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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2646567, member: 730"] I'm sorry but unless someone is going to identify themselves I can't take their word for anything. And Dolphan seems to have a direct line to the family who are sharing SB's inner thoughts on her recruitment. I don't buy that someone that close to them would run to a public message board to tell all. And furthermore Dolphan states as fact that there was "[B][I]no communication from any of the staff[/I]" [/B]and yet also says there WAS communication because "[B][I]the assistant that Samantha spoke with had to go back to Geno[/I]". [/B]Either she had contact or she didn't. My suspicion is that Dolphan is or knows someone on Brunelle's team and is getting their information 3rd or 4th hand. I worked in the gambling industry for a long time and was regularly told of "sure things" based on insider information. Now if someone gives me 3 or 4 winners in a row I start to listen but out of thousands of these tips I got over about 35 years I've run across that once. I have no contacts and only read these posts but I have been doing so for a lot of years and I have run across a lot of posters like Dolphan, who claim inside knowledge, and on several message boards of several teams. About a year age there was poster on the Tenn board who claims to be close to the Vol program. They posted that it was a certainty that ONO was staying in the south. Another claim a few years ago was that Joyner Holmes was a 90% certainty for the Vols. Just claiming inside knowledge doesn't translate into credibility. Dolphan may indeed have family information about Brunelle but if so they aren't a very good friend or else they wouldn't be repeating what in all likelihood was told to them in confidence. One more point. Every year I read about how players X & Y walk on water. Invariably there is a workout video of them dribbling 5 basketballs while standing on their heads. When they sign their LOI's many here have them making an immediate impact. Then, sometime in November, when they aren't playing much I read that they are just not that good and now it's recruits A&B that will be carrying the torch. It isn't the same posters but it's the same story, year after year after year. Inferences based on speculation and rumor. I have been guilty of this to a degree for a year now with regard to Bueckers. I've seen her play in USA ball and a handful of games. But my enthusiasm ends with the hope that she ends up in Storrs. I am not panicked if she is photographed with an Irish shirt on. The only thing about Dolphan I'd make book on is that if Brunelle signs with a school other than UConn, they'll be back here and if not we will never hear from them again. [/QUOTE]

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