![]() ![]() ![]() The university’s Board of Regents will choose an interim president and determine a path forward, perhaps as soon as this month, and there is groundswell support among alums and donors for asking Walter Harrison to come out of retirement and right the ship. Those who love the school’s athletics and abhor the move to Division III now in progress, former men’s basketball coach John Gallagher’s “neighborhood,” hope the course can be reversed and, of course, are quite passionate about it.īring back Walter Harrison as interim president of the University of Hartford. 26 that Gregory Woodward will retire as president at the University of Hartford, there is much speculation as to what is next. “Let’s put it this way: if you were a young coach, hopefully you’ll be lucky enough to have the career Jim Boeheim had.” Questions, answers for UHart Really good coach, a really good man and I carry the fact I have a really good friendship with him. He truly believes Syracuse University is the greatest university in the world. But I’ll tell you what he was great at, he believed in what he believed in. “Jimmy’s not the kind of guy that you’re going to have a big hug and kiss with. “Jim is a good guy who doesn’t want to let anybody know he is,” Calhoun said. Including 101 wins vacated by the NCAA, he was 1,116-440.Ĭalhoun, 80, hasn’t spoken to Boeheim this week, but will reach out when the time is right. This wasn’t a great look, but how things looked never concerned Boeheim, and that was part of the reason he stayed committed to his signature zone defense and won so much. Perhaps Boeheim’s legacy will be clouded by his prickly personality, often seen in his snark toward student journalists in postgame pressers. With Boeheim’s retirement at 78, all of it becomes fixed in history. UConn though, as Huskies fans are apt to point, the national championships over that arc are 4-1, the other way. In their last meeting, Dan Hurley’s Huskies pulled an upset, 83-76, at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 30, 1977, defeating Dom Perno’s Huskies 101-61 before 8,566 in the old Manley Field House, pre-Big East, pre-Dome. If you don’t like it, he’ll take you out.”īoeheim first coached against UConn on Nov. His teams played like his personality, they played tough, stayed in the zone, did what he said. He was consistent to who he was, just like his teams were. He wasn’t going to be jumping up and down if he won, or crying if he lost. “Digger team made a basket to beat them there and he came over to hug Jimmy,” Calhoun said, “and the look Jimmy gave him is still one of my greatest memories of watching Jimmy coach. ![]()
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