Mathis to Rutgers

[uchusky32]

Boy oh Boy! Can't wait for Uconn Football? I dont want to post emotionally but KO needs to close a decent recruit soon or he will lose fans like myself who want to give him a chance. No recruits and a early season bad loss. Oh well, whose up next!

 

[TRest]

there are people on this board who think that we will win just because the jersey says uconn. The 2011 and 2014 runs made a bunch of people immune to reality.

There are people here that think we are destined to win a NC every 5 years now, because UConn. Kind of like the frog in the warming kettle, he doesn't notice the water is boiling until it's too late to get out.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Yeah. Read that in the title...

 

[gampelcrazies]

there are people on this board who think that we will win just because the jersey says uconn. The 2011 and 2014 runs made a bunch of people immune to reality.

So you think Adams, Vital, Gilbert and Larrier are bad players?

 

[JMick]

So you think Adams, Vital, Gilbert and Larrier are bad players?

not at all. but that's three guards and a SF.

I'm not even super down on next year. it's everything after that where I am extremely worried.

 

[upstater]

Not really worried. The reason why we can't recruit right now is because of last season. If we have a good/great season this year things will go back to normal.

Most recruits commit in the fall.

If at the end of the season, Ollie gets them to the Sweet 16, and they win the AAC, it's not going to matter if they have a poor recruiting class on April 15th.

 

[UConnSwag11]

not at all. but that's three guards and a SF.

I'm not even super down on next year. it's everything after that where I am extremely worried.

When April comes around and our recruiting class is nothing is when I'll be pissed. Right now there's bigger fish and more kids out there to get on the team

 

[UConnNick]

B10 > AAC. Simple as that.

Rutgers set themselves up to win some recruiting battles when their former AD Tim Pernetti got them into the B10. There's no way for us to sugar coat that, hoping recruits we might both be in the market for will give deference to our vastly superior historical pedigree.

These kids are looking for instant exposure and gratification on the biggest possible stage, and they have incredibly short memories thanks to instant social media, among other things. What have you done lately is all that matters to some. Apparently 2014 isn't lately enough for some of them. There are going to be a bunch who think that's only happening for them in a P5 conference.

 

[JMick]

When April comes around and our recruiting class is nothing is when I'll be pissed. Right now there's bigger fish and more kids out there to get on the team

I'd agree if this wasn't a trend.

 

[MadDogRevival]

I think everybody is tired from all of that ten toes in stair walking.

What we need is more nitty gritty, fewer platitudes and witticisms.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I'd agree if this wasn't a trend.

He did kill it last year but we had other coaches recruiting our player during the season and parents telling their kids to leave for worse

 

[husky99]

I hear the staff is shocked that they lost this guy. They were 100% thinking he was gonna say uconn Monday or Tuesday

 

[JMick]

I hear the staff is shocked that they lost this guy. They were 100% thinking he was gonna say uconn Monday or Tuesday

Sid Wilson all over again.

 

[Tommyboy]

I hear the staff is shocked that they lost this guy. They were 100% thinking he was gonna say uconn Monday or Tuesday

Sounds familiar.

This is flipping embarrassing.

 

[husky99]

Sid Wilson all over again.

Yup.....they can not read a room

 

[BUConn10]

It depends on how this season goes... If we make the tourney and go the Sweet 16 KO will be back if we miss the tourney again, who knows.

What tf are you on?

 

[JMick]

Yup.....they can not read a room

once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend...

 

[polycom]

What tf are you on?

Well be good this year, next year is currently the problem

 

[UCDaveD]

I hear the staff is shocked that they lost this guy. They were 100% thinking he was gonna say uconn Monday or Tuesday

If this is true then KO/Chill/Kill trio might as well be the 3 Stooges.

Complete and utter incompetence. A true embarrassment.

If true.

 

[Walker11]

I hear the staff is shocked that they lost this guy. They were 100% thinking he was gonna say uconn Monday or Tuesday

I have a very hard time believing this. Maybe I don't want to acknowledge the level of incompetency but for now I don't buy it.

 

[JMick]

If this is true then KO/Chill/Kill trio might as well be the 3 Stooges.

Complete and utter incompetence. A true embarrassment.

If true.

does it even matter if it's true? they're whiffing regardless. recruiting is sales. you either close or you don't.

 

[husky99]

I have a very hard time believing this. Maybe I don't want to acknowledge the level of incompetency but for now I don't buy it.

Hope you are correct.

 

[HawkHusky]

Back and forth. Yes or no. Should I or shouldn't I. Teens these days - more indecisive than my 1 year old niece trying to figure out which toy to play with. I bet we see him re-open his recruitment before he steps foot on any campus.

 

[Horatio]

 

[HawkHusky]

The fact that it was a struggle deciding between UCONN and Rutgers tells me that he would have (at best) been 7 toes in at UCONN. He would have never bled blue or willed his team to a deep post-season run. Time to move on.

 

[Huskymagic]

Miller got fired for some clown who couldn't land someone he's been recruiting since the 6th grade over Rutgers.

Remember when I said people were way off with their rejoicing over Miller getting fired. Killings hasn't done anything and Chillious is now
0-4 for recruits losing now to Rutgers.

PS: I want a return of Glenn Miller after this season on the staff and Killings gone.

 

[zls44]

I hear the staff is shocked that they lost this guy. They were 100% thinking he was gonna say uconn Monday or Tuesday

This staff has got being gobsmacked they lost a recruit down to a freaking science.

 

[TRest]

Yup.....they can not read a room

I certainly hope some type of financial incentive isn't showing up to flip these kids. Every last one of these kids seem to be making an odd choice at the very end. St. Johns, LSU, Rutgirls, Texas Tech? I feel like a Umass fan.

 

[Stainmaster]

Remember when I said people were way off with their rejoicing over Miller getting fired. Killings hasn't done anything and Chillious is now
0-4 for recruits losing now to Rutgers.

PS: I want a return of Glenn Miller after this season on the staff and Killings gone.

Killings has been lead on more people who actually committed this past year than any other member of the staff.

Are you trolling us by making stuff up, or are you just that dumb?

 

[nychuskyfan]

Not to beat a dead horse, but RU hasn't played in the NCAA tourney since 1991, hasn't won a game in the tourney since 1983 and has either 0 or 1 player in the NBA (did Dahntay Jones retire?).

I've been an Ollie apologista but no more - he's gotta go. There are too many data points to ignore in the form of players choosing / leaving Uconn for terrible basketball schools. Something reeks and the entire youth basketball community knows it. There's no climbing out of this without a leadership change.