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Corey Floyd visiting Providence

HooperScooper said:
As said by Huskybass, Hurley already said he would have helped. But when did Hurley realize that? Probably too late to waste the redshirt.

Floyd tried to convince the staff to allow him to play a few times this season, but Hurley & Co. never caved, despite Hurley admitting: “If Corey had played, he would have helped us.”

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"If Corey was available and wasn't a red-shirt, he would have played this year because he's physical, he's got great pedigree and size," Hurley said. "He doesn't have anything that's really deficient. He's an athlete, well-rounded, and he's still young."

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I will stick to what I say about every sport — I don’t waste time listening to what coaches say because coaches say things all the time for reasons other than they think they are true.
 
HooperScooper said:
Why? It was 2 weeks before Floyd announced he was transferring.
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“If Corey was available and wasn’t a redshirt” is a silly quote. He was available, they chose to redshirt, and when they saw our lack of depth in the backcourt, they could have pulled the redshirt and played him. They had an option. He wasn’t locked into a redshirt.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
“If Corey was available and wasn’t a redshirt” is a silly quote. He was available, they chose to redshirt, and when they saw our lack of depth in the backcourt, they could have pulled the redshirt and played him. They had an option. He wasn’t locked into a redshirt.
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It depends when they realized it. If it's February then I think it's pretty dumb to pull the redshirt then
 
businesslawyer said:
There's no such term as "being activated." You don't file papers to redshirt with anyone at the beginning of the season. If you don't play (or if you play a little and then get hurt), then you get an extra year of eligibility. The point being, all that had to be done was tell him to take his warmups off and report in. Shockingly, if Hurley thought that he could have helped the club in a material way and Floyd was willing to spend a year of eligibilty, HE WOULD HAVE PLAYED.
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I think they just needed to touch each other and say “Wonder Twins power activate.”
 
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Thing is if the kid wanted to play and he was a better option than Gaff then it should have happened. Not sure of the facts but this whole scenario is strange.

Having said that if he goes to PC I hope he does well. When playing versus us I hope he craps himself.
 
mauconnfan said:
Thing is if the kid wanted to play and he was a better option than Gaff then it should have happened. Not sure of the facts but this whole scenario is strange.

Having said that if he goes to PC I hope he does well. When playing versus us I hope he craps himself.
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Another case where Hurley is being forced to learn and not be so stubborn. That said, I THINK HE IS! He's been wrong sooo many times, but does so many things right. I'm hopeful this wave of transfers has forced his hand and think it has. While some upset at it, I don't want to say thrilled but I'm very excited about forcing Hurley from his loyalty to undertalented players he's shown a signficant penchant for. The guys we are connected to are clear upgrades and often are multi-talented where he had so many one dimensional guys he went with.

I don't think I've ever seen our guard situation be more dire in 25+ years as last year (or if you want to argue it's definitely in pantheon of dire UConn guard situations, obv RJ did all he could). In dire situations, it should be all hands on deck.

Floyd's physicality would have helped him a great deal I believe vs. an average freshman. You simply can't have a guard afraid to dribble with back to basket 40 feet from the hoop and expect to run any semblance of an offense. There's no way Floyd couldn't have been better in that respect. I believe Hurley and esp the parts about Floyd imploring him to play. Can't imagine how frustrating that must have been.
 
MJ1 said:
Couldn’t get playing time with Syracuse and transferred, couldn’t get playing time with Providence and transferred. Needs to lower his expectations and try Fordham or UMass.
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Lovely shot at Sool
Classy
 
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rip7774 said:
Another case where Hurley is being forced to learn and not be so stubborn. That said, I THINK HE IS! He's been wrong sooo many times, but does so many things right. I'm hopeful this wave of transfers has forced his hand and think it has. While some upset at it, I don't want to say thrilled but I'm very excited about forcing Hurley from his loyalty to undertalented players he's shown a signficant penchant for. The guys we are connected to are clear upgrades and often are multi-talented where he had so many one dimensional guys he went with.

