Fuller: DD back in action

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Plays Maya's school, Collins Hills next.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Now that Diamond has recovered, I hope she is able to verbal.

 

[connboy77]

Now that Diamond has recovered, I hope she is able to verbal.

Ditto!

 

[Sonny44]

She's had plenty of time.
A repeat performance of the x-girl in the making?

 

[MilfordHusky]

She's had plenty of time.
A repeat performance of the x-girl in the making?

Xylina announced in late October/early November. I think Diamond will announce this spring. I hope it is good news for us. The UConn staff are the perfect group for her. Our media exposure is second to none.

 

[DEK1234]

Didn't Bria wait till her senior year to commit? Look how great that's turned out!! I think some people just need more time than others to think things through. They want to be sure of the decision they make.

 

[connboy77]

She's had plenty of time.
A repeat performance of the x-girl in the making?

Diamond is a very level headed young lady who is taking her time and enjoying the
process. Everything I have read tells me that DD will be a UCONN Husky.

 

[Timeout]

She's had plenty of time.
A repeat performance of the x-girl in the making?

I think Diamond is more like Brianna Stewart. I sense she has already made up her mind to come to UConn and I think she has already told Geno. Wishful thinking? She's probably putting off the big announcement because she doesn't want to deal with the haters and those who would try to get her to reconsider.

 

[Franklin]

Diamond is a very level headed young lady who is taking her time and enjoying the
process. Everything I have read tells me that DD will be a UCONN Husky.

 

[Franklin]

No one knows where she is going and she has not visited Uconn in 15 months. Her mother went to Tenn and she has made 4 visits there in the last year. The recruiting class of 3 coming in will have negative impact on recruiting in 2013 with exception of the guard from NY. Girls today want to play and have their impact. Having said this great players like Diamond know that they will be successful at UConn. However, I feel she will follow her Mother to Tenn.

 

[doggydaddy]

She's had plenty of time.
A repeat performance of the x-girl in the making?

Plenty of time? She's making the biggest decision of her young life. I would think that she gets to decide when to verbal, not you.

Repeat of the x-girl in the making? What do you mean? If you mean that she will verbal later (Oct/Nov) I suppose that is possible. If you mean she was thought to be a UConn lean and goes somewhere else, I just don't get even asking that.

 

[connboy77]

No one knows where she is going and she has not visited Uconn in 15 months. Her mother went to Tenn and she has made 4 visits there in the last year. The recruiting class of 3 coming in will have negative impact on recruiting in 2013 with exception of the guard from NY. Girls today want to play and have their impact. Having said this great players like Diamond know that they will be successful at UConn. However, I feel she will follow her Mother to Tenn.

Your entitled to you're opinion, but considering the unsettled coaching situation at Tennessee, I just don't see her going there. As I said before it is my belief that Diamond will be a UCONN Husky.

 

[doggydaddy]

No one knows where she is going and she has not visited Uconn in 15 months. Her mother went to Tenn and she has made 4 visits there in the last year. The recruiting class of 3 coming in will have negative impact on recruiting in 2013 with exception of the guard from NY. Girls today want to play and have their impact. Having said this great players like Diamond know that they will be successful at UConn. However, I feel she will follow her Mother to Tenn.

I don't think her not visiting UConn means anything negative about her recruitment. She came to First Night and for all you know (or I know) that was enough to make her decision.

How will having a recruiting class of 3 be a negative impact? On her decision to come to UCOnn? ??

If she expect to come to UConn and have an impact, she will have that chance with hard work and earning minutes. Nothing wrong with that and recruits know it.

I think the unknown situation in coaching at Tenn and how solid a decision to go to UConn would be trumps any pull from the fact that her mom went to Tennessee.

 

[Icebear]

It is hard to imagine why any first flight athlete would go to TN until the issues there are resolved. TN needs to act sooner than later.

 

[Timeout]

I think it matters little to Diamond if three, four, or five, recruits are coming. Great players want to play with other great players. On the men side, look at the NC,Dukes, and Kentuckys. In the NBA, look at Miami and Boston who with out a doubt would be willing to share the ball with five super stars if it meant winning championships. What matters is that you have excellent coaches and the backing of the university. And if a recruit sees themselves as going on to the next level (WNBA) then you'll know what it is like to compete at such a high level and at the same time learn first hand what it means to play along side other great players.

 

[Sonny44]

Plenty of time? She's making the biggest decision of her young life. I would think that she gets to decide when to verbal, not you.

