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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
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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 do and many of us also remember and respect Chris Mullin, Walter Berry, Willie Glass and even prior................but since 89-90 UConns achievements in the tourney have absolutely overshadowed anything Louie did in his long illustrious career........it's not close either. And there were only 20 good pregrams back then!!

Fishy and CAHusky have said it best so no need to repeat!! The ole'pimple on ass you might say.....
 
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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Yeah, in the last 15 years UConn has 3 national championships and 4 final fours. How many did St. Johns have during it's best time period?


I'll wait.
 
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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St John's has a nice history but many St John's fans try to believe that before the Jarvis dismissal they were on an equal level with UCLA, UNC, Indiana & Kentucky. The reality is they were Bradley, DePaul and Temple (LaSalle could fit as well but they actually have national title).

The fact is that they were a regional power for the most part pre BE and save the Mullin years, were not all that special nationally (about 30 other schools could claim equal or better results from the mid 1980's to the late 1990's) as a BE school and benefitted greatly by the gambling scandals that eventually killed the men's hoops programs at NYU, CCNY & LIU. Additionally, what they hold their hat on primarily (NIT titles) occurred almost exclusively after the NCAA clearly surpassed the NIT in prestige (except in the rhetoric of a handful of eastern private schools who had little NCAA success) and it was a tournament that they were one of the owners/managers of. The deck was always stacked somewhat in their favor when they were in that tourney, especially when the other NY schools who were partners in that tourney no longer played competitive hoops.
 
Remember when UConn got early commitments from that Coombs-McWhatsHisName and Oria-something kid?
 
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Now if he could only cram a couple years of classes this summer and reclassify to 2012... :)
 
Seriously? The only St. John's-relevant discussion that should be happening on this board is Lavin's wife v. Sofia Vergara. Everything else is irrelevant and quite frankly, preposterous.
 
Fishy said:
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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That is a completely and totally different circumstance than anything else. Army can't be great any more because the draw of the NFL has increased so much (and players want to jump straight from college to the pros) and lineman have gotten way bigger than the service academies can take.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
That is a completely and totally different circumstance than anything else. Army can't be great any more because the draw of the NFL has increased so much (and players want to jump straight from college to the pros) and lineman have gotten way bigger than the service academies can take.
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I think we can chalk that one up to artistic license. We could have said CCNY or Holy Cross used to be good at basketball, too - but that's not a fair comparison either. Those schools actually won national titles.
 
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