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Jalen Gaffney to UConn

husky99 said:
Hearing the staff thinks they will land 2 out 3 .. with a chance of all three
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This is literally how Dan recruits. It was obvious he was going to get September recruits. Is someone going to predict the sun is going to come up tomorrow and then expect praise for doing so?

Everyone they’re recruiting is familiar with each other. Getting Bouknight and Gaffney in in an efficient and quick manner lets the bigs know exactly who they’ll be working and building with.
 
Peacefrog said:
Not so fast Chief but you’re getting closer to being able to take credit. One commit is a rise in water level. Two is clear distress in the structure. Three would be your predicted dam break. If Matrim is right about this weekend your clairvoyance will be proven. That said, it’s just a great start and even if the eventual break doesn’t come until next month or the spring, I’ll gladly take it. I’ve seen enough so far to keep me going until then and to believe this staff is going to get us where we want to go.
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Dude what have you got against Chief? Are you a UConn fan or what? Suck it up and pay homage to the all mighty Chief. He DAM well deserves it.
 
Peacefrog said:
Not so fast Chief but you’re getting closer to being able to take credit. One commit is a rise in water level. Two is clear distress in the structure. Three would be your predicted dam break. If Matrim is right about this weekend your clairvoyance will be proven. That said, it’s just a great start and even if the eventual break doesn’t come until next month or the spring, I’ll gladly take it. I’ve seen enough so far to keep me going until then and to believe this staff is going to get us where we want to go.
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One quality recruit is a dam break.
Two is dam breech.
Three is a dam flood.
Four is a damn miracle.
 
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RayIsTheGOAT said:
Who would have thought this is the position we'd be in now after our last loss against SMU in March?
Incredible hire by AD Dave and incredible coaching staff assembled by Hurley. We are back.
Now for some results on the court...
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Not Stairs. He thought we were going to suck forever post-Ollie.

PS: Myself and the Boneyard Dream Team were expecting this.
 
Huskymagic said:
Not Stairs. He thought we were going to suck forever post-Ollie.

PS: Myself and the Boneyard Dream Team were expecting this.
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You’re not knowledgeable or perceptive at all. I’m quite happy to admit I’ve been wrong about where I thought the program would head. At least my grounding in reality is strong enough to be able to admit something like that.
 
Waquoit said:
Then you go on to downplay the commits. Face it, if you had your way we'd be playing in front of maybe 2,500 people.
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I am not a big fan of his being a big fan of our former coach but he isn't totally wrong here. As of right now, Gaffney is a 3 star recruit on rivals and not particularly high on any site. When was the last time we had a 3 star recruit become a major contributor to a high performing team? Hilton? Maybe he will move up to a 4 star. Maybe these guys are all late in bumping him up. I hope so. And even if he doesn't become a star on a team that goes deep in the NCAA tournament, he could still be a critical piece to a nice first recruiting class. I just don't know if it is reasonable to call this the best class of all time, yet.
 
Huskymagic said:
Not Stairs. He thought we were going to suck forever post-Ollie.

PS: Myself and the Boneyard Dream Team were expecting this.
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Stairs admitted he was wrong though, multiple times.

Also, wow that's impressive. Congrats.

Predicting Ollie would be fired, replaced with a dynamite coach who would assemble a powerhouse coaching staff, cut ties with Kisunas, Matthews and Akinjo, get two solid grad transfers, the brother of Jaylen Adams and start to build potentially the greatest and most important recruiting class in UConn history for 2019 all before October is no easy feat. It's almost as if you did no such thing.
 
