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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4249243, member: 3535"] I'm with you. It's not "the recruiting." The biggest issue is not as many hits from the recruiting on getting players that perform to A/A levels. The issue in regards to recruiting has been that UCONN has had at most just 1 College Basketball All-American on their teams at one time since KLS and Collier left. UCONN is still "recruiting tremendous" in terms of ratings, but they've had a run of incredibly bad luck. 1-- Some of the top 5 “subjective” H/S rating service (I emphasize “subjective” and "High School") recruits never became top 15 College players. That's bad luck. 2-- The Hurricane that prevented number 2 recruit Charlie Collier from coming- she left UCONN late in the recruiting process after giving her a commit. Not faulting her one iota / one bit. God bless her. Terrible ordeal she had to go through.). That's bad luck. 3-- The leaving to the WNBA of Stevens and Walker. (Let's face it - if Walker was on 2020-21 team- UCONN is undefeated going into Tourney and no way Arizona was going to beat them.). This is unfortunate but nevertheless a reality in which UCONN still gets back to FF's. Some will look "to blame" but that is not living in the real world. The point is just because UCONN recruits a subjectively rated top H/S player, they aren't automatically entitled to being A/A. The UCONN players are human beings - not a computer program of H/S recruiting rating services spitting out automatic A/A.'s Some years it's not going to happen with a one-and-done Tourney. And I think with some fans a certain perspective/ realization of this gets lost. [/QUOTE]

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