2024 Recruiting: Liam McNeeley

[NJHusky]

More like UConn vs. Alabama with Michigan as a dark horse. Bodes very well for us that we’re getting the first visit of the three.

He’s going to be at Jordan brand in Brooklyn this weekend. Being first is probably a matter of logistics as much as anything

 

[husky429]

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

 

[FlexOnEm]

He’s going to be at Jordan brand in Brooklyn this weekend. Being first is probably a matter of logistics as much as anything

Bodes well for us as in we have the chance to lock it up before he takes any other visits. Not implying he’s visiting us first because we’re his favorite as of today.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

We cannot agree on that.

Basketball and Martial Arts are cool too, though.

 

[Greedo]

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

Is this you?

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

Best sport in the world. Just because Americans aren’t good at it dont make it untrue.

 

[TheHorde]

And another thread off the rails lol

 

[nomar]

How do you aggressively peruse someone?

A music store or a library, sure. But a teenager?

 

[TheHorde]

How do you aggressively peruse someone?

A music store or a library, sure. But a teenager?

Leering at them and staring at them for an inappropriately long time Id imagine.

 

[HailUConn]

How do you aggressively peruse someone?

A music store or a library, sure. But a teenager?

 

[Sibeerian]

And another thread off the rails lol

 

[KembaRunner]

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

 

[Jbirdp5]

That's particularly prevalent in most girls sports and boys lacrosse for whatever reason in my experience. But especially girls soccer. When I worked in a rich area, the girls in town were constantly playing soccer. I coached their team one year even though I hate soccer and know nothing about it, and we didn't lose a single game. My current school in the hood couldn't even get enough girls to try out to form a team. Middle and lower-class families aren't investing in those sports for whatever reason.

Most affluent communities are good at all sports now…down in Fairfield county if the school is good at football it is most likely good at everything now…..huge change from years ago

 

[Poe]

Can we all just agree soccer is stupid? My kids are playing basketball, track, or learning how to fight. Everything else is foolish.

Track is way more stupid

 

[UCTitleTown]

I hear Kentucky throwing serious NIL at LM to sway him.

 

[KembaRunner]

Track is way more stupid

As a former track guy, at UConn no less, I am both incensed and aggressively nodding in agreement at this comment

 

[ScottCT]

I can never get into soccer it's just so boring.

 

[husky429]

Track is way more stupid

Track athletes are the best pure athletes on the planet.

 

[husky429]

Best sport in the world. Just because Americans aren’t good at it dont make it untrue.

Humans were given 10 fingers and 2 arms for a reason. Sports that make it a rule not to use them are just plain weird.

 

[BGesus4]

Best sport in the world. Just because Americans aren’t good at it dont make it untrue.

We aren’t good at it because our best athletes don’t play it

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Absolutely scorching hot takes in this thread. #takequake

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Getting light-years off topic, but I made this point in another thread weeks ago:

People complain that we've gotten easy paths through the Tournament in our last few runs -- our region fell apart in 2004, faced 8 seeds for the championship in 2011 and 2014, faced 5 seeds in the Final Four in 2023 -- but we got absolutely none of that luck in the 90s and early 00s.

We never had a 1 seed knocked out early, we almost always faced the toughest possible seeds in the later rounds -- 1994 lost to chalk 3 seed Florida in Miami, 1995 lost to chalk 1 seed and eventual champ UCLA in California, 1998 lost to chalk 1 seed UNC in NC, 2002 lost to chalk 1 seed Maryland, 2003 lost to chalk 1 seed Texas in Texas.

People like to complain but they are either intentionally overlooking or clueless as to what happened.

1999 - nobody can say anything about that run.

2004 - the only possible gripe (especially considering the national semifinal game) could be Ga Tech being our title game opponent but I want to know if Duke had beaten us in the semifinal and won the title that year would anyone say they lucked out?

2011 - we had a run very similar to Duke in 2010 (other than we were a three seed, they had been a one) including the same opponent in the title game. We actually won our game comfortably while it took a very late, very questionable foul call to give them the game (which was almost lost on a half court shot at the buzzer). Nobody claimed Duke was lucky in 2010.

2014 - this was actually a more formidable set of opponents than anyone wants to admit. Nova was a two that many felt should have been a one, Iowa St was a three. Michigan St beat one seed Virginia, Florida was a one seed. The issue here would have to be the order in which we played them because if Kentucky happened a few rounds earlier and Nova in the finals, there wouldn't be anything for anyone to gripe about.

During the past two runs I don't know what else we could have done to prove ourselves. There is no case anyone can make to claim we weren't clearly the best team both years.

I really don't get how some believe they can diminish any of our titles as I can guarantee they would not view them as luck if their schools has won them. We did the only thing we could do, beat the teams they put in front of us. What were we supposed to do when an alleged undeserving opponent faced us, say "this game shouldn't count"?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Humans were given 10 fingers and 2 arms for a reason. Sports that make it a rule not to use them are just plain weird.

Silly take.

 

[Rico444]

Humans were given 10 fingers and 2 arms for a reason. Sports that make it a rule not to use them are just plain weird.

Track is just running around in a circle?

 

[Matrim55]

Best sport in the world. Just because Americans aren’t good at it dont make it untrue.

The US women's national team has won 4 World Cups, twice as many as any other country, and 4 Olympic Golds. No other team has won more than 1. We're basically Wooden-era UCLA.

The US men's national team has made the knockout rounds (top 16) at the World Cup five out of the past 8 tourneys, including in 2022 with the youngest team at the event, have made the quarterfinals of the past four U20 World Cups (no one else in the world has done that), are regularly sending players to the top club teams in the world, and have been utterly dominant in the region under Berhalter. We're basically mid-90s era UConn.

You need to update your priors.