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Message: [QUOTE="Bronx23, post: 2645835, member: 8501"] I have been reading many of the posts about recruits for various years. For quite some time I continually see Brunelle's name. Obviously she is one of the top players of her class. While I'm very curious about the whole recruiting process, I actually know very little about it. I'm wondering what seemingly has lead to this cooling in U Conn's interest in her? Did she or her family somehow indicate greater interest elsewhere or has U Conn decided they have other preferences? Also does this cooling have any effect on their recruitment of Bueckers and Fuzz, whom they seemingly want a great deal. It appears that the three of them, Brunelle, Bueckers and Fuzz have become close and may want to play college ball together? The other question that fascinates me is do you strongly go after multiple players with similar skill sets and take the one that commits first or do you wait it out trying to get the one(s) you want with the possibility of losing all or most of your strongly preferred options. Then from the recruits perspective at some point they might or might not want to have to either compete or share playing time with another similar player. Another issue to build into this equation is how if you're a top player and recruit and likely want to become the very best player you can, then U Conn must become a serious consideration. While clearly there are other very good choices for each individual recruit, there isn't a better one when just getting better in basketballis the primary focus. Of course there are other major considerations including: academics; distance or closeness to home, family, friends; plusses and minuses of how recruit views that specific campus location and what that brings; and many others I haven't ariculated. I'm not quite sure where I am going with this, other than how darn complicated and multi-faceted it is for every party to the process. What's one of the most amazing parts of this for me, is how Geno, CD and the other coaches have figured it out, and are almost always right with who they bring in. Of course occasionally they lose a gem, maybe that is happening with Brunelle. Hopefully it will work out best for all! Bronx23 [/QUOTE]

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