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CallMeBruce said:
The tournament is called the Big 12 Championship. They've won the last two of them.

Iowa State doesn't have our history, but they're on the rise, and one of the strongest programs in the country right now, yesterday's loss notwithstanding.
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Until they get better on defense they'll be stuck as what they are: a second round level program. Anyone who follows CBB saw a first round exit for then back in mid January.
 
sammydabiz said:
Still doesn't change the fact, that my original argument had to do with clumping Purvis And DHam together as top 25 gets can be misleading considering we were Purvis' 2nd choice
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Yes - back in 2011 before KO was head coach.

and frankly we are lucky to have him thanks to Gottfried being a bad personnel manager.
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And Duke got lucky with Obi, and Gonzaga with Wiltjer, etc. I guess recruiting transfers is just luck while recruiting high school kids is all skill.

Anyway, Purvis is a 5-star talent from the south. Hamilton is a 5-star talent from LA. Adams is a 5-star talent from our own neighborhood.

Doomed.
 
Matrim55 said:
Yes - back in 2011 before KO was head coach.
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So the main factor for Purvis transferring is because Calhoun stepped down and KO became head coach?!? Had nothing to do with the offense Gottfried ran, or the presence of Cat Barber?!? C'mon guy you're reaching

Matrim55 said:
And Duke got lucky with Obi, and Gonzaga with Wiltjer, etc. I guess recruiting transfers is just luck while recruiting high school kids is all skill.
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Luck.....fortunate, whichever you like man. The fact remains that circumstances had to arise first for these players to even consider transferring. Without that, they would still be on the original squads and Duke/Gonzaga would have Zero chance bringing them in. With a transfer, you are at the mercy of something going wrong with the original school (unlike recruiting straight from H.S.) Don't know how else to explain it you :(
 
Wasn't Uconn Purvis' first choice until we got the post season ban? I could be totally wrong but I thought i remember hearing that.
 
sammydabiz said:
So the main factor for Purvis transferring is because Calhoun stepped down and KO became head coach?!? Had nothing to do with the offense Gottfried ran, or the presence of Cat Barber?!? C'mon guy you're reaching
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You're a legitimately crazy person.

The only point here is this: KO has recruited 3 5-star talents in the last two years. There are no caveats, no exemptions and no "yes, buts..." to diminish that fact.

circumstances had to arise first for these players to even consider transferring
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Circumstances have to arise for kids to consider college.
 
Transfers are like expired real estate listings. Things didn't work out, & everyone needs a new fresh start. There's big competiton & big reward if you can strike early in the process of transition.
 
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Matrim55 said:
You're a legitimately crazy person.
Circumstances have to arise for kids to consider college.
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Lol, what does that even mean? What, they have to be born? Have to graduate high school? Where are you going with that comment?!?
.....and I'm the crazy one lmao.....look in the mirror pal
Matrim55 said:
The only point here is this: KO has recruited 3 5-star talents in the last two years. There are no caveats, no exemptions and no "yes, buts..." to diminish that fact
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For one of those recruits, UConn was their second choice, and chose to go to another school..... Lucky for us, Gottfried can't keep his players happy, that's my point...
 
sammydabiz said:
For one of those recruits, UConn was their second choice, and chose to go to another school..... Lucky for us, Gottfried can't keep his players happy, that's my point...
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You don't want to play that game. Ben Gordon's first choice was duke. Charlie V...didnt he commit to Kansas first? Ryan Boatright, go recruited over at WVU. Kemba Walker...I think he was plan B before plan A committed to Arizona then went to Europe. I could go on...
 
Mots010 said:
You don't want to play that game. Ben Gordon's first choice was duke. Charlie V...didnt he commit to Kansas first? Ryan Boatright, go recruited over at WVU. Kemba Walker...I think he was plan B before plan A committed to Arizona then went to Europe. I could go on...
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Oh.....so they were all enrolled/taking classes at schools other than UConn? Wow, I did not know that.... what game were you referring to?
 
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Every year it seems like Michigan St. is on the way to the Final Four. Everyone says that Izzo is a genius. Every year, half of his team comes from Lansing, Michigan. Seems that Izzo has done alright for himself recruiting locally. So, I don't get this prejudice against local kids.
If we can land the two best kids every year within our local area (NY to Boston), we will always be very good.
 
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During the Dukes game, they mentioned that Duke has a transfer, Sean Obi, coming in from Rice. The kid attended Fairfield Prep. Was he highly regarded out of high school? He's 6' 9" and 265 and averaged 11.4 pts and 9.3 rebounds per game as a freshman at Rice. Those are nasty numbers. We could've desparately needed a guy like that. Instead he goes to Duke with their bench of McDonald's All-America's. Plumlee was a McDonald's All-America and gets garbage time. I'll never understand why recruits would go to a school and ride the bench for four years when they could go somewhere else and be the man. They have Chase Jeter coming in next year too.
 
