Well said - it’s a sea change improvement by the staff. It is not an incremental change. It should not be minimized the lept they have made through hard work and the willingness to make necessary changes. And so many of the older guys who post here, tend to underestimate the value of “youthful enthusiasm”. It’s out there this year in both the younger staff members and the recruits and dare I even say the older and most senior staff members .
Again, you don't understand what is going on in the football portal. Did you read the article from 24/7 that I linked? In the 2019/2020 transfer cycle, only 27% of P5 transfers ended up at another P5 school and only 53% of P5 transfers ended up at an FBS school. The 2020/2021 transfer cycle is looking like it will be much worse outcomes for P5 transfers due to the sheer volume of transfers.
Your conclusions may be right, but without doing in depth objective reviews of all schools it's pretty presumptuous to say someone doesn't understand what's going on in the portal, as if you assuredly do.
Whoops, corrected.
The average school has about 20 kids in the portal this year so UConn losing 28 kids over 2 years seems to put UConn in the middle or below for transfers based on the total numbers of transfers last year. There are many articles published on the subject and I linked one so I didn’t add up the total for over 100 schools myself. As for the 3 top schools I mentioned, I think some people think many highly rated kids transfer if they are not starting, but that’s not the case at Ohio St., Clemson, and Alabama which I think speaks to team culture.
I agree, a narrow analysis which doesn’t account for a whole host of variables.
Not for nuttin’ but Rivals isn’t much better w/ only 8 of 11 commits listed (despite have a dedicated UConn page in StorrsCentral). Still missing Brinson, McGill and Jean (and Jean has a Rivals rating already). It’s a farce.
If you want recruiting coverage and rankings, your fan base has to subscribe to the service. It's pretty simple.
Give it a rest…
Try the full body of work from September 2019 to December 2020. By then whoever was leaving had left.
So kids that left in 2019, knew there would be a pandemic and UConn wouldn't play in 2020?
Chief will but the staff won’t. The days of if he doesn’t want to be here, we don’t want him - are over. The staff is going full out to convince people - they want to be here. It is now the place to be. Full pedal to the metal.
It’s all good the way we are recruiting and failure actually created the opportunity that we have now have. But, selectively playing with the dates to not count 20 transfers is a silly recreation of history. What happened, happened and a plan is in place to capitalize on it. It’s all turned out good.
Read this now because I know your a protected citizen on the board who gets special treatment (ie posts challenging you are routinely deleted). You attacked this program last fall and said not playing would lead to transfers and recruiting challenges going forward. Just like the 11:11 game thing you were wrong. I didn't really care about your faux insider miss on this subject until you jumped in here a couple days ago with total nonsense trying to attribute Randy's recent recruiting success to learning from the MBB program and vainly suggesting you had influenced the matter.
Ahh, yep I knew we had this conversation once before. Back on 9/30/20 a certain someone said "just about everyone wants out" and then what, three more guys left after that moment....well short of anything close to "everyone" by any stretch of the imagination. And I know one of those three was basically an academic casualty...barely attended classes that semester.
Yep, some said the sky is falling....and it wasn't.
Transfer portal - outbound
You didn’t answer my question. Are you saying as a matter of fact that the recent kids who’ve entered the portal- Paul, King and Magliozzi- have done so because UConn opted out of playing this season and aren’t making plans to return while everyone else is returning to play. Is that what you’re...
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2019 has nothing to do with anything. In 2019 I don't recall you being upset about Randy letting his Diaco kids go. The roster turnover was needed. You were sour on this program last fall, that is clear in the transfer thread linked above.Boom - Article about the 20 who left after 2019 season and I see you distorted my comments about the pandemic. I did not say guys would transfer, I said guys wanted out which was the sentiment from actually conversations - guys stayed for a whole lot of practical reasons despite their sentiment - after the drain of players - there was playing time available at many positions, some were advancing along in their majors and others had family or friendships etc.
Nearly 20 UConn football players plan to transfer from the program. Here’s what to know about them.
UConn football continues to lose players. Running back Dante Black and receivers Zavier Scott and Quayvon Skanes announced this week that they plan to transfer from the program, making 19 scholarsh…
