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It’s not unusual for a guy to transfer out of a program that hasn’t made the tournament and has undergone a lot of personnel change in the two years he’s been there. It’s also not unusual for teams who recruited a player previously to reach out once he makes himself available. Not all transfers feel the need to release a list of everyone they’ve been in contact with since they went into the portal.
 
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Defensive possessions like this is what will make us fall in love with Diarra. Pay attention to #5. Perfect help defense.

Dan Hurley is going to turn Diarra into a menace on defense. Would not be surprised to see him turn into our defensive stopper as the year goes on. His add is being very undersold. We’re infatuated with adding these highly skilled guards(which is a need) but Diarra fills a need as well. We need a junk yard dog after losing Rese, Cole, and Whaley. That’s a lot of toughness to lose in one off season. We have a bunch of good guys(Alleyne, Newton, Hawkins, Freshman). We needed some toughness, a dog, and Diarra is THAT.
 
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Defensive possessions like this is what will make us fall in love with Diarra. Pay attention to #5. Perfect help defense.

Dan Hurley is going to turn Diarra into a menace on defense. Would not be surprised to see him turn into our defensive stopper as the year goes on. His add is being very undersold. We’re infatuated with adding these highly skilled guards(which is a need) but Diarra fills a need as well. We need a junk yard dog after losing Rese, Cole, and Whaley. That’s a lot of toughness to lose in one off season. We have a bunch of good guys(Alleyne, Newton, Hawkins, Freshman). We needed some toughness, a dog, and Diarra is THAT.
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Did he commit?
 
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Defensive possessions like this is what will make us fall in love with Diarra. Pay attention to #5. Perfect help defense.

Dan Hurley is going to turn Diarra into a menace on defense. Would not be surprised to see him turn into our defensive stopper as the year goes on. His add is being very undersold. We’re infatuated with adding these highly skilled guards(which is a need) but Diarra fills a need as well. We need a junk yard dog after losing Rese, Cole, and Whaley. That’s a lot of toughness to lose in one off season. We have a bunch of good guys(Alleyne, Newton, Hawkins, Freshman). We needed some toughness, a dog, and Diarra is THAT.
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Nice pass to find the open guy in the corner too. Alleyne and Hawkins will enjoy playing with him
 
These tampering comments are ridiculous.

We recruited the kid out of HS, so he's familiar with the program.
He saw there was lots of playing time available here after all of the guard departures.
Maybe he wanted to be closer to home.
Maybe he saw the success his brother had at the school academically.

This board constantly tries to find things to unnecessarily fret over.
 
Samoo said:
Try this:
. Hass calls Mam and say, "Hey big bro, I'm kinda unhappy down here. How are you doing up in the Cut?""
Mam replies, "It's great here, I'm getting my masters and the team is really tight. You should think about it, they wanted you before and there are roster spaces."
Hassan: " I just might", and jumps in the portal.

Voila, perfectly plausible and no tampering. Is that what you needed?
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I was typing up almost the same exact thing.

Here's a perfectly plausible scenario.

Hassan: Hey Mama. Heard about all your guards transferring out. Seems crazy, they were going to play a ton. You know, I'm not really happy here with my playing time.
Mamadou: Hey Hassan. Yeah man. We upgrading. Got a couple guys already. Oh that sucks dude. You want in? I can ask coach if he's interested.
(Day later).
Mamdou: Hey Hassan. There might be a spot here. Jump in the portal so Coach can reach out.

Is this considered tampering? I have no idea. Samoo's is definitely not. In mine, is Mama acting on the direction of the coach? Or is it the answer to a legal question posed by Hassan? I'd lean the latter, but who knows. Either way, this is not something that would get prosecuted, and i'd lean towards it not being morally wrong either, since Hassan initiated the inquiry.

We have no idea if that's how it happened, but since there are perfectly plausible scenarios in which it's not tampering, we should not assume to have tampered without evidence to the contrary.
 
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UChusky916 said:
These tampering comments are ridiculous.

We recruited the kid out of HS, so he's familiar with the program.
He saw there was lots of playing time available here after all of the guard departures.
Maybe he wanted to be closer to home.
Maybe he saw the success his brother had at the school academically.

This board constantly tries to find things to unnecessarily fret over.
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This is what sitcom writers do.

