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navery12 said:
Yeah I believe we have 5 available as of right now. I'd say MAL/Waters, 2 of Beatty/Harvey/Diallo and one of the big guys like Richards/Obiagu is possible. And I'd guess the 5th is probably someone we haven't heard of yet, just gotta sell the guards/wings that the playing time will be there even if they aren't starting immediately
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Before we were back on waters i thought MAL, Harvey, Diallo and RIchards was possible, but seemed farfetched at the same time. I really love bamba, hopefully we can make the race competitive for him.
 
navery12 said:
Yeah I believe we have 5 available as of right now. I'd say MAL/Waters, 2 of Beatty/Harvey/Diallo and one of the big guys like Richards/Obiagu is possible. And I'd guess the 5th is probably someone we haven't heard of yet, just gotta sell the guards/wings that the playing time will be there even if they aren't starting immediately
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To put this into perspective for folks who don't follow recruiting all that closely, this is the lowest-rated possible haul from that group:

MAL (~35th best national recruit)
Beatty (~80th best national recruit)
Harvey (~35th best national recruit)
Obiagu (~35th best national recruit)

That would be one of the 5 or 6 best classes in school history. Even if we substitute Jermaine Samuels (~60th best national recruit) for Harvey, it's still an elite, all-time class by our standards.

Obviously Ollie now has to close the deal and make at least part of this a reality. But the days when many here worried about his recruiting now seem like a distant memory, don't they?
 
Matrim55 said:
To put this into perspective for folks who don't follow recruiting all that closely, this is the lowest-rated possible haul from that group:

MAL (~35th best national recruit)
Beatty (~80th best national recruit)
Harvey (~35th best national recruit)
Obiagu (~35th best national recruit)

That would be one of the 5 or 6 best classes in school history. Even if we substitute Jermaine Samuels (~60th best national recruit) for Harvey, it's still an elite, all-time class by our standards.

Obviously Ollie now has to close the deal and make at least part of this a reality. But the days when many here worried about his recruiting now seem like a distant memory, don't they?
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His recruiting is trending upwards. Seemingly everyone is counting us out on Diallo, I'm not ready to wave the white flag yet. He brought in quite the haul for this upcoming season and I foresee it happening again with the 2017 class. I honestly anticipate top 10 classes to become the norm under Ollie. My guess is we land Diallo and Richards as our two big name guys for this 2017 class. I'm optimistic, and there's really no reason not to be considering KO's growth as a recruiter during his tenure as HC.
 
lange10 said:
His recruiting is trending upwards. Seemingly everyone is counting us out on Diallo, I'm not ready to wave the white flag yet. He brought in quite the haul for this upcoming season and I foresee it happening again with the 2017 class. I honestly anticipate top 10 classes to become the norm under Ollie. My guess is we land Diallo and Richards as our two big name guys for this 2017 class. I'm optimistic, and there's really no reason not to be considering KO's growth as a recruiter during his tenure as HC.
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Are MAL, Waters, Harvey and Beatty big name guys? I can see a scenario where we land Harvey, Diallo and MAL even though we face stiff competition for each.
 
KemBuckets21 said:
Are MAL, Waters, Harvey and Beatty big name guys? I can see a scenario where we land Harvey, Diallo and MAL even though we face stiff competition for each.
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All subjective. To me, a big name guy is a consensus 5* which I believe Hamidou and Richards are. Could be wrong, too lazy to fact check.
 
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It seems crazy to feel confident about getting a group similar to that. But then I think about each player individually and I feel like we're in good position.

Obviously things will change but it definitely seems like we should have another good class coming in
 
Everything I've heard from people in the know is that Diallo likely isn't coming to UConn, so let's not get too attached to that. Everything else discussed above though is totally plausible and exciting to think about. I really hope MAL is the shining star of the class because Ollie's system really shines when there are multiple elite ball handlers, and we have never had 3, let's see how far we can take it.
 
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lange10 said:
All subjective. To me, a big name guy is a consensus 5* which I believe Hamidou and Richards are. Could be wrong, too lazy to fact check.
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You're right. Of the guys we're recruiting and are considered to have a very good chance at, those two are the 5-stars. Hamidou is unanimous, Richards is consensus (only one of the recruiting services has him as a 4-star, the rest have him at 5-stars).

