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Wow Briscoe is not coming to UConn and in a matter of hours his talent, character and 'worthiness' has significantly diminished.

Good thing Jalen picked us or he would have quickly turned into an average joe baller.
 
No one should be surprised. Every guy we lost looked at the team and saw a guy who was as good or better on the roster. Storrs is not Hawaii. These are big time recruits. They have choices and a cold winter in Ct sitting behind Brimah, Hamilton, Adams is not what a lot of these 5 stars want to do.
However, Ollie will land his recruit when there is not an absolute stud already in place. Until then Ollie needs to get the TSams and Nolans to complement the stud when he comes.
 
Kitaman said:
Wow Briscoe is not coming to UConn and in a matter of hours his talent, character and 'worthiness' has significantly diminished.

Good thing Jalen picked us or he would have quickly turned into an average joe baller.
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Standard operating procedure. Good players only commit to UCONN, anyone else is going nowhere. :rolleyes:
 
pnow15 said:
No one should be surprised. Every guy we lost looked at the team and saw a guy who was as good or better on the roster. Storrs is not Hawaii. These are big time recruits. They have choices and a cold winter in Ct sitting behind Brimah, Hamilton, Adams is not what a lot of these 5 stars want to do.
However, Ollie will land his recruit when there is not an absolute stud already in place. Until then Ollie needs to get the TSams and Nolans to complement the stud when he comes.
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Storrs is not Hawaii. Thanks for clearing that up.

And all basketball players are choosing schools for their weather and scenic beauty. I hear the beaches and warm weather in Lexington, KY is beautiful in December.
 
Leebo said:
There's no content in your original post except the misspelled names. That's pretty much all there was to comment on, when you consider neither player was expected to come to UConn.
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thank you for your revue, my post still stands.
 
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I would have loved to have had Briscoe, same for Jones, same for Mack. I can understand all of them making the choices they made and don't hold any grudges. For Briscoe, if he sticks with Kentucky, it'll be nothing but a good thing. Their class of he, Labissierre, and Matthews are already being hailed as the #1 class for next year. And that same rhetoric will be repeated ad nauseam until they're preseason #1's and the season starts and after that they'll be featured on the daily Freshmen Focus™ on ESPN. Their every game and movement will be tracked by the talking heads at the sports leader while their 4.3 ppg and 2.1 rpg will be extrapolated out from their depressed minutes courtesy of the brilliant platoon system of the unparalleled coaching genius that is Cal. And they'll be the favorites and America's darlings and shoe-ins for the championship and surefire 1st rounders and one-and-doners and p-t-p-ers and big blue nation's ESPN perpetuated BS will continue on to the next year after another NCAA failure, but it'll be OK, because, Oh look! Coach Cal just had 4 kids go in the first round (that would've gone there anyway no matter the school they went to), and Oh look! he's got the #1 recruiting class coming in, and Oh look! they're preseason #1's and the favorites... etc, etc.

Point is, Briscoe wants the easy path, he wants the NBA and it's millions and he wants them sooner than later. And Kentucky can all but assure him of that. It's a pit stop in a broken system for kid's that should otherwise be in the league already. That's fine, I'm glad he's dreaming big, that's what kid's do. Who can blame him. I'd of preferred he come to UConn to improve his game and work at his deficiencies even if it took him a year or two more than the hype machine would. UConn is no surefire path itself but I like to think that our guys leave better than they came in. I just see improvement as hard to come by in the glorified playground pick up games that is Cal's style of motion, flex offense or whatever. Anyway, I'm rambling, hopefully I've made some kind of cogent point.
 
Rodney Purvis suspended for playing basketball. In other news, Kentucky is 100% clean.
 
did anyone see special on tv about new ky player dorm or if not at least channel their esp.. n comprehend its gaudiness?

calzaphoni tool I mean took remote viewer on tour and emphasized new flat screens in each room, no required roommates, special chefs on call for ala carte performance at player becon calls 24/7 and also that boosters paid the entire bill and said dorm also has a few rooms for the common folk on campus so the ncaa rules are met

if I am a player and a playa guess where I park my keester for 1 or 2 semesters?

Also the impression is the coeds sometimes follow the code of shuttlesworth-now thats what I'm talkin about said recruit when talking about w's and heck, even x's, y's and z's.
 
