Akok Akok update

[FriarJ]

This is how we all felt when he left Rivals, once he came back though we picked his recruitment back up. This was during that time.

 

[UConnStats]

This is how we all felt when he left Rivals, once he came back though we picked his recruitment back up. This was during that time.

Ah yes, the brief move to PSA. UConn also backed off a bit around then.

 

[Yonick]

Or MAL, Good grief man.

Hey FriarJ just out of curiosity, whatever happened to Sean?
Haven't seen him on here for years. He leaves you as the only defender of PC hoops.

 

[Fishy]

How did a thread about Akok Akok turn into a thread about a Providence commit we weren’t even recruiting?

Stick around.

It will eventually turn into a thread about Kevin Ollie before ultimately ending up as a discussion of pizza or lobster rolls.

 

[Huskymagic]

Already congratulated the Friar.
I never heard of the kid till today, so if I'm not worked up over a rating right now you'll have to pardon me. It seems that Florida and Texas were the other programs keeping an eye on him.

Kevin Ollie was recruiting Greg Gantt so he's a familiar name for the yard. Let's start getting some high ranked recruits again before we start bashing the Friars. Cooley has gotten MAL, Duke, Reeves, and Gantt now in 2 years. That's a good haul for 95% of teams in D1.

We need to get back there before we start mocking a player of Gantt's status.

PS: I want to see a haul of Precius, Bouknight, Akok, Cockburn, and Isaiah Wong.

 

[BIGMAC]

Ah, 'Pizza '

 

[FriarJ]

Hey FriarJ just out of curiosity, whatever happened to Sean?
Haven't seen him on here for years. He leaves you as the only defender of PC hoops.

He was a bit more of an instigator than myself and got banned. For myself I try to only post on the men's basketball board now when I have something to add. I post a lot on the cesspool and have a rap sheet there that makes me scroll the page to read it all but Tom is a good sport. Sorry about this thread though. Steve got under my skin and I was properly lubricated.

 

[CL82]

Um because this is the Boneyard maybe?

Do any of you go on other boards and talk about UConn recruits? I never get what motivates that. It just comes off as needy and insecure.

That said, @FriarJ is a good guy. Occasionally he feels the need to stop by and trumpet accomplishments that none of care about or find noteworthy. We all have our warts.

 

[FriarJ]

Do any of you go on other boards and talk about UConn recruits? I never get what motivates that. It just comes off as needy and insecure.

That said, @FriarJ is a good guy. Occasionally he feels the need to stop by and trumpet accomplishments that none of care about or find noteworthy. We all have our warts.

It really was in reference to how this recruit might effect an AKOK decision which most people think is now a 3 school race. But it got out of hand.

 

[LStudfellow]

Do any of you go on other boards and talk about UConn recruits? I never get what motivates that. It just comes off as needy and insecure.

That said, @FriarJ is a good guy. Occasionally he feels the need to stop by and trumpet accomplishments that none of care about or find noteworthy. We all have our warts.

I for one like that FriarJ is crazy and thick-skinned enough to venture on here and post his thoughts, and yes, his school's recruiting triumphs. We need guys from other schools to come in here and tout their own, if only to get many on this board to turn their vitriol toward someone other than each other. Besides, he knows just as much as we do that Cooley must get them out of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament one of these years soon, or else all these recruiting victories will not matter one bit.

It gets really nasty in here... sometimes far too nasty and contentious for the topic at hand. Most of us here are UConn fans, and we ultimately want a similar outcome - a winning team competing for titles and playing deep into the NCAA tournament on a consistent basis (where have you gone, Jimmy C and the halcyon Big East days of yore?). But man, the spats on here get ridiculously mean-spirited and personal. I for one am praying that this year we are able to turn our attentions back to where we all want to be, talking about many victories and the end-of-game play and decisions in big games, both in wins and losses... and then discussing our very real post-season prospects (hopefully this year!).

Boy, won't that be novel, and quite refreshing, after the last couple of years...

 

[UConnStats]

Well @FriarJ can put a grin on, because Providence is on a CB run for Akok.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Well @FriarJ can put a grin on, because Providence is on a CB run for Akok.

Meyer and Slater still have him at Cuse fwiw

 

[UConnStats]

Meyer and Slater still have him at Cuse fwiw

Yeah but those are pretty old picks now. We’ll see what happens, but this is long from over. He has said he’s not committing until the Putnam season is underway so he’s a winter commit.

 

[FriarJ]

Meyer and Slater still have him at Cuse fwiw

Once he returned to Mass Rivals PC got heavily back involved again. I’m sure Duke and Reeves are working on him.

 

[Caronimo]

Once he returned to Mass Rivals PC got heavily back involved again. I’m sure Duke and Reeves are working on him.

Thanks