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James Akinjo Leaving Georgetown

Akinjo cannot transfer here so we can stop talking about that.

As far as why he is leaving, who knows? But if the whole team has several bad apples he could potentially spin that he needed to leave that environment and apply for a waiver. In which case, he'd need to leave ASAP.
 
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Even though we can’t get him, if Ollie wanted him...I don’t really want him. His eye for talent and developing said talent left ummmm a little to be desired.

Akinjos shooting 33% on 2FGA and 24% on 3FGA...sounds awfully similar to someone this board couldn’t stand until the Maine game.
 
HuskyFich said:
Even though we can’t get him, if Ollie wanted him...I don’t really want him. His eye for talent and developing said talent left ummmm a little to be desired.

Akinjos shooting 33% on 2FGA and 24% on 3FGA...sounds awfully similar to someone this board couldn’t stand until the Maine game.
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The kids good so put away that eye for talent part. And the kid Matthews that was heading here too from the top 200 area is getting 10 and 5 under Huggins. Vital is pretty good. Carlton is pretty good. Polley is pretty good as is Gilbert. So let's leave that alone because you're wrong. Having said that, development you're not wrong on and actually getting recruits who were rated higher, not enough of them.
 
mauconnfan said:
The kids good so put away that eye for talent part. And the kid Matthews that was heading here too from the top 200 area is getting 10 and 5 under Huggins. Vital is pretty good. Carlton is pretty good. Polley is pretty good as is Gilbert. So let's leave that alone because you're wrong. Having said that, development you're not wrong on and actually getting recruits who were rated higher, not enough of them.
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This. Ollie could identify talent, he just couldn’t coach it up.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I agree with all of this. Even if he was not planning on staying at Georgetown, why not finish the season and put up monster stats? Akinjo is involved somehow.

Edit: Akinjo could be looking to play in the second semester of next year on another team rather than piss away a year of eligibility on this train wreck. We should hold off judgment on Akinjo until there is more information.
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Lol, good to see your better angels prevailed, even if it was only after it occurred to you that he might have an ulterior motive.
 
mauconnfan said:
The kids good so put away that eye for talent part. And the kid Matthews that was heading here too from the top 200 area is getting 10 and 5 under Huggins. Vital is pretty good. Carlton is pretty good. Polley is pretty good as is Gilbert. So let's leave that alone because you're wrong. Having said that, development you're not wrong on and actually getting recruits who were rated higher, not enough of them.
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Let me ask you a simple question....

do all the players you just mentioned exemplify where you EXPECT UConn basketball to be? or do you also say the the talent level just isn’t there to fit your narrative.

pretty good isn’t good enough for UConn, I’m sorry
 
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CL82 said:
Surprisingly reactionary. I've never seen anything like that on the board before.
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I understand but that doesn't make it acceptable. I can just as easily postulate that he left the team because his friends are being kicked off and maybe he thinks wrongly, or he just sees the season falling apart and doesn't hang around.

Internet or not, you're not ever going to convince me that it's not wrong to just decide that a 19 year old did something criminal without a reasonable basis to come to that conclusion. If that draws a chorus of "o.k. Boomer"s, I'm perfectly willing to live with being right.
 
No interest, can't transfer here by Big East rules.

Far too many people have a problem letting go of recruiting hype. Once they play college games, you find out how good they really are.

He's not good enough to take on whatever baggage he has even if he could transfer here, which he can't.

If you take transfers, you shouldn't expect anything more than a back half of the rotation player or someone to fill an existing need. We don't need him and he's not a significant upgrade over what we have or have coming in. Certainly not worth messing with the chemistry that Hurley is just getting settled.

This is pining for crush that rejected you already. Get over it, and move on.
 
Akinjo is their best player by far. Must have done something awful.
 
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HuskyFich said:
Let me ask you a simple question....

do all the players you just mentioned exemplify where you EXPECT UConn basketball to be? or do you also say the the talent level just isn’t there to fit your narrative.

pretty good isn’t good enough for UConn, I’m sorry
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Are the players the current coach, who was hired to bring UConn back, elected to keep “good enough for UConn?”
 
Wordbomar said:
1. Didn’t hold Akok back.
2. We don’t enter Big East until July 1st.
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Not sure what you are talking about. No Big East rules applied to Akok committing here as a freshman out of HS. And we certainly did have a Scholarship.

Fishy posted earlier that as a condition of joining the Big East, UConn agreed to abide by Big East transfer rules effective immediately. So they apply to us now.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Not sure what you are talking about. No Big East rules applied to Akok committing here as a freshman out of HS. And we certainly did have a Scholarship.

Fishy posted earlier that as a condition of joining the Big East, UConn agreed to abide by Big East transfer rules effective immediately. So they apply to us now.
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I think his point was that Akok walked on for a semester. I highly doubt that will become common here.
 
Mazhude said:
“James Akinjo and Josh LeBlanc will not be playing for the men’s basketball team effective immediately and will not be members of the team for the remainder of the season,” Ewing’s statement read.

The University had every opportunity to separate the two departures and chose not to. That speaks volumes to seriousness of the issues involved. It may well be that Akinjo was only found guilty of violations of the school's code of ethics. Either way, Ewing's statement doesn't read like a "thanks James for the memories, sorry things didn't work out" kind of message.
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I agree that if Akinjo is innocent, then Georgetown committed a grave sin by pairing him with LeBlanc as if they are equivalent, and implying that Akinjo will not be playing because of disciplinary action by Georgetown rather than because he wants to leave. If we could trust Georgetown then we would have to believe Akinjo was guilty of something.

I'll also agree with @businesslawyer that, unfortunately, we have no basis for trusting Georgetown and cannot assume Akinjo is guilty.
 
HuskyFich said:
Let me ask you a simple question....

do all the players you just mentioned exemplify where you EXPECT UConn basketball to be? or do you also say the the talent level just isn’t there to fit your narrative.

pretty good isn’t good enough for UConn, I’m sorry
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Your point was he didn't have an eye for talent. The fact he couldn't get too much of the really high end recruits I pointed out also so I agree. But as far as finding "talent" in the 175-250 rankings he did have a n eye for that. You didn't ask me to exemplify where we should've been now did you? You simply said he had no eye for talent. Simpy put he's proven otherwise on that narrative.

Enough about Ollie no matter. Not sure why people need to bring him up to make themselves feel better about where we are now?
 
BFieldHusky said:
Not only Big East rules, but we don't have a scholarship to give. Not sure why people don't realize that.
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The board has been operating on the assumption that Al is gone after the year. Do you mean we don't have a scholarship for a mid year transfer?
 
nomar said:
Apropos of nothing, Vance Jackson stinks.

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Took a look at this stats for the first time the other day and was really struck at how much worse he's gotten since his freshman year. I really figured that worst case he could just settle in as a spot-up three point shooter but it seems that he wants to be the guy and hasn't quite realized that is just not his game right now.
 
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