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Dwayne Killings

Post by MikeUMA » Wed Jul 06, 2016 9:21 am

Our old walk-on, who has become a successful assistant coach, most-recently at Temple, is said to be named to the staff at UConn.
https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status ... 8591509504

So unfortunately, that makes it pretty much impossible for us to root for the guy anymore 8)

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Post by Marty Peretz » Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:27 am

Unless, of course, UConn wins big for two or three years and we have our next head coach....

In all seriousness, I am torn. I love Dwayne. Great local guy. I fucking detest UConn.

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Post by eldonabe » Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:34 am

Marty Peretz wrote:Unless, of course, UConn wins big for two or three years and we have our next head coach....

In all seriousness, I am torn. I love Dwayne. Great local guy. I fucking detest UConn.
^ This :(

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Post by LS71 » Wed Jul 06, 2016 12:14 pm

He'll join another local guy and alomost UMass player, Kevin Freeman, on their staff.

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Mr. Ball is Life wrote:When it came time to pick which college he was going to play at, Freeman had his heart set on UMass. He loved John Calipari, the UMass coach, and believed he was destined to go there. He’ll never forget the day when news broke that UMass had gone a different direction by signing someone else at Freeman’s position.

“I was devastated that day,” he recalls. “I cried in class.”
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Post by Old Cage » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:25 pm

Look to the left for a Dwane photo. He was in the process of setting a UMass record by graduating with a 1.000% record for treys.
"Jack didn’t have any envy in him," Calipari said. "He was the greatest coach to ever coach here."

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Post by UMass87 » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:41 pm

I have hated UConn considerably less since Ollie became the head coach.

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Post by MikeUMA » Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:54 pm

Old Cage wrote:Look to the left for a Dwane photo. He was in the process of setting a UMass record by graduating with a 1.000% record for treys.
I found it funny that he said:
And for me, having not been a heralded basketball player who never scored a meaningful bucket in college, I’ve had to go through it in kind of a different way for my professional career.

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Post by Old Cage » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:29 pm

^ Hey, who took that picture? :)
"Jack didn’t have any envy in him," Calipari said. "He was the greatest coach to ever coach here."

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Post by MikeUMA » Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:15 am

Killings Breaking Himself Into The Program
http://www.courant.com/sports/hc-uconn- ... story.html

So sad when you want a guy to succeed and fail at the same time 8)

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Post by UMass87 » Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:00 pm

It's a lot harder for me to hate UConn with Kevin Ollie leading the program. I just like the guy (of course, I also liked the fatty-smoking pudgeball of a point guard who's name I have thankfully forgotten).

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Post by Swampy » Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:44 pm

Khalid "Fatty" el Amin

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Post by Old Cage » Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:56 am

Old Cage wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:29 pm ^ Hey, who took that picture? :)
Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein
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Marquette assistant Dwayne Killings played for Indiana assistant Bruiser Flint as a walk-on when Flint was the head coach at UMass. Life comes full circle tonight in Bloomington.

I know that this has been posted before (see above in this thread), but for new guys here - Really full circle: the photo at the left was taken by Mr. UMassHoops.com of Dwayne hitting a three while playing for Bru. :)
"Jack didn’t have any envy in him," Calipari said. "He was the greatest coach to ever coach here."

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Post by MikeUMA » Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:43 pm

If there's another/newer Killings thread, I apologize. This was the first one I saw in search.

Sharing an article I saw...
https://crlmag.com/dwayne-killings-ualb ... ead-coach/

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Post by uz2b-len » Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:07 am

I'm sure I'm not alone here eyeing Dwayne as our next HC.
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