Kofi Cockburn visiting 6/29

[JimHurley]

In real good shape with him, Delaire and Achiuwa. Now need to close.

These 3 plus Gaffney and another guard would be the best class in UConn history. Let's hope we can seal the deal.

 

[gampelcrazies]

In real good shape with him, Delaire and Achiuwa. Now need to close.

What’s your prediction?

 

[Son of Robert]

In real good shape with him, Delaire and Achiuwa. Now need to close.

This is nothing short of amazing. What a potential turnaround.
That whole staff is strong.

 

[BFieldHusky]

What’s your prediction?

Feel confident at this point we get all 3.

 

[LStudfellow]

These 3 plus Gaffney and another guard would be the best class in UConn history. Let's hope we can seal the deal.

Great class? Yes.
Hugely important to our hoped and prayed for revival? Yes

The best class in UConn history? Nope - That distinction would still belong to the 1991 class highlighted by Donyell Marshall.

7 players in total, ranked as a Top 5 class in the country that year:

1 National Top 10 5* (Donyell). He turned into one of the 2 to 3 best players in the entire country by his junior year before leaving us after that campaign. Had a stellar 3-year career only marred by those agonizing 2 missed free throws at the end of regulation vs. Florida in that 1994 Sweet 16 in what turned out to be his last game.

5 additional Top 100 4* (Brian Fair, Richie Ashmeade, Kevin Ollie, Donny Marshall and Rudy Johnson), 2 of which had excellent 4-year careers here (Kevin Ollie and Donny Marshall), one of which had a decent career (Brian Fair) and was the state of Arizona Gatorade state player of the year; and one who showed he could ball when healthy but was injured too often, Rudy Johnson. Richie Ashmeade played limited time in his freshman year before transferring to Rutgers for his junior and senior seasons... but was rated as a Top 75 guard upon his arrival in Storrs.
And one 3* in Boo Willingham.

4 State Players of the Year (Marshall in Pennsylvania, Fair in Arizona, Johnson in Florida and Marshall in Washington)

Sorry, but that 1991 class would still be the winner. Watch this video posted on YouTube by tcf15 (y0u rock as always tcf!) to learn just how impressive that class was:

Add another 4* or high 3* to this year's list, then you might have a legit debate. 1 5-star, 2 4-stars and a 3-star in total vs. 1991? No, not yet on that same level.

 

[Ewekon]

In real good shape with him, Delaire and Achiuwa. Now need to close.

Source or it ain't real.

 

[Stinger92860]

Class of 2019 standouts Jalen Gaffney, Kofi Cockburn visit UConn | Zagsblog

Amazing - I love the part how they showed Kofi sets on film - how they would get him the ball. That was the knock on UConn the last few years with Bigs - that they never got them the ball. KO and GM were both tone death about that. They would try to run plays getting the ball in to Brimah early in the game - but after that would result in turnovers - no Bigs would ever see the ball again. That’s a big reason why Steve left.

Bunky would get him the ball, as would Chief.

 

[JimHurley]

Great class? Yes.
Hugely important to our hoped and prayed for revival? Yes

The best class in UConn history? Nope - That distinction would still belong to the 1991 class highlighted by Donyell Marshall.

7 players in total, ranked as a Top 5 class in the country that year:

1 National Top 10 5* (Donyell). He turned into one of the 2 to 3 best players in the entire country by his junior year before leaving us after that campaign. Had a stellar 3-year career only marred by those agonizing 2 missed free throws at the end of regulation vs. Florida in that 1994 Sweet 16 in what turned out to be his last game.

5 additional Top 100 4* (Brian Fair, Richie Ashmeade, Kevin Ollie, Donny Marshall and Rudy Johnson), 2 of which had excellent 4-year careers here (Kevin Ollie and Donny Marshall), one of which had a decent career (Brian Fair) and was the state of Arizona Gatorade state player of the year; and one who showed he could ball when healthy but was injured too often, Rudy Johnson. Richie Ashmeade played limited time in his freshman year before transferring to Rutgers for his junior and senior seasons... but was rated as a Top 75 guard upon his arrival in Storrs.
And one 3* in Boo Willingham.

4 State Players of the Year (Marshall in Pennsylvania, Fair in Arizona, Johnson in Florida and Marshall in Washington)

Sorry, but that 1991 class would still be the winner. Watch this video posted on YouTube by tcf15 (y0u rock as always tcf!) to learn just how impressive that class was:

Add another 4* or high 3* to this year's list, then you might have a legit debate. 1 5-star, 2 4-stars and a 3-star in total vs. 1991? No, not yet on that same level.

Well I wasn't born in 1991 but I think this class could still compete. It (hypothetically) could have a Top 10 5* in Achiuwa, 2 more 5* in Cockburn and Delaire plus 2 more 4* guards.

 

[Jluc]

Source or it ain't real.

He is the source he's one of the best of being in the know on this board.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Source or it ain't real.

Source for what? It's just a prediction on what he's heard.

 

[CL82]

Feel confident at this point we get all 3.

Doomed I say, DOOOOOOMED!

 

[husky429]

Well I wasn't born in 1991 but I think this class could still compete. It (hypothetically) could have a Top 10 5* in Achiuwa, 2 more 5* in Cockburn and Delaire plus 2 more 4* guards.