UCweCONN said:
During the Dukes game, they mentioned that Duke has a transfer, Sean Obi, coming in from Rice. The kid attended Fairfield Prep. Was he highly regarded out of high school? He's 6' 9" and 265 and averaged 11.4 pts and 9.3 rebounds per game as a freshman at Rice. Those are nasty numbers. We could've desparately needed a guy like that. Instead he goes to Duke with their bench of McDonald's All-America's. Plumlee was a McDonald's All-America and gets garbage time. I'll never understand why recruits would go to a school and ride the bench for four years when they could go somewhere else and be the man. They have Chase Jeter coming in next year too.
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Education was obviously high on Obis list of requirements. Not that UConn is bad, but it's not Rice or Duke.
 
David 76 said:
What does all this crap have to do with a Vermont pipeline?
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nothing, samm want's everyone to know that he's not happy with getting purvis like everyone else because he was a transfer... it doesn't count as putting in work bc he committed to somewhere else first and has improved 10000x more here than at NC state
 
if we get brown all we need is a big... and maybe a wing
 
Greens Farms not Fairfield Prep, and when a kid goes to Rice, and then has Duke, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern on his list of schools to transfer to, it's obvious he's not coming here.

UCweCONN said:
During the Dukes game, they mentioned that Duke has a transfer, Sean Obi, coming in from Rice. The kid attended Fairfield Prep. Was he highly regarded out of high school? He's 6' 9" and 265 and averaged 11.4 pts and 9.3 rebounds per game as a freshman at Rice. Those are nasty numbers. We could've desparately needed a guy like that. Instead he goes to Duke with their bench of McDonald's All-America's. Plumlee was a McDonald's All-America and gets garbage time. I'll never understand why recruits would go to a school and ride the bench for four years when they could go somewhere else and be the man. They have Chase Jeter coming in next year too.
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UConnSwag11 said:
nothing, samm want's everyone to know that he's not happy with getting purvis like everyone else because he was a transfer... it doesn't count as putting in work bc he committed to somewhere else first and has improved 10000x more here than at NC state
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I'm not happy??? Good one "swag" ....check my original post:
sammydabiz said:
I'm on your side matrim, but let's be honest, Purvis was a transfer. Out of high school he chose NC State, not us. If things had worked out well in Raleigh, he would have never became a Husky.
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It's a little misleading to claim we won a recruiting battle for purvis, like we did with DHam.... That's all
What is so "crazy" about that point of view? God forbid I have an opinion and defend it.
The mob mentality on this board is hilarious. Ya'll can go back to your circle jerk now...
 
sammydabiz said:
I'm not happy??? Good one "swag" ....check my original post:

It's a little misleading to claim we won a recruiting battle for purvis, like we did with DHam.... That's all
What is so "crazy" about that point of view? God forbid I have an opinion and defend it.
The mob mentality on this board is hilarious. Ya'll can go back to your circle jerk now...
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You're totally right dude. Purvis just fell into our laps. It would've taken an imbecile at HC not to land him...
 
Mots010 said:
Wasn't Uconn Purvis' first choice until we got the post season ban? I could be totally wrong but I thought i remember hearing that.
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Do you just make this stuff up? You do realize he went to Upper Room Christian Academy in Raleigh NC. He went to State cause it was his hometown team, and he wanted stay close to home (& his ma).... But if he chose State over UConn due to our ban, I'd love to see an article stating that position.
He decided to transfer because he originally had the idea he wanted to be a PG, and Gottfried couldn't give him minutes at the 1 due to the emergence of Cat Barber.
 
sammydabiz said:
Do you just make this stuff up? You do realize he went to Upper Room Christian Academy in Raleigh NC. He went to State cause it was his hometown team, and he wanted stay close to home (& his ma).... But if he chose State over UConn due to our ban, I'd love to see an article stating that position. He decided to transfer because he originally had the idea he wanted to be a PG, and Gottfried couldn't give him minutes at the 1 due to the emergence of Cat Barber.
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You need to relax
 
Stairmaster said:
You're totally right dude. Purvis just fell into our laps. It would've taken an imbecile at HC not to land him...
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He wouldn't have had a chance to fall anywhere, if things went his way at NC State. But go and put words in my mouth, that's what you're best at
 
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sammydabiz said:
He wouldn't have had a chance to fall anywhere, if things went his way at NC State. But go and put words in my mouth, that's what your best at
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Bottom line, once players transfer, it's a friggin' free-for-all. Jeff Goodman or whoever's the CBB journalist du jour is always listing that "so and so has hard from x amount of schools since announcing his decision to transfer from school y". There's competition there. Whether it's comparable to the level of competition for HS recruits I can't say. But it's not wise to completely discount it.
 
Stairmaster said:
Bottom line, once players transfer, it's a friggin' free-for-all. Jeff Goodman or whoever's the CBB journalist du jour is always listing that "so and so has hard from x amount of schools since announcing his decision to transfer from school y". There's competition there. Whether it's comparable to the level of competition for HS recruits I can't say. But it's not wise to completely discount it.
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Never discounted it dude.... Just thought it was little misleading putting the recruitment of Purvis and DHam in the same boat, since we had originally struck out with Purvis on the first go around. Nothing more, nothing less
 
The other important consideration is that when you get a guy like Purvis - a top 15 recruit with three years left - it means you have a pretty significant roadblock to recruiting high school kids at his position.
 
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
 
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