Jim Calhoun, on realignment...

[Fishy]

“The landscape has kind of, I don’t think it’s treated us unfairly, but somehow or another, we didn’t catch the [proverbial] last train to Tucson,” Calhoun said. “And so we aren’t necessarily, well, I can’t say we’re not where we want to be, because in 2011 we won a national championship and in 2014 we won a national championship, and so therefore, I have concerns like everybody here and everybody anyplace. And that’s why I say, the only thing we can control is us. ”

It's Calhoun, so it needs to be parsed, but basically, he thinks it sucks that we're in the American. If you think there's a secret plan out there in place to move us elsewhere, there's not.

Adjustment Continues for Jim Calhoun

 

[Seaa Blue]

I think the Non Disclosure specifically excluded (included?) Calhoun.

Recruits ask questions.

 

[The Funster]

PFFFT There is a code buried in the article. Take the letters that start consecutive sentences. it spells, "We're going B1G, baby"

 

[Penfield]

 

[Husky25]

Chuck Culpepper covers national college sports for the Washington Post.

I think this article provides a glimpse of where the national press holds the H-uskeez (led by Miles Griffey).

What the duckk is "U-Conn."? The abbreviation for the The University of Connecticut is "UConn" or "UCONN". There is no hyphen or period. May not be a huge deal in the grand scheme of things but it literally made the article hard to read for me (and as a Redskins fan, I read washingtonpost.com quite often).

 

[Seaa Blue]

PFFFT There is a code buried in the article. Take the letters that start consecutive sentences. it spells, "We're going B1G, baby"

Right, so why would you want to go to Tucson anyway?

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Right, so why would you want to go to Tucson anyway?

It 75 in Tucson today
Golfing is great
Great Mexican Food

 

[Kolumbo]

Chuck Culpepper covers national college sports for the Washington Post.

I think this article provides a glimpse of where the national press holds the H-uskeez (led by Miles Griffey).

What the duckk is "U-Conn."? The abbreviation for the The University of Connecticut is "UConn" or "UCONN". There is no hyphen or period. May not be a huge deal in the grand scheme of things but it literally made the article hard to read for me (and as a Redskins fan, I read washingtonpost.com quite often).

I didn't take the effort to learn about Chuck but he must not be very bright. UCONN is known very well in those parts and I have never seen it written with a hyphen.
Yeah, JC is basically saying we are not where we want to be and it's bullchit because despite being effed over, we still went out and won 2 more banners. And we didn't have to cheat for a decade like others we know.

 

[billybud]

PFFFT There is a code buried in the article. Take the letters that start consecutive sentences. it spells, "We're going B1G, baby"

Take the last two word of every sentence....and you get:

"Calhoun said everybody anyplace is us"

 

[NCHusky91]

The article states that Karl Hobbs played for Calhoun at U-Conn. One can only imagine what Jim would have done with Karl, Corny, and crew.

To translate Calhoun-ese: "Cleahly we're duck*ed!" in the AAC.

 

[Fishy]

What the duckk is "U-Conn."? The abbreviation for the The University of Connecticut is "UConn" or "UCONN". There is no hyphen or period.

That's specific to the Washington Post - not the author's fault.

I think it was in the Stylebook a decade ago and they locked onto it and never let go. (And yet UMass is allowed to be UMass...)

Scout used to have the same problem and no matter how often I asked, we were never allowed to syndicate an article unless it had "U-Conn." in it.

 

[Kolumbo]

As an aside, growing up, it was UCONN. Then in the early days of the Big East we started to say Connecticut, which seemed strange. I thought Connecticut was much better and more in line with the other state flagships. I was a little disappointed they went back to officially using UCONN but so be it.

 

[Husky25]

That's specific to the Washington Post - not the author's fault.

I think it was in the Stylebook a decade ago and they locked onto it and never let go. (And yet UMass is allowed to be UMass...)

Scout used to have the same problem and no matter how often I asked, we were never allowed to syndicate an article unless it had "U-Conn." in it.

I was thinking about posting a comment on the W-Post (Yes I have an account, seemingly from the beginning of the Internet. As I said, I am a W-ton. R-Skins. fan from years back), but it appears that someone beat me to it. In my 20 year association with the University (4 as a student, 16 as an alum/donor), I've never ever seen "U-Conn."

Times change. It's sloppy journalism from the Paper of Record in Greater D.C. And the traditionals wonder why circulation goes down as people turn to blogs and message boards for their news.

 

[billybud]

The Husky really makes sort of a sense when you use UConn instead of Connecticut. I always liked the droll humor inherent with the mascot.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

I think the Non Disclosure specifically excluded (included?) Calhoun.

Recruits ask questions.

Its the closest he can come to keeping his mouth shut.

 

[Marty Jackson]

“The landscape has kind of, I don’t think it’s treated us unfairly, but somehow or another, we didn’t catch the [proverbial] last train to Tucson,” Calhoun said. “And so we aren’t necessarily, well, I can’t say we’re not where we want to be, because in 2011 we won a national championship and in 2014 we won a national championship, and so therefore, I have concerns like everybody here and everybody anyplace. And that’s why I say, the only thing we can control is us. ”

It's Calhoun, so it needs to be parsed, but basically, he thinks it sucks that we're in the American. If you think there's a secret plan out there in place to move us elsewhere, there's not.

Adjustment Continues for Jim Calhoun

pretty sure if Calhoun had knowledge he isn't going to speak about it. and what he's actually saying is 'win'... continue to win and everything else will take care of itself.

 

[whaler11]

I was thinking about posting a comment on the W-Post (Yes I have an account, seemingly from the beginning of the Internet. As I said, I am a W-ton. R-Skins. fan from years back), but it appears that someone beat me to it. In my 20 year association with the University (4 as a student, 16 as an alum/donor), I've never ever seen "U-Conn."

Times change. It's sloppy journalism from the Paper of Record in Greater D.C. And the traditionals wonder why circulation goes down as people turn to blogs and message boards for their news.

You missed a good amount of U-Conn. It used to be everywhere because it was in the AP styleguide.

 

[Husky25]

You missed a good amount of U-Conn. It used to be everywhere because it was in the AP styleguide.

As I said, times change.

 

[whaler11]

As I said, times change.

It wasn't that long ago.

I actually didn't post this article this morning because I figured people
would harp on the topic.

 

[NEforceUConn]

You think UCONN wants JC to drop any CR bomb?

Better chance a UCONN CR announcement coincides with JC playing golf in Scotland .

 

[specialisthusky]

Ugh. This sucks.

 

[UConn Dan]

Don't let that quote fool you. We don't have a super secret invite, but more movement is coming. Jimmy C is just setting low expectations and then when we least expect it we go out and win conference realignment.

 

[Point6]

I think JC is trying to tell us its party time w/ the BIG.

The secret message is in his use of the phrase "Last train to Tuscon." He is pointing us to author Forrest Landry and his "novel about Love." Why? Love is BIG Love when accompanied by Forrest Landry (and, btw, its party time): http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n...com-owner-forrest-landry-news-photo/161104790

 

[MattMang23]

We aren't on the last train to Tucson because we are on the first train to Chicago.

 

[itgoeslike]

"but somehow or another"

That's code for: I really want to put a boot up BC's ass. . .