Repeat of the x-girl in the making? What do you mean? If you mean that she will verbal later (Oct/Nov) I suppose that is possible. If you mean she was thought to be a UConn lean and goes somewhere else, I just don't get even asking that.

Did I say I get to choose when she should decide? I don't think so.

For the better part of a year almost everybody on this board was anticipating the x-girl to decide on us. But as time kept going by I began to express my doubts. Most replies expressed anything from laughter to scorn. look them up if you wish. In several posts I began to just say she isn't coming and finally she rejected us.

So why do I bring this all up? Because I love I told you so's? No, I love to be wrong when we win. In general, I think the longer these decisions go on the lower are our odds of getting a recruit. We are the best program in WCBB. What further information about UCONN will be forthcoming?

So I think as time goes on our chances of getting DD (and Taya as well) dwindle. I also think that Geno is also concerned as evidenced by his and our other coaches recent travel schedules.

 

[Icebear]

Did I say I get to choose when she should decide? I don't think so.

For the better part of a year almost everybody on this board was anticipating the x-girl to decide on us. But as time kept going by I began to express my doubts. Most replies expressed anything from laughter to scorn. look them up if you wish. In several posts I began to just say she isn't coming and finally she rejected us.

So why do I bring this all up? Because I love I told you so's? No, I love to be wrong when we win. In general, I think the longer these decisions go on the lower are our odds of getting a recruit. We are the best program in WCBB. What further information about UCONN will be forthcoming?

So I think as time goes on our chances of getting DD (and Taya as well) dwindle. I also think that Geno is also concerned as evidenced by his and our other coaches recent travel schedules.

One difference, Sonny, is that DD has given full explanation early on of why she is taking her time and Xylina did not give similar reasons. Those explanations were not her self interest but in the interest of her teammates.

 

[VAMike23]

No one knows where she is going and she has not visited Uconn in 15 months. Her mother went to Tenn and she has made 4 visits there in the last year. The recruiting class of 3 coming in will have negative impact on recruiting in 2013 with exception of the guard from NY. Girls today want to play and have their impact. Having said this great players like Diamond know that they will be successful at UConn. However, I feel she will follow her Mother to Tenn.

We shall see....

As other posted have mentioned, I think you're seriously underestimating the impact that UT's current difficulties are having on the 2013 class, and overestimating the impact of having 3 very talented players already committed from 2012.

MoJeff is a PG, and potentially a very good one - DD has said she wants to play with a great PG so between Bria and MoJeff she's pretty well covered, not to mention the possibility of Saniya Chong, whom you also alluded to. Then you have BStewart - a very different kind of player than DD, and one I would think would pretty complementary on the court with a player like DD. Neither of these two are likely to compete directly for minutes with DD. Lastly you have Morgan Tuck. Still seems like a different kind of player, though I suppose you could argue that like any top-notch forward, she could compete with DD for minutes depending on the substitution patterns, especially when Stewart is on the floor at the 4. And certainly KML will be a star and will see a lot of time at the 2-3, but in my opinion this is the kind of player that DD could co-exist with very nicely....

This is all guesswork of course about the future, contrasted with the very real problems happening *today* at UT, and which are likely to linger for awhile going forward. With Kaela pulling back the way she did--and given Maria's opinion that it's pretty much over between KD and UT--the pot has really been stirred up. Who is going to replace Pat? If it's someone on the current staff (doubtful, IMO) how much is that going to invigorate their 2013 recruiting efforts? We'll see how the rest of the season plays out, but I bet that would be a net negative, not a positive. If it's someone from outside, then who? Many names have been bandied about--many in the UT family tree and some not. But in the world of WCBB, there's Pat & Geno and then there's everybody else. Meaning, at least as far as early perception goes, UT is going to be taking a step down as far as coaching goes. Not sideways, and certainly not up. Only down.

Now, it's certainly possible that whoever they bring in as the new, permanent head coach (next year or whenever) could have great results and go gangbusters for the LV's, leading them back to the FF and NC contention! But they are losing a fair bit of talent next year, and now KD isn't likely to come, so this is far from a given despite having very good talent overall (Burdick, Simmons, Ariel, Graves, and others). So the 2013 class will either be verballing before next year's situation solidifies, or waiting to see how next year goes and committing later in the process. Given these possibilities, it looks to me like the chances of turning the recruiting tide back in a positive direction for the 2013 class are pretty slim.

Yes, DD has multiple close connections to UT. But at this point, KD was practically considered "family" and look what's happened there. I also remember a couple of things DD said last year, and to paraphrase, she wants to be the next Maya Moore. Obviously she can do her best to make that happen anywhere she goes, but........where better to do that than Storrs, CT?

