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Flagg to Duke. Official

amishboy said:
Dan Hurley is 100% right; no one should be off the board now!

But when is someone on the board actually coming here? Why is a top 20-rated recruit coming to UConn almost unheard of? As best I can tell from 247, since we won our first NC, we’ve successfully recruited these top 20 guys: Stanley Robinson, Kemba, Ater Majok, Alex Oriakhl, Rudy Gay, Deandre Daniels, Daniel Hamilton, and now Stephon Castle.

That’s it, eight top 20 recruits in 20+ years (basically, the typical back-to-back results for Duke). All things considered, Hurley (and maybe even Ollie) should already have joined Calhoun in the Basketball HOF.
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Throw Andre Drummond and Andrew Bynum in there too. I don't know why we don't get more top 10 recruits but it's worked out well for us. Kentucky and Duke have a stranglehold on those kids and UNC and Kansas get their share.
 
Meh, we've always excelled with the hungry kids. I'm not sweating the loss of kids who want something different...We are not hiding what we're selling, and it's championships.
 
I feel so sorry for the Dukies. I mean, whatever will they do with the number one player and six other top 20 kids after losing the ACC tournament and getting knocked out in the sweet 16 in 2025?
 
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Doctor Hoop said:
I feel so sorry for the Dukies. I mean, whatever will they do with the number one player and six other top 20 kids after losing the ACC tournament and getting knocked out in the sweet 16 in 2025?
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Don't dance on their grave two years ahead of the funeral.
 
HooperScooper said:
I agree with you since most of the time he was kind of ambivalent about UConn. The quote below contradicted his previous statements about UConn.

“When I was a sophomore here at Windsor High, (UConn) was where I wanted to go, really where I dreamed of going,” Betsey said. “But really going through the process and realizing what you need and what you want, that’s really what it came down to and that’s where Cincinnati really separated themselves.”

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Tyler Betsey to announce today! (Commits to Cincinnati)

The writing has been on the wall for this move for a while now, so nothing else to do but wish him personal success and good health for the CT kid.
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Dream school usually equals stringing tou along but going to the prom with another girl.
 
superjohn said:
Throw Andre Drummond and Andrew Bynum in there too. I don't know why we don't get more top 10 recruits but it's worked out well for us. Kentucky and Duke have a stranglehold on those kids and UNC and Kansas get their share.
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In the eyes of the NCAA

“ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
 
Tbh there was no reason to recruit Flagg after Betsey destroyed all hope that Betsey, Ross and Flagg could all be on the same team
 
Its crazy some people are worried on here, Hurley just brought arguably the best recruiting class in UConn history!!
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
I get that we all have to hate Laettner but this is an odd thing to say about a kid who played 4 years of college basketball and was one of the best college basketball players of all time.
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What’s so odd about saying Laettner, despite being a great college player, wasn’t ready for the NBA? We’ve seen this time and time again from big time Duke recruits that fizzled after college, and where do you get from my post that I hated Laettner? I can think of only one Duke kid that truly went on to greatness in the NBA, Grant Hill. Maybe Zion will be another, but it’s early, and he’s had some injuries. College basketball, even if only for one year, molds and develops players, and that’s one area where Duke and the coaching staff have fallen short. Maybe Cooper will overcome all this at Duke and go on to greatness in the NBA, but I have my doubts.
 
amishboy said:
For me, its less about losing CF (to Duke) and PN (probably to Duke), and more about losing our top targets to Duke, again and again.

We’ve won 5 NCs, we’re the freaking defending NC, we have a great core in place, we play in the BE, K finally retired, and…we once again we STILL finished second with our top targets.

Just once, I’d like to see us compete with Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, etc., with a comparable roster.
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And with all those rosters that Dook beat out UConn for higher ranked players, they have a ton more NCs, correct????
Yeah, thought so.....................................................
 
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May I suggest Graham's Six Grape for your next account/AJ Dybantsa prediction?
 
