Carino: Is Calhoun's Imprint Already On Rutgers?
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Now let him bring in the next Ray Allen, Kemba Walker and Emeka Okafor and let's call it a day! ;)
People forget Calhoun spent fourteen years at Northeastern before "getting his shot" at UConn. Pikiell, as most know, spent eleven years at Stony Brook. if you spend that amount of time at that level and are able to move up you probably learned how to coach X's and O's.
No way is your recruiting up to the cheating level yet.
That being said Calhoun really knows his stuff, really knew how to coach kids and I admire him for that.
Living now in DC for two decades the Terps are my "2nd team". The wife, father in law, other family and many friends are Terps. Gary Williams is my all time favorite college HC. (IMO) the best pure X's and O's HC I watched. Saw many a game at Cole and now Comcast.
And I was here (in DC) during the Rudy Gay stuff. Man was that ugly.
Future recruiting classes will provide comparisons with other head coaches that were successful in a power conference and what Pikiell can achieve at Rutgers.Calhoun was able to bring in higher level talent than Howland but I would be very happy with consecutive winning seasons as a sign of progress.
Did he do it from Day 1?
Chris Smith, Cliff Robinson (not sure it was his recruit), nadav henefeld, Scott Burrell, tate George, Rod Sellers were names on his early teams. I have no idea how highly rated these guys were.
I do too - lots of similarities - tough defense, not getting pushed around-
the 2nd half of year 2 was when Howland's team at Pitt really started winning big time - in Year 3 they were rolling
