OT- Colson Cuts UConn

[superjohn]

No big deal.

We didn't want him and we wanted other kids and he got paid and we only started recruiting him three minutes ago.

Mike Brey. Mike Brey just beat UConn for a recruit. Mike freaking Brey.

Come on Fishy we didn't exactly go hard for Colson at all. We targeted a bunch of kids over him and my guess is Colson realized this and looked elsewhere, this is hardly a big miss. I agree it's disappointing we've missed on so many kids and there is some cause for concern but definitely not in this case. As for you always saying our conference situation is killing us in recruiting I don't think it's as big a deal as you do. It certainly isn't hurting UNLV, they've gotten a bunch of good recruits in the past couple of years and just got Goodluck Okonoboh.

 

[upstater]

If nothing else, we can outexcuse the competition.

Well, it's more a sign of missing on other kids first, then UConn was incredibly late to the Colson party. We made similar excuses in 2010 as well. After missing on Knight, Joseph and Selby, we showed up really late at the Joe Jackson and Phil Pressey party. We were late on CJ Leslie. Lost out on Doron, landed Jeremy. Ended up with Olander and Giffey. And a spring signing in Napier. It's happened before, it'll probably happen again.

I hold out hope that Hamilton and Purvis will be around for at least two years so that they can make an impact, with support from Calhoun, Facey, Nolan, Brimah and Lubin in the front court.

The one main piece of the puzzle that can upend the entire ship is playing without a point guard, or an injury. In other words, I think they can do well with what they have. But there's no extra PG. They need Cassell maybe 50x more than they ever needed Kasongo.

 

[aceboon]

No big deal.

We didn't want him and we wanted other kids and he got paid and we only started recruiting him three minutes ago.

Mike Brey. Mike Brey just beat UConn for a recruit. Mike freaking Brey.

I know you're going to reply that its just an excuse, but are you really going to ignore the fact that UConn didn't recruit him all summer? He even said so himself to Borges while he's been one of the ND's main recruiting targets the entire time. Its like some of you guys are forcing yourselves to be miserable about the current state of the program. A guy that UConn ignored for an entire live period cuts UConn and its another symbol of the death of the program.

 

[arnie3]

No big deal.

We didn't want him and we wanted other kids and he got paid and we only started recruiting him three minutes ago.

Mike Brey. Mike Brey just beat UConn for a recruit. Mike freaking Brey.

Unfortunately many won't get the irony here.

 

[SirHypeAlot]

we never really showed him the proper love and basically gave a last ditch effort after abu.

 

[selles]

I know you're going to reply that its just an excuse, but are you really going to ignore the fact that UConn didn't recruit him all summer? He even said so himself to Borges while he's been one of the ND's main recruiting targets the entire time. Its like you some of you guys are forcing yourselves to be miserable about the current state of the program. A guy that UConn ignored for an entire live period cuts UConn and its another symbol of the death of the program.

Amen. On top of that, I'm getting the sense that this isn't the style of player KO's looking for. I think he's looking for guys who can rebound, and then run. He showed due respect to a good New England program, which will pay dividends, but I doubt Bonzie was a