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High school coaches never take any blame for their kids not qualifying. It's everybody's fault but theirs. I've never once heard a coach say they should have paid more attention and maybe held a kid out until his grades got better. Not once.
 
sportsart said:
High school coaches never take any blame for their kids not qualifying. It's everybody's fault but theirs. I've never once heard a coach say they should have paid more attention and maybe held a kid out until his grades got better. Not once.
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or the players!

While I agree with your premise, it should be noted this kid changed HS and his issues emanated from a prior school, not TC.
 
sportsart said:
High school coaches never take any blame for their kids not qualifying. It's everybody's fault but theirs. I've never once heard a coach say they should have paid more attention and maybe held a kid out until his grades got better. Not once.
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gioff23 said:
or the players!

While I agree with your premise, it should be noted this kid changed HS and his issues emanated from a prior school, not TC.
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If what Gioff says is true, Hinson has no say in the blame game. He can blame the player, he can blame the new coach who had no involvement with his original recruiting (and who explicitly stated that all commitments would be honored, given eligibility). He can blame Bear Bryant for his own short comings; it doesn't matter. Blame will be conveyed based on who comes calling for his future 4-5 FBS players (which is merely a shameless plug in it's own right).
 
It may well be that the hope all around (including Coach P's staff) was that Bradford's first semester grades would get him above the target threshold. It sounds like they were better, but as of year 3 1/2 of his high school career they are not good enough. Of course, the coach and player expect that he will get it done in his last semester, but Diaco decided not to wait. If that is the way it played out, I'd expect the coach to be disappointed, but to suck it up and recognize that it was ultimately in the hands of the player and if he was coaching at UConn he'd probably do the same thing.

Then again he might be a vindictive guy and think "they should have waited for my guy regardless." If so, there are a lot of other high schools churning out talent in UConn's recruiting area.
 
kibblesnbits said:
Then again he might be a vindictive guy and think "they should have waited for my guy regardless." If so, there are a lot of other high schools churning out talent in UConn's recruiting area.
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*Cough* Lou Marinelli *Cough*

"...I am still upset about how they treated Paul (Pasqualoni) and George (DeLeone). I don't care what they do. I am sorry to say that. It is a great institution but what they did to those two, two of the finest men that I know, I have nothing to say."
 
kibblesnbits said:
It may well be that the hope all around (including Coach P's staff) was that Bradford's first semester grades would get him above the target threshold. It sounds like they were better, but as of year 3 1/2 of his high school career they are not good enough. Of course, the coach and player expect that he will get it done in his last semester, but Diaco decided not to wait. If that is the way it played out, I'd expect the coach to be disappointed, but to suck it up and recognize that it was ultimately in the hands of the player and if he was coaching at UConn he'd probably do the same thing.

Then again he might be a vindictive guy and think "they should have waited for my guy regardless." If so, there are a lot of other high schools churning out talent in UConn's recruiting area.
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The suggestion is that the former regime would have waited; even sent him to MILFord, if needed. HCBD seems to have little appetite for guys who struggle to get thru HS - I get the sense he wants guys he knows will be on the field all the time and not struggling w/academics. Not yet, anyway!
 
Good dialect guys, but time to get back to recruiting... potentially 3 spots remain... Hopefully we get a surprise or 2 (or 3) like last year ( K. Taylor commit in '13)
 
ktuck911 said:
Good dialect guys, but time to get back to recruiting... potentially 3 spots remain... Hopefully we get a surprise or 2 (or 3) like last year ( K. Taylor commit in '13)
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Only if those surprises are flips from other schools. I would rather save the schollies for next year than bring in someone who only has offers from FCS schools. There aren't too many kids out there who are mid-high FBS talent that are still totally open.
 
Did the first fax come in yet? I feel like a little kid on christmas eve! Come one National Signing Day! We had a couple surprises over the past couple years. Names we hadn't heard of previous, Stephens, Levy, Taylor etc. Hoping for maybe a couple more.
 
Who @King_Yeezy or something like that Luke Carrezola is recruiting him hard over twitter. Coaxing him to join the Uconn Family!
 
I assume it means that e-mails will be accepted as official, but UConn has announced they will accept .pdf format NLIs tomorrow due to impending Nor'easter.
 
BNich said:
Carrezola is trying to get him to commit. One of our other commits doing the recruiting. I like it. He obviously has either met him or has some knowledge many of us don't. We might have a "bigger" WR in this class after all.
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I believe Rodrick also tweeted him, which Patterson retweeted. He also retweeted HFD, he'd be a great pick up
 
jcaprio90 said:
I believe Rodrick also tweeted him, which Patterson retweeted. He also retweeted HFD, he'd be a great pick up
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I saw it from Carrezola. Which is hopefully a good sign. Hope this means he snuck in on an official while Luke was in town and they met, hung out and struck up a friendship. The morning will tell!
 
huskymedic said:
HS Coach's quote within:

“@desmondconner: Timber Creek Coach On Recruit Bradford Not Signing With UConn Wednesday http://Post original url/LLLs4j”
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Bradford to Delaware State University:

“@Mont_staxx: Signing day got me hype #DSU here I come”
 
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