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Sluconn Husky said:
I had no idea Timea Gardiner committed to Oregon State. Just happened in the last couple hours.
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There is some posts on the General board about it. Her and Beers will make a great frontcourt duo.
 
HuskyFan1125 said:
There is some posts on the General board about it. Her and Beers will make a great frontcourt duo.
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About time Rueck got some real talent too. Lets see how he handles it. Who knows? Maybe one day Doug Bruno will get a top ten recruit. It could happen.
 
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CompSci87 said:
I don't think she's even the first to choose Oregon State over Stanford. But that's rare!
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Mikayla Pivec was a confirmed admit. Von Oelhoffen was a target too, but don't know her admit status. And we don't know whether Gardiner was admitted or not. But as time progressed it was less clear to me where she'd fit in, since we have three 6'2" players coming in next season, and 6'7" Betts the season after. What we really, really need is a commitment from Kiki Rice, because we will be very lean at the point once Kiana Williams graduates.
 
TheFarmFan said:
Mikayla Pivec was a confirmed admit. Von Oelhoffen was a target too, but don't know her admit status. And we don't know whether Gardiner was admitted or not. But as time progressed it was less clear to me where she'd fit in, since we have three 6'2" players coming in next season, and 6'7" Betts the season after. What we really, really need is a commitment from Kiki Rice, because we will be very lean at the point once Kiana Williams graduates.
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This is interesting regarding Kiki. Certainly from a PG need standpoint Stanford might have a hole there, while Uconn already has two good ones only a year ahead of Kiki. While most label her a point guard, at her size with versatile skills I could see her being effective from 1-3. If she wants to play point guard and thinks of herself that way, Stanford would seem to have an obvious edge. A Uconn role might be more of a swiss army knife type that could be plugged into various positions (ala Evina this year) but also with no clear path to a starting position.
 
oldhuskie said:
This is interesting regarding Kiki. Certainly from a PG need standpoint Stanford might have a hole there, while Uconn already has two good ones only a year ahead of Kiki. While most label her a point guard, at her size with versatile skills I could see her being effective from 1-3. If she wants to play point guard and thinks of herself that way, Stanford would seem to have an obvious edge. A Uconn role might be more of a swiss army knife type that could be plugged into various positions (ala Evina this year) but also with no clear path to a starting position.
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Kiki is tall for a PG but I believe that's how she's being recruited as well as her preferred position to play in college. Certainly everyone in our neck of the woods has been viewing her recruitment through that lens, esp. after Olivia Miles became a Domer.
 
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TheFarmFan said:
Few things delighted me more than this way-too-candid interview with Lisa Leslie. Turns out you can go pro at basketball and still wish you'd gotten a top flight education. :D

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"I really didn't realize what an Ivy League was back then."

?? Or apparently not now, either. How could she have gotten into Stanford?
 
TheFarmFan said:
OK Ivy+, if we want to split hairs about it. ;)
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Yeah, yeah ... Ivy of the south Duke, and Ivy of the west Stanford, blah, blah, blah. :eek: Next thing I know some English person is going to start talking about the Ivy of the UK Oxford, or the Ivy of Europe the Sorbonne :cool:
 
MilfordHusky said:
Dick Cavett, after someone referred to Stanford as the "Harvard of the West," quipped that he had gone to Yale, which was the "Harvard of the East." :)
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That's a good one!

From when I first got to campus, I remember noticing a joke poster calling Harvard the "Stanford of the East."
 
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Magruber said:
A great education can be had at many schools including UCONN.
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Totally agree. What you do with the opportunities you have is a hell of a lot more important than what those opportunities are. If Morgan William's buzzer beating game winner over UConn a few years back proved anything, it's that how you play the hand you're dealt matters at least as much as the hand itself.
 
Geno spoke at the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday morning. This is an annual event for Geno, always a few days before the NCAA tournament.

This year's event was virtual and a video of the event has been posted in another thread.
During the Q & A Geno mentioned that he has 2 commits from the class of 2022 and expects 1 or 2 more. We know Ice Brady is one of the commits but we don't know yet who is the 2nd commit. Timing suggests it may be Patterson -- UConn is one of 5 finalists and she announces on Saturday -- but we don't really know for sure.
 
UConnCat said:
Geno spoke at the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday morning. This is an annual event for Geno, always a few days before the NCAA tournament.

