Geno on the recruiting trail

[Millenial23]

Found this tidbit in SNY's latest piece:

Auriemma admitted he was tired after working with the Huskies and the Team USA training camp. But that didn't stop him from hopping on a plane Thursday morning to go watch Mikayla Coombs, a 5-8 junior guard from Norcross, Georgia.

https://www.sny.tv/uconn/news/pulido-set-to-step-into-senior-spotlight/165453226

 

[CocoHusky]

Found this tidbit in SNY's latest piece:

Auriemma admitted he was tired after working with the Huskies and the Team USA training camp. But that didn't stop him from hopping on a plane Thursday morning to go watch Mikayla Coombs, a 5-8 junior guard from Norcross, Georgia.

https://www.sny.tv/uconn/news/pulido-set-to-step-into-senior-spotlight/165453226

Interesting that Geno is still looking at a guard (Coombs) in 2017 with Dangerfield coming in '16, AEH in 17 and Williams already offered in '18.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Interesting that Geno is still looking at a guard (Coombs) in 2017 with Dangerfield coming in '16, AEH in 17 and Williams already offered in '18.

Stunned is the word for me. I had all but marked Coombs off the wish list. I like her game and she's been getting better and better this year after recovering from the ACL surgery.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Coombs had 20 points, 12 rebs, and 10 assists in a recent playoff game. She's a stat sheet stuffer.

 

[sarals24]

Can't have too many good guards!

 

[EricLA]

Maybe he realizes he's just not going to be landing any post players and he wants to play a more uptempo guard oriented game - like ND...

 

[bags27]

I sometimes wonder if coaches make feints toward players they're not going to make offers to, just to get competitors to put more time into that recruitment and be soft elsewhere, or to hide true intentions, or to be able to flatter another recruit with: "I looked closely at "x", but I'd rather make an offer to you." I'm sure there's a lot of gaming that goes on, and we probably can't know much about how he builds his team until the offer is made and accepted. Even then, there are always moving parts.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Wesleyan won in a rout with Geno in attendance.

Coombs' stats from today:


22 points, 7 rebounds, 10 steals, 3 threes

 

[ucalum]

I was pleasantly surprised to see that he went to see Coombs. Haven't anything about her since they did a home visit. I hope we are going to be surprised again when we hear it reported that he goes to see Jade Williams play too!

 

[Baroloboy]

Can't have too many good guards!

But you can have too few post players/bigs

 

[MilfordHusky]

I think he likes Honesty Scott-Grayson too.

I'm guessing that Coach needs more miles to up his frequent flyer elite status.

 

[HoopsFan21]

You guys think at this stage Geno is bothering with recruiting gamesmanship? Do you think the school would waste money having the coach of a money losing program fly all over just to trick other coaches? Do you think Geno who is already tired would waste time playing games like that?

 

[Mdoggie]

I think he is a great coach and knows what the team needs and who/what he wants. We can jaw jack and speculate all day long.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Geno also checked in on the Georgia College basketball team today:

 

[JordyG]

Interesting that Geno is still looking at a guard (Coombs) in 2017 with Dangerfield coming in '16, AEH in 17 and Williams already offered in '18.

As one poster said trying to understand which way a recruit will go is like reading tea leaves. Trust our Geno to hedge his bets. And I see AEH and Williams as 2 guard's, not PG's.

 

[JordyG]

Interesting that Geno is still looking at a guard (Coombs) in 2017 with Dangerfield coming in '16, AEH in 17 and Williams already offered in '18.

Coco and Slu. While I've got you two. Any news on the JC or Euro front or are these avenues pretty much dead for 2017 or 18?

 

[JordyG]

Wait. He wouldn't have snuck in to peek at Kushkituah as well would he (fingers maybe crossed)?

 

[Wally East]

Do you think the school would waste money having the coach of a money losing program

What leads to you say they lose money?

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Coco and Slu. While I've got you two. Any news on the JC or Euro front or are these avenues pretty much dead for 2017 or 18?

I don't have any inside info on anything really. Haven't found anything about UConn interest in foreign or JC players but then it's been pretty quiet on the recruiting front for a while.

I just keep thinking how deep the backcourt would be if they brought in Coombs as well. Geno doesn't particularly care about labels though, and outside of PG and Center/PF all other positions sorta blur into one another.

17': Dangerfield, Bent, AEH, Nurse, G Williams (at least defensively), Coombs

18': Dangerfield, Bent, AEH, Coombs, ???? (*Christyn Williams) *hopeful

And this doesn't include KLS who probably plays wing in these lineups. Again, maybe labels are irrelevant with these rosters.

 

[TBIF54]

Wait. He wouldn't have snuck in to peek at Kushkituah as well would he (fingers maybe crossed)?

No, they played at the same time, 125 miles apart.

 

[MilfordHusky]

I don't have any inside info on anything really. Haven't found anything about UConn interest in foreign or JC players but then it's been pretty quiet on the recruiting front for a while.

I just keep thinking how deep the backcourt would be if they brought in Coombs as well. Geno doesn't particularly care about labels though, and outside of PG and Center/PF all other positions sorta blur into one another.

17': Dangerfield, Bent, AEH, Nurse, G Williams (at least defensively), Coombs

18': Dangerfield, Bent, AEH, Coombs, ???? (*Christyn Williams) *hopeful

And this doesn't include KLS who probably plays wing in these lineups. Again, maybe labels are irrelevant with these rosters.

Add in Megatron and it's really, really, really good. I haven't given up on Megan.

 

[jdubct]

Stunned is the word for me. I had all but marked Coombs off the wish list. I like her game and she's been getting better and better this year after recovering from the ACL surgery.

I was surprised too. She reportedly has a scholarship offer from Uconn dating from late 2014.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

I was surprised too. She reportedly has a scholarship offer from Uconn dating from late 2014.

If he's going to see her a day after a game and two days after USA practice he must be very interested. That's a lot of travel and work for someone not exactly young.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Add in Megatron and it's really, really, really good. I haven't given up on Megan.

I haven't either. I just think she fits more of a wing type and didn't want to cram the list anymore than I already did.

 

[jdubct]

If he's going to see her a day after a game and two days after USA practice he must be very interested. That's a lot of travel and work for someone not exactly young.

Must be a high mutual interest. If she is strongly interested in Uconn, I would expect her to make an official visit in April.