Write about an often common situation and have the actors play it out or have the actors guess what others meant when they acted a certain way.

Seinfeld was famous for this motif.
 
The number of possible scenarios is almost endless.

Like this one.

Hassan, like hundreds of other Div. 1 athletes, is either unhappy with his current school or is restless for a new experience. He enters the portal and waits to see what happens.

UConn calls.

Hassan decides to transfer to ?

End of story.
 
Fwiw I think a squad with Diarra could have sweet-16 talent. Still missing 1 shooter to be an ELITE team, but more than good enough to be consistently top 25.

The question at this point is whether our coach has the talent to reach the sweet 16 at this point IMO. I am feeling pretty good about it.
 
You created a situation, about which you have no factual knowledge, just in case something similar to the situation you made up happens in the future so you can preemptively police the responses to that second imagined situation? That’s just weird.
 
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husky429 said:
The question at this point is whether our coach has the talent to reach the sweet 16 at this point IMO. I am feeling pretty good about it.
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This is the biggest concern about the team.
 
Samoo said:
Try this:
. Hass calls Mam and say, "Hey big bro, I'm kinda unhappy down here. How are you doing up in the Cut?""
Mam replies, "It's great here, I'm getting my masters and the team is really tight. You should think about it, they wanted you before and there are roster spaces."
Hassan: " I just might", and jumps in the portal.

Voila, perfectly plausible and no tampering. Is that what you needed?
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I'm not sure MD's response in your scenario wouldn't be tampering.

He could say something like "All I know is we have been looking at a few guards because we are thin there but we can't talk specifics to anyone not in the portal."
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm not sure MD's response in your scenario wouldn't be tampering.

He could say something like "All I know is we have been looking at a few guards because we are thin there but we can't talk specifics to anyone not in the portal."
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I think he could probably fairly add something along the lines of “I love it here at UConn. The guys on the team are like brothers and Coach Hurley and the staff have always treated me well. They could’ve taken me off scholarship when I was injured, but they didn’t. I will always be grateful for that.“
 
At what point do you just shrug your shoulders if you’re Texas A&M? Regardless of the legality, you have to know stuff like this happens. Family connections are often the deciding factor in where these dudes want to play.
 
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CL82 said:
I think he could probably fairly add something along the lines of “I love it here at UConn. The guys on the team are like brothers and Coach Hurley and the staff have always treated me well. They could’ve taken me off scholarship when I was injured, but they didn’t. I will always be grateful for that.“
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Sounds like an endorsement of the team and coach, but not a solicitation.
 
@Get a Job keeps saying how pissed we would be if this happens against us but the chances of a team having a sibling or parent already on staff are few and far between that it’s not like this happens all the time. This is totally different than a staff hiring a coach to get a kid. Wasted energy in my opinion.
 
So where do the last couple scholarships go after Diarra? Our guards are basically set in stone, and depending on how much time Jackson spends at the 4, there are no minutes left for an additional body to split with Karaban/Johnson. Do we get another Springs type player who is just a warm body for practice purposes?
 
aburks41 said:
So where do the last couple scholarships go after Diarra? Our guards are basically set in stone, and depending on how much time Jackson spends at the 4, there are no minutes left for an additional body to split with Karaban/Johnson. Do we get another Springs type player who is just a warm body for practice purposes?
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I said before, we could use some depth at wing. Preferably a bigger guy, more Jackson sized or Martin. Alleyne and Newton could be a one year guys. Hawk could be an NBA guy with a breakout year. So could Andre. We have zero depth at small forward right now. Yes, we can play Karaban there, but then we've got no real depth at the 4 unless Springs emerges.
 
aburks41 said:
Do we get another Springs type player who is just a warm body for practice purposes?
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yeah. need 1 more guy who won't expect to play but that might develop into a player down the line. the only '22 recruit that potentially fits that description is yann ferrell. idk about transfers. might have to wait until august to find someone willing to fill that role.

i'd be fine leaving the last 2 schollys open for a mid-year reclass RS or two.
 
HuskyHawk said:
We have zero depth at small forward right now
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you want aj at the 3 primarily so between him and hawkins i dont see a single mpg available at that spot, never mind karaban.

i do agree that the scholly should go to a wing tho. can never have enough.
 
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