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Jalen Gaffney official visit

Wordbomar said:
@ The students we need this
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we need a lot from them this year. We need signs, spinners, etc. It's become dull. We have a new coach with a lot of energy in the program right now.
 
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BFieldHusky said:
The dam will continue to break.
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Reading what's available, it seems like the two studs, Kofi and Precious will wait til spring, when all the offers to the big boys shake out.

What are your thoughts?
 
BasketballRecruiting.Rivals.com - Wednesday's Leftovers: Dishing on Duke, UNC and plenty of prospects
For now, I like UConn and St. John’s in the race for Gaffney’s pledge. The Huskies moved up their official visit with the well-rounded guard to this weekend and while they did just take the pledge of James Bouknight, they do need another guard in the 2019 class. St. John’s will have to wait until next month to host Gaffney, but with where things sit now, I like the Red Storm and UConn, and the Huskies might be pushing for his pledge this weekend.
 
Is the staff trying to get all or most of these kids committed before the season starts?
 
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tcf15 said:
BasketballRecruiting.Rivals.com - Wednesday's Leftovers: Dishing on Duke, UNC and plenty of prospects
For now, I like UConn and St. John’s in the race for Gaffney’s pledge. The Huskies moved up their official visit with the well-rounded guard to this weekend and while they did just take the pledge of James Bouknight, they do need another guard in the 2019 class. St. John’s will have to wait until next month to host Gaffney, but with where things sit now, I like the Red Storm and UConn, and the Huskies might be pushing for his pledge this weekend.
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It should read his "...dam pledge...." this weekend
 
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tcf15 said:
Just happy to see Duke losing out to programs like Villanova and Tennessee now.
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I won't believe it until I see it, but there was a reddit conspiracy theory that Coach K is retiring after this season, which is why they got their big 3, Baker reclassified, and why they lost out on Antoine, James, and likely Carey.

Side note: I'm very happy to not be a Clemson fan today
 
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UConnStats said:
I won't believe it until I see it, but there was a reddit conspiracy theory that Coach K is retiring after this season, which is why they got their big 3, Baker reclassified, and why they lost out on Antoine, James, and likely Carey.

Side note: I'm very happy to not be a Clemson fan today
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Would Capel really have taken the Pitt job if K was retiring?
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Is the staff trying to get all or most of these kids committed before the season starts?
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I read somewhere recently where Hurley said he'd like to sign 3 recruits in the fall. But now I can't find where I read that. Although I'm sure he'd take more recruits he was chasing if they were willing to sign in the fall.
 
auror said:
Would Capel really have taken the Pitt job if K was retiring?
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Exactly. The only way IMO would be if he knew the Duke job wasn't going to him (i.e. if they were going external or were locked in on Wojo or Bobby Hurley).

My money would be that when it's time (and I doubt it'll be next year), they're going to hire outside of the program. Just seems safer, and I wouldn't want to hand the keys to the biggest program on earth to Wojo unless he shows out this year.
 
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Fishy said:
He's not getting the Duke job.
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Have to think he had a better shot when he was lead asst/recruiter than going 0-100 at Pitt in 1 year. Maybe his chances really were 0, but I honestly don't see a lot of other compelling options.

SBNation article earlier this summer had him as 2nd favorite:
The 5 most likely candidates to succeed Coach K at Duke

None of those options are inspiring. There also aren't a lot of good, established, successful coaches with enough success to merit Duke and who aren't ancient who I can see leaving their programs. Tony Bennett? Maybe? Jay Wright? Skeptical. I don't see Mark Few leaving Zaga. Beilein is 65. Sean Miller has crazy baggage. Gregg Marshall? Never been a recruiter.

The Macks/Holtmann/Archie's of the world haven't achieved enough. Maybe if one of them has a great year.

Is it Mike Brey? I just can't see them pulling a UConn and giving it to Jon Scheyer if it's really next year.
 
auror said:
Have to think he had a better shot when he was lead asst/recruiter than going 0-100 at Pitt in 1 year. Maybe his chances really were 0, but I honestly don't see a lot of other compelling options.

SBNation article earlier this summer had him as 2nd favorite:
The 5 most likely candidates to succeed Coach K at Duke

None of those options are inspiring. There also aren't a lot of good, established, successful coaches with enough success to merit Duke and who aren't ancient who I can see leaving their programs. Tony Bennett? Maybe? Jay Wright? Skeptical. I don't see Mark Few leaving Zaga. Beilein is 65. Sean Miller has crazy baggage. Gregg Marshall? Never been a recruiter.

The Macks/Holtmann/Archie's of the world haven't achieved enough. Maybe if one of them has a great year.

Is it Mike Brey? I just can't see them pulling a UConn and giving it to Jon Scheyer if it's really next year.
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If I were leading Duke I'd throw a ton of money at Jay Wright. Might not matter though. Gregg Marshall would be better than Capel, and he can have recruiters on his staff.
 
auror said:
Have to think he had a better shot when he was lead asst/recruiter than going 0-100 at Pitt in 1 year. Maybe his chances really were 0, but I honestly don't see a lot of other compelling options.

SBNation article earlier this summer had him as 2nd favorite:
The 5 most likely candidates to succeed Coach K at Duke

None of those options are inspiring. There also aren't a lot of good, established, successful coaches with enough success to merit Duke and who aren't ancient who I can see leaving their programs. Tony Bennett? Maybe? Jay Wright? Skeptical. I don't see Mark Few leaving Zaga. Beilein is 65. Sean Miller has crazy baggage. Gregg Marshall? Never been a recruiter.

The Macks/Holtmann/Archie's of the world haven't achieved enough. Maybe if one of them has a great year.

Is it Mike Brey? I just can't see them pulling a UConn and giving it to Jon Scheyer if it's really next year.
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Why wouldn't Mark Few leave Zaga for Duke?
 
WingU-Conn said:
Why wouldn't Mark Few leave Zaga for Duke?
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Would Jim Calhoun have?

He's been at Gonzaga for 29 years.

Maybe he'd want a new challenge, I don't know the man. But he's God-status there and has yet to win the big one. Think he'd want to do that first before leaving.
 
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