Isaiah Mucius sets official visits

[WrenchFan69]

BasketballRecruiting.Rivals.com - Isaiah Mucius sets two official visits, three others remain in mix

Doesn't set UConn official. Imagine he'll end up at Xavier or Wake, but doesn't count us out yet

 

[Fishy]

Bet on Wake Forest - not happening for UConn here.

 

[Waquoit]

Mucius is a Killings recruit if anyone was wondering.
He, Quickley, and Mathis are all Maryland kids as well.

I wasn't. But since the other two committed elsewhere I don't have my hopes up.

 

[Huskymagic]

Lol like clockwork. The sooner Killings is gone the sooner we can hire Miller back on the staff. Killings can't even bring in even 1 top 100 guy. Since he got here it's been disaster city at UCONN. Chillious is 0-4.

We're all patiently waiting for Carey to announce elsewhere to put our 2018 recruiting hopes to rest. Miami and the Cuse big players here. Odds aren't good if Ollie can't even beat Rutgers, the Hall, and Texas Tech for recruits.

 

[Stainmaster]

Lol like clockwork. The sooner Killings is gone the sooner we can hire Miller back on the staff. Killings can't even bring in even 1 top 100 guy. Since he got here it's been disaster city at UCONN. Chillious is 0-4.

We're all patiently waiting for Carey to announce elsewhere to put our 2018 recruiting hopes to rest. Miami and the Cuse big players here. Odds aren't good if Ollie can't even beat Rutgers, the Hall, and Texas Tech for recruits.

How many Top 100 guys did Glen Miller bring in? Mamadou? Who else?

If you read back several years, one of the biggest narratives on this board was that Miller was a liability on the recruiting trail, and that we needed an ace recruiter more than a gameplanner.

 

[JSM1970]

Yes, but how many top 100 kids go to either non-P5 or non-BE leagues?

The AAC is a joke. I know that's a broken record and obvious, but why don't we think it affects all of these. Pretty soon we're going to have to solely focus on guys barely top 250 like Vital & Carlton and hope to find ones who can develop.

We're all patiently waiting for Carey to announce elsewhere to put our 2018 recruiting hopes to rest. Miami and the Cuse big players here. Odds aren't good if Ollie can't even beat Rutgers, the Hall, and Texas Tech for recruits.

 

[UCDaveD]

We've been out for Mucius for a while. This should be no surprise. If you want to see who we're most likely to land, forget the top-150 and make yourself real familiar with the 151-250 territory. That's unfortunately just the reality of the situation.

 

[Stainmaster]

Yes, but how many top 100 kids go to either non-P5 or non-BE leagues?

The AAC is a joke. I know that's a broken record and obvious, but why don't we think it affects all of these. Pretty soon we're going to have to solely focus on guys barely top 250 like Vital & Carlton and hope to find ones who can develop.

Vital and Carlton were not barely top 250. That is patently false.

 

[mauconnfan]

Lol like clockwork. The sooner Killings is gone the sooner we can hire Miller back on the staff. Killings can't even bring in even 1 top 100 guy. Since he got here it's been disaster city at UCONN. Chillious is 0-4.

We're all patiently waiting for Carey to announce elsewhere to put our 2018 recruiting hopes to rest. Miami and the Cuse big players here. Odds aren't good if Ollie can't even beat Rutgers, the Hall, and Texas Tech for recruits.

Speaking of clockwork! LOL

 

[UConnfan8]

Yes, but how many top 100 kids go to either non-P5 or non-BE leagues?

The AAC is a joke. I know that's a broken record and obvious, but why don't we think it affects all of these. Pretty soon we're going to have to solely focus on guys barely top 250 like Vital & Carlton and hope to find ones who can develop.

 

[UCDaveD]

Vital and Carlton were not barely top 250. That is patently false.

Vital was kind of close. 247 had him at 209
Carlton wasn't really close. He was 178.

 

[UConnfan8]

Vital and Carlton were not barely top 250. That is patently false.

We need to bring in talent that are in the top 100. Hell we need to bring in top 50 talent. We cannot continue to go to the well of JUCO, transfers, and "barely top 250" guys.

These past 2 recruiting years have NOT boded well.

I am hoping we can connect on 1 2018 guy.

 

[Stainmaster]

We need to bring in talent that are in the top 100. Hell we need to bring in top 50 talent. We cannot continue to go to the well of JUCO, transfers, and "barely top 250" guys.

These past 2 recruiting years have NOT boded well.

I am hoping we can connect on 1 2018 guy.

Again, these guys are not barely top 250. And I don't see how me posting that neither Vital or Carlton were were is inconsistent with anything you are saying.

Top 100 should be the watermark. I will disagree with you on transfers. If we're talking about teams that are ranked consistently, beating better teams than us in OOC, and claiming high tourney seeds, Iowa State and Kansas have taken tremendous advantage of the transfer market. I know it's not the "UConn way," but if it can help with the rebuild, I don't really care whether or not we are their first school. There is a fallacy present on this board that every transfer we take will be equivalent to Rodney Purvis in terms of frustrating qualities, and just because he was our first experience with a transfer player in a while doesn't mean everyone after him will be like that.

 

[Stainmaster]

Vital was kind of close. 247 had him at 209
Carlton wasn't really close. He was 178.

Vital was 145 on TOS, 186 on ESPN, 207 on Scout. I know this is a dumb debate over semantics, but that's still not even close to "barely in the top 250."

 

[imno1]

I said it before but it bears repeating. We should hope many recruits wait to commit because we will not sign any top prospects until UConn starts winning again. The conference, last year's results, the coach, the transfers, all are reasons to go elsewhere. A good season and it's only the conference that will be a drag.

 

[Huskymagic]

How many Top 100 guys did Glen Miller bring in? Mamadou? Who else?

If you read back several years, one of the biggest narratives on this board was that Miller was a liability on the recruiting trail, and that we needed an ace recruiter more than a gameplanner.

1 more than Killings and Chillious combined.

Don't forget MAL as well. I'm sure he had an impact on Adams as well.

 

[Huskymagic]

Yes, but how many top 100 kids go to either non-P5 or non-BE leagues?

The AAC is a joke. I know that's a broken record and obvious, but why don't we think it affects all of these. Pretty soon we're going to have to solely focus on guys barely top 250 like Vital & Carlton and hope to find ones who can develop.

True which is why I have advocated for a return to the Big East and a football deal with the AAC.

However, this conference right now is decent enough. If Gregg Marshall was our coach, I doubt we would care where our recruits were ranked because he would still win and the guys he would select would be diamonds in the rough ( Landry Shamet, Shaq Morris, Ron Baker, and Van Vleet are all good examples).

Vital is a diamond in the rough. He is a way better player than his high school rankings.