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How do you feel about UConn's recruiting?

Optimistic or Pessimistic about Recruiting?

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Which team has been better at recruiting over the past 3 years: Kansas, Arizona, north Carolina, or Connecticut? It's Connecticut - the only team in this comparison with a national championship. The goal of recruiting is to get players who will lead you to a championship. I don't care about anything else.
 
MDHusky said:
Which team has been better at recruiting over the past 3 years: Kansas, Arizona, north Carolina, or Connecticut? It's Connecticut - the only team in this comparison with a national championship. The goal of recruiting is to get players who will lead you to a championship. I don't care about anything else.
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Agreed. But you don't want to go into a season not sure what you're going to get from players. Or have them take three years to develop. I think ollie is doing a great job with the ban and everything. Dude won a nc. He'll be kicking ass sooner than later on the recruitment trail
 
Plenty of "mediocre" classes turn out to be tremendous, and there are always plenty of busy players. (Anybody remember how SI out Felipe Lopez on their cover?).
Plenty of Calhoun's elite classes underachieved and solid to strong classes overachieved. Or maybe, it's as Jim said (re: 2011 freshman class), "I thought we had the best recruiting class in the country. But you really don't know how good they are until you have them in practice. "

We don't need the "best" players. We want a few of them. But, we really need the right players.
 
JSM1970 said:
I voted pessimistic, not based on results, based on the fact for a team with the success UConn has had it's hard and rare to recruit elite kids and lately we've been 2nd to teams we should never be second to.

Being imprisioned to the AAC cannot possibly be a positive over time.
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I don't think the the AAC is really the problem when you consider the other teams recruits are committing to are mostly G5 . I have no idea what the problem is except perhaps we need a better recruiter.
 
Sometimes I really wish I could stay away from the Yard for a couple of weeks. For some reason, probably known to many addicts, I just can't.
 
Pessismistic for 3 reasons

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End of story, these kids buy into the ESPN ACC & Kentucky hype machine. With a pathetic version of the Big East out there, we are two rungs down the conference ladder. This will ultimately be the end of UCONN basketball as we know it
 
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Chief00 said:
- depth is nice but in basketball most important is getting a couple of stars each year - Emeka and Ben come to mind.
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I selected optimistic because I'm not pessimistic. I think the incoming class is better than some credit it, and we've seen improvement in KO's recruiting. It ain't perfect, or UConn peak years, but KO is new. It does need to get better, in general though. The NCAA is going to close this grad transfer thing. As some have said, I'm not surprised about losing recruits to Louisville, UK, Duke, etc. It's when we lose Jones or Mack or Larrier that I question our recruiting.

The Emeka and Ben point makes me think, though. Wasn't one a guard prospect right on the cusp of the McD's game, and the other a barely Top 100 big?

On paper, Adams and Enoch are rated higher than them.

Tells you more about recruiting services--and the difficulty of ranking high school players--than anything about the talent of those 4 players.
 
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Better today. First 2016 committ would change this to great.
 
JonnyRI said:
Better today. First 2016 committ would change this to great.
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Agreed. I don't think the recruiting is far off from being really good - the staff whiffed on a few of their top targets in the 2015 class, but they were right near the top of the list. But they need to do a better job sealing the deal.

Diarra sounds like he may be deciding this month, so getting the ball rolling on the '16 class would be a nice addition to the recent string of good news.
 
I like the idea that we might be the place where seniors go to transfer every year. You can grab some real talents, talents who are experienced and hopefully will be able to fit right into the team needs.

It's a different type of ONE and DONE and maybe more effective.
 
Answer is: Much better now. Can't overestimate what these 2 transfers mean to the program even though they are 1 year. We can still go after the highest profile players without clogging up scholarships. Immediately in the picture as a title threat this year. Shows college basketball that regardless of conference UCONN is not going anywhere and remains one of the nation's most competitive programs. We will be in the conversation all year. I now expect KO to follow this with a killer class for 16.
 
FartMan69 said:
We missed on Purvis out of High School
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Meant Enoch. Not sure how I did that considering I had his name listed just a sentence later. And obviously referred to him as the top 50 kid.

The high school recruits are Brimah, Hamilton, Lubin, Adams and Enoch.
 