This year's event was virtual and a video of the event has been posted in another thread.
During the Q & A Geno mentioned that he has 2 commits from the class of 2022 and expects 1 or 2 more. We know Ice Brady is one of the commits but we don't know yet who is the 2nd commit. Timing suggests it may be Patterson -- UConn is one of 5 finalists and she announces on Saturday -- but we don't really know for sure.
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Oh baby, bring 'em on. Ayanna Patterson, c'mon down!
 
UConnCat said:
Geno spoke at the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday morning. This is an annual event for Geno, always a few days before the NCAA tournament.

This year's event was virtual and a video of the event has been posted in another thread.
During the Q & A Geno mentioned that he has 2 commits from the class of 2022 and expects 1 or 2 more. We know Ice Brady is one of the commits but we don't know yet who is the 2nd commit. Timing suggests it may be Patterson -- UConn is one of 5 finalists and she announces on Saturday -- but we don't really know for sure.
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That’s amazing news!!! The more the merrier!!
 
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UConnCat said:
Geno spoke at the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday morning. This is an annual event for Geno, always a few days before the NCAA tournament.

This year's event was virtual and a video of the event has been posted in another thread.
During the Q & A Geno mentioned that he has 2 commits from the class of 2022 and expects 1 or 2 more. We know Ice Brady is one of the commits but we don't know yet who is the 2nd commit. Timing suggests it may be Patterson -- UConn is one of 5 finalists and she announces on Saturday -- but we don't really know for sure.
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Just watched it! Really interesting watch if anyone’s interested it’s up on youtube (34:00 starts talking about recruiting)
Said he has two kids that he can’t say who they are yet and then 1 more maybe 2 more coming. Stated kids are going to have a tough time seeing the court. Looks like we have a good chance of another strong class.
 
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Heytherego said:
Just watched it! Really interesting watch if anyone’s interested it’s up on youtube (34:00 starts talking about recruiting)
Said he has two kids that he can’t say who they are yet and then 1 more maybe 2 more coming. Stated kids are going to have a tough time seeing the court. Looks like we have a good chance of another strong class.
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I obviously have no problem with GA picking up whatever talent he can. But I am a little surprised that after the '21 class of 4 on top of a full house, he'd take another 3-4 in '22. That's going to take a lot of maneuvering.
 
BobbyJ said:
I obviously have no problem with GA picking up whatever talent he can. But I am a little surprised that after the '21 class of 4 on top of a full house, he'd take another 3-4 in '22. That's going to take a lot of maneuvering.
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I definitely agree that it’ll be tough to manage but after a season or two of having not enough talent, I think everyone would rather too much. To me best case scenario we have ICE and one other top recruit. Now that players can transfer with no consequences I think that really changes the ball game for everyone but who knows
 
BobbyJ said:
I obviously have no problem with GA picking up whatever talent he can. But I am a little surprised that after the '21 class of 4 on top of a full house, he'd take another 3-4 in '22. That's going to take a lot of maneuvering.
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I am not surprised at Geno going after another top 10 talent like Patterson to go with Brady, but a class with 3-4 in 22 seems like overkill to me. His reaction seems to be bring it on, but I wonder how some of these recruiting discussions go. I know his standard line is nobody is guaranteed minutes or being a starter, but if a player asks for his realistic assessment, what can he tell them?

Can he tell a third of the roster they might get garbage minutes in a 40 point blowout? Maybe even if some were a top 30 if not top 10 recruit. If Evina returns that is what he is looking at for next year. Even that assessment generously assumes that with all this talent, Geno expands his rotation to 10 from 8, something he has rarely been willing to do. If he stuck with a 7-8 player rotation, roughly half the roster could get garbage minutes, with only Autumn and Piath not being a top 30 recruit or better

Without getting into the "T" word speculation, if we get Patterson to go with Brady we are at 14 when they come aboard, a similar numbers crunch with top talent even if nobody else was was added from the 22 class. When the roster is this loaded and deep I don't think there is any good reason to recruit beyond the top ten, unless that player is comfortable with the probability of never getting meaning-full minutes.

Many would disagree, but I hope Geno presses more, pushes the pace more, and by doing so justifies going much deeper in the rotation next year. I suspect the gap between our second unit and other team's reserves will be bigger than our edge over most team's starters. It will be big in both cases of course, but if that is true, pressing which wears out both teams starters means because of fatigue, more of the game becomes a battle of the benches which could easily increase the ultimate margin of victory, and give utility to more of the roster. Not expecting it to happen, but rooting for it.
 
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