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After a long absent I was rather surprise to hear/read what seems to me as the settling in of doubts by my felllow boneyarders. Perhaps it one or two posters, but the tone is filling. Uconn misses out on one or all the top ten recruits for a year (not withstanding that the School did well the previous year) and the bottom is about to fall-out. Now, I have not been following this 2019 class, but I have the impression that Horston was not a name I linked to Uconn-- only recently. Perhaps I'm wrong. If so, why do we act as if she disappoints us? Because we are Uconn and we offered a scholarship?
I think the days are over when any school can say I want you and you and they all come running are over. If Uconn has a growing problem it might be that it is competing for the same students as Stanford, ND, Duke, etc., and that competition has gotten harder and harder. That is to say, these private schools are swarming over students they would have passed-over some years back. I am not here commenting on any specific student(s) but, were I a B- student why would I risk going to a school (a Uconn or a ND/Duke/Berkeley/Stanford, etc, even with the promise of all the help in the world) that would be a challenge without the added burden of playing a D1 sport. Missing 2 classes can send a kid well behind a fellow classmates. So, I do not think Uconn is falling from grace (not with the meager evidences some a pointed out, but healthy competition is leveling the field for a group of schools and other lower down the chain are reaping rewards from the big birds overreaching at times (see the explosion in transfers). There are of course much more on the minds of these recruits-- I have chosen to speculate on just one-- academics, because it is seldom talk about when we talk about transfers and recruitment.
I think the days are over when any school can say I want you and you and they all come running are over. If Uconn has a growing problem it might be that it is competing for the same students as Stanford, ND, Duke, etc., and that competition has gotten harder and harder. That is to say, these private schools are swarming over students they would have passed-over some years back. I am not here commenting on any specific student(s) but, were I a B- student why would I risk going to a school (a Uconn or a ND/Duke/Berkeley/Stanford, etc, even with the promise of all the help in the world) that would be a challenge without the added burden of playing a D1 sport. Missing 2 classes can send a kid well behind a fellow classmates. So, I do not think Uconn is falling from grace (not with the meager evidences some a pointed out, but healthy competition is leveling the field for a group of schools and other lower down the chain are reaping rewards from the big birds overreaching at times (see the explosion in transfers). There are of course much more on the minds of these recruits-- I have chosen to speculate on just one-- academics, because it is seldom talk about when we talk about transfers and recruitment.
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