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Irish Loop said:
Ah, the many stages of a Boneyard Recruiting Thread.

  1. News about potential recruit
  2. Actual analysis of potential recruit
  3. Comparison of recruit to former player
  4. Four page argument about whether potential recruit is better than former player
  5. Someone insults Chief
  6. Chief appears
  7. Two page argument about Chief
  8. Someone brings up Ollie
  9. Seven pages arguing about Ollie
  10. Someone tries to bring conversation back to recruit
  11. That person is summarily insulted
  12. Unprompted two-message discussion about pizza or beer
  13. Someone brings up Hamidou Diallo or Diamond Stone
  14. "We should drop football and join the Big East"
  15. Six more pages on arguing about dropping football
  16. Recruit gets offer from Kansas
  17. Despair
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You forgot the debate about actual height and weight.
 
gtcam said:
This thread is typical of where many threads have gone on the BY lately - we talk about getting a transferring player and it turns into a cat fight, pissing on others.

On that misinformed garbage my friend Chief00-
There are folks who know some things and believe it or not have more accurate info than even you
You are best with your recruiting juice op eds and what's happening in the Civic Center's (yeah I still call it that) men's room!

Back to Ntambwe - he has ability and potential but UConn needs bigs and needs them now. It's getting late on the recruiting scene and still there hasn't been much verifiable chatter on where Dan Hurley and staff stand with bringing some help in this area - that concerns me
Ex Guards can recruit guards - we've seen that in coaching circles and ex bigs can recruit bigs ala, Patrick E
Can Dan Hurley bring in legit bigs? I think/hope he can but he hasn't in his past and this league (right now) is not where the legit bigs are flocking.
I like the two guards he has signed for next year - solid players and will get better under Dan Hurley. Akok concerns me, not as far as skill set- in person he is really skinny - hopefully he will hit the weights. I spoke with him after a recent game and he said that the staff has him on a weight/muscle training program but that "it's hard" Nice kid though he doesn't talk much. Big hands and long arms
I'd take Ntambwe but not at the price of someone who can play next year and help
I'm not from the school that it's ok to not expect much next season because it's a work in progress. Dan Hurley is getting paid big bucks and the record this year was disappointing but injuries hampered progress (as it had the two previous years). He has to finish higher in the league and get into some postseason play with a winning record. I have faith it will be better.
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maybe its Kimani who brings in a big or three
 
gtcam said:
This thread is typical of where many threads have gone on the BY lately - we talk about getting a transferring player and it turns into a cat fight, pissing on others.

On that misinformed garbage my friend Chief00-
There are folks who know some things and believe it or not have more accurate info than even you
You are best with your recruiting juice op eds and what's happening in the Civic Center's (yeah I still call it that) men's room!

Back to Ntambwe - he has ability and potential but UConn needs bigs and needs them now. It's getting late on the recruiting scene and still there hasn't been much verifiable chatter on where Dan Hurley and staff stand with bringing some help in this area - that concerns me
Ex Guards can recruit guards - we've seen that in coaching circles and ex bigs can recruit bigs ala, Patrick E
Can Dan Hurley bring in legit bigs? I think/hope he can but he hasn't in his past and this league (right now) is not where the legit bigs are flocking.
I like the two guards he has signed for next year - solid players and will get better under Dan Hurley. Akok concerns me, not as far as skill set- in person he is really skinny - hopefully he will hit the weights. I spoke with him after a recent game and he said that the staff has him on a weight/muscle training program but that "it's hard" Nice kid though he doesn't talk much. Big hands and long arms
I'd take Ntambwe but not at the price of someone who can play next year and help
I'm not from the school that it's ok to not expect much next season because it's a work in progress. Dan Hurley is getting paid big bucks and the record this year was disappointing but injuries hampered progress (as it had the two previous years). He has to finish higher in the league and get into some postseason play with a winning record. I have faith it will be better.
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Colleagues, I stand behind the informal conversation in Houston between Dave Benedict and KO, prior to KO getting fired for cause. KO would be in a lot better place today if he took the $2.5 million and walked without “fired for cause” on his resume and Google history.
I bet if he could turn back time, he would take that sum and coach again.
Another minor correction, Cliff was at a Gampel urinal not XL (aka Civic Center).
 
