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Hmmmmm. Check this tweet out. (Merged)

Not to pour more cold water on this subject :rolleyes:, it should be pointed out that freshman “move in” day at UConn is tomorrow. Classes start on Monday. Does anyone really believe that Ines Bettencourt, or any other recruit will announce their decision to attend UConn one day before they are supposed to be on campus?:oops:
Yes, someone believes. Not sure who.
 
Not to pour more cold water on this subject :rolleyes:, it should be pointed out that freshman “move in” day at UConn is tomorrow. Classes start on Monday. Does anyone really believe that Ines Bettencourt, or any other recruit will announce their decision to attend UConn one day before they are supposed to be on campus?:oops:

Somewhere in this thread or the recruiting thread, someone said they have up to 12 days after to enroll. But I don't know. I'm not expecting anyone else to sign for 2022
 
Somewhere in this thread or the recruiting thread, someone said they have up to 12 days after to enroll. But I don't know. I'm not expecting anyone else to sign for 2022
I’m sure that’s true. But why would someone wait to start the fall semester?
 
Maybe the commit has already committed but doesn’t need a public announcement! Well hopefully anyway lol!!!
 
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I’m sure that’s true. But why would someone wait to start the fall semester?
Embassies and admissions don't work on Boneyard time. If there is someone coming, it might not be that they want to wait, but rather they are waiting for other pieces to fall into place.
 
I’m sure that’s true. But why would someone wait to start the fall semester?
They wouldn't want to, but may have to be a little late. If Uconn made an offer a few days or a week ago and the player was interested, I don't think that means they hop on the next flight out and everything is fine. There are probably many life changings things that need to be done in short order, some of which could have bureaucratic delays that may be unavoidable.
 
Embassies and admissions don't work on Boneyard time. If there is someone coming, it might not be that they want to wait, but rather they are waiting for other pieces to fall into place.
Definitely agree with this! I feel we have someone and are just waiting for the logistics to work itself out.
 
Kinda feels like popping a balloon at the ‘ole Walgreens/Kreskes lunch counter for the .01 cent banana split.
Possible?
Yup.
Happen?
Nope.
 
OK, I’ll keep hope alive. But let’s all be realistic about Ines Bettencourt, should she end up at UConn. From the limited amount of film I watched, it’s clear that Ines is a nice player who would have a lot of work to do to to become a regular rotation player at UConn. She would immediately provide needed depth at guard for practice & mop-up minutes. But it would be unrealistic to expect Ines to earn PT minutes as a freshman, except in an emergency situation.

After her freshman year, UConn stands to lose Lou at guard, but would be adding Paige, KK and Ashlynn to a guard corps of Azzi, Nika & Caroline. So I really don’t see a lot of PT for Ines going forward. With that in mind, I have to ask how hard Geno and his staff would recruit a European player who is likely to be viewed primarily as an insurance policy?
 
Kinda feels like popping a balloon at the ‘ole Walgreens/Kreskes lunch counter for the .01 cent banana split.
Possible?
Yup.
Happen?
Nope.
Now that was fun!
 
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OK, I’ll keep hope alive. But let’s all be realistic about Ines Bettencourt, should she end up at UConn. From the limited amount of film I watched, it’s clear that Ines is a nice player who would have a lot of work to do to to become a regular rotation player at UConn. She would immediately provide needed depth at guard for practice & mop-up minutes. But it would be unrealistic to expect Ines to earn PT minutes as a freshman, except in an emergency situation.

After her freshman year, UConn stands to lose Lou at guard, but would be adding Paige, KK and Ashlynn to a guard corps of Azzi, Nika & Caroline. So I really don’t see a lot of PT for Ines going forward. With that in mind, I have to ask how hard Geno and his staff would recruit a European player who is likely to be viewed primarily as an insurance policy?
I think that is a pretty realistic assessment. No savior, and her prospects for playing time beyond this year would be bleak. In a way she might be like a one year rental or insurance policy. That is very hard to recruit for. Imagine trying to recruit a player for that role on very short notice, being honest with her that she might not have a very big role this year, and may want to transfer after this year, and by the way you only have a few days to decide. Having said that I think Geno could recruit an insurance policy and be honest with the expected role this year and in the future.

Even if we are healthy at guard, I think a 5th player will get some minutes at guard, because a rotation of 4 players for 3 positions is so hard to manage. That could be Ines or another last second recruit, or it could be a more talented player playing out of position like Aubrey or Ayanna. That might be the real strategic tradeoff, a talented PF vs. a more mediocre natural guard.

If I was completely confident in Aubrey or Ayanna at guard I wouldn't be that worried, but since I'm not quite there yet (but could be) for me an emergency is an injury to any one of the four guards. If say Aubrey proves effective in that role, then an emergency might be injuries to two guards at the same time. I want to see Aubrey or Ayanna succeed in that role regardless of if we get guard help or not, and each day that passes decreases the probability of pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
 
Aubrey as a guard? Ayanna as a guard? Don't see it in their UConn careers. Guard a guard...yes...
especially Ayanna...hoped for with Aubrey with good health. I'm hoping for serious rebounding on O and D...put backs galore...run outs for easy lay-ups...develop a consistent mid-range face-up...provide energy whenever in the line-up...be good secondary ball-handlers against the best presses we will face. That's enough.
 
I think that is a pretty realistic assessment. No savior, and her prospects for playing time beyond this year would be bleak. In a way she might be like a one year rental or insurance policy. That is very hard to recruit for. Imagine trying to recruit a player for that role on very short notice, being honest with her that she might not have a very big role this year, and may want to transfer after this year, and by the way you only have a few days to decide. Having said that I think Geno could recruit an insurance policy and be honest with the expected role this year and in the future.
I'm not in favor of this approach or that mind set. My approach would be to bring in the most talented guard available without compromising the standards of the program. If there is no guard available that going to be able to play at UCONN level then go without one. I'm 98.75% certain this is what Geno will not do. That 1.5 % uncertainty is mainly about Geno bringing in Autumn Chaisson and Piath Gabriel in the same class.
Worrying about playing time next year is counter productive considering we don't know how well Paige is going to heal or even if she will return. We also don't know how the incoming freshman guards are going to perform. Then there is the possibility of an outbound guard ....(this is a subject we are not allowed to speculate about).
 
FWIW, Nika and Ice started following Ines Bettencourt on Instagram sometime in the last 24 hours. So that makes five players and Morgan Valley.

(Also posted this on the August recruiting thread.)

So, will it be today? We shall see.
 
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Well, if Ines does show up at UConn at the 11th hour, I sure hope she brings along a big box of pastel de nata pastries..:)
 
Kinda feels like popping a balloon at the ‘ole Walgreens/Kreskes lunch counter for the .01 cent banana split.
Possible?
Yup.
Happen?
Nope.
wrong chicken GIF by happydog
 
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Not to pour more cold water on this subject :rolleyes:, it should be pointed out that freshman “move in” day at UConn is tomorrow. Classes start on Monday. Does anyone really believe that Ines Bettencourt, or any other recruit will announce their decision to attend UConn one day before they are supposed to be on campus?:oops:
Apparently, yes, they will announce their decision to attend UConn the day they are supposed to be on campus. Yay!!!!!
 
Think this. When Sabrina Ionescu enrolled at Oregon at the last minute, the Ducks took off. Let us pray
 
Are you plagiarising Shawshank? Andy Dufresne, "Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
No. But who knows maybe they can get me in court and get a psychobabblelist to say I quoted it from my sub-conscious mind. However they better not get too deep. There's a lot of bad things going on in there I better not discuss here!!! :):):):) j/k.

Btw, Great great greet great movie.
 
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