TBD. 16' is definitely the class were KO will determine if he can recruit with the big boys. If we can't start off getting MD over VCU with a new coach to start this year then that can't be a good sign. We can't afford to miss in 16' is the bottom line and hope to sustain our success on the court unless we are going to become Transfer U to get talent.
 
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the same as I ever have, it's good & we're fine

tradition or history or results have given me very thick skin and a lot of optimism

we're not UK or KU or Dook or UNC, we never ever have been in terms of recruiting

but they're not us either, in terms of developing talent and WINNING with what you have
 
I think the staff (not KO) kinda blows as recruiters! KO does all the heavy lifting. When is last time a recruit mentioned one of these guys? I think they are a strong tactical staff but that is not the question posed.

I have a pretty good contact and he would use more harsh words towards them.

KO can be a monster recruiter, in AAC or ACC. I think he is grinding, I hope he can see if a change needs to happen. We should not doubt him, he is the best!
 
rip7774 said:
I think the staff (not KO) kinda blows as recruiters! KO does all the heavy lifting. When is last time a recruit mentioned one of these guys? I think they are a strong tactical staff but that is not the question posed. I have a pretty good contact and he would use more harsh words towards them. KO can be a monster recruiter, in AAC or ACC. I think he is grinding, I hope he can see if a change needs to happen. We should not doubt him, he is the best!
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I just can't figure out how warriors like KFree and Moore can't recruit. They are young, hip, intense and bleed blue. Hobbs was a head coach at a major D1 program and Miller has done it all. These guys have to know a few things about recruiting. And, btw, our recruiting is much better than we are acknowledging. I'll take experienced one and dones over freshman one and dones any day and Adams and Enoch are very nice players. I think we are just privy to all of the "No's" that go on in recruiting. We used to be oblivious.
 
CTBasketball said:
My thoughts exactly - you created a Shot storm here OP.
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...well done. The offseason Shot storms is what drives traffic to the site... well that and the best pizza thread.

I don't see KO dumping anyone off the staff, but if someone leaves we need a big time proven recruiter regardless of whether or not he has a UConn affiliation.
 
Hoophound said:
I just can't figure out how warriors like KFree and Moore can't recruit. They are young, hip, intense and bleed blue. Hobbs was a head coach at a major D1 program and Miller has done it all. These guys have to know a few things about recruiting. And, btw, our recruiting is much better than we are acknowledging. I'll take experienced one and dones over freshman one and dones any day and Adams and Enoch are very nice players. I think we are just privy to all of the "No's" that go on in recruiting. We used to be oblivious.
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I believe that KFree is the DBO and thus is not able to recruit players. Anyway, since none of us are being recruited by them or have family members who are/have been (to my knowledge at least), it's really not fair to speculate which of our assistants are or aren't getting it done.
 
Taking shots at the recruiters over their effort or techniques, results? If we had someone who traveled with them for a couple weeks or month to see this from the inside then different story. The recruits don't look at our logo and melt the Way some here think they should. We all know the negatives they go up against, so based on what has just happened they get props.
 
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While I may have not been too optimistic with the process, the fact remains is we are going to field a pretty good team next season and that's all that matters. We have to keep our head above water until we get rescued.
 
Brochacho said:
I think one thing that people don't fully appreciate is that while Gibbs and Miller are not lottery locks, they are certainly solid NBA prospects. Miller especially, if his 3 point shooting improves he may very well end up as a second round steal. At the college level he is an elite defender and rebounder, will be interesting to see how much more NBA attention he gets now that he is at UConn as opposed to Cornell.
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Don't get me wrong I am very happy to get both guys - but I would seldom bet on anyone's three point shooting to improve since the odds are against it .
 
Chief00 said:
Don't get me wrong I am very happy to get both guys - but I would seldom bet on anyone's three point shooting to improve since the odds are against it .
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It may go up some since he's no longer the primary offensive player, but that's not really what we need or want from him--at least not in huge doses.
 
Chief00 said:
Don't get me wrong I am very happy to get both guys - but I would seldom bet on anyone's three point shooting to improve since the odds are against it .
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Mr Chief-- you could not be more wrong with that statement.
 
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