CONN78SEJ said:
I can think of only one Duke kid that truly went on to greatness in the NBA, Grant Hill. Maybe Zion will be another, but it’s early, and he’s had some injuries. College basketball, even if only for one year, molds and develops players, and that’s one area where Duke and the coaching staff have fallen short. Maybe Cooper will overcome all this at Duke and go on to greatness in the NBA, but I have my doubts.
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There's this guy currently on the Celtics that would like a word with you. ;)
 
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JustbrewitMan said:
How quickly we forget that to do it "right", it's a process. Remember back in 2020 when Hurley took a ragtag bunch of players into Philly & almost knocked off big bad 'Nova? "They better get us now...because it's coming..." And here we are just 3 years later as National Champs.

We wouldn't have gotten the time of day from a 5* Generational Talent even 1-2 years ago. Now, we are in that players' Top 2 list and (possibly) had a major part in that recruit cancelling his visit to Kansas after our visit.

Top 5 recruits are icing on the cake at this point...we can win at the highest level without them and developing recruits in the 10-50 range is a tried and true recipe for success in the best basketball conference and in the NCAAT.

I'll finish this post with a possible & tasty schadenfreude plot twist...

Scheyer & Duke underachieve again this year and Cooper realizes the "Brotherhood" isn't actually all that...decommits in the Spring and joins the real Blue Blood team for Fall 2024! Manifest this!
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Actually I would like this to happen but then Hurley say… “Yeah, no thanks. You’re services are not needed here!”
 
husky429 said:
The kid visits the two schools he was interested in and decided on the one he liked the best. We weren't being trolled or played with. This is how the vast majority of recruitments go. I've followed dozens upon dozens of recruitments--the first one I got really into following was probably in 2013. As far as recruitments go, this was about standard. He cut schools when he knew he wasn't interested in them (Kansas) and didn't even do the whole dramatic announcement reveal thing.

Hurley, Kimani, Tom and Luke are not idiots. They wouldn't spend half our recruiting budget flying to Florida once a week unless there was a chance. Flagg seriously considered Storrs but ultimately decided that Duke had more to offer right now. It is what it is.

Would you consider it a "dirty recruitment" that Clingan visited Michigan even though it was mostly written in stone he was UConn-bound? No... he was actually interested in Michigan, but the pitch wasn't enough to sway him from the team he had the better connection to.

I seem to remember you saying you have teenage kids. If so, you're really too old for this kind of tantrum.
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I like your post, except for your final paragraph. I don't see the post you quoted as a tantrum.

EDIT - The prior trolling angle was weak.
 
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REB1094 said:
We lost and we got a silver medal. Sucks to lose and silver medals mean nothing.
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Hold on a a bit.

You described the process well, and know that it's part of the knowledge base for future recruiting.

It may not have been a Cadillac Eldorado, but a set of steak knives isn't nothing. And Kansas got, "You're fired."
 
TheHorde said:
I have to remind myself that these are 16 and 17 year old kids making these decisions. Some are thoughtful while others objectively might not be wise. Is Duke the same dream school it was under Coach K? No. Does Calipari get too much credit for putting kids in the league that undoubtedly would have made it anyway? Yes. With that said some kids make good decisions and some kids make bad decisions. Do those schools also have strong selling points? Yes. Does UConn? Also yes.
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Is there excessive use of asking and answering your own questions in this post? Yes.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
What’s so odd about saying Laettner, despite being a great college player, wasn’t ready for the NBA? We’ve seen this time and time again from big time Duke recruits that fizzled after college, and where do you get from my post that I hated Laettner? I can think of only one Duke kid that truly went on to greatness in the NBA, Grant Hill. Maybe Zion will be another, but it’s early, and he’s had some injuries. College basketball, even if only for one year, molds and develops players, and that’s one area where Duke and the coaching staff have fallen short. Maybe Cooper will overcome all this at Duke and go on to greatness in the NBA, but I have my doubts.
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I’m not sure what point you’re making here but this would seem to undercut your point that K gets credit for “not ruining” Laettner. We say that about coaches who babysit guys for a year before they get drafted where they would have after high school (e.g. Anthony Davis). Saying that about a 4 year guy that by your own admission wasn’t ready for the NBA is the exact opposite.

And if you want action on your claim that Flagg will “fizzle” in the NBA I’ll take it.
 
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