Adamec could have received information from the coaching staff, which would be a violation of NCAA rules, but as a good reporter, covering UConn WBB, why wouldn’t he just call SB or her family to confirm an offer.
Carl's article, report in the local newspaper, and recent article all quoted Samantha. So Carl did speak to Samantha.
As for Anthony, someone wanted it known that SB was not offered. Who and why?
That the Anthony article denying a UCONN offer appeared about 15 minutes after Samantha announced her commitment to ND might give us a clue because it quoted "Sources familiar with the process"
If we assume that SB was originally offered a scholarship by UConn that was later rescinded, it’s not a pretty picture. While SB may not be the #1 player in her class, she is certainly talented enough to play at UConn, and she appears to be a nice young lady.
We are then left with two possible scenarios. Either something happened that turned Geno off to SB or her family, or Geno decided he had better options, so he pulled the offer. Subsequently, a source associated with the program wanted it known that there was no offer.
I don't think the picture needs to be an ugly one. 18 months went by between the UCONN offer and Samantha's commitment to ND (October 2016-April 2018)-that's a long time. In those 18 months Samantha visited Texas, South Carolina, Duke, UCONN, & ND. Samantha has a subpar performance at USA basketball summer of 2017. Jones, Amihere, Horston, Jackson emerged. All of this strongly support your second scenario where Geno might have sensed waning interest in UCONN and move on to some more promising options. Hopefully we can all at least agree that there were more promising options and also don't have to point out that Samantha could have accepted the UCONN offer earlier.
As for the Anthony article my opinion is that was strictly semantics i.e.. a withdrawn offer=no offer.
Question from Anthony to UCONN staff: Does Samantha
currently have an offer from UCONN?
Answer from the UCONN staff: No she does not.
BTW this is exactly the scenario that was reported here on the BY by a visitor reportedly connected to the Brunelle family. Samantha & her family visited UCONN January 2018 and was ready to commit shortly after. The visitor then went on to say that the family was not able to get confirmation from the UCONN staff that Sam's UCONN offer was still good.
When you leave a message for that pretty lady asking for a date and she doesn't return your call, you move on. This is what Samantha and her family appear to have done. From Geno's perspective if you see that same lady out on a date, with another guy and she looks like she having fun, you might be less likely to keep leaving her messages and go explore your other options. Still plenty of time for the story to end well and I hope it does for Samantha.
