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I wonder if Duke went all out negative recruiting against us with Cooper and specifically Pat.
How do you negatively recruit against a school that just won a NC, and is loaded again? If anything, Duke has major question marks considering K is gone and whether there will even be an ACC in 5 years (granted, this last one would have zero effect on Flagg or Pat)
 
I never wish best of luck to anyone who goes elsewhere. I want them to suck. Just being honest.

I just hope we didn't lose Betsey because the coaches' focus shifted elsewhere and he wasn't feeling the love. I favor the approach of offering many top players and tell them the first one to commit it it. No games.
Especially if they go to Duke. Sorry Coop, I have no reason to wish you luck, and once you’re in Duke threads I will actively hate you.
 
Some guys are not right for UConn, especially guys that are a little too comfortable with their own hype and don’t want to work. You got have a certain mentality to want to play extended intense man to man for basically all game. Hurley will get what he needs or mold somebody into what he needs.
 
Can Betsey really say he has a better chance at winning a championship at Cincinnati rather than UConn though? I think for some it’s important and others could care less.
Most high level athletes have a very large ego and large perception of their ability. Betsey probably believes he’s good enough to win a championship anywhere
 
Most high level athletes have a very large ego and large perception of their ability. Betsey probably believes he’s good enough to win a championship anywhere
Don’t disagree with your assessment though I’d take that action lol
 
With Betsey and this guy it’s family connections or whatever. With Flagg his entire family was dipped in Blue Devil blood. We just didn’t know it at the time.

There are certain instances where you have to battle too much even if you’re coming off a natty. Just go hard at the Portal if need be. Those kids know what we are about and the success we’ve had with portal players.
 
who cares - theres always someone who is a better fit out there
flagg is a one off
this kid - meh
 
Some guys are not right for UConn, especially guys that are a little too comfortable with their own hype and don’t want to work. You got have a certain mentality to want to play extended intense man to man for basically all game. Hurley will get what he needs or mold somebody into what he needs.
Cmon, Hurley wants the guys he recruits. He must think they fit. He doesn’t just throw offers out there.
 
You're talking out of your butt.
I'm really not. If iam why so much players leave after their first or second year. And now we have players skipping college to the G league or overseas to make money rather than playing in or going to college Not talking for all players but most. Lets say Cooper Flagg commits to Duke or even Uconn and they dont win a CHIP, guarantee he leaves for the NBA as he said he's already going pro after 1 year of college. Your either too old or too young to really know what these kids want more and that's to provide for family and never have to worry about struggling.
 
Cmon, Hurley wants the guys he recruits. He must think they fit. He doesn’t just throw offers out there.
Of course he does. But a fit is a two-way street. I don’t think it takes long for prospects to figure out they will be going through a pretty intense program.
 
Of course he does. But a fit is a two-way street. I don’t think it takes long for prospects to figure out they will be going through a pretty intense program.
Not the point. The comment implied the kid wasn’t a UConn type. Hurley thought he was. Just because a kid goes elsewhere doesn’t mean Hurley was mistaken. Did Hurley withdraw the offer after the kid visited?
 
Not the point. The comment implied the kid wasn’t a UConn type. Hurley thought he was. Just because a kid goes elsewhere doesn’t mean Hurley was mistaken. Did Hurley withdraw the offer after the kid visited?
Dan might have told him that, with Johnson and Singare returning, he would have to earn his minutes while others made him a guarantee; but, as a boss I once had told me, "They promise you the world with a fence around it but you'll always end up with pickets up your aas.". Let's just say she wasn't an optimist.
 
Dan might have told him that, with Johnson and Singare returning, he would have to earn his minutes while others made him a guarantee; but, as a boss I once had told me, "They promise you the world with a fence around it but you'll always end up with pickets up your aas.". Let's just say she wasn't an optimist.
I suppose that’s possible. I suppose that never came up before his official visit:rolleyes:People seem
to need to find a reason to assign negatives to kids who decide to go elsewhere. There seem to be some people who never recruited and interviewed people for a position. You kind of know when you are wasting your time. The kid is likely to know that at Duke, for instance, he will have players in front of him and i’d guess he was not promised big minutes. Maybe he secretly hates his cousin.
 
Players really dont care about winning a National Championship anymore.

"some" of a "a few" =/= all.

We have two recruits slated to come to Storrs and a number of others who have expressed that the chip impacted their feelings about UConn.
 

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