2026 Recruiting: Colben Landrew interview (commit)

RuffRuff · Tuesday at 4:59 PM

DogMania said:
Just not an accurate one. Adrian was an undersized physical 4 who had no outside game. And Dyson was a physical 2G who was a streaky jump shooter. More attack the rim type of guard.

Other than being a physical specimen I don't see any comparison between those two players and him.

Caron is the comp!

He's the comp, and I'm not sure he's even a direct hit. Colben is his own man.

husky429 · Tuesday at 5:08 PM

bendm said:
Will he end up a 5*?

He's listed as a 5* by some services already.

RuffRuff · Tuesday at 5:11 PM

husky429 said:
He's listed as a 5* by some services already.

15 in on3. Legit, w/upside. He's not going to make/break our season next year, Hurley is going to have to make a splash in the portal at one starting position. We need to see how this all plays out.

superjohn · Tuesday at 5:15 PM

RuffRuff said:
15 in on3. Legit, w/upside. He's not going to make/break our season next year, Hurley is going to have to make a splash in the portal at one starting position. We need to see how this all plays out.

We're going to have a lot of NIL $ freed up and at a bare minimum we'll have 3 or 4 portal players. At least a couple of them have to be big time players/elite athletes.

husky99 · Tuesday at 5:37 PM

DogMania said:
He's listed 6-6 235. And from what I've read and seen, he's a 3 level scorer.

Caron Butler is a much better comp!

I see that

auror · 2026-03-15T09:14:26-0400

auror said:
His team just won the state semifinal on Saturday, they're in the finals this Saturday. They won last year (Colben's first year there I believe) as well. Colben had 22 in the semis, apparently some deep three heroics and a nice met at the rim block.

Lafayette · 2026-03-15T10:27:19-0400

Could of used him last night...dude has a motor at or equal to Zuby.

mauconnfan · 2026-03-15T10:31:54-0400

HW611 said:
Dyson is probably one of the best athletes to put on a Husky uniform. Not many guys can say they went toe to toe with Derrick Rose and John Wall in their college careers.

Jeff Adrien is probably the toughest to ever put on a Husky uniform. Did not want to be on the other side of those bows.

John Thomas and Tim Coles would beg to differ on the toughest ever.

uconngb · 2026-03-15T10:49:11-0400

mauconnfan said:
John Thomas and Tim Coles would beg to differ on the toughest ever.

And Lyman Depriest….and Toraino Walker

Lafayette · 2026-03-15T10:53:43-0400

Well, regardless of the comps of former players to former players, we tend to do well recruiting shooting guards from Georgia.

huskyjawz · 2026-03-15T11:27:33-0400

uconngb said:
And Lyman Depriest….and Toraino Walker

Edmund Saunders.

jibsey · 2026-03-15T11:30:44-0400

I hate to say this but Hurley is going to have to take a page from Pitino’s shopping habits. We need some physical thugs with skills and the staff can mold them from there.

AdamaNation · 2026-03-15T22:34:11-0400

DogMania said:
He's listed 6-6 235. And from what I've read and seen, he's a 3 level scorer.

Caron Butler is a much better comp!

I’m thinking Dereck Williams or Sean miller?

Lafayette · 2026-03-16T10:28:40-0400

Oriakhi might be a decent comp as slightly less tough than Adrien was nonetheless a tough forward that escaped the Ollie regime

FightOnCT · 2026-03-16T10:30:31-0400

jibsey said:
I hate to say this but Hurley is going to have to take a page from Pitino’s shopping habits. We need some physical thugs with skills and the staff can mold them from there.

We need some of that, but keep in mind Pitino’s team is a 5 seed for a reason despite having the number 1 portal haul. Hurley just needs balance in his roster.

Tenspro2002 · 2026-03-16T10:57:00-0400

jibsey said:
I hate to say this but Hurley is going to have to take a page from Pitino’s shopping habits. We need some physical thugs with skills and the staff can mold them from there.

I'm eager to see how we perform in this year's Tournament performance before declaring that we need to completely change our roster philosophy.

I think it's clear that our roster is not ideally constructed for the Big East in the way that St. John's's is. We overcame that in 2023-24 by being so much better than everyone else that it didn't matter.

For the last 4 years we've generally acquitted ourselves very well outside of the conference.

If we look good again and make a run to the Elite 8 and show ourselves to be competitive with the top teams out of conference, then maybe we just decide that we're OK being disadvantaged in the BE while knowing that we're going to be fine in March.

If we continue to stumble, then maybe it's the case that we've been figured out, aren't improving over the course of a year, and some evolution in approach is warranted, both for in-conference and out-of-conference success.

RuffRuff · 2026-03-16T11:02:46-0400

jibsey said:
I hate to say this but Hurley is going to have to take a page from Pitino’s shopping habits. We need some physical thugs with skills and the staff can mold them from there.

More tattoos!!

Hurley has been going with a real homogenous style - bunch of nice guys with no cajones. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't have the sense to realize that. Having some diversity of personality makes a team better.

Lafayette · 2026-03-16T11:07:38-0400

RuffRuff said:
More tattoos!!

Hurley has been going with a real homogenous style - bunch of nice guys with no cajones. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't have the sense to realize that. Having some diversity of personality makes a team better.

Takes cajones to go over the middle in football. Landrew was recruited as a possession receiver and loved contact (what 6’6” receiver doesn’t) so he definitely brings it next year.

husky429 · 2026-03-16T11:12:34-0400

jibsey said:
I hate to say this but Hurley is going to have to take a page from Pitino’s shopping habits. We need some physical thugs with skills and the staff can mold them from there.

I suspect Hurley thought that 1 of Malachi/Silas/Mullins/Solo would make the leap and be a consistent threat to finish at the rim. They didn't, and that's why we've struggled.

aceboon · 2026-03-16T11:15:16-0400

Lafayette said:
Oriakhi might be a decent comp as slightly less tough than Adrien was nonetheless a tough forward that escaped the Ollie regime

?

Lafayette · 2026-03-16T11:17:00-0400

aceboon said:
?

Alex Oriakhi? 6’ 9” so more PF but Landrew has the toughness comp

Kemba15 · 2026-03-16T11:17:55-0400

FightOnCT said:
We need some of that, but keep in mind Pitino’s team is a 5 seed for a reason despite having the number 1 portal haul. Hurley just needs balance in his roster.

Agree, but one key difference is that because of Mike Repole, they can miss on guys they spend big $$ on and have it not really matter.

superjohn · 2026-03-16T11:18:14-0400

RuffRuff said:
More tattoos!!

Hurley has been going with a real homogenous style - bunch of nice guys with no cajones. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't have the sense to realize that. Having some diversity of personality makes a team better.

More tattoos?

WhereistheDove? · 2026-03-16T11:22:00-0400

RuffRuff said:
More tattoos!!

Hurley has been going with a real homogenous style - bunch of nice guys with no cajones. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't have the sense to realize that. Having some diversity of personality makes a team better.

Huh? Were Andre and Spencer nice guys with no cajones? Was Castle a nice guy with no cajones? Diarra? We’ve had a bunch of absolute dogs during Hurley’s tenure.

RuffRuff · 2026-03-16T11:25:07-0400

WhereistheDove? said:
Huh? Were Andre and Spencer nice guys with no cajones? Was Castle a nice guy with no cajones? Diarra? We’ve had a bunch of absolute dogs during Hurley’s tenure.

Not talking about past teams - he's had plenty, but he's totally moved away from it and it's puzzling. If anything, why move away from what worked so well...

2026 Recruiting: Colben Landrew interview (commit)

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