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The possibility of getting Timberlaked is likely possible in every situation going forward to be fair.

Reality is you are unlikely to ever have reliable depth beyond your main 8 or 9 guys "in case of injury." Especially in a time when the 10th man can easily transfer for minutes somewhere else. You would hope Singare as a sophomore would be improved enough to play minutes in an emergency, but...

At the end of the day, if a product can only exist the way you want it by exploiting the people who make it, then the product shouldn't exist. The fact that probably a few hundred million dollars are flowing to players per year across football and basketball shows how imbalanced the old way was...

Tristen Newton show 35% from the field as a sophomore. There is more to evaluating a player than looking at stats, and there is a lot of growth to go at that age. Not saying Mahaney is ever going to be close to the player Newton was, but it's also pointless to write off a kid that the staff sees...

And look how that worked out.

It's been 20 minutes somewhere.

Lol this is kind of psychotic, but I'll take it. I wonder what kind of blend of achievements each team had to hit for this policy to be roughly a break even move. Now turn around and incorporate that $3 million in savings into new contracts for the staff.

More like if he goes somewhere else it reveals that he didn't want to be at UConn and therefore it's not a big deal that he went somewhere else in the first place. UConn has won plenty with "worse" rated players who fit the culture, and we shouldn't sweat the kids who go elsewhere. Having said...

For anyone saying that mid majors are dead etc, just last year we had a MWC and a C-USA team in the Final Four, plus an Ivy League team in the Sweet 16 and a 16 seed beat a 1 seed. The sweet 16 was extremely chalky this year, but we also had Yale, Duquesne, Oakland, Grand Canyon, and James...

It's not perfect, but I fundamentally like giving kids more freedom. Suits have gotten rich off athletes for decades and it's great that now athletes are able to graduate with some money in their pocket. I do wish the final result wasn't destined to be a complete wild west situation with kids...

Yeah, not sure what that means (aside from just being lifted from the reddit post with a similar title). Half these kids are just going to end up at one of the same mid major conferences anyway. For every mid major star that transfers to a top conference, there will be a bench player from a top...

When UConn wins back to back titles, any kid who chooses another school over UConn is someone we are likely better off without. We are positioned to only want kids who want to be here. I want McNeeley and I hope he is someone who values what Hurley brings to the table, but if he picks Alabama...

Going completely off topic 25 pages in? Couldn't be the boneyard.

I could be wrong but my memory of him trying to finish in '23 was that he'd be pretty out of control driving to the basket especially in transition where he'd end up 5 feet behind the backboard after he put up the lay up. In '24 it felt like he was able to drive hard but then actually be under...

MBB Recruiting/Portal updates

As with most things the difference between the top 0.1% and the top 1% can be huge, which is to say the difference between the 15th ranked recruit and the 30th ranked recruit could be comparable to the difference between 30th and 100th. Any 5 star can and should be expected to be good enough to...

The truth is that in general, freshmen get overrated by their team's fans before ever stepping on campus in most cases. Sometimes you get a Karaban or Clingan that give you more than you could hope for, but the majority of the time they take a year or two to really come into their own. All you...

Two of the so called fab five weren't even top 100 recruits. I truly mean no disrespect to Ross or Singare; I hope they stick with the program and earn their time down the road. But if you had high hopes for them to make an real impact this year on one of the most dominant teams we've ever seen...

Late in the season he showed the natural ability to improvise late in the shot clock without panicking for someone who has such little experience at the college level. He also looks very comfortable finishing near the rim. I think he's going to have a breakout season that will surprise people...

Unless you can manage to get a starting center and a backup center that both fit into the team of course. Resources might be better spent getting a guy who won't force Samson out so you have more time/money to fill out other positions anyway. Plus there is some obvious future benefit to not...

6th and 7th in Off Reb% and Def Reb% respectively in conference play in the Big 10 this year.

Think back then, both those teams had most of the team come back which sort of carries an implication that after title number 2 most of the team will leave even moreso than after a normal title season. Not surprising that they'd fall of harder than a normal title team. As others have said, the...

I hate it, but I'm also down to game the system if everyone else is doing it. If there's a loophole that gets Spencer back next year, I'm all for it lol. But I certainly wish that was not the way things were overall.

Kids who were freshmen in the "free" covid year (2020-21) are going into their free 5th year next season, so this will be the last we have to deal with it (outside of anyone who has an additional year from redshirts under standard rules. So there will be a handful for the 2025-26 season, but...

People aren't going to give him credit for making it to the second weekend by beating a 13 and a 12. In fairness he did make the Elite 8, but did it by beating a Houston team that was down to about 5 players from their real rotation 10 minutes into that game, and they still barely beat them...

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They were 9th in Kenpom going into the first game he missed and 10th when he got back. They went 4-2 in those 6 games and almost beat Purdue on the road without him. The morning of the first game he missed, they were 21st in offense and 14th in defense. The morning of the game he returned, they...

"Of course they won back to back titles, they were expected to. No one else had a chance." 362 schools in the country wish they had the opportunity to have that said about them. UConn is the only one that does. That's about as far from a no win situation as you can be.

That's good news, because if you take away his 2 worst games in the last 10 then he's shooting 40% and we have absolutely nothing to worry about. Just a couple bad games and otherwise he's been normal. He's shooting 40.5% in his last 7 games which is just as arbitrary an amount of games as 5 or...

LeDee is 5th in the country in fouls drawn per 40 minutes. Generally speaking, Clingan getting in foul trouble makes UConn mortal. For SDSU to beat UConn without a miracle shooting day, they pretty much have to get Clingan in foul trouble and statistically speaking they have the guy to make that...

Overall SOS means next to nothing at this point, as pointed out above. Quality wins and bad losses mean far more, no matter how you want to get there (NET/RPI Quad 1 type stuff, Kenpom A/B, etc). Playing MVSU is not going to stop UConn from getting a 1 seed if they have enough quality wins...

You're lucky they took away my mod role at some point in the last few years or I'd come out of retirement to delete this post.

Papaya deployment successful.

Day after Christmas is just brutal. At 11 AM no less. Tough to fly out the day off as any delay and you're basically screwed. And tough for a kid to say "Adios mom and dad" on Christmas.