Former UConn Coach Jim Calhoun Not Interested In Boston College Opening

Filed under things you say after the school lets you know that they have no interest in hiring you as its next men's basketball coach. Here is former UConn coach Jim Calhoun, on Chris Russo's show on SiriusXM's Mad Dog Sports Radio:

Host/Chris Russo: "How interested are you in this BC job?"

Jim Calhoun: "No, I'm not interested."

Russo: "Not interested?"

Calhoun: "No. ... Let me give you a little background to make everybody, not everybody, but just to, not clear the air but I don't want to get involved in anything with the tournament, with our team playing and all the other things and so on. But what happened is that when [our] good friend Doris Burke and then Andy Katz came over and they started talking, ‘Would you ever do it?' Yeah, I would. I would think about coaching but it has to be the perfect situation. I don't have to go hunting for a job. That's not really what I'm desiring to do. But if something special came along I feel I still have enough zip, power and certainly love for the game, love for competition, that I'd do it. But it'd have to be the right situation for me and for that school. At this particular point I just don't know if I would find the answer at Boston College. Nothing against Boston College, it's a great school, it's a terrific a school in what will be, in my opinion, the best basketball conference in America. You add Jamie Dixon, which you just did. You're going to be adding Rick Pitino, you've got Roy Williams and Mike Krzyzewski. Great, great thing and I'm sure they'll do very well but for me it's just not going to...I have not talked to the people at BC. BC has not talked to me. You could imagine that with all my Boston ties a lot of people have called me. That's kind of a normal thing, that happens with folks. I will never say never because I love the game and the right situation for me and for the school I would think about. But at this point I'm not interested."

You may now go back to despising Jim Calhoun. Nothing to see here.