I have heard from people close to the Stamford High program that this kid’s improvement arc has been significant, and that he has a tremendous work ethic. I’m going to get to a few games in the next month and will share thoughts.
Same here. I’m a close drive to a few FCIAC schools, so I’ll check him out. Thanks for posting @superjohn
Do you make a point to wear the UConn swag when you go?
Locally? Not since Rash Jones was at Stamford (Trinity) Catholic. Didn’t wear any UConn gear to Austrie’s high school games because everyone assumed he was heading to UMass. And Dave McClure was always a Duke lean. Other than a few MAAC/NEC/AE D1 signees, and a handful of D2 and D3 players, Connecticut’s now-second-largest city has produced very little basketball talent in the last 25 years, and it’s a total head scratcher to me. Stamford isn’t lacrosse, hockey and football crazed like our three immediate bordering neighbors to the west and east.
I heard about him for the first time last night. His mother doesn’t want him to come here from words of a mutual friend.
Nothing like him, Drummond was an athletic phenom of a big man.
They aren't in the same universe
I remember going to see James Akinjo in the east bay when he was still committed to UConn. I was wearing a UConn 1/4 zip in the front row and I'm pretty sure people thought I was affiliated with the program.
Maybe she wants him to try a different school as she went to UConn.
That’s a shame. While the UConn brand was an afterthought with the run-down North Stamford campus decades ago, the new-ish downtown campus and its ever-expanding, modern and visible dorms - plus UConn’s partnerships with high-profile companies - the brand is probably more in the local consciousness in this part of the state than it has ever been in my lifetime.
No, he was a bit overweight, but we ALL know how that worked out.
