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JMick said:
He can't be worse than DO, right?
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Over the course of his career, he has a smattering of far better games against better competition than DO ever had. His value may not be much, but I feel confident the staff can extract the maximum amount of it.
 
He won't play, All of our bigs have more talent than him, so this would be purely depth.
 
Facebook conversation between me and a St. John's alum and big time fan who watched pretty much every game.

Me: UConn is bringing in Kassoum Yakwe as a potential grad transfer. What's your report on him?

Him: He’s awful. I can’t believe they’d have room for him. Awful hands. He ended up being very disappointing.

Me: Hah, thanks. Hope they pick someone else!

Him: Yeah he’s the one player St. John’s lost who had no role. And he was supposed to be good.

Interesting to see how he compares to a few twitter posts and a fan. Anyways, I'd much much prefer a guard who can hit an outside shot with a grad school transfer spot.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
Facebook conversation between me and a St. John's alum and big time fan who watched pretty much every game.

Me: UConn is bringing in Kassoum Yakwe as a potential grad transfer. What's your report on him?

Him: He’s awful. I can’t believe they’d have room for him. Awful hands. He ended up being very disappointing.

Me: Hah, thanks. Hope they pick someone else!

Him: Yeah he’s the one player St. John’s lost who had no role. And he was supposed to be good.
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Sums up the boneyard with every recruit
 
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tcf15 said:
Yakwe: Pittsburgh, Nevada, Ohio State
Adams: Seton Hall, Xavier, George Mason
Smith: Rutgers, Seton Hall, Oklahoma, Colorado State, Utah State

I'm okay with this.
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So based on this logic and seeing who we have offered in 2019 we should go after:

Josh Nickelberry (Louisville, N.C. State, North Carolina, Xavier, Auburn, Baylor, Florida, Florida State and more)
Scottie Lewis (Duke, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Villanova, North Carolina and more)
Josh Green (Arizona, Kansas, UCLA, Virginia, Arizona State, Cal, and more)
Akok Akok (Providence, Creighton, Lousiville, N.C. State, Rhode Island, Syracuse and more)
John Bol Ajak (Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Villanova, Seton Hall, and more)
Kofi Cockburn (Cincinnati, St. John's, Syracuse, Auburn, Cal, Creighton, Oregon, Indiana, UCLA and more)
Jalen Lecque (Auburn, Baylor, Florida, Kansas, Louisville, Miami, Oregon, Syracuse, Texas and more)
Isaiah Wong (Cincinnati, Memphis, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, Villanova and more)

And pass on:

James Bouknight (Central Connecticut State, DePaul, Kansas State, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and more)
Khalif Battle (Miami (FL), Rutgers, Saint Joseph's, VCU, Washington)
Au'Diese Toney (Charlotte, Hampton, Kansas State, UAB, VCU, Virginia Tech)
Jaiden Delaire (Columbia, Hofstra, Iona, Kansas State, Massachusetts, Rider, Rutgers, Towson and more)
Tre Mitchell (Canisius, Central Connecticut State, Illinois, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Vanderbilt, Yale and more)
Sherif Kenney (Boston College, DePaul, Penn State, Rutgers, USF, Kansas State, Arizona State)

Toss-up?:

Paul Mulcahy (Boston College, Florida, Marquette, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Xavier and more)
Tyrese Samuel (Kansas State, Wichita State, Baylor, Canisius, East Carolina, Old Dominion, Towson and more)
 
rip7774 said:
I’m all in on Hurley but man i hate this list. Can’t believe we aren’t in on better grad transfers. So much opportunity to play here
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We've got an All-Conference player at PG, a McDAA as 2nd guard, a 4* RS freshman at SF, and then 5 bigs fighting for 2 spots already. I could see a big maybe thinking they're better than what we got, but even our 3rd guard spot is filled by a returning starter and the 3 is pretty much set.

We may be writing AG off, but a top flight grad transfer with 1 shot for 1 year isn't going to take the risk on that, plus as Fishy mentioned we haven't won.
 
YoungFree said:
So if Hurley nabs Smith and Yakwe he is basically telling us he is really waiting to recruit until 2019 right?
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Yep, that’s what Chief reported earlier in the week. Unless a reclass happens.
 
Fishy said:
I’m not sure people are fully cognizant of just how much damage Ollie did to the school’s rep in recruiting circles over the past few years. And these grad transfers have one year to play and they didn’t miss the fact that UConn has had two straight years under .500....they want to go to the NCAA tournament and this doesn’t look like the place to do that right now.

This is gonna take time.
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Damage in recruiting circles based on the poor performance of the team?
 
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CL82 said:
He's basically telling us he's not writing off the 2018-2019 season. That's a good thing right?
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He better not be. The last thing we need is another coach who openly proclaims he's treating the first few games of the regular season as "exhibitions", like Bobby Disastro did.
 
UConnNick said:
He better not be. The last thing we need is another coach who openly proclaims he's treating the first few games of the regular season as "exhibitions", like Bobby Disastro did.
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Agree. Hurley feels like the anti-Diaco. He hasn't made excuses why he can't compete and seems to have a logical plan for the rejuvenation of the program which he is pursuing aggressively...and he hasn't mentioned winning breakfast. All good things in my view.
 
