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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4121665, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1466389667041869830[/MEDIA] -> Recruiting is the priority at the moment for Jim Mora and his assistants, with the start of the NCAA early signing period fast approaching on Dec. 15. Marinelli visited close to a dozen Connecticut high schools over his first couple days on the job. “We’re late into the game,” Marinelli said. “We’re all new, and we’re trying to fill up our ’22 class. We haven’t really started to hit ’23s yet. We’ll get there.” <- -> “People are so thirsty for UConn, and the high school coaches are so thirsty to have a connection with the state university,” Marinelli said. “The people I talked to say they feel like a weight’s been lifted off their shoulders. They finally have a place and a person and a staff that, I think Coach Mora said it, this is what they’ve always wanted.” <- -> The staff has handed out several offers lately, many of which have gone to players at schools the previous staff didn’t recruit much, if at all. They want to show they’re serious about investing in local talent. “There’s such things as political offers. We’re not political offers,” Marinelli said. “Part of my job is going to be having hard conversations with coaches that are going to push their players on me. They think that they’re D-I athletes, and I’m going to have a hard conversation with those coaches and say, ‘Look, we don’t think so or it’s not the right fit.’ “Everyone that we’ve offered we think is a legitimate Division I football player through their film and character evaluations and academic performance. We feel like those kids are worthy of an offer from us and we want to build our class around local talent. We want to continue to build every class with local talent. Connecticut has good football.” <- [/QUOTE]

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