Harvey and Obiagu are borderline 5-stars, a la Hamilton, Adams & pre-injury Durham.

Waters & MAL are high-level 4-stars who are on the fringes of a 5-star rating, like Alteriqe.

Samuels & Beatty are both solid 4-stars, like Vance or Enoch.
 
Matrim55 said:
To put this into perspective for folks who don't follow recruiting all that closely, this is the lowest-rated possible haul from that group:

MAL (~35th best national recruit)
Beatty (~80th best national recruit)
Harvey (~35th best national recruit)
Obiagu (~35th best national recruit)

That would be one of the 5 or 6 best classes in school history. Even if we substitute Jermaine Samuels (~60th best national recruit) for Harvey, it's still an elite, all-time class by our standards.

Obviously Ollie now has to close the deal and make at least part of this a reality. But the days when many here worried about his recruiting now seem like a distant memory, don't they?
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Thanks for the recruiting analysis - once you are in the mix, closing the deal is what it is all about. It will be interesting to see how we do that this year.
 
BUHusky10 said:
Everything I've heard from people in the know is that Diallo likely isn't coming to UConn, so let's not get too attached to that. Everything else discussed above though is totally plausible and exciting to think about. I really hope MAL is the shining star of the class because Ollie's system really shines when there are multiple elite ball handlers, and we have never had 3, let's see how far we can take it.
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I'm hearing the exact opposite. Guess we'll see.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I'm hearing the exact opposite. Guess we'll see.
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enter drumroll stage left......"the plot thickens!" It would be a lot of fun to get Diallo. I don't know that it would be best for the team if he is a one-and-done, but whatever... The think is, he can fly. Just glides through the air and then keeps going with no visible reason why.
 
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Hungryhusky99 said:
You hearing we are big favorites?
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On the one hand, Diallo was almost considered a closeted uconn soft-commit at some points. On the other hand we're hearing a ton of UK chatter now. Also remember Zion was pretty confident in him based on him being the only recruit the uconn athletics Twitter account followed.

It's entirely possible he wants uconn but loves the limelight--it's smart to create a brand for the NBA. It's more likely in my mind that he just isn't sure and tells people various things because he's thinking differently week by week.

We'll have to wait and see! If we can get him or any other recruit on the official visit, then it'll just be a wait and see game.
 
husky99 said:
I am still hearing hami to uk.
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So you've heard Hamidou to UK and MAL to PC. That's okay...as long as we get Beatty and Waters. With Beatty and Waters we'll have 5 guards in 17-18 which is plenty. Adams, Gilbert, Vital, Beatty, and Waters is still one hell of a backcourt.
 
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I think Diallo is going to be hard to get. We might have a bit of an advantage being early on him and Diarra being here but the allure of KU or Duke is probably calling. The Cephalopod has probably promised him all kinds of nonsense at this point. I've thought it was a reach once UK and Duke went all in on him. Today KO was at MAL's game instead of the Peach Jam final which I think tells you where we are with Trae Young, Mo Bamba and Brandon Randolph who were in the Peach Jam final. I'm guessing Trae goes UK, Quade Green to Duke, Mo Bamba to Duke. Not sure about Randolph. So I'm guessing we are pushing for MAL, DJ Harvey, Beatty, Waters recently (maybe cause of MAL to Providence rumors), Richards and Ikey figuring those other guys above are goners anyway. Excluding Diallo who because of the early interest the staff is probably staying on him just in case.
 
Huskyforlife said:
It's us and UK in the lead, cuse following close in third. It's gonna be a tough battle, but atm I think we lead.
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Cuse has no shot. Ollie will lock this up in the summer. The delusion in orange land is hilarious. They will miss big in 2017.
 
