borges. Is UConn trying to build a recruiting pipeline through Vermont?

[CTBasketball]

it's a good sign the coaching staff thinks so highly of uconn and the coaching staff... should help out tremendously, let's see if brown reclassifies

I'm really confused by this statement.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I'm really confused by this statement.

It'll be interesting to see if UConn and Vermont Academy can establish a recruiting relationship. Popp was recruited as a player by Glen Miller when Miller coached at Brown, and he has known Miller and Karl Hobbs for several years and got to know Ollie out on the recruiting trails while he was an assistant at Holy Cross and thinks "very highly" of the Huskies' head coach.

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-uconn-trying-to-build-recruiting.html?m=1

 

[ctchamps]

It'll be interesting to see if UConn and Vermont Academy can establish a recruiting relationship. Popp was recruited as a player by Glen Miller when Miller coached at Brown, and he has known Miller and Karl Hobbs for several years and got to know Ollie out on the recruiting trails while he was an assistant at Holy Cross and thinks "very highly" of the Huskies' head coach.

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-uconn-trying-to-build-recruiting.html?m=1

Exactly. This is the million dollar question. Can this coaching staff make connections with pipelines of good players?

The argument has been to get in a good recruiter as part of the coaching staff. My argument has been who is better than KO when it comes to talking with people? I really doubt there is anyone better. At least not many. The assumption is that KO can not convince recruits to come here because he lacks the ability to sell himself and the program. I maintain that he can but he has not had the time to establish relationships.

The point you are making is a point I expressed earlier in this thread. A coach from a national powerhouse has expressed a relationship with KO and UConn. In the past how many posters would talk about recruiting being dead in NJ because the coaches of major programs in that state hated JC. And that was a pipeline with a lot of star players.

Maybe Popp is just saying what reporters want to hear. Or maybe there is a real connection. We'll know about it soon.

The pragmatic part of me recognizes the need to establish relationships with AAU coaches. The cynical part of me wonders how much of that network remains on the up and up. The last thing I want KO to do is play the sleaze game either directly or indirectly.