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Message: [QUOTE="Nameless, post: 5342039, member: 14132"] I think the staff would love to have him here. He's talented, athletic and seems like a good kid from a good family. In that sense he does "fit the Hurley mould." However, anyone who has watched this team the past few years knows there will likely be one freshman who plays a lot, maybe one scrapping for 5 minutes a game, and the rest of the class will be riding the pine save for garbage time. Toure has hinted in local papers UConn is his dream school. We are in his final 3. It's clear there is at least a part of him that wants to be here. As you noted the staff was still attending his games as of a few weeks ago. So there is still clearly some interest there as well. But Providence desperately needs a player of his caliber and is throwing the house at him to get his commitment. Arkansas has tons of cash and minutes available as well. Hurley is honest with recruits and has probably told him he would have to fight tooth and nail just to have a shot at those 5 aforementioned minutes each game. After losing multiple freshmen from last year's team, I doubt we are throwing huge NIL figures at guys we ultimately see more as a developmental piece. It just makes more sense for him to go to a school where there will be more money and minutes available from day 1. I agree with you people seem to be weaving narratives out of tidbits of information. I obviously just did the same, it's all we can really do when we aren't directly connected to the program. But from what I'm seeing I think a lot of people don't like the optics of losing a local, highly rated recruit (especially if it is to PC) and are trying to make sense of how we could "lose" this recruitment. "His recruitment became too much about money" and "he's just not a fit for the Hurley system" are statements that have been true for players we've pursued then stopped recruiting before. If you look at Toure's recruitment through a narrow lense you can easily make both arguments for his recruitment. But I don't think either are true. Taking more NIL and a better shot at minutes doesn't make one greedy. Toure would likely be at least a rotation piece by his sophomore year so I doubt the staff has completely lost interest. Sometimes you want something in life but there's better opportunities out there. That's how this feels to me, for both parties. [/QUOTE]

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