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2025 Recruiting: Cooper Flagg

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Great news. Give both his parents and him credit for being open to other schools despite the Duke noise. Excellent job by Danny/staff to get them to Storrs. Show them what a repeat NCAA Championship Program looks like. Swing for the fences and see what happens.
 
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aburks41 said:
We're going up against the 2 biggest bag droppers in the country. Let's hope the money doesn't sway him considering he'll be signing a $35M contract in June 2025 as the #1 draft pick.
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But we have the D'Amelio's and they don't!!!
 
aburks41 said:
We're going up against the 2 biggest bag droppers in the country. Let's hope the money doesn't sway him considering he'll be signing a $35M contract in June 2025 as the #1 draft pick.
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Like I've said before, I think he could be one of the exceptions to NIL stuff because of how big his footprint is nationally. He's going to get huge national NIL $ no matter where he ends up.

Probably just being overly optimistic, but can you blame me?
 
husky429 said:
Like I've said before, I think he could be one of the exceptions to NIL stuff because of how big his footprint is nationally. He's going to get huge national NIL $ no matter where he ends up.

Probably just being overly optimistic, but can you blame me?
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All I've wanted is for the staff to get him on campus so they can work their magic...
 
aburks41 said:
We're going up against the 2 biggest bag droppers in the country. Let's hope the money doesn't sway him considering he'll be signing a $35M contract in June 2025 as the #1 draft pick.
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Why wouldn't you want to maximize your earnings this year and then do the same afterwards?
 
This reminds me of college realignment. In the discussion with the acc and big 12
 
Chin Diesel said:
Why wouldn't you want to maximize your earnings this year and then do the same afterwards?
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Because picking a program to play for a year has many more factors than just getting the most NIL money. Plus the NIL money he can get for a year probably pales in comparison to the guaranteed money difference from being the 1st or 2nd pick in the 2025 NBA draft. So wouldn't development, exposure, etc. be more important? Maybe he wants to be closer to Maine? Maybe he likes Hurley better than Scheyer or Self? So many factors involved.
 
HooperScooper said:
Because picking a program to play for a year has many more factors than just getting the most NIL money. Plus the NIL money he can get for a year probably pales in comparison to the guaranteed money difference from being the 1st or 2nd pick in the 2025 NBA draft. So wouldn't development, exposure, etc. be more important? Maybe he wants to be closer to Maine? Maybe he likes Hurley better than Scheyer or Self? So many factors involved.
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Because if you get a chance to earn more money up front and the money is the future is already guaranteed regardless of the choice he makes for college, many kids choose to take the more up front and the most down the road.
 
HooperScooper said:
Because picking a program to play for a year has many more factors than just getting the most NIL money. Plus the NIL money he can get for a year probably pales in comparison to the guaranteed money difference from being the 1st or 2nd pick in the 2025 NBA draft. So wouldn't development, exposure, etc. be more important? Maybe he wants to be closer to Maine? Maybe he likes Hurley better than Scheyer or Self? So many factors involved.
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If we take off the blue tinted glasses, no. I hope we get Flagg, and I think we have a real shot. But his development the 1 year of college doesn't matter, he's going #1. His exposure doesn't matter between UConn and Duke, he's going to be the #1 story on SportsCenter every night no matter what
 
navery12 said:
If we take off the blue tinted glasses, no. I hope we get Flagg, and I think we have a real shot. But his development the 1 year of college doesn't matter, he's going #1. His exposure doesn't matter between UConn and Duke, he's going to be the #1 story on SportsCenter every night no matter what
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His development doesn't matter? To you or to him? From everything we've learned about this young man, he's not going to quit trying to be the best when the signing bonus wire hits his bank account -- he wants to perform at the highest level. So of course which program best prepares him to hit the NBA running is going to matter to him.
 
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JustbrewitMan said:
But we have the D'Amelio's and they don't!!!
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husky429 said:
Like I've said before, I think he could be one of the exceptions to NIL stuff because of how big his footprint is nationally. He's going to get huge national NIL $ no matter where he ends up.

Probably just being overly optimistic, but can you blame me?
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From my understanding, we have at least 2 collectives. Bleeding Blue and the D'Amelio one. I have no idea how much money either one has, but the vibe given off by the D'Amelio one was more about developing a person's brand and arranging sponsors and the like. Which is relatively worthless for players who aren't already famous coming in or going to be lottery/1st round picks. But could be extremely intriguing to someone who will likely have well over half a million followers before he sets foot on campus. Skill development not just on the court.
 
businesslawyer said:
Hid development doesn't matter? To you or to him? From everything we've learned about this young man, he's not going to quit trying to be the best when the signing bonus wire hits his bank account -- he wants to perform at the highest level. So of course which program best prepares him to hit the NBA running is going to matter to him.
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Completely missing the context of what you're quoting. I didn't say any of that, the point is whether he goes to Duke or UConn he's going to develop and going to be the #1 pick
 
navery12 said:
Completely missing the context of what you're quoting. I didn't say any of that, the point is whether he goes to Duke or UConn he's going to develop and going to be the #1 pick
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No, you are pretty clear. The fact that he would "develop" at both UConn and Duke doesn't mean his development would be equivalent, and there is no reason to think that he doesn't want to develop as much as possible even if it doesn't change where he is drafted.

Is any of that not clear?
 
auror said:
From my understanding, we have at least 2 collectives. Bleeding Blue and the D'Amelio one. I have no idea how much money either one has, but the vibe given off by the D'Amelio one was more about developing a person's brand and arranging sponsors and the like. Which is relatively worthless for players who aren't already famous coming in or going to be lottery/1st round picks. But could be extremely intriguing to someone who will likely have well over half a million followers before he sets foot on campus. Skill development not just on the court.
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The D'Amelio arrangement is to teach athletes how to fish. Other schools just feed them more than us.
 
businesslawyer said:
No, you are pretty clear. The fact that he would "develop" at both UConn and Duke doesn't mean his development would be equivalent, and there is no reason to think that he doesn't want to develop as much as possible even if it doesn't change where he is drafted.

Is any of that not clear?
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Your position is clear, I just don't agree with it. What I'm saying is that his development is going to be the same at UConn and Duke, and it's OK to admit that as a UConn fan
 
navery12 said:
Your position is clear, I just don't agree with it. What I'm saying is that his development is going to be the same at UConn and Duke, and it's OK to admit that as a UConn fan
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I didn't say it would or would not be better at UConn. I'm not in a position to evaluate that. I just said that it's ridiculous to say that his development won't be a factor in how he makes his decision.
 
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