Montez Mathis

[StunningSteve]

The fact that you think a bridge to the west is a nice thing for UConn basketball speaks volumes that you are missing my point. Parents of kids in NJ have to spend some serious coin to get to most away games. Nothing about travel in The American is easy for anyone. Only one school is located in the same geographic area of the country as UConn. There is no way that can be spun as a recruiting advantage.

Kids go away for 4 years to schools half way across the country.

You're saying kids don't want to visit the cities they associate with their favorite franchises in sports? Who wants to go to Wisconsin, Omaha, and all that noise?

 

[Blaneylover]

You have it exactly wrong.

The only reason Rutgers is lined up opposite UConn on this one is because of the conference. They are not even in a conversation involving UConn if they didn't have the boost from their conference affiliation relative to ours.

Kids don't give a crap about out of conference schedules. What does Montez Mathis care about UConn playing in the PK80? Nothing.

Agreed. The conference (and family, I'm sure) played a key role in getting Wilson to St. Johns, as well. MAL to Providence? The Friars placement in The Big East didn't hurt.

 

[StunningSteve]

Agreed. The conference (and family, I'm sure) played a key role in getting Wilson to St. Johns, as well. MAL to Providence? The Friars placement in The Big East didn't hurt.

Everyone's gotta eat. I'm not missing Wilson, who had an ACC offer as well if I'm not mistaken.

I'm more concerned with the kids who want to be here.

 

[FriarJ]

Kids go away for 4 years to schools half way across the country.

You're saying kids don't want to visit the cities they associate with their favorite franchises in sports? Who wants to go to Wisconsin, Omaha, and all that noise?

Yes, some kids do. UConn is recruiting more than some kids.

 

[StunningSteve]

Yes, some kids do. UConn is recruiting more than some kids.

The AAC is coming along nicely as an All-Sports conference. I certainly have no complaints. We'll get ours and I'll be at every FB and BB game.

 

[Robertelamin]

The AAC is coming along nicely as an All-Sports conference. I certainly have no complaints. We'll get ours and I'll be at every FB and BB game.

You have no complaints? We lost every single one of our rivals.

 

[HooperScooper]

I'm more concerned with the kids who want to be here.

99.9% of kids don't automatically want to be at UConn. So how do you convince those to go to UConn?

 

[BUConn10]

So he isn't deciding today anymore? That can't be good news for us.

 

[Guapo]

Yes yes, the AAC really hurt us bad in our recruiting battle with Cinnci over the other Diarra...

 

[BUConn10]

99.9% of kids don't automatically want to be at UConn. So how do you convince those to go to UConn?

By being a relevant and ranked team year in and year out while getting players drafted in the first round consistently. Then they will come to play for you even if you are in Nebraska.

 

[Guapo]

99.9% of kids don't automatically want to be at UConn. So how do you convince those to go to UConn?

Suitcases full of money.

 

[ZenConn]

KO needs to recruit mom at this point. That's the hold up

Paging Andrea Walker and Carmen Velasquez

Kemba Walker and Shabazz Napier owe much to their mothers.

 

[ucp990411]

The AAC is coming along nicely as an All-Sports conference. I certainly have no complaints. We'll get ours and I'll be at every FB and BB game.

Huh?

 

[AntG168]

Paging Andrea Walker and Carmen Velasquez

Kemba Walker and Shabazz Napier owe much to their mothers.

And momma boat

 

[BaZZnBOAT]

So he isn't deciding today anymore? That can't be good news for us.

i would love to know what in him not deciding today leads you to believe it's bad news for us.

 

[Hugo]

i would love to know what in him not deciding today leads you to believe it's bad news for us.

With the sudden surge of crystal balls to Rutgers and considering that they were neck and neck with us or as some said we had a 50/50 shot, I don't consider this bad news at all. Hopefully with a little extra time, logic will prevail and he will commit to the good guys.

 

[bazz&boujee]

speculation isn't real life

 

[Burnsbros23]

Sounds like we will have time to get back above Rutgers. If we lose a recruit to Rutgers that be tough.

 

[navery12]

So he isn't deciding today anymore? That can't be good news for us.

All depends how you view the information that's come out. If what's been reported is true and he wants UConn and parents want Rutgers I'd think that's good news he's holding off. Then again it's just as easy to make the argument more time makes it more likely his parents change his mind than the other way around

 

[Guapo]

The sun will rise, the sun will set and UConn will still be better than Buttgers, regardless of whether or not Mathis commits here or there

 

[champs99and04]

I am impressed.

With absolutely no actual insight save the odd quote from a recruiting article, we've built an entire narrative around this kid's recruitment.

Spoilers...the narrative is probably crap.

The 'narrative' has little to do with this recruitment. If anything, it's a matter of people forecasting rain after 40 consecutive days of rain, especially when yesterday's recruitment rings to an eerie beat that could be prophetic of tomorrow's.

Notes are taken on the ground, but pictures are sometimes snapped from a blimp. Regardless of how this one plays out, there are precious acres of job security at stake here, and if nobody can predict the result then it's still worth parsing the info that is available.

 

[champs99and04]

All depends how you view the information that's come out. If what's been reported is true and he wants UConn and parents want Rutgers I'd think that's good news he's holding off. Then again it's just as easy to make the argument more time makes it more likely his parents change his mind than the other way around

This is the way it went in my head, which is not a good source:

Kid wakes up pumped to announce he's going to UConn. He follows every player from 1965 to now.

Family is resistant and asks him to postpone the announcement. He sighs and agrees out of respect, giving them plenty of time to cue up the Rutgers pep band.

Ollie is in the background with the NLOI (and I know they can't sign them yet, but he brings one anyways) already in his hands, shrieking in horror.

Every hour that passes proceeds to be a bad hour for us.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

All this....and he hasn't announced yet?

 

[UCweCONN]

The conference (and family, I'm sure) played a key role in getting Wilson to St. Johns, as well.

What? We family and we didn't get Wilson. You must mean his actual family.......

 

[BUConn10]

i would love to know what in him not deciding today leads you to believe it's bad news for us.

I just don't see how delaying an already announced decision benefits the larger, established power. He and everyone who watches college basketball knows what we bring to the table, what's their to think about if that's the route you are destined to take? You delay your decision to think about an option that is perceived as "riskier", the underdog choice benefits from the "let's sleep on it". All this only a couple days after a huge string of twitter follows. Like I said it's my interpretation of the events as we are all discussing, you have no obligation to "believe" it's anything.