I am kinda digging this fifth year transfer approach.
My thoughts exactly - you created a Shot storm here OP.You hath opened the floodgates, my friend.
You're just never not worried about something, are you. Someone could ask you what you thought about UConn winning the national championship and you'd say, "It went well, but if we don't cash in some top-quality recruits from this then we'll have legitimate reason to question our coaching staff."Can I vote "cautiously optimistic"?
If we get Gibbs, grad transfer "recruiting" season will have gone swimmingly.
But the regular recruiting season was not a cause for optimism, getting outrecruited by UNLV, VCU, and others. Also, we seem to be getting a late start on 2016. IIRC, Adams and Hamilton already committed by around this time. We're banking on about 5 commits between now and November, unless we want to go back to the late signing pool (and the grad transfer end might be drying up if the NCAA changes the rules). If we get Gilbert, that will be a big one to have in the bag.
Getting a combo of enoch and adams is no joke. both those guys are serious players; also i'm pretty sure KO lead recruiting for dre and deandre... he's a beast recruiter and has done what he can in our conference situation. can't just ignore how he got hamilton, then adams the next year, both blue chippers in their classes. how could you not be optimistic?
Because crying over recruits we didn't get is in vogue. Like Brandon Jennings, Brandon Knight, and Doron Lamb. Everyone's still pining for them. Oh wait...
Yup, that's the only reason.
You know, it's possible to express something besides unbridled optimism without claiming the sky is falling. Everyone who is not over-the-moon excited about recruiting is not necessarily Tennspro.
A class of Adams and Enoch is a solid class. Not one that competes with the classes brought in by the programs we historically rank ourselves against. A class of Adams, Enoch and Miller is quite a bit better. A class of Adams, Enoch, Miller and Gibbs would be tremendous. If Gibbs is on board then Scrappy can talk about the Final Four all he wants and I think it's a realistic goal.
Assuming we get Gibbs, I'd rather have our incoming class (Gibbs, Miller, Adams, Enoch) than anybody's. I think it's, on paper, the most impactful recruiting class in the country and answers our biggest needs in both the short and long-term.I really thought we would be in the top 10 in recruiting every year with KO. His NBA background + charisma + NC + history of UConn basketball + facilities.
I see the roster 1-7 as absolutely loaded with the addition of gibbs. While enoch is young and not the athlete off the floor that drummond was, he is very very quick and decisive. If gibbs commits here it will be nonsense if nobody is talking about us as deep tourney threats, let alone just top 25. Miller also might surprise us all, who knows what he can bring to the table.Assuming we get Gibbs, I'd rather have our incoming class (Gibbs, Miller, Adams, Enoch) than anybody's. I think it's, on paper, the most impactful recruiting class in the country and answers our biggest needs in both the short and long-term.
You're just never not worried about something, are you. Someone could ask you what you thought about UConn winning the national championship and you'd say, "It went well, but if we don't cash in some top-quality recruits from this then we'll have legitimate reason to question our coaching staff."