2024 Recruiting: Liam McNeeley, the Second of His Name, 2.0

[MuchoDogYears]

Do you really believe that if Hurley & staff really want someone $$ is gonna be a stumbling block?

No, but…after you give that player his $$$ what are the other players going to demand? The ones who actually were out there winning games?

So now you have to pay them too. Nothing happens in a vacuum, there’s always consequences for every action.

 

[Skies17]

His skill set would suit the Cam role seamlessly

 

[aburks41]

His skill set would suit the Cam role seamlessly

I’m going to be crushed if we don’t land him. He’s so freaking good

 

[jibsey]

Starting Monday a 2 day full court press. Wonder what those look like, what steakhouse?

 

[Phoenixhusky]

He is the perfect fit for us. Hope we can close!

 

[Mr. French]

His skill set would suit the Cam role seamlessly

He fits a few roles pretty well…Hawkins comes to mind too.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Liam is from TX. Tristen is from TX. Hopefully, Tristen can have a talk with him when he visits.

 

[UCTitleTown]

I love how he attacks the rim and can hit threes with people in his face. Imagine what he can do with open threes in our amazing ball movement offense?

 

[ec33]

He fits a few roles pretty well…Hawkins comes to mind too.

Saying he would be a Hawkins that could finish at the rim would be a bit hyperbolic.

 

[UconnU]

His skill set would suit the Cam role seamlessly

I imagine he would do the cam role but defend the opposing team’s 3. He’s just someone we can run offense through bc of his BB IQ, passing and efficiency. we really ran a lot of 3 and 4 man offense last year, having Steph just crash the glass. There’s a next level to this offense where all 5 guys are capable of the actions cam and ak performed last year.

 

[bendm]

i dont see why this guy cant be our starting 2 if hes a good passer with high bbiq

diarra/nowell
mcneeley/ball
stewart/ross
karaban/abraham
harris/johnson

we aint gonna threepeat if this is our top 10 but we'll be a fun tourney team thanks to good coaching. would be happy with sweet 16 after going back to back.

 

[UofCT]

i dont see why this guy cant be our starting 2 if hes a good passer with high bbiq

diarra/nowell
mcneeley/ball
stewart/ross
karaban/abraham
harris/johnson

we aint gonna threepeat if this is our top 10 but we'll be a fun tourney team thanks to good coaching. would be happy with sweet 16 after going back to back.

Johnson is 100% starting

 

[Peacefrog]

i dont see why this guy cant be our starting 2 if hes a good passer with high bbiq

diarra/nowell
mcneeley/ball
stewart/ross
karaban/abraham
harris/johnson

we aint gonna threepeat if this is our top 10 but we'll be a fun tourney team thanks to good coaching. would be happy with sweet 16 after going back to back.

Who is Harris?

 

[superjohn]

Starting Monday a 2 day full court press. Wonder what those look like, what steakhouse?

They always bring all the recruits to the same steakhouse.

Chute Gates steakhouse in Terryville. Liam is from Texas, he'll appreciate a great cowboy ribeye.

 

[Leebo]

Who is Harris?

Harris Teed III, transfer from Chimigan.

 

[UConnRock]

Who is Harris?

Harris Tweed

 

[EBonz30]

They always bring all the recruits to the same steakhouse.

Chute Gates steakhouse in Terryville. Liam is from Texas, he'll appreciate a great cowboy ribeye.

Looks like Chute Gates closed its business a couple months back….

 

[GG]

They always bring all the recruits to the same steakhouse.

Chute Gates steakhouse in Terryville. Liam is from Texas, he'll appreciate a great cowboy ribeye.

Chit Gates closed down. A Texas bbq place is coming to ten location.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Need to add Jr. to the title

 

[NJHusky]

Who is writing this?

Nate oats

 

[mauconnfan]

Johnson is 100% starting

I wouldn’t bet on that. Good news is he improved more than I thought from last to this year so there’s hope for another step. Reed is strong and can rebound while pretty much staying out of foul trouble. SJ will need to improve on all 3 of those aspects.

 

[RedStickHusky]

Question on these NIL "deals". Say a "personality" like the next Paige Bueckers (or even just the next Clingan or Spencer) goes to UConn and strikes a "deal". Isn't one of the unquantified upsides for the player that if his team does really well and he shines and he will get some "advertisers hunting him up on their own outside of NIL" deals.

Say Mcneeley plays great and team does great and is in everyone's face he could reap all kinds of extra money deals, right? I'm figuring Clingan got way more deals than whatever "minimum" NIL deal he might have gotten guaranteed from UConn's collective.

I would expect UConn is also selling: Clingan top 50 recruit to lottery, Newton from nowhere to drafted, expect each "upgrade" in career results is worth lot more than most NIL deals.

It's all NIL... some of it is an allocation from the Collective pool (that's the guaranteed part) and some of it is individual deals like Armando Bacot's Wendy's commercials. We could sign a guy for 500k and he's free to find his own deals to add to that.

 

[jibsey]

Johnson has shown improvement but whether he starts or comes in later doesn’t matter because it’s 2 different looks for defending us. If he can hold his own against stronger centers then fine, we’ll see.

 

[Fan1978]

Johnson is 100% starting

Does it really matter, they will both play 20 minutes

 

[husky429]

Does it really matter, they will both play 20 minutes

No matter who starts, a true 20/20 center rotation is tremendously unlikely.