I don't think I've ever seen our guard situation be more dire in 25+ years as last year (or if you want to argue it's definitely in pantheon of dire UConn guard situations, obv RJ did all he could). In dire situations, it should be all hands on deck.

Floyd's physicality would have helped him a great deal I believe vs. an average freshman. You simply can't have a guard afraid to dribble with back to basket 40 feet from the hoop and expect to run any semblance of an offense. There's no way Floyd couldn't have been better in that respect. I believe Hurley and esp the parts about Floyd imploring him to play. Can't imagine how frustrating that must have been.
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Seriously? We started two guards who played at an all Big East level and had Hawkins behind them. Even in terms of lacking a back up PG, we were worse off in '05 where we had a French grad student walk on playing behind Marcus Williams as opposed to an underperforming Gaffney.
 
businesslawyer said:
Seriously? We started two guards who played at an all Big East level and had Hawkins behind them. Even in terms of lacking a back up PG, we were worse off in '05 where we had a French grad student walk on playing behind Marcus Williams as opposed to an underperforming Gaffney.
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It’s going to be a long offseason of people saying ridiculous things.
 
businesslawyer said:
Seriously? We started two guards who played at an all Big East level and had Hawkins behind them. Even in terms of lacking a back up PG, we were worse off in '05 where we had a French grad student walk on playing behind Marcus Williams as opposed to an underperforming Gaffney.
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Yet we managed to finish 13-3 in the OBE, finish the season ranked 13 and win a tournament game
 
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businesslawyer said:
Seriously? We started two guards who played at an all Big East level and had Hawkins behind them. Even in terms of lacking a back up PG, we were worse off in '05 where we had a French grad student walk on playing behind Marcus Williams as opposed to an underperforming Gaffney.
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I don't consider Martin a guard at all. More of a 3/4, his strength was his strength and improved outside shooting. We had one competent ballhandler until Andre stepped up and he's still a wing to me.

I think we were Sweet Sixteen at a minimum if Hurley took a point or combo last offseason. Wasted what could have been a deep run imo.
Imagine Cole getting to play off the ball with his stroke?? Woulda been nice. He wore down late in games often and missed big free throws on occasion I don't think he'd have missed if not playing high leverage 35+ mins.

I try to be open-minded, but feel pretty certain last year's guards (again, not counting Martin who did a ton of damage on the glass) were among the worst group (obv Cole was a warrior) we've had since i started watching in 1994. Again in the Pantheon of worst units, I remember the dire straights behind Marcus for sure, though he was an absolute stud, Cole was terrific but I don't think he's on Marcus' level. He was a first rounder and dominant college player.

Point is, I don't want Hurley to ever be in that situation again. I remember Calhoun saying something similar after that Williams and no one else year.
 
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Hungryhusky99 said:
According to the mods of the PC board it did.
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What is the main PC board? I remember checking in on it when they had that great team with God Shammgod/Croshere, been a while lol!
 
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The premium site must be where the actual basketball fans post because this is rich. Spoken like a true mid-major.

"Just an additional thought you triggered: If Floyd, after meeting with and getting to know Cooley, staff, school etc. a bit and knowing he would mostly sit next season to learn the Friar system and prepare to take over 2023 and beyond, still commits to PC, isn't it Telling that he bolted from Hurley and chose to play here with similar playing time yet believes in our system, our culture, our staff and our head coach over Uconn!!"

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Kolumbo said:
The premium site must be where the actual basketball fans post because this is rich. Spoken like a true mid-major.

"Just an additional thought you triggered: If Floyd, after meeting with and getting to know Cooley, staff, school etc. a bit and knowing he would mostly sit next season to learn the Friar system and prepare to take over 2023 and beyond, still commits to PC, isn't it Telling that he bolted from Hurley and chose to play here with similar playing time yet believes in our system, our culture, our staff and our head coach over Uconn!!"

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Just mad that their true rival will always be URI.
 
NJHusky said:
Yet we managed to finish 13-3 in the OBE, finish the season ranked 13 and win a tournament game
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Huh? We were good in 2005 without a backup point guard. What in the world does that have to do with what I actually said?
 
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