Delaire is not a 5* anywhere. Good 3-4 year player. He meeds a strength program badly. Some of his athletic deficits will be tough to overcome

Edit: still love him as a player. 6'9 shooters dont happen so often

 

[HooperScooper]

Great class? Yes.
Hugely important to our hoped and prayed for revival? Yes

The best class in UConn history? Nope - That distinction would still belong to the 1991 class highlighted by Donyell Marshall.

7 players in total, ranked as a Top 5 class in the country that year:

1 National Top 10 5* (Donyell). He turned into one of the 2 to 3 best players in the entire country by his junior year before leaving us after that campaign. Had a stellar 3-year career only marred by those agonizing 2 missed free throws at the end of regulation vs. Florida in that 1994 Sweet 16 in what turned out to be his last game.

5 additional Top 100 4* (Brian Fair, Richie Ashmeade, Kevin Ollie, Donny Marshall and Rudy Johnson), 2 of which had excellent 4-year careers here (Kevin Ollie and Donny Marshall), one of which had a decent career (Brian Fair) and was the state of Arizona Gatorade state player of the year; and one who showed he could ball when healthy but was injured too often, Rudy Johnson. Richie Ashmeade played limited time in his freshman year before transferring to Rutgers for his junior and senior seasons... but was rated as a Top 75 guard upon his arrival in Storrs.
And one 3* in Boo Willingham.

4 State Players of the Year (Marshall in Pennsylvania, Fair in Arizona, Johnson in Florida and Marshall in Washington)

Sorry, but that 1991 class would still be the winner. Watch this video posted on YouTube by tcf15 (y0u rock as always tcf!) to learn just how impressive that class was:

Add another 4* or high 3* to this year's list, then you might have a legit debate. 1 5-star, 2 4-stars and a 3-star in total vs. 1991? No, not yet on that same level.

The 2000 class was ranked higher. Some recruiting services had UConn's class #1 that year.

 

[Blaneylover]

Well I wasn't born in 1991 but I think this class could still compete. It (hypothetically) could have a Top 10 5* in Achiuwa, 2 more 5* in Cockburn and Delaire plus 2 more 4* guards.

You weren't born in 1991?? You didn't live through The Dream Season? Well, if this class comes close to that one, we're back.

 

[LStudfellow]

The 2000 class was ranked higher. Some recruiting services had UConn's class #1 that year.

Actually, most had Seton Hall's class above ours in 2000 (3 recruits in the Top 26, including 2 5* and arguably the #2 player in the class in Eddie Griffin) and us battling with Michigan State and their class of 2 5* (Zach Randolph and Marcus Taylor) for 2nd and 3rd. Be that as it may, 2000 was definitely a stellar class for the good guys.

Then, just for fun, I did further research, and unearthed an article from Bleacher Report in 2011 adding further fuel to the fire...

"College Basketball Recruiting: Top 21 Recruiting Classes in the Past 20 Years": doesn't pick your choice of 2000, but instead our 2003 class headlined by: Charlie Villanueva, Josh Boone and Marcus Williams at #13 in his (Eric Hampford) rankings while your choice of 2000 was not ranked. Note that the 20 years encompassed in his article covers 2000 (covering from 1991 starting with his #1 pick of the 1991 Fab 5 Michigan Wolverines through 2011) but not 1990, so we do not know which way the author would go on our 1990 class vs. our 2003 class... or the 1990 vs. 2000 class, for that matter.

I would still choose 1990, as Donyell arguably ranks as one of the 3 or 4 greatest players to ever don the UConn uniform, while Donny Marshall is easily in the Top 20 and Kevin Ollie (despite his recent failure as coach) had a distinguished 4-year career here and 13-year career in the NBA, as well. 2000 was really, really good, and I loathe to ever pick against Caron Butler and even loved the heart and tenacity that Taliek Brown brought to the court every game... but just a bit below the ranking and overall impact of our 1990 class.

Either way, you have to love a good, civil debate... especially when it involves something really good and positive about the history of our UConn Huskies .

College Basketball Recruiting: Top 21 Recruiting Classes in the Past 20 Years

Anyone else who wants to chime in with their choice of one of these 3 years (1990, 2000, 2003) or another year, have at it.

 

[Chief00]

Feel confident at this point we get all 3.

Confirmed. It better happen LOL - I already brought out the Chill picture.

But let’s see Danny close as I think he will. The guy is laser focused.

 

[Jholla2183]

These 3 plus Gaffney and another guard would be the best class in UConn history. Let's hope we can seal the deal.

Cockburn
Delaire
Achiuwa
Bouknight
Gaffney

 

[Nebraskan18]

Cockburn
Delaire
Achiuwa
Bouknight
Gaffney

We get this class and I pack up and move to CT.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Not that it means anything but Vital just retweeted this

He also just retweeted this. Gonna be a huge class!

 

[UconnU]

I believe at this point gaffney is plan A.

Yes he is. If we can get 3 of 6 between Achiuwa, Gaffney, Delaire, Cockburn, Bouknight, Mitchell we've done well.

 

[JellyBean]

Dang. Last time I checked, we weren't even on the kid's radar. Florida State and Indiana are on his list of choices.

 

[UconnU]

Dang. Last time I checked, we weren't even on the kid's radar. Florida State and Indiana are on his list of choices.

No we're very much on his radar. We'll be in the final mix.