Any recruits left??

[JohnFSilver]

I agree... which is why we gotta get this hire right...

Yeah. Not interested in high school class tbh. UConn needs turn key players. UConn doesn't have the luxury of development. It's dumb to get too many high school players. Develop them for 1 or 2 years. They play one year then portal with 2-3 years left.

Mind as well just go to portal and grab a 2 year guy.

The value of the HS recruit is very low. You have to do it to fill out roster and build, but ya gotta get players who can play right away .

 

[gioff2323]

You can’t live off the portal. There’s no way to build chemistry and you take a 50-50 shot the guy you paid will play hard or fit in. We hit it out of the park in 24, far less so in 25.

IMHO, You need to build through recruiting (draft) and supplement with portal (free agency). You can’t churn half your team every year and think you’ll get progressively better.

 

[UConnJim]

You can’t live off the portal. There’s no way to build chemistry and you take a 50-50 shot the guy you paid will play hard or fit in. We hit it out of the park in 24, far less so in 25.

IMHO, You need to build through recruiting (draft) and supplement with portal (free agency). You can’t churn half your team every year and think you’ll get progressively better.

Remember, the portal is not just one year players. UConn has grabbed many players through the portal with more than one year of eligibility left. Fagnano was a 3 year player. Evers has been here 2 years and has one year of eligibility left. Porter has been here 2 years and has 2 years of eligibility left. Vereen has been here 1 year and has 2 years left. Freeman was here 2 years as was Bell.

 

[freescooter]

The downside (?) of the Mora era is that he dramatically downsized the HS recruiting classes. That said, some of the portal guys came to UConn with 2 or more years of eligibility left which somewhat offsets the scaled back HS recruiting. For this recruiting year, I would anticipate a large portal class and a very small HS class.

Mora actually said he went heavy on the portal in his first 2 years of necessity. He was planning to gradually back off portal guys as high school guys we could get improved. Who knows for sure. My own thinking is you bring in linemen and backs out of high school and quarterbacks and recievers through the portal. On the defensive side linebackers through the portal. Develop linemen. Mix and match on dbacks.

 

[UConnJim]

Mora actually said he went heavy on the portal in his first 2 years of necessity. He was planning to gradually back off portal guys as high school guys we could get improved. Who knows for sure. My own thinking is you bring in linemen and backs out of high school and quarterbacks and recievers through the portal. On the defensive side linebackers through the portal. Develop linemen. Mix and match on dbacks.

I checked his classes and he really didn't bring in HS players:

Year 1: 18
Year 2: 13
Year 3: 13
Year 4: 13

He did bring in portal kids with multiple years of eligibility.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Remember when UConn was about the youngest team year after year? HS recruits are more of a gamble than college recruits.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Remember when UConn was about the youngest team year after year? HS recruits are more of a gamble than college recruits.

I just can't get all worked up by a high school recruit.