Fan Interest Level

[Oldbones]

When I looked this morning, the Katie Lou Samuelson thread, for a student who hasn't played a minute yet, has 221 replies and over 24,000 views. The Lauren Cox thread, for someone who is only on the watch list, has 135 replies and over 20,000 views. A very recent picture of the three incoming freshman has almost 6,000 views.

The question is, if you are a prospective student-athlete, looking for a winning program with great fan interest and support, why look any further than Storrs, CT?

 

[DaddyChoc]

Samuelson is signed... but people were/curious about her presence on campus are the sudden departure from the summer games.

Cox is highly recruited, people are looking for a verbal etc.... waiting, peeking in!

Understandable about the view count of both threads.

If you make a comment on either right now, I bet the count would go up 100-200 in the next 3 hrs (or much less)

btw... Warlick avg of view/comments is better than both threads

 

[watanabe]

Does this need to be answered here? I mean is the sky blue?
Good observation tho.

 

[meyers7]

When I looked this morning, the Katie Lou Samuelson thread, for a student who hasn't played a minute yet, has 221 replies and over 24,000 views. The Lauren Cox thread, for someone who is only on the watch list, has 135 replies and over 20,000 views. A very recent picture of the three incoming freshman has almost 6,000 views.

The question is, if you are a prospective student-athlete, looking for a winning program with great fan interest and support, why look any further than Storrs, CT?

Some of them don't like the fishbowl.

 

[HoopsFan21]

And some of them want to play, some want to be the star, some want a big school with a real college town atmosphere, and so on and so forth. There are plenty of reasons not to come to UConn - basketball and non-basketball related.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

And some of them want to play, some want to be the star, some want a big school with a real college town atmosphere, and so on and so forth. There are plenty of reasons not to come to UConn - basketball and non-basketball related.

But the OP's point about fan interest is true to the point that I would think it is one of several "plusses" that UConn shares with few schools. Some others have it, to be sure (even odd schools like Iowa State), but I know of at least one player that made a point they disliked playing to seriously empty arenas. I would suspect that fan support is somewhere on the list of a player choosing their school, along with the points you raise, various academic questions, location, weather, etc. etc.

 

[CocoHusky]

1) Because there are over 300 more Division I programs out there.
2) UCONN requires a skill set that most do not have
3) College for most is about the education, not basketball
4) I want my family to be in the stands when I play so I staying as close to home as I can
5) My grades so far might get me into an Ivy league school, so if I get in that is where I'm going
6) I want to major in Fashion or (fill in the blank) and UCONN is just not that highly regarded in that major
7) I grew up a Tennessee fan & I don't mind orange so much
8) The line from The Blindside: That's where my family went so that where I'm going
9) UCONN is Just not for me, they go too hard all the time
10) Geno is going to yell at me
11) My AAU coach says UCONN is just not for me
12) Sadie transferred after 1 semester and she was a McDonalds AA
13) EDD went there and never made it to 1 single class
14) Seems like it is always snowing up there in Storrs
15) UCONN doesn't have people that look like me (Diversity Angle)
16) Mark Emmert used to work at UCONN and look what he's done to the NCAA
17) I'm just a regular kid and UCONN says regular kids need not apply.
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[JavaMan]

1) Because there are over 300 more Division I programs out there.
2) UCONN requires a skill set that most do not have
3) College for most is about the education, not basketball
4) I want my family to be in the stands when I play so I staying as close to home as I can
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17) I'm just a regular kid and UCONN says regular kids need not apply.

For some, almost all are legitimate reasons to forgo UConn. And, there are probably many more reasons that we longer-lived Boneyarders are oblivious to.

I think the vast majority of the girls/women, in this era, who choose to accept Geno's inducements and come to Storrs to play basketball and earn their degree(s), already possess high levels of self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-worth, as well as a passion for roundball at the ultimate level. Those who don't ...don't!

Basketball skills are obvious, all of these others qualities, not so much. They vet themselves.

Works for me!

 

[j66kicker]

1) Because there are over 300 more Division I programs out there.
2) UCONN requires a skill set that most do not have
3) College for most is about the education, not basketball
4) I want my family to be in the stands when I play so I staying as close to home as I can
5) My grades so far might get me into an Ivy league school, so if I get in that is where I'm going
6) I want to major in Fashion or (fill in the blank) and UCONN is just not that highly regarded in that major
7) I grew up a Tennessee fan & I don't mind orange so much
8) The line from The Blindside: That's where my family went so that where I'm going
9) UCONN is Just not for me, they go too hard all the time
10) Geno is going to yell at me
11) My AAU coach says UCONN is just not for me
12) Sadie transferred after 1 semester and she was a McDonalds AA
13) EDD went there and never made it to 1 single class
14) Seems like it is always snowing up there in Storrs
15) UCONN doesn't have people that look like me (Diversity Angle)
16) Mark Emmert used to work at UCONN and look what he's done to the NCAA
17) I'm just a regular kid and UCONN says regular kids need not apply.
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18. It's really dark in Connecticut

 

[CocoHusky]

I don't understand why any parent of a talented high school girl would not be pushing their daughter to UConn.

Maybe they realize "pushing" their daughter to do something she may not want isn't a good idea. Maybe they graduated from ND, Ohio State, Texas, Baylor, etc. and want their daughter to follow in their footsteps. Maybe they know their daughter does not like cold weather. Maybe they don't like New Englanders. Maybe they know their daughter wouldn't flourish under Geno (wrong temperament or personality). Maybe they realize their daughter has a different dream than play at UCONN. Maybe their daughter has a particular major she's interested in that UCONN doesn't have or isn't the leader in.

There are hundreds of reasons why.

Yes literally hundreds!

1) Because there are over 300 more Division I programs out there.

2) UCONN requires a skill set that most do not have

3) College for most is about the education, not basketball

4) I want my family to be in the stands when I play so I staying as close to home as I can

5) My grades so far might get me into an Ivy league school, so if I get in that is where I'm going

6) I want to major in Fashion or (fill in the blank) and UCONN is just not that highly regarded in that major

7) I grew up a Tennessee fan & I don't mind orange so much

8) The line from The Blindside: That's where my family went so that where I'm going

9) UCONN is Just not for me, they go too hard all the time

10) Geno is going to yell at me

11) My AAU coach says UCONN is just not for me

12) Sadie transferred after 1 semester and she was a McDonalds AA

13) EDD went there and never made it to 1 single class

14) Seems like it is always snowing up there in Storrs

15) UCONN doesn't have people that look like me (Diversity Angle)

16) Mark Emmert used to work at UCONN and look what he's done to the NCAA

17) I'm just a regular kid and UCONN says regular kids need not apply.

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