Chief00 said:
Colleagues, I stand behind the informal conversation in Houston between Dave Benedict and KO, prior to KO getting fired for cause. KO would be in a lot better place today if he took the $2.5 million and walked without “fired for cause” on his resume and Google history.
I bet if he could turn back time, he would take that sum and coach again.
Another minor correction, Cliff was at a Gampel urinal not XL (aka Civic Center).
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Where is the $10million dollar donor that DB line up to pay the buyout. This info was from you at the same time as the conversation
 
Whtdmd said:
Where is the $10million dollar donor that DB line up to pay the buyout. This info was from you at the same time as the conversation
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Well it hasn't been paid yet... And likely won't be at all.
 
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Whtdmd said:
Where is the $10million dollar donor that DB line up to pay the buyout. This info was from you at the same time as the conversation
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Never said that, Dave had the $2.5M covered and KO should have taken it since he lied to investigators.
 
Chief00 said:
Never said that, Dave had the $2.5M covered and KO should have taken it since he lied to investigators.
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I believe I said he had the buyout covered. You may have assumed it was $10 million but it was $2.5 million given the rules he broke and being untruthful.
KO basically had 3 possible outcomes:
1) Take the $2.5M - no cause
2) Fight it and win $10M involuntarily paid
3) Fight it and get $0.00
He should have taken option #1 and gotten on the next plane out of town. Instead he was stubborn, got bad advice and is headed to Option #3 = $0.00.

I am not trying to kick KO when he is down, but he screwed up unless his attorneys get him off on a technicality.
 
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Irish Loop said:
Ah, the many stages of a Boneyard Recruiting Thread.

  1. News about potential recruit
  2. Actual analysis of potential recruit
  3. Comparison of recruit to former player
  4. Four page argument about whether potential recruit is better than former player
  5. Someone insults Chief
  6. Chief appears
  7. Two page argument about Chief
  8. Someone brings up Ollie
  9. Seven pages arguing about Ollie
  10. Someone tries to bring conversation back to recruit
  11. That person is summarily insulted
  12. Unprompted two-message discussion about pizza or beer
  13. Someone brings up Hamidou Diallo or Diamond Stone
  14. "We should drop football and join the Big East"
  15. Six more pages on arguing about dropping football
  16. Recruit gets offer from Kansas
  17. Despair
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Bravo!
 
Based on his Instagram story it looks like he’s in Dallas/Fort Worth area right now. Is he scheduled to take a visit to TCU? I saw that they had showed interest
 
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Irish Loop said:
Ah, the many stages of a Boneyard Recruiting Thread.

  1. News about potential recruit
  2. Actual analysis of potential recruit
  3. Comparison of recruit to former player
  4. Four page argument about whether potential recruit is better than former player
  5. Someone insults Chief
  6. Chief appears
  7. Two page argument about Chief
  8. Someone brings up Ollie
  9. Seven pages arguing about Ollie
  10. Someone tries to bring conversation back to recruit
  11. That person is summarily insulted
  12. Unprompted two-message discussion about pizza or beer
  13. Someone brings up Hamidou Diallo or Diamond Stone
  14. "We should drop football and join the Big East"
  15. Six more pages on arguing about dropping football
  16. Recruit gets offer from Kansas
  17. Despair
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very funny !!!!
 
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Starting to get a little frustrated that there doesn’t seem to be a massive talent upgrade happening this offseason. These things usually happen fairly quickly after the season ends. We can not field the the team we have now and expect to win. We went what 1-7 without Jalen last year? These freshman better be spectacular.
 
UcannUconn said:
Starting to get a little frustrated that there doesn’t seem to be a massive talent upgrade happening this offseason. These things usually happen fairly quickly after the season ends. We can not field the the team we have now and expect to win. We went what 1-7 without Jalen last year? These freshman better be spectacular.
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The 3 Freshman are a talent upgrade.
 
UcannUconn said:
Starting to get a little frustrated that there doesn’t seem to be a massive talent upgrade happening this offseason. These things usually happen fairly quickly after the season ends. We can not field the the team we have now and expect to win. We went what 1-7 without Jalen last year? These freshman better be spectacular.
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The college basketball season isn't even over, relax
 
UcannUconn said:
Starting to get a little frustrated that there doesn’t seem to be a massive talent upgrade happening this offseason. These things usually happen fairly quickly after the season ends. We can not field the the team we have now and expect to win. We went what 1-7 without Jalen last year? These freshman better be spectacular.
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Not much movement for any teams yet. Too early to worry. Looks good for the UNLV kid and then we just need a backup center to compete with Carlton. Maybe one of the juco's or a grad transfer. I wouldn't expect or hope for anything else. There is not exactly a plethora of good big men in the market. This takes time. We are bringing in 3 top 100 kids in a class and hit on 3 of our 4 plan A kids. The Cockburn miss really hurts.
 
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