Roscoe Smith latest to leave UConn

[cpawstoney]

First Alex Oriakhi transferred. Then Jeremy Lamb and Andre Drummond bolted for the NBA. Now Roscoe Smith is also leaving UConn.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...to-leave-uconn

[OCASCM07]

Is it wrong to say I love seeing that pompous a-hole Calhoun suffer while his players and the UConn administration continue to realize that he's past the point of needing to retire?

[MicksTheGuy]

I get easily confused. Is UConn leaving the Big East for the ACC?

[OCASCM07]

Originally Posted by MicksTheGuy

I get easily confused. Is UConn leaving the Big East for the ACC?

No. But Calhoun wants UConn to jump ship.

[levydl]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

Is it wrong to say I love seeing that pompous a-hole Calhoun suffer while his players and the UConn administration continue to realize that he's past the point of needing to retire?

Past the point of needing to retire? He won a title in 2011!

[OCASCM07]

Originally Posted by levydl

Past the point of needing to retire? He won a title in 2011!

No. Kemba Walker won a title in 2011.

[red_n_black_attack]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

No. Kemba Walker won a title in 2011.

Let's not start the age old debate on which element of team is more important, coaching the X's and O's or player execution. Let's agree there is a combination of both required and agree to not discuss whether it is 70:30, 50:50, or 30:70 one way or the other.

Needless to say, the title would not have been won by Kemba or Calhoun without each other.

[loshow22]

Originally Posted by red_n_black_attack

Let's not start the age old debate on which element of team is more important, coaching the X's and O's or player execution. Let's agree there is a combination of both required and agree to not discuss whether it is 70:30, 50:50, or 30:70 one way or the other.

Needless to say, the title would not have been won by Kemba or Calhoun without each other.

well said sir...

[OCASCM07]

Originally Posted by red_n_black_attack

Let's not start the age old debate on which element of team is more important, coaching the X's and O's or player execution. Let's agree there is a combination of both required and agree to not discuss whether it is 70:30, 50:50, or 30:70 one way or the other.

Needless to say, the title would not have been won by Kemba or Calhoun without each other.

Very true.

[bearcatgary]

I believe a strong UConn is good for the Big East. I realize they are conference foes, but having teams that can actually win a ncaa championship every now and then is important for league credibility.

--Gary

[Oldtimer_UC_fan]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

No. Kemba Walker won a title in 2011.

Yeah, I guess when UCLA won all of theirs, it wasn't John Wooden, it was all Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton.

[OCASCM07]

Originally Posted by Oldtimer_UC_fan

Yeah, I guess when UCLA won all of theirs, it wasn't John Wooden, it was all Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton.

Let's get the obvious out of the way. I don't like Calhoun. I think he's as crooked as Calipari and his pompousness is so over the top that every time he fakes his crooked smile an angel dies.

And I'm not going to compare the greatest basketball coach of all time (solely when looking at National Championships) to Calhoun because they're not even close to being in the same category (10 versus 3). Wooden was a great motivator, leader, mentor, and strategist that followed the rules so far as what is known about him. Obviously Calhoun cannot say the same given the current punishments UConn is facing.

Watching the 2010 Final Four and watching what Kemba Walker did to teams in the clutch was insane. IMO if you take Kemba Walker off of that team and replace him with any other PG/SG in the country that year they don't even make it to the tournament in 2011. That's solely why I said what I said. Not a knock on Calhoun's coaching ability at all because the dude knows basketball in and out as well as anybody.

[Oldtimer_UC_fan]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

Let's get the obvious out of the way. I don't like Calhoun. I think he's as crooked as Calipari and his pompousness is so over the top that every time he fakes his crooked smile an angel dies.

And I'm not going to compare the greatest basketball coach of all time (solely when looking at National Championships) to Calhoun because they're not even close to being in the same category (10 versus 3). Wooden was a great motivator, leader, mentor, and strategist that followed the rules so far as what is known about him. Obviously Calhoun cannot say the same given the current punishments UConn is facing.

Watching the 2010 Final Four and watching what Kemba Walker did to teams in the clutch was insane. IMO if you take Kemba Walker off of that team and replace him with any other PG/SG in the country that year they don't even make it to the tournament in 2011. That's solely why I said what I said. Not a knock on Calhoun's coaching ability at all because the dude knows basketball in and out as well as anybody.

I do agree with you. I think Calipari is about the most sleazy of any coach, and Calhoun is not much better.

I just didn't want you to disparage the importance of a great coach. Ed Jucker also comes to mind.

[richard k.]

Originally Posted by Oldtimer_UC_fan

I do agree with you. I think Calipari is about the most sleazy of any coach, and Calhoun is not much better.

I just didn't want you to disparage the importance of a great coach. Ed Jucker also comes to mind.

When some other coach has 2 Final 4's, at 2 different schools, taken down, then we will know there is another coach in the same sleaziness category as Calipari (but he CAN coach). 'til then he remains the college men's basketball King of Sleaze, and his association with UK is a perfect match made in He__.

[levydl]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

Let's get the obvious out of the way. I don't like Calhoun. I think he's as crooked as Calipari and his pompousness is so over the top that every time he fakes his crooked smile an angel dies.

And I'm not going to compare the greatest basketball coach of all time (solely when looking at National Championships) to Calhoun because they're not even close to being in the same category (10 versus 3). Wooden was a great motivator, leader, mentor, and strategist that followed the rules so far as what is known about him. Obviously Calhoun cannot say the same given the current punishments UConn is facing.

Watching the 2010 Final Four and watching what Kemba Walker did to teams in the clutch was insane. IMO if you take Kemba Walker off of that team and replace him with any other PG/SG in the country that year they don't even make it to the tournament in 2011. That's solely why I said what I said. Not a knock on Calhoun's coaching ability at all because the dude knows basketball in and out as well as anybody.

RE: Wooden, google the name "Sam Gilbert." It appears you don't know what you are talking about.