Chief00 said:
Yep, that’s what Chief reported earlier in the week. Unless a reclass happens.
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Well by all accounts we're pushing for the reclass so I wouldn't say we're only focused on 2019
 
Fishy said:
. . . .they want to go to the NCAA tournament and this doesn’t look like the place to do that right now.

This is gonna take time.
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Much respect for the BY king.
But I disagree completely.
This won't take much time.
These young men play for the man, and only to a lesser extent the institution and the conference.
Butler, Gonzaga, Jim Calhoun, Shaka Smart, Po (the teletuby).
This is a cult of personality.

Dan Hurley turns this around like Vin Diesel jack-knifing a truck at 90 MPH in FANDF 17.

I'm thinking tourni bubble team and we're in next year.
I'm thinking solid tourni team the next.
And I'm thinking FF team potential (even if not realized a la JC) within 5 years.

Our program is that established, Dan Hurley is that good, and, of course, the MOJO runs deep here.

Mark it.
 
YoungFree said:
So based on this logic and seeing who we have offered in 2019 we should go after:

Josh Nickelberry (Louisville, N.C. State, North Carolina, Xavier, Auburn, Baylor, Florida, Florida State and more)
Scottie Lewis (Duke, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Villanova, North Carolina and more)
Josh Green (Arizona, Kansas, UCLA, Virginia, Arizona State, Cal, and more)
Akok Akok (Providence, Creighton, Lousiville, N.C. State, Rhode Island, Syracuse and more)
John Bol Ajak (Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Villanova, Seton Hall, and more)
Kofi Cockburn (Cincinnati, St. John's, Syracuse, Auburn, Cal, Creighton, Oregon, Indiana, UCLA and more)
Jalen Lecque (Auburn, Baylor, Florida, Kansas, Louisville, Miami, Oregon, Syracuse, Texas and more)
Isaiah Wong (Cincinnati, Memphis, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, Villanova and more)

And pass on:

James Bouknight (Central Connecticut State, DePaul, Kansas State, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and more)
Khalif Battle (Miami (FL), Rutgers, Saint Joseph's, VCU, Washington)
Au'Diese Toney (Charlotte, Hampton, Kansas State, UAB, VCU, Virginia Tech)
Jaiden Delaire (Columbia, Hofstra, Iona, Kansas State, Massachusetts, Rider, Rutgers, Towson and more)
Tre Mitchell (Canisius, Central Connecticut State, Illinois, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Vanderbilt, Yale and more)
Sherif Kenney (Boston College, DePaul, Penn State, Rutgers, USF, Kansas State, Arizona State)

Toss-up?:

Paul Mulcahy (Boston College, Florida, Marquette, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Xavier and more)
Tyrese Samuel (Kansas State, Wichita State, Baylor, Canisius, East Carolina, Old Dominion, Towson and more)
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I mean you don't have to take it literally. I think the point was that it's a good sign if other decent schools are after Yakwe, rather than if he were being chased by only CCSU, Canisius and Fairfield. That doesn't mean we have to pass on everyone being chased by some low end schools.

Also teams are semi-desperate at this point in the season to fill out their rosters so that's why there are a lot of big schools in on a lot of people right now.
 
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Fishy said:
I’m not sure people are fully cognizant of just how much damage Ollie did to the school’s rep in recruiting circles over the past few years. And these grad transfers have one year to play and they didn’t miss the fact that UConn has had two straight years under .500....they want to go to the NCAA tournament and this doesn’t look like the place to do that right now.

This is gonna take time.
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This is an enormous cop out.
 
Not sure I buy the list of schools theory. Who went after Jeremy Lamb? Josh Boone?

In football it certainly doesn't work. Seems Edsall missed when he landed a bunch of kids with great offers, and then he sent kids with no other D1 offer to the NFL.
 
upstater said:
Not sure I buy the list of schools theory. Who went after Jeremy Lamb? Josh Boone?

In football it certainly doesn't work. Seems Edsall missed when he landed a bunch of kids with great offers, and then he sent kids with no other D1 offer to the NFL.
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It works far more often than it doesn’t.
 
upstater said:
Not sure I buy the list of schools theory. Who went after Jeremy Lamb? Josh Boone?

In football it certainly doesn't work. Seems Edsall missed when he landed a bunch of kids with great offers, and then he sent kids with no other D1 offer to the NFL.
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Football is a whole different monster though. So many players and people involved.

Basketball is fairly reliable. Sometimes you can get in early on a late bloomer, which would throw it off...but if a bunch of strong schools are interested, it's a good idea to be interested.
 
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JMick said:
you must live in a monumentally different reality than the rest of us
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Nah. Some of you are pathological when it comes to "the former head coach" and others just don't seem to have a great grasp on how college basketball works.

A) Color me skeptical that anyone gives a flying eph about the "school's rep" when it comes to recruiting. We have an entirely new staff.

B) If it doesn't seem like UConn is the place for recruits to go then it is literally the coaches job to change that. The idea that Hurley is taking over the Marshall football program post Flight 932 is Santa Clause type stuff. He's a damn good coach that didn't come here to play around for a year while the boneyard fastened the training wheels. He's a big boy coach who should be able to take what's left of the Ollie disaster, add some pieces, and show us a real basketball team right off the bat.
 
4xChamps said:
Niels?
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He does hold the record for highest 3P% in a season in UConn MBB history -- pretty remarkable to think about that considering the guys that have come through the program
 
Brimah was also ranked very low.
 
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