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Paesano said:
I am not a big fan of his being a big fan of our former coach but he isn't totally wrong here. As of right now, Gaffney is a 3 star recruit on rivals and not particularly high on any site. When was the last time we had a 3 star recruit become a major contributor to a high performing team? Hilton? Maybe he will move up to a 4 star. Maybe these guys are all late in bumping him up. I hope so. And even if he doesn't become a star on a team that goes deep in the NCAA tournament, he could still be a critical piece to a nice first recruiting class. I just don't know if it is reasonable to call this the best class of all time, yet.
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Interesting take considering ESPN opened its related story with the following sentence:

Four-star point guard Jalen Gaffney made a verbal commitment to UConn on Monday after his official visit over the weekend.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
start to build potentially the greatest and most important recruiting class
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We'd need to hit on all five for this to be true. I take your general point, but let's not overstate the class yet. Frankly, it almost certainly needs Achiuwa on it for it to be even close.

We had a class of Drummond-Daniels-Boat in Calhoun's last year. 247 has Drummond ranked oddly low (I remember him being consensus Top 5), but if my memory is right, they had two players (Daniels and Drummond) who are ranked higher than anyone we're after except Achiuwa (who would be equivalent to Drummond), in addition to Boatright, who is ranked higher than either of our guards.

I think this class has potentially to be very good. But UConn has had very good recruiting classes before.
 
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Guapo said:
As we all know, back in the Big East days, UConn had some deep, historic rivalries with programs that were close to our equals (Cuse, Georgetown etc).

However, a really underrated aspect of UConn fandom at that time was eating St. John’s lunch.

Nothing is as cute as a St. John’s fan’s hope and optimism for the future and today reminded me of just how enjoyable crushing their hopes and dreams is.
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Wait until we get Precious! We should schedule them. Beat the crap out of them at the garden with Gaffney, Sid, and Precious. That would be some fun! I might even hop a plane back to NYC for that one!
 
I went over to the St Johns/Cuse/Providence message boards today. Along with knocking UCONN (the whole "why would recruits want to play in the AAC without Calhoun"), they also basically admitted that UCONN remains a threat and isn't going anywhere.

Good day!
 
JMick said:
I'm not sure why he isn't on everyone's ignore list. He doesn't offer anything
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He offers confirmation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's, "A foolish consistency is the hobgobblin of little minds," additionally proving out the plural by garnering a Like from Jibsey.

And I say the above while noting that the majority of the handful I still ignore seem in this off season to be UConn fans happy with how things are developing.

Take note, as well, of some posters who have completely disappeared recently. I wonder if or when they'll return. I do not miss them.
 
tzznandrew said:
We'd need to hit on all five for this to be true. I take your general point, but let's not overstate the class yet. Frankly, it almost certainly needs Achiuwa on it for it to be even close.

We had a class of Drummond-Daniels-Boat in Calhoun's last year. 247 has Drummond ranked oddly low (I remember him being consensus Top 5), but if my memory is right, they had two players (Daniels and Drummond) who are ranked higher than anyone we're after except Achiuwa (who would be equivalent to Boat), in addition to Boatright, who is ranked higher than either of our guards.

I think this class has potentially to be very good. But UConn has had very good recruiting classes before.
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Agreed. That's why I said potentially, given the indications that we have a great shot at some combination of Akok-Achiuwa-Kofi. The potential is there for this to be the greatest and most important recruiting class we've ever had. Obviously if we don't get those three, that likely won't be the case.
 
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StepbackCity said:
St. John’s misses out on Jalen Gaffney
This article is hilarious to me
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Especially the part about the fact St. John's were after Gaffney for "years". And that Sid Wilson transferred from there to us after a week. And that Chris Mullin sucks. And that St. John's has sucked for the better part of my life.

But in all seriousness, the idea NE schools might be becoming afraid of Hurley is awesome. What a turnaround in the last 5 months for this program.
 
HooperScooper said:
Corey Evans of Rivals posted this on TOS.

Very, very good start for the Huskies this fall. Look for them to place a greater priority on their frontcourt in the months ahead, that being Achiuwa, Akok, Wahab and Cockburn.

Best part about the two guard commitments is that each can play on and off of the ball and, more specifically, each can really shoot the basketball.

The last part is music to my ears.
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Just like boat n’ bazz baby
 
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