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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Why Cooper Flagg fits UConn’s model of ‘basketball people'

HuskyWarrior611 said:
It wasn’t as much of a big recruiting win over the big dogs as much as it was an incredible eye for talent.
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I can’t believe this has to be spelled out. We’re still the little brother to the elite programs in recruiting despite our success, it’s bizarre and disappointing.

It doesn’t take away from the phenomenal job Dan and staff have done, nobody is worried about the health of the program, none of this should have to be said.

But it’d be nice to go into that recruiting cage with Duke or Kansas or Kentucky and come out victorious for a change.
 
husky429 said:
Meh. Top-10 talent is top-10 talent. Recruiting services just took a while to catch up to the coaches own evaluations.
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Yeah and I’m thrilled we got Castle before he could be stolen by our overlords in the recruiting world.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I can’t believe this has to be spelled out. We’re still the little brother to the elite programs in recruiting despite our success, it’s bizarre and disappointing.

It doesn’t take away from the phenomenal job Dan and staff have done, nobody is worried about the health of the program, none of this should have to be said.

But it’d be nice to go into that recruiting cage with Duke or Kansas or Kentucky and come out victorious for a change.
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I agree, I just wouldn’t use this recruitment as an example of that. Duke had so much working in their favor here.

Pat is a big test though because we’ve been on him for awhile and his cousin is already committed.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I can’t believe this has to be spelled out. We’re still the little brother to the elite programs in recruiting despite our success, it’s bizarre and disappointing.

It doesn’t take away from the phenomenal job Dan and staff have done, nobody is worried about the health of the program, none of this should have to be said.

But it’d be nice to go into that recruiting cage with Duke or Kansas or Kentucky and come out victorious for a change.
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Well we can say we beat Kansas on this one. :)
 
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He guys, we should count our blessings we got Castle even though he wasn't top 10 when we got him. There's still almost two weeks until the season starts, hopefully the overlords don't pry him away before then.
 
Huskyforlife said:
All the “but castle” people aren’t grasping we’d probably have lost Castle to Duke/Kentucky/Kansas had he been properly rated to begin with, based on our track record. That’s the problem.
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Is it an actual problem? Or just something that you find to be a problem.

There's basically what 4 programs out of what 350+ that we aren't likely to get guys when there's mutual interest and we rarely are going for the top 10 type prospects anyway.
 
Huskyforlife said:
All the “but castle” people aren’t grasping we’d probably have lost Castle to Duke/Kentucky/Kansas had he been properly rated to begin with, based on our track record. That’s the problem.
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Just seems like a weird thing to be upset about man. It's 3 programs in the entire country we can't outrecruit regularly.

We have 5 championships in 24 years. Kansas is an embarassment--half the roster are felons at this point. Duke lost a legend and Scheyer hasn't proven he's a decent coach yet. UK gets all the recruits in the world and still sucks.

Would you really rather be in their position? Part of our model of success is recruiting 25-75-ish, and that means we will whiff sometimes.
 
husky429 said:
Just seems like a weird thing to be upset about man.

We have 5 championships in 24 years. Kansas is an embarassment--half the roster are felons at this point. Duke lost a legend and Scheyer hasn't proven he's a decent coach yet. UK gets all the recruits in the world and still sucks.

Would you really rather be in their position? Part of our model of success is recruiting 25-75-ish, and that means we will whiff sometimes.
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I don’t think he’s upset. I think y’all are framing it that way. He stated that he’s not concerned about the health of the program. I think he’d just like to win one of these blue blood recruiting battles. It’s been a while
 
watching uconn fans talk themselves into something happening that was never going to happen was so cute.

love when the lil guy's get feisty! respect them! uconn deserves better!
 
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I went to the car wash tonight after work hoping for some answers. I mentioned “Cooper” and they sprayed my tires down. I knew we were screwed at that point!
 
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AntG168 said:
I don’t think he’s upset. I think y’all are framing it that way. He stated that he’s not concerned about the health of the program. I think he’d just like to win one of these blue blood recruiting battles. It’s been a while
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It's just dumb. Duke has been Flagg's dream school his whole life and it was assumed he was going there for a year and a half. UConn was never supposed to be a part of his recruitment, we got his only other visit.

We win national championships constantly, who cares if we do it with a majority of guys ranked 30-70? Who cares if we hone in on studs who rise up in the rankings?

Donyell pretty much fell in our lap, we beat out Minnesota for Khalid, I forget Rip's recruitment but we didn't beat out Duke, Kentucky, Kansas for him. We didn't beat out those schools for Caron either. We got Ben Gordon because Duke didn't pursue him, we beat out Maryland for Rudy Gay. People were freaking out that we didn't get Jamal Sampson and Isiah Fox and we settled for Okafor. We got Charlie V because Self left Illinois. We got Kemba because we didn't get Brandon Jennings. We got Bazz because we didn't get Knight, Selby or Joseph. We got Boatright because Huggins took Jabarie Hinds (another point guard) right after getting Boatright.

These are the best players who have ever played here and all I can think of where we beat out "our overlords" was Ray Allen. Yet we win more national championships than everyone else.
 
superjohn said:
It's just dumb. Duke has been Flagg's dream school his whole life and it was assumed he was going there for a year and a half. UConn was never supposed to be a part of his recruitment, we got his only other visit.

We win national championships constantly, who cares if we do it with a majority of guys ranked 30-70? Who cares if we hone in on studs who rise up in the rankings?

Donyell pretty much fell in our lap, we beat out Minnesota for Khalid, I forget Rip's recruitment but we didn't beat out Duke, Kentucky, Kansas for him. We didn't beat out those schools for Caron either. We got Ben Gordon because Duke didn't pursue him, we beat out Maryland for Rudy Gay. People were freaking out that we didn't get Jamal Sampson and Isiah Fox and we settled for Okafor. We got Charlie V because Self left Illinois. We got Kemba because we didn't get Brandon Jennings. We got Bazz because we didn't get Knight, Selby or Joseph. We got Boatright because Huggins took Jabarie Hinds (another point guard) right after getting Boatright.

These are the best players who have ever played here and all I can think of where we beat out "our overlords" was Ray Allen. Yet we win more national championships than everyone else.
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You’re preaching to the choir. I personally don’t care who we beat out. I was just shooting @HuskyHawk some bail as I don’t think he was upset or complaining. Just making a valid observation.

I’m glad it’s over. I’m pumped for tomorrow. Who is Cooper Flagg anyway? Acuff come on down!
 
Marat said:
I think much of it due to the prediction on TV by Isla created all this hope making it feel like a lioss.
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Pretty much. The rumor was started by a couple people and many Uconn fans fell for it. Cooper was never going to say no Duke. The whole family are duke fans. Cant fault the staff for trying at least.
 
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