long-term, heralded coach jim calhoun. he stays. don't you feel that if it was important for this coach to get these kids to graduate, he could have done it? >> well, i think you have to talk to the coach himself. but i will say that, again, it takes a lot of people to support a basketball team. it's not just a coach saying you must do this. you must go to class. >> reporter: we did ask to talk to coach calhoun. instead, we were told president herbst would speak for the school. jonathan mandeldove who played for calhoun for four years doesn't blame the coach for anything. mandeldove admits he went to uconn with one goal in mind. get to the nba. >> i fault myself for my downfalls in class. i don't fault anyone else. i don't fault the institution. because they offered the help. it's just there for us to take it. we have to take it. if we don't, then that's a problem for us. >> reporter: and coach calhoun? >> coach calhoun does -- i think he does everything that he needs to do in order for guys to succeed. >> well, i think student athl

and, yes, that includes long-time basketball coach jim calhoun. >> i don't want you to get the impressiont he doesn't care deeply about them as people and about their success. he really does. because he has that heartfelt interest in their success, he has bought into our academic plans. and he -- >> i must tell you i find that so hard to believe when so many kids have left here without a degree. >> all i can talk about is the future going forward. presidents inherit all kinds of problems with regard to students' success and what a new leader does when they come in is try to take charge and move forward. >> that's one. >> former uconn center jonathan mandeldove says he wants to finish school, but right now he sees his future playing basketball. without a degree, it's really all he has. >> can you still get there? >> i think i can. i think i can. i'm still young. i'm only 24. sky's the limit. i don't think there's an age limit where they stop, you know, taking guys into nba. i'm going to continue to push forward and continue to work and do whatever i need to do to get there. >>> coming up,

joe calhoun and jim guartney. [ applause ] what do you teach them?o students understand economics and have a good understanding when they get to college. >> i would like to think they have a better understanding after they leave college and leave my class. >> what do students not understand? >> incentives matter and this is the inclination to think that if in fact the intentions of a policy are some kind of a program or good that that means the results are good. one definition of economics, economists are basically scoundrels who teach the way the world really works rather than the way people would like for it to work. >> that is so rude. >> but to truthful, too. >> narcissisticalla i'm interviewing you actually because you teach sometimes using my videos from fox business and you have helped convert them into the dvds which the college has used to teach microand macro economics. what videos do kids like or learn from? >> what that they like that pertains to what we had just been talking about the one acyut the broken window fall where you throw some