Coach Jim Calhoun has no Sense of "Justice"...WTF

Please view this video by a Titans fan of the UConn coach, Jim Calhoun, speaking out to a reporter (ESPN removed their video):


Nocera of the NYT reveals how another player was more courteous about his pay raise:

Contrast that with a pitcher named Randy Wolf, whose story was told in The New York Times on Sunday. Mr. Wolf had been offered a three-year, $28.5 milion deal with the Houston Astros. But before he could sign, the offer was rescinded because, the Astros told him, the “economic climate” had changed. So instead he accepted a one-year, $5 million deal from the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Did he get angry like Mr. Calhoun? If he did, he kept it to himself. “I play major league baseball,” Mr. Wolf said. “It may not be under what the contract was that the Astros offered, but I make a very good living and I get to do what I love to do.”

“With people losing their jobs,” he added, “it’s not right for me to complain about my contract.”

But the Money Grubbing Coach Jim did not respond this way and dog-gone-it became angry:

“Considering that you are the state’s highest-paid employee, and there is a $2 billion budget deficit, do you think…,” began Ken Krayeske, an activist who had somehow wangled a press pass to the game. But before he could get any further, Mr. Calhoun cut him off.

“Not a dime back,” the UConn coach replied testily.

Krayeske: “$1.5 million is enough?”

Calhoun: “I make a lot more than that. What’s the take tonight?”

When Mr. Krayeske said he didn’t know, Mr. Calhoun told him to “shut up,”

The Connecticut General Assembly wants The Coach to Apologize. Hear are few qoutes from the HOUR

The leaders of the Connecticut General Assembly's higher education committee want UConn coach Jim Calhoun reprimanded for his tirade at a freelance journalist who questioned his $1.6 million salary.


Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, and Rep. Roberta Willis, D-Lakeville, said Thursday that Calhoun's outburst on Saturday does not reflect well on him or the state's flagship university

"His recent behavior was unacceptable and we request that the university take appropriate disciplinary action to reinforce the high ethical standards we have come to expect from our flagship institution," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to UConn President Michael J. Hogan.

"The question he was asked about his salary was perfectly fair, although the reporter, as Coach Calhoun suggested, might have found a more appropriate and less provocative setting for his inquiry," Hogan said. "I am sure that we all regret the controversy, including Coach Calhoun, and I can assure you that we will continue to encourage all members of the UConn community to resist temptation and treat others in a judicious and respectful manner, no matter what the circumstances."

OF course we now know that Mr Krayeske was not raising a journalistic question about sports but was espousing ...Well him say it:


Sharky&Sharky applaud/endorse Mr K's right to free speech. More on Mr. Krayeske But the Sharks have a point of view and free speech also.

No one is forced to pay Mr Calhoun a dime. He asks for the money every year and after due consideration by the Government/University he gets a salary totally based on his ability to take a team to great heights in basketball. Whenever Mr. Calhoun starts to lose or Connecticut loses its love for basketball, they will offer Mr. Calhoun less. Mr Calhoun will either take the reduction or put himself out to the highest bidder. It is not the result of any action by Mr. Calhoun that the State of Connecticut is $47 B in debt and that 10% of its citizens are on food stamps. View Connecticut debt Clock

Sharky&Sharky believe that Mr. K's efforts will lead to nowhere. The Sharks recomend that he focused on Capitalism creating programs, Innovation, Removal of high cost EPA restrictions. Mr. K is wasting his time on critizing a capitalist transaction such as Coach Calhoun's salary. The Sharks do not know enough about Mr. K personally to say he is a Socialist or even a Democrat. But Sharky&Sharky do know enough to say Mr. K's efforts should be spent on creating more capitalism and captialist in Connecticut and not destroying the few that the state has, eg Mr. Calhoun. It is not about Justice it is about Capitalism.

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