Lastly, and particularly for those recruits whose mothers or fathers were professional athletes, I think the attraction of the Connecticut program has taken a really big step forward in the past four years in two important ways: 1) the unparalleled visibility their daughters will have on the national stage if they play on a dominant UCONN squad, which upcoming squads have fantastic chance at being; and 2) the perception that Geno and his staff know not only how to attract top talent but how to push and develop these players to maximize their potential. Whether you personally agree or not, I think that if you polled a bunch of sportswriters and pundits around the country today, they would say that a lot of great talent has been underachieving lately at UT, and that this has been the case since CP left. For a high school girl with her heart set on being a LV, this isn't an issue, but for top recruits and parents taking a more pragmatic view (i.e. KD), it's a huge issue, especially those with pro athletes in the family, alumni ties notwithstanding.

 

[doggydaddy]

Did I say I get to choose when she should decide? I don't think so.

"She's had plenty of time." Sounds like you are telling her that she should have decided already. I don't think I misinterpreted that.

For the better part of a year almost everybody on this board was anticipating the x-girl to decide on us. But as time kept going by I began to express my doubts. Most replies expressed anything from laughter to scorn. look them up if you wish. In several posts I began to just say she isn't coming and finally she rejected us.

Sounds like you are bitter with how posters treated you.

So why do I bring this all up? Because I love I told you so's? No, I love to be wrong when we win. In general, I think the longer these decisions go on the lower are our odds of getting a recruit. We are the best program in WCBB. What further information about UCONN will be forthcoming?

After how you were apparently treated, I think you DO want an "I told you so".

So I think as time goes on our chances of getting DD (and Taya as well) dwindle. I also think that Geno is also concerned as evidenced by his and our other coaches recent travel schedules.

I think you are reading way too much into her not committing yet. It used to be that players rarely committed prior to the fall of their senior year. Now we expect them to committ the spring of their sophomore year. Really??

There are as many clues that say she is coming as say she isn't. It's just negative to bring up McDaniel at this time as a comparison.

 

[speedoo]

Did I say I get to choose when she should decide? I don't think so.

For the better part of a year almost everybody on this board was anticipating the x-girl to decide on us. But as time kept going by I began to express my doubts. Most replies expressed anything from laughter to scorn. look them up if you wish. In several posts I began to just say she isn't coming and finally she rejected us.

So why do I bring this all up? Because I love I told you so's? No, I love to be wrong when we win. In general, I think the longer these decisions go on the lower are our odds of getting a recruit. We are the best program in WCBB. What further information about UCONN will be forthcoming?

So I think as time goes on our chances of getting DD (and Taya as well) dwindle. I also think that Geno is also concerned as evidenced by his and our other coaches recent travel schedules.

Actually, Xylina did not "reject us". Geno consulted with her family and her coaches and withdrew her offer, and she then committed elsewhere, UNC I believe. I believe Geno sensed that she wanted to come to UConn but with so many good players at her position already on board or coming she would not get the playing time she wanted.

 

[speedoo]

No one knows where she is going and she has not visited Uconn in 15 months. Her mother went to Tenn and she has made 4 visits there in the last year. The recruiting class of 3 coming in will have negative impact on recruiting in 2013 with exception of the guard from NY. Girls today want to play and have their impact. Having said this great players like Diamond know that they will be successful at UConn. However, I feel she will follow her Mother to Tenn.

You know what else has not happened in almost 15 months? TN has not gotten a single recruit, not to mention a badly needed JUCO commit. They have missed out on at least 5 high profile recruits, maybe even more. I suppose you think that's coincidence but I'm pretty sure Summitt's condition was understood outside the TN community well before her announcement and recruits knew what was up. And Davis has backed out on her verbal.

But you think somehow DD with all her UConn connections is going to TN?

 

[Sonny44]

There are as many clues that say she is coming as say she isn't. It's just negative to bring up McDaniel at this time as a comparison.

I simply asked a question, but oh yes, right, the negativity card, should have known it would been brought up. So you win!

 

[Sonny44]

Actually, Xylina did not "reject us". Geno consulted with her family and her coaches and withdrew her offer, and she then committed elsewhere, UNC I believe. I believe Geno sensed that she wanted to come to UConn but with so many good players at her position already on board or coming she would not get the playing time she wanted.

Call me please, I have this bridge I want to sell you.

 

[speedoo]

Call me please, I have this bridge I want to sell you.

Cute. Best you could do I guess.

 

[alexrgct]

Fight! Fight!