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Nowell in the transfer portal

I think Abraham and Nowell fell under the backup QB syndrome. Fans haven't seen them in live games. Maybe they excelled in scimages against backups so fans think they are better that the people ahead of them. When they finally get their chance the fans learn why they were riding the pine.
 
Devland said:
I think Abraham and Nowell fell under the backup QB syndrome. Fans haven't seen them in live games. Maybe they excelled in scimages against backups so fans think they are better that the people ahead of them. When they finally get their chance the fans learn why they were riding the pine.
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We’re going into next year with no sophomores man lol
 
I was pushing for Nowell to get PT as we were in trouble with a hobbled Hass. Seeing him get the ball get knocked away by taller defenders at will convinced me we need to have just taller guards in the future. To get to the sweet 16 , teams with 6 foot guards are going to be few and far between.
 
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He’s going to be very good somewhere. He just wasn’t ready for the Big East right off the bat. Frankly, he wasn’t developed early enough either. The staff invested in Mahainey and when they realized he wasn’t a BE level PG, they tried Nowell and it was too late.

When looking at Hurley’s misses, it is heartening to see that all the kids that don’t work out and move on are still nice, solid kids. Gone are the days of controversial characters or borderline guys. He brings in quality people. Good luck to Ahmad.
 
RuffRuff said:
How many sophomores does the team favored to win it all have?
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This is just dumb , LMAO

The team favored to win has 6 freshman and a sophomore and Florida the team most people were picking prior to the tournament starting is loaded with sophomores.
 
Hoophound said:
He’s going to be very good somewhere. He just wasn’t ready for the Big East right off the bat. Frankly, he wasn’t developed early enough either. The staff invested in Mahainey and when they realized he wasn’t a BE level PG, they tried Nowell and it was too late.

When looking at Hurley’s misses, it is heartening to see that all the kids that don’t work out and move on are still nice, solid kids. Gone are the days of controversial characters or borderline guys. He brings in quality people. Good luck to Ahmad.
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Ahmad also had a few injuries which prevented him from practicing and playing. When he did get in, I was expecting more contribution, but he was not ready. It will be interesting to see if he stays healthy and he is able to elevate his skills. Good luck to him.
 
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boog204 said:
Who cares? Doesn’t matter anymore. A guy who’s already scored 1000 pts somewhere else will be better than a developmental soph at this juncture.
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Yeah to hell with them
wow
Lets waste the 1st year of college for all the recruits not going into the draft.
Coaches can throw the developmental part of their job out the window - it's plug in and play time.
Can't afford to make a mistake on an incoming frosh but let's painfully twist and turn a west coast player into a NBE player.
 
gtcam said:
Yeah to hell with them
wow
Lets waste the 1st year of college for all the recruits not going into the draft.
Coaches can throw the developmental part of their job out the window - it's plug in and play time.
Can't afford to make a mistake on an incoming frosh but let's painfully twist and turn a west coast player into a NBE player.
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Have you ever heard of the sunk cost fallacy?
 
Stinger92860 said:
Ahmad also had a few injuries which prevented him from practicing and playing. When he did get in, I was expecting more contribution, but he was not ready. It will be interesting to see if he stays healthy and he is able to elevate his skills. Good luck to him.
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My opinion is Nowell should go to a good program in a big conference, but one that is down. Without the pressure to win, he can shine and then portal again after next season to a winning program. He needs a gap year to drive up his value.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
This is college sports and people. Not business lol
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If you think college basketball in the year 2025 is not a business….

For any player to stick around, a coach needs to provide two finite resources in minutes and NIL. Those minutes and NIL dollars you give to the player are minutes and NIL dollars you can’t give to someone else. So each year a coaching staff needs to reassess what is in the best interest of the program as far as promises of those two resources and then the players have to determine what’s in their best interest based on those offers. Offering more minutes and NIL than is warranted just because they recruited the player out of HS and have already invested in them is a good way to get left behind in the modern landscape. Ideally the staff hits 100% on everyone they recruit and you have to make less of these tough decisions but that’s not realistic.
 
alphasigko said:
Jayden Ross seems to be a good candidate for this. Only time will tell.
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It’s not a unilateral determination. I would be surprised if the staff actively pushed any of our transfers so far out the door. But both parties have to mutually agree that the NIL and PT is in their best interest. For all but possibly Singare, I’m sure the NIL and minutes that they were being promised this year were less than they had anticipated when they initially committed here. I would love Ross back as a developmental bench piece and hopefully he’s okay with that role.
 
gtcam said:
Yeah to hell with them
wow
Lets waste the 1st year of college for all the recruits not going into the draft.
Coaches can throw the developmental part of their job out the window - it's plug in and play time.
Can't afford to make a mistake on an incoming frosh but let's painfully twist and turn a west coast player into a NBE player.
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In retrospect, would you have traded one of our bench sophomores for Brea? Double figures and 44% from 3 off the bench would've been an enormous addition to this team.
 
boog204 said:
In retrospect, would you have traded one of our bench sophomores for Brea? Double figures and 44% from 3 off the bench would've been an enormous addition to this team.
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Considering the tradeoff was 1 very specific sophomore for Brea who was one of our best players last year and will be again next year, no I would not have
 
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navery12 said:
Considering the tradeoff was 1 very specific sophomore for Brea who was one of our best players last year and will be again next year, no I would not have
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Exactly. It wasn't an "even trade". In all likelihood, it would have been "Brea + Lose Solo" versus "Mahaney + Keep Solo"

If you supported the former pre-season, you'd be an absolute doofus. Because Brea had no history of being someone who could be ball-dominant, adapt to being a UConn PG (like Mahaney's scouting history suggested).
 
boog204 said:
In retrospect, would you have traded one of our bench sophomores for Brea? Double figures and 44% from 3 off the bench would've been an enormous addition to this team.
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These one offs are not why I made the statement
I would like to see some development plan for these kids that Dan Hurley recruits rather than let them sit for a full season and then tell them to look elsewhere.
I followed Nowell for the last 2 seasons of AAU and the kid can flat out play but it appears something happened to his psyche since attending UConn. Dan Hurley tells everyone in late October how great these kids are and then they sit. Kinda like the 3 peat crap.
Not everybody fits, I get it but why waste a year out of a kids college experience - Nowell is not the 1st here lately. Are they leaving because they feel the love at UConn?
 
gtcam said:
These one offs are not why I made the statement
I would like to see some development plan for these kids that Dan Hurley recruits rather than let them sit for a full season and then tell them to look elsewhere.
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This is one of my main issues is that there doesn’t seem like there’s a plan for these players half the time.

It’s more come in and sit, then see what you can do and then develop you from there based on how you can help the team win.

Instead of just having a plan of how to develop the best player possible.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
This is one of my main issues is that there doesn’t seem like there’s a plan for these players half the time.

It’s more come in and sit, then see what you can do and then develop you from there based on how you can help the team win.

Instead of just having a plan of how to develop the best player possible.
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They bring in the best players they can get to fill positions of need. Not everyone is as good as they looked in a lower level or a different system. Those who can best help the team play the most. Every game matters when your goal is a title. Not everyone can play. When the season ends, players have the option to stick it out or leave.

How is any of this hard to understand.
 
UConn is apparently the only program that brings in players that haven't done enough to earn playing time and have to sit. There isn't a team in the country that is giving every scholarship player 1-12(13) minutes, some guys are gonna get squeezed out, it happens.
 
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