets will be focused on gently reminding Dom to start writing UConn Men’s basketball stories.

    Lorena Bobbitt reference is Sven’s idea of a gentle reminder. Sven is taking the kid gloves off.

  4. Joey says:
    2012/08/30 at 11:41 am

    Dom may I suggest you open the archives of the UConn beat and read Mike Anthony’s previous work with the team. You blogs/articles offer little insight, mainly recycled quotes and never more then a few paragraphs long. Us UConn deserve better. We need a beat writer who gives ****! It’s now your second year covering this team. Step it up.

  5. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/08/30 at 12:29 pm

    It’s time for a change. In the past week the Syracuse Post Standard has had 11 articles about their Men’s basketball team. We didn’t get 11 stories out of Dom all summer. Where is the coverage? Why do Women’s Basketball and Football get real daily coverage and Men’s Basketball gets nada.

    You would think, if nothing else, for an enterprising reporter the troubles with the program would be a ripe subject for stories. But still Dom doesn’t get any stories written. Otterbein – if you are the sports editor – do some editing and get us a good beat reporter.

    It’s gonna be all Sven, all the time until this gets better. We need a real reporter on the Husky Beat.

  6. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/08/30 at 5:14 pm

    Apparently Dom’s on vacation. I’m not really sure how we can tell the difference except that Mrs. Dom was kinda of rushed at “Fondue Night” yesterday. She barely had time for seconds with Sven.

    Mrs. Dom said something about having a week to teach Dom about how to cover the Husky Men and how it was gonna be tough because he really would prefer to just discuss the best mopping techniques and how difficult it is to keep the coffee pot filled in a newsroom filled with reporters who actually write stories.

  7. HuskyFan says:
    2012/08/31 at 1:50 am

    Worst…reporter…ever.

  8. HuskyFan says:
    2012/08/31 at 1:58 am

    I see that Dom has actually posted the long-awaited story about the NBA rookie orientation thing that Lamb and Drummond participated in. Congratulations! Quite frankly, I care much less about these kinds of stories than ones that actually involve present members of the basketball team. But is it too much to ask for Dom to post a simple link on the blog saying “hey guys, I just wrote a story, maybe you’d be interested…”?

    It’d be nice to have one location where we can see all of the stuff that Dom writes about the Huskies, scant as it may be.

    • buddy says:
      2012/08/31 at 7:48 pm

      I agree with you. Neither lamb nor drummond are true huskies. Article is a waste of time.