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Official: Mamoudou Diarra to Cinci

buddy said:
Everyone can joke and make merry of this. But the fact is that clearly this guy saw something with UConn that he didn't like. I don't think he will be the greatest basketball player ever and I have a lot of questions about him...but clearly there is something wrong with the UConn basketball program. Everyone thought that Chillious would be the recruiting savior, but it does not appear to be the case. I thought Vance left because of his dad, but now I am really wondering if he and Steve left the program because they see something that we have not be privy to.
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Its simple he wants to be a wing and the staff didny view him as such. No secrets here
 
AntG168 said:
Didnt know you were trolling, you stink at it lol. But i agree with you on pretty much everything you said. We're fighting a perception problem right now that will only change with winning.
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Wish it was just a perception problem.
 
The past few hours have convinced me that if Enya has a singing career, there is absolutely no excuse why the rest of us can't have one, too.

The woman sings one song over and over and over.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
So we only perceived losses to Wagner, Northeastern and East Carolina last year?
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That effected how recruits perceive us. Which results in a perception problem. Idk what your asking
 
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He must have some upside. Enough folks pursued him. We'll get to see first hand. I don't think he's Gary Clark II.

Definitely looks like Cincy is heading to the big 12...........................wait, that was last year.
 
AntG168 said:
That effected how recruits perceive us. Which results in a perception problem. Idk what your asking
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What I'm saying is that losing can't just be a perception problem...losing is a reality problem. Players are accurately assessing things.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
What I'm saying is that losing can't just be a perception problem...losing is a reality problem. Players are accurately assessing things.
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Thats still a perception problem....
 
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Fishy said:
Our inability to prevent them from perceiving reality is definitely an issue.
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Definitely. But i dont think things are as bad as they might seem from the outside. I mean saying Cincinnati or seton hall offer better opportunities than UConn is not reality. It just isnt. But with all the transfers and the disaster of a season, its put a negative filter over a still elite basketball program in UConn. I gurantee you if we win and make the tourney next yr our recruiting will pick back up. Would that mean that reality shifted that much in less than a yr? Doubt it
 
Ahhhhh, the boneyard. Let's not make this out to be more than it is. This isn't a miss, it's more of parting of ways. UConn only saw one fit, Diarra disagreed, both agreed to move on. Again, I applaud Ollie and co for not repeating past mistakes. Diarra was never a fit here. Giving a ship to him would not have ended well for either party.
 
They had no idea this kid was a bad fit until the last possible second.

Granted, only one person on the staff had previously recruited him and signed him to a letter of intent seven months ago, so it was understandably a shock when he got off the plane as a center prospect and not the forward prospect that he led them to believe he was.

We really dodged a bullet. Thank God the staff recognized the error and politely put this kid back on a plane so that he could go sign with our overlords in Ohio.

Happy ending for everyone.
 
Fishy said:
They had no idea this kid was a bad fit until the last possible second.

Granted, only one person on the staff had previously recruited him and signed him to a letter of intent seven months ago, so it was understandably a shock when he got off the plane as a center prospect and not the forward prospect that he led them to believe he was.

We really dodged a bullet. Thank God the staff recognized the error and politely put this kid back on a plane so that he could go sign with our overlords in Ohio.

Happy ending for everyone.
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So we are completely Spartacus'd. What the Spartacus is going on in Storrs?
 
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How 'bout those Yankees!!

Aaron Judge coming up!! (Will probably walk him)
 
djct1999 said:
Ahhhhh, the boneyard. Let's not make this out to be more than it is. This isn't a miss, it's more of parting of ways. UConn only saw one fit, Diarra disagreed, both agreed to move on. Again, I applaud Ollie and co for not repeating past mistakes. Diarra was never a fit here. Giving a ship to him would not have ended well for either party.
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Congratulations Kevin Ollie and staff!! Sounds kind of stupid doesn't it?
 
AntG168 said:
Definitely. But i dont think things are as bad as they might seem from the outside. I mean saying Cincinnati or seton hall offer better opportunities than UConn is not reality. It just isnt. But with all the transfers and the disaster of a season, its put a negative filter over a still elite basketball program in UConn. I gurantee you if we win and make the tourney next yr our recruiting will pick back up. Would that mean that reality shifted that much in less than a yr? Doubt it
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Even if we do put together a good season next year, it's a bit late to put together a good 2018 class. Not impossible, but we'd be scrambling like we are now, unless we get some people signing this fall. Chillous had no problem getting studs signing with UW with a head coach who was clearly on thin ice. He can't even get a three star project to sign at uconn after he already had them committed at UW. Cincy recruited diarra for about 5 minutes and convinced him uconn was a bad choice. This staff has has a lot of work ahead of them to wash this stink off.
 
Fishy said:
Everything is fine.

It's a nice day. Everything is fine. The weekend is here. There's a 5'11" two-star Peruvian power forward with a club foot who's rumored to be a heavy UConn lean. Everything is fine.

Everything is fine.

Here's an Enya video because that's what relaxed people listen to when everything is fine. Kick up your feet, open that box of chardonnay and let the fineness carry away the troubles that you should not be having because everything is fine.

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Not bad, but the 360 degree screen presentation at the end of the movie "Soylent Green" was better.
 
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SECONN said:
Tequilla...100% agave until i can forget we hav
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Screw it...I'm reaching for the Everclear. A gorgeous UConn co-ed walked up to me at our infamous Lot 13 tailgate prior to the 2014 Final Four championship game and handed me a bottle of Everclear. She never said a word. I guess she felt I looked like I needed it. I took a big swing right from the bottle, handed it back to her and she vanished into eternity. Not exactly, I've since seen her sitting in the second row of the UConn student section on the game replay.
 
Stairmaster said:
Considering failing to land him has doomed UConn to permanent damnation, I guess he's decent.
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If you spontaneously start bleeding from your eye sockets, you won't die from that bleeding but you will die from what that bleeding is a symptom of.

Keep fighting the good fight, Stain.
 
UConnNick said:
Screw it...I'm reaching for the Everclear. A gorgeous UConn co-ed walked up to me at our infamous Lot 13 tailgate prior to the 2014 Final Four championship game and handed me a bottle of Everclear. She never said a word. I guess she felt I looked like I needed it. I took a big swing right from the bottle, handed it back to her and she vanished into eternity. Not exactly, I've since seen her sitting in the second row of the UConn student section on the game replay.
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My drink of choice in college.

But yeah....don't drink it straight.
 
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