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If graduation is important to a player, then they can study and graduate. Just because Gavin Edwards and Jonathan Mandledove didn't feel it was important to finish doesn't mean that will happen to everyone who comes through the program. The same opportunity is there for everyone to do what they want with their own education. It's sorta like St. John's never won any national championships when they had chances, and then when UConn came along and had chances, they won three of them. McCullough isn't Mandeldove. And UConn isn't St. John's.
 
caw said:
I'm just going to assume you are a SJU fan.

If you are, what was the direct quote regarding SJU being McCullough's "dream school"? All I have seen is a line written by a SJU fan website with the "dream school" part thrown in. See below:

Chris McCullough, a 6’8”, 200 lb forward from Salisbury School (CT), called St. John’s his “dream school” and raved about the coaching staff and city of New York.

There is no surrounding quote. That in itself is a huge difference between the SJU quote and the UConn quote. See below:

“UConn is my dream school,” McCullough told NRS, “they were my favorite team growing up. If they offer me, I think I’ll take it.”

The SJU one is very sloppy and could be vastly misleading depending on what was said surrounding that. It could have been anything from, "A BE like SJU/UConn/WVU/etc. is my dream school" to "SJU is my one and only dream school". Perhaps I missed the full quote and would love to see it.

For that matter, I know nothing about NRS and how reputable it is, does anyone else?
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Johnnyjungle is reputable. Run and owned by same guy who is digital media director for Hoopgroup. I know nothing about NRS, but McCullough has denied the info that NRS is using to quote McCullough. That should say enough right there. And fwiw, SJU has won national championships, just not NCAA championships. SJU certainly can't hang their hat on those old ones though. No argument that Uconn has been the better team in last 20.
 
sweet. SJU, btw, will never be in the same class as UCONN. sure they were big when i was in diapers, but in the past 15 years it's been all UCONN all the time. he sounds like a great kid and i hope we land him. can't get too torqued up about it as he's a few years away from committing, but it's good news and that's nice to see.
 
MCNPA said:
Johnnyjungle is reputable. Run and owned by same guy who is digital media director for Hoopgroup. I know nothing about NRS, but McCullough has denied the info that NRS is using to quote McCullough. That should say enough right there. And fwiw, SJU has won national championships, just not NCAA championships. SJU certainly can't hang their hat on those old ones though. No argument that Uconn has been the better team in last 20.
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I wasn't claiming Johnnyjungle isn't reputable. I seriously want to know the quote. I am not a fan of news agencies/bloggers taking quotes out of context or making partial quotes like he used in the article, especially with quotes that carry so much weight.

As for NRS, I have no idea if this is a good, legit site or not, thus I am also curious if anyone knows. It appears there were at least some mistakes made in the NRS article, if not downright lies.

Not sure the rest is really based toward me, so ehh.
 
UCONNfan1 said:
sweet. SJU, btw, will never be in the same class as UCONN. sure they were big when i was in diapers, but in the past 15 years it's been all UCONN all the time. he sounds like a great kid and i hope we land him. can't get too torqued up about it as he's a few years away from committing, but it's good news and that's nice to see.
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Anything can change with kids this young and if he is a few years away from giving a team the nod- well you never know.
Don't crap your pants when the Johnnies are good again every year- they have everything they need to be a good team except the coach and they are now bring in much better talent.
 
Btw, the NRS guy said on twitter that McCullough did say that UConn is his dream school, and apparently he has it on tape.

McCullough contacted him again and said that UConn isn't his dream school but that UConn and Syracuse fit him the best. Hmmm...
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Btw, the NRS guy said on twitter that McCullough did say that UConn is his dream school, and apparently he has it on tape.

McCullough contacted him again and said that UConn isn't his dream school but that UConn and Syracuse fit him the best. Hmmm...
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Weird
 
Scot-e said:
Anything can change with kids this young and if he is a few years away from giving a team the nod- well you never know.
Don't crap your pants when the Johnnies are good again every year- they have everything they need to be a good team except the coach and they are now bring in much better talent.
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by "same class as UCONN" i meant winning multiple NC's. very few programs have done what UCONN has. i don't doubt their program is on the rise, but a huge year for them will be winning the BET. winning the NCAA's? yeah, i'll crap my pants when they do...
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Btw, the NRS guy said on twitter that McCullough did say that UConn is his dream school, and apparently he has it on tape.

McCullough contacted him again and said that UConn isn't his dream school but that UConn and Syracuse fit him the best. Hmmm...
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I'd take being in his top two right now.
 
UCHuskies08 said:
He's 14? That makes me feel a little dirty, sitting here legitimately thinking about what a 14 year old kid might do.
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I thought 16 if he's a 2014 kid or at least 15 but yeah.
 
if you look at the article it has a Editor’s Note: In an earlier edition of this article, McCullough said that Connecticut was his dream school and that he didn’t have an offer from them. He now rejects that he said that and says they aren’t his dream school and that he does have an offer from them. The article is updated to reflect this change.
 
LambaSlama said:
if you look at the article it has a Editor’s Note: In an earlier edition of this article, McCullough said that Connecticut was his dream school and that he didn’t have an offer from them. He now rejects that he said that and says they aren’t his dream school and that he does have an offer from them. The article is updated to reflect this change.
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Beat me to it.
 
caw said:
I thought 16 if he's a 2014 kid or at least 15 but yeah.
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14, 15, 16, whatever. I was just making a general point that kids say/do weird stuff. Imagine what you would have sounded like if you had reporters hawking you from the time you were a freshman in high school.
 
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UCONNfan1 said:
sweet. SJU, btw, will never be in the same class as UCONN. sure they were big when i was in diapers, but in the past 15 years it's been all UCONN all the time. he sounds like a great kid and i hope we land him. can't get too torqued up about it as he's a few years away from committing, but it's good news and that's nice to see.
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The last 15 years isn't all that college basketball has to offer America. SJU has a long and successful history. Uconn fans should remember where they came from before Jim Calhoun before knocking SJU's bball history.
 
MCNPA said:
The last 15 years isn't all that college basketball has to offer America. SJU has a long and successful history. Uconn fans should remember where they came from before Jim Calhoun before knocking SJU's bball history.
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You would think the last "15 years" are what matter most when you're recruiting... 15 year olds.
 
MCNPA said:
The last 15 years isn't all that college basketball has to offer America. SJU has a long and successful history. Uconn fans should remember where they came from before Jim Calhoun before knocking SJU's bball history.
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We came from nowhere and absolutely eclipsed anything Sju did in their best years. That's all you need to know when comparing the two programs. Carneseca is a god like figure at Sju and his accomplishments are a joke compared to Calhouns. You are delusional if you think Sju is in the same stratosphere as Uconn even over the course of the last 50 Years.
 
Army used to be great at football.

St. John's isn't in the conversation with UConn - they're Providence with fonder memories.
 
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