Gusters to Baylor

[willtalk]

True elite posts are the scarcest and hardest position to fill in Basketball. I would also add true points to that category as well. But then most points in college are actually just athletic two's with good handles. Uconn is just in a position that most teams have always found themselves in. Players just used to feel grateful to be offered by Uconn. if offered it was generally a given that they would commit. The dynamics in respect to recruits and WCBB has been changing for some time now. It is not an automatic that Geno will get his pick of the litter every year. There just isn't enough elite talent to go around to all the good programs that exist in todays college reality. Too much competition for too few players.

I wonder how much him not coaching the national team has influenced recruiting. I remember other teams fans claiming that gave him an unfair advantage. Players might have gone to Uconn because they felt it gave them a leg up in the selection process.

 

[meyers7]

But Michaela Johnson transferred. Heather Buck was a complete bust. Brittany Hunter transferred in after incurring serious and lasting injury to her knee, resulting in her being limited to about 10 minutes a game max, and couldn't play in every game.

I didn't make the list. I was just adding the players that were missing.

 

[meyers7]

Yes, we didn't expect to be smaller. Though KLS was 6'3", she was a natural guard, not a forward.

Eh, no. KLS was/is a natural SF or W. Not a natural guard.

And though she gave her best, Pheesa was not a natural post either.

True, she's a 4. A stretch one vs a PF.

because, as Coach Geno put it, "we need some size and we need some rebounding."

But he's telling us we need post players, and he just said it again. Let's stop pretending.

I don't think anyone is pretending. It's just a few on here keep harping on "bigs" implying nobody, including Geno, realizes it. We do. He does. They can shut up about it now. Actually they can shut up about it quite a while ago.

After bringing in all this talent over the past month or so, all they can still keep whining about is bigs. It's gotten really freaking old.

 

[j66kicker]

I wonder how much him not coaching the national team has influenced recruiting. I remember other teams fans claiming that gave him an unfair advantage. Players might have gone to Uconn because they felt it gave them a leg up in the selection process.

A lot, IMO. (So... Who had the #1 recruiting class this year?)

 

[DaBball]

You realize that about half that list is not good enough to play at UConn right?

I think it is too early to say that. For example a lot of people likely would have said a player like Elissa Cunane out of HS would not have been good enough to play at UConn, but she had a much better year than Nelson-Ododa or Collier. Too early to say a player who never played a game at the college level isn't good enough for UConn.

 

[soxfan23]

I think it is too early to say that. For example a lot of people likely would have said a player like Elissa Cunane out of HS would not have been good enough to play at UConn, but she had a much better year than Nelson-Ododa or Collier. Too early to say a player who never played a game at the college level isn't good enough for UConn.

Cunane had a better statistical year than ONO, but she also played on a team where she was looked to for offense. That was not ONO's role at UConn, they had Samuelson, Collier, Williams, Walker, and Dangerfield to handle the scoring. As for Collier, I have thought she was/is overrated as far back as when she was committed to UConn.