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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyNan, post: 5191756, member: 4"] Years ago, I was speaking with an AAU coach in Connecticut and he told me Geno called him fairly regularly. They’d have a friendly conversation but Geno would ask about the AAU coach’s players or any players he might have seen that the coach thought Geno should see. The coach said he’d never had a player remotely good enough to play at UConn but Geno still called him. That’s how coaches dig up the hidden gems - networking. That’s how he got Gandy‘s name, btw, info from his network as well as Nika and other international prospects. Geno goes to AAU and high school games to check out top recruits, yes, but he’s watching all the players not just the highly ranked ones. Years ago, he went to watch Alexis Hornbuckle’s high school game in West Virginia but ended up recruiting the point guard on Alexis’s team - Renee Montgomery. Geno recruits the players he likes, ratings be damned [/QUOTE]