Isaiah Briscoe is so overrated that he could join just about any team in the country by making one phone call.

Including UConn.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
Storrs is not Hawaii. Thanks for clearing that up.

And all basketball players are choosing schools for their weather and scenic beauty. I hear the beaches and warm weather in Lexington, KY is beautiful in December.
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I was about to like this post, then I looked at your avatar, muttered Fook ewe Hathaway and moved on.
 
Kitaman said:
Wow Briscoe is not coming to UConn and in a matter of hours his talent, character and 'worthiness' has significantly diminished.

Good thing Jalen picked us or he would have quickly turned into an average joe baller.
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I disagree. Don't think the majority here ever never really cared too much about him being a Husky. At least that's what I read from many posts. If he comes fine if he didn't no biggie! Always seemed we were much more concerned for Jalen and then the 3's which we whiffed on.
 
Seeing the media walking around with raging erections whenever they talk about Kentucky is making me sick! They are already predicting, including Andy Katz and Seth Greenburg, UK to win it all this year. Really makes me want to see our Huskies put those pussycats in there place and show them who the real champ is! I hope they keep doubting us.
 
check the story on new dorm for players at KY

I sure would park my keester there for a semester or 2
 
nelsonmuntz said:
At what point does the fact that Kentucky is the only school that can get McD AA's to come and sit on the bench for a year or more become impossible to ignore? No one is that good a salesman.
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Maybe when teams like the Maine Red Claws, Ft. Wayne Mad Ants, and Westchester Knicks are on their non-conference schedule. Its a complete joke that for me has transcended from hating the NCAA and disliking the Squid to caring much, much less about college athletics in general.
 
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The only parts that huts (at least to me) is losing a local kid (UConn is the nearest major program to Jersey) to another school, no matter who the kid is. Plus, as others have said, we wants kids who want to win National Championships at UConn. Kentucky is for kids who want to be a NBA lottery pick after their first year. Those two do not always match.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
The only parts that huts (at least to me) is losing a local kid (UConn is the nearest major program to Jersey) to another school, no matter who the kid is. Plus, as others have said, we wants kids who want to win National Championships at UConn. Kentucky is for kids who want to be a NBA lottery pick after their first year. Those two do not always match.
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It is hard to make the case that any of Calipari's lottery picks wouldn't have been lottery picks if they had gone somewhere else. You can make the case that they want to play at Kentucky because it gives them a shot at a title, but there are 20 schools that can make that same representation credibly. Why does Kentucky get 4 McD AA's a year? The Harrison twins could be 3 or 4 year players. I like both their games, but they aren't jaw dropping athletes and their speed is average to below average for NBA guards. Players like them have to be pretty polished to go to the League, so there is no guarantee that they are leaving next year. Briscoe could end up sitting TWO years at Kentucky. So why commit?

I believe there are 7 hamburger boys on the Kentucky roster right now. Why on earth would they all go there?

Like I said, NO ONE is that good a salesman.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
It is hard to make the case that any of Calipari's lottery picks wouldn't have been lottery picks if they had gone somewhere else. You can make the case that they want to play at Kentucky because it gives them a shot at a title, but there are 20 schools that can make that same representation credibly. Why does Kentucky get 4 McD AA's a year? The Harrison twins could be 3 or 4 year players. I like both their games, but they aren't jaw dropping athletes and their speed is average to below average for NBA guards. Players like them have to be pretty polished to go to the League, so there is no guarantee that they are leaving next year. Briscoe could end up sitting TWO years at Kentucky. So why commit?

I believe there are 7 hamburger boys on the Kentucky roster right now. Why on earth would they all go there?

Like I said, NO ONE is that good a salesman.
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Just ask UMass, Memphis, and the NCAA how good of a salesman Coach Cal is ;)
 
Leebo said:
There's no content in your original post except the misspelled names. That's pretty much all there was to comment on, when you consider neither player was expected to come to UConn.
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Thanks for the revue. Oops, another misspelled word. Review .
 
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Mr. Conehead said:
The only parts that huts (at least to me) is losing a local kid (UConn is the nearest major program to Jersey) to another school, no matter who the kid is. Plus, as others have said, we wants kids who want to win National Championships at UConn. Kentucky is for kids who want to be a NBA lottery pick after their first year. Those two do not always match.
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Great point.
 
superjohn said:
How is it that Kentucky can just stockpile guys and nobody worries about playing time?
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By simply attending to UK, you have a chance at being drafted first round.

Oh and straight cash (homie) in your pocket helps too.
 
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only Tate came out of NJ to help huskies

this came to light when a state by state analysis was done for significant recruits to huskies since mid 1960's

hypothesis: NJ does not have many prospects or huskies are disdained by all in NJ
conclusion: huskies need to increase recruiting in foreign nations and junior clg ranks since huskies have very few pipelines since above time frame and need to add recruiter to staff for cross fertilization from outside family and just stop the incest already
 
intlzncster said:
By simply attending to UK, you have a chance at being drafted first round.

Oh and straight cash (homie) in your pocket helps too.
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I also wonder if uk is simply the cool place to play for these kids. I mean like the place to be, or you have become validated. Cool factor has been always a teenager's attraction.

Many of us think its about Championships, or some other attraction. Just maybe we are wrong and uk is simply just hot right now. Not sure why UConn fan would feel threatened, envious or jealous.

We have proven to be fine with whoever we get, plus we have a fine coach. Let uk be uk and UConn be UConn. I have to believe the majority of fans would love to be where we are and where they are.

Can we at some point, especially now that the season starts we can stop looking behind us at uk?
 
All of these Mickey D's going to the same program (Kentucky) years ago would not have been possible. Plus, to a lesser degree, I don't understand as these 'Big X' teams have only had limited championship success. I think it's a change in attitude among players from wanting to be the best by beating the best to winning Championships to if I play with a dozen other all-stars on this college team, more scouts will see me and the faster I will get out of purgatory (college) and to the promised land (NBA). Jordan said it best when LeBron and Bosch agreed to join Wade in Miami few years back - 'I Want to beat them, not play for them.' After all, what would have been lost if Magic and Bird played on the same college team, or Ewing and Mullin, etc.?
 
Mr. Conehead said:
Just ask UMass, Memphis, and the NCAA how good of a salesman Coach Cal is ;)
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intlzncster said:
By simply attending to UK, you have a chance at being drafted first round.

Oh and straight cash (homie) in your pocket helps too.
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People point out that Calipari's success at UK is the reason for his recruiting success, but that doesn't explain why he was getting top classes the moment he arrived at Kentucky. And I don't buy the Kentucky factor because Tubby Smith was booted after struggling to get top recruits.

IMO (I know many others share it), there's a shady process going on around Calipari and that process is probably more refined than what took place at UMass and Memphis. It may or may not be $ directly given to recruits but there are ways to funnel promises and/or monies to mentors of these kids and have it done by someone not connected with Kentucky or Kentucky's coaches. Imo Calipari orchestrated it or agreed to it making him totally aware of it.

I'm always amazed at the extent of corruption both in degree and duration both in and out of sports. UNC's scandal lasted how long? And it was only exposed because one person out of hundreds had the courage to stand up to it. If that person didn't come along, how much longer would it have lasted?

I'm not cynical to think every program is cheating, but neither am I naive to think every program is clean and recruiting success is due to a coach being an excellent recruiter. My radar is focused on three programs in addition to UK. I could be wrong about them but there is something not adding up that keeps me focused on them. In their case, my hunch is boosters are the problem and the coaches are not involved. I'm positive I'm missing others that are dirty as dirt, (I missed UNC for example) but usually when my radar is up, there is a mess and it eventually gets revealed.
 
intlzncster said:
By simply attending to UK, you have a chance at being drafted first round.
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Mano said:
Briscoe wants the easy path, he wants the NBA and it's millions and he wants them sooner than later. And Kentucky can all but assure him of that.
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Don't get this at all. Attending Kentucky doesn't do anything to improve your draft status. Kentucky can't assure anyone of a better NBA status than they would get by going to UConn.
 
pj said:
Don't get this at all. Attending Kentucky doesn't do anything to improve your draft status. Kentucky can't assure anyone of a better NBA status than they would get by going to UConn.
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It's only partly to do with the school, Calipari and the Sports Leader keep the hype going. If enough people talk about something, a myth gets perpetuated. How else do you explain the Daniel Orton's and Archie Goodwin's of the world?
 
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