I'm one on this one that isn't worried. Either way it's ok. Heck we may be better with a solid wing who has 3 years or so in the program we will be deep enough to go that direction. If he wants Cal that's fine. He was at one time a starry eyed kid who loved the Huskies and now he sees the same crap as the others from Cal and K. Whatever, lets a get the guy who wants to be the next Ray. Rip etc etc.. doesn't matter who it is we will be fine.
 
mauconnfan said:
I'm one on this one that isn't worried. Either way it's ok. Heck we may be better with a solid wing who has 3 years or so in the program we will be deep enough to go that direction. If he wants Cal that's fine. He was at one time a starry eyed kid who loved the Huskies and now he sees the same crap as the others from Cal and K. Whatever, lets a get the guy who wants to be the next Ray. Rip etc etc.. doesn't matter who it is we will be fine.
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I like your attitude.
 
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i've heard a lot of chatter of a diallo transfer out of PSA for his last year, not sure where though.
 
mauconnfan said:
I'm one on this one that isn't worried. Either way it's ok. Heck we may be better with a solid wing who has 3 years or so in the program we will be deep enough to go that direction. If he wants Cal that's fine. He was at one time a starry eyed kid who loved the Huskies and now he sees the same crap as the others from Cal and K. Whatever, lets a get the guy who wants to be the next Ray. Rip etc etc.. doesn't matter who it is we will be fine.
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I'm with you on this. Rarely does 1 recruit, especially one who is probably a one and done, going to make the ultimate difference. If he was the 1 piece that was going to put UConn over the top then I wouldn't be thinking like this but I don't think Diallo for 1 year is going to do that. UConn has plenty of good pieces and we'll get someone good at that position anyway. I'm just not worried if Diallo goes to UK.
 
I agree as well. Its not our formula - the squid- now rat face- if they can reload every year with top 10 kids I understand why they would do it- I don't like it but I certainly understand.
If a top 10 center was the difference in 2017 I'd say lets go get him!
In a way I wonder if Uk fans/Dook fans are missing out on one of the best parts of the college game-watching a team grow- getting to know your players and really have more of a connection to them. NCs are awesome-getting them by raking in the best players still counts but ours have been special.
That said I'll take a few more top 10 classes and if KO wants to put together a top 5 class next year I will find a way to live with it.

DOOMED!!!
 
BUHusky10 said:
Everything I've heard from people in the know is that Diallo likely isn't coming to UConn, so let's not get too attached to that. Everything else discussed above though is totally plausible and exciting to think about. I really hope MAL is the shining star of the class because Ollie's system really shines when there are multiple elite ball handlers, and we have never had 3, let's see how far we can take it.
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You need new people in the know. Ollie made sure to attend every single one of Hami's games at Peach Jam, going 4 deep on some occasions. He would not waste that much important time unless he knew that he had a very very good chance of landing Diallo. I'm not saying Diallo is a lock but between Oz saying Diallo is a lock, Ollie being at everyone of his games at peach Jam, and the fact that Diallo said himself (albeit before he blew up) that if he were to commit it would most likely be to UCONN, to say Diallo is likely not coming to UCONN just defies logic. I'm not hating on you, I'm just hating on your sources :)
 
AfgHusky15 said:
You need new people in the know. Ollie made sure to attend every single one of Hami's games at Peach Jam, going 4 deep on some occasions. He would not waste that much important time unless he knew that he had a very very good chance of landing Diallo. I'm not saying Diallo is a lock but between Oz saying Diallo is a lock, Ollie being at everyone of his games at peach Jam, and the fact that Diallo said himself (albeit before he blew up) that if he were to commit it would most likely be to UCONN, to say Diallo is likely not coming to UCONN just defies logic. I'm not hating on you, I'm just hating on your sources :)
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You very well could be right, and I hope you are right. Because I'd love for Diallo to commit here. But only acknowledging the facts and people who support your argument, while ignoring the information that would seem to suggest he could end up at UK doesn't make your argument more sound
 
navery12 said:
You very well could be right, and I hope you are right. Because I'd love for Diallo to commit here. But only acknowledging the facts and people who support your argument, while ignoring the information that would seem to suggest he could end up at UK doesn't make your argument more sound
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I mean if he loved UConn so much why isn't it a done deal? Is he the type who waited to see if the big guys would finally see the immense talent?

Either way, to me it looks like he's very unsure of his future and if someone of value and impact in his position wants to come here do not hesitate just take the kid who wants to be here for sure. I am still wondering why people believe he will be a one and done - continuous signs of weak shooting ability make me believe he has a ways to go. There may be better UConn fits out there any way.
 
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