Summary
Jim Calhoun was pondering whether to take the job as men's basketball coach at Northwestern University in the spring of 1986 when he got a visit from Bob Knight.
"He said, 'You're not taking this job,' and he convinced me why," Calhoun said. "He's done that on a lot of occasions for people he thinks are the kind of people that belong in college basketball."See the full content of this document
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Knight Steered Calhoun Right to the Big East
Calhoun, of course, heeded Knight's advice and took the Connecticut job about a month later. That was just one of the memories of Knight that Calhoun related before the Huskies' pr...
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