Quotes about calhoun (13 Quotes)

They're a good basketball team. It's always tough to play down at Calhoun.

Our kids just got better and better. We really peaked at the right time. I hope we see Calhoun County again next year because that would probably mean that we've made it deep into the playoffs.

It opened the door for us. I looked at it as we could just step in and be No. 1 if Florida dropped. Coach Jim Calhoun came in after the game and said Florida lost, we're No. 1, it doesn't matter now we've got to be No. 1 in April.

Brian Calhoun is definitely one of the best running backs we have ever faced. We have to shut the run down first, no doubt about it. He's an incredible athlete.

Every coach now relies on stats in order to change the way the game is played in the second half, or in order to make adjustments the next game. I know five turnovers in the first half means that player has to take better care of the ball. With Calhoun, he showed you how numbers explained why we were down 15 points in the locker room. Five turnovers in the first half means youre not playing a lot in the second.

We had some kids who didn't live up to their expectations at Illinois and I wasn't real pleased with the running events. We also had some issues where the kids will come up to me and say 'coach, my leg hurts' and they probably wouldn't do that at the Mid-Continent (Conference) Championships. I call it the Lee Calhoun hangover. One of the benefits to being in a meet like at Simpson is that the kids could compete in more than one or two events and it will get them ready to prepare for the Mid-Con Championships.

We weren't sure he would graduate on some days when he was a junior. I was worried he'd come back home if he got upset with his playing time. Coach Calhoun wasn't going to baby him.

This crime can be solved here in Calhoun County. There's a lot of people that know what happened.

Calhoun had already been given a T in the first half, so there was no way they were going to throw him out of a tournament game. He got a free pass. That's part of why referees are instructed to leave the court immediately.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

We were the largest block in the audience, the Calhoun people. They changed the room, adding 56 seats for us. There were a couple of kids from the surrounding areas that also came, but no one had as many people there as Calhoun.

My family and I, along with Coach Calhoun, have put a lot of time and thought into this and we think that this is the right step. It was a tough decision. It took a lot of time and a lot of thought, but ... as a player, I think I can play at that level.

said Calhoun. ''And I wouldn't mind arguing every day in a court of law. Someone who is trying to right wrongs.