1. Matt Harvey was a number of years ago. We are getting a higher percentage of the best CT kids than we ever did. But we'll always lose some to Vandy and UNC until we break through and start going to the CWS often. Nothing that can be done about that.
2. IIRC, the three CT kids playing for the Terps are all from Fairfield County. You know as well as I do that because it's part of the NY media market, Fairfield County will never be as tied to UConn as the rest of the State in any aspect, including sports loyalty. I think UConn continues to make huge strides in this area, but the average athlete in Fairfield County will never be as emotionally tied to UConn as the average athlete in any of the other seven counties. That's just reality.
3. As for your neighbor getting a better schollie offer from MD than UConn, if we increase scholarships then maybe we keep him from MD but maybe UNC or UVA or Vandy then jumps in to the picture as well. Again, we have a disadvantage being outside the sunbelt, but I don't see any reason to think that allowing more schollies helps us more than it hurts us. The very fact that we were looking at your neighbor and wasn't willing to spend a scholly on him while MD was tells you that they are not ahead of us as a program -- they just had a great year (and still couldn't beat us in their park despite getting to play LIU while we were playing WFU).