My day with Coach Jim Calhoun (Fiction)

A few weeks back, my Dad came to me excited and said, "We can go to the University of Connecticut and meet Coach Jim Calhoun and our favorite team the Connecticut Huskies!" That was exciting news!

So the next day, we flew to Connecticut. I finally was at Uconn and saw the team practicing. After practice, I went up to Jim Calhoun, and said, "In the Big East Tournament game with Syracuse, why didn't you tell Rashad Anderson to foul Gerry McNamara when there were still a few seconds left in the game and he was shooting a three to tie the game?" Coach Jim replied. "If he made the three-pointer when he got fouled, we may have lost it at the free throw line." I said "I see, then you should have told someone to foul him before." Coach Jim responded, "Anyway, I like the Syracuse coach. He is my friend, and if they had lost that game they would not have made it to the NCAA tournament. We would make it to the tournament even if we lost that game."



I requested Coach to see his players do a scrimmage? Coach Jim said, "Sure". The Blue team had Rudy Gay, Marcus Williams, Josh Boone etc. and the opposing White team had Hilton Armstrong, Rashad Anderson, Denham Brown etc. At the start, Rudy Gay had a few blocks on the defensive end and also a few alley-oops with Marcus Williams. Also, Hilton's blocked a few and Rashad Anderson had back to back threes. It was very exciting. Finally, when it ended the score was 33-32 and Rudy Gay's team won.


I got everybody's autographs and flew home. Then I put them on my wall in my room. This would be a real fun day with Coach Jim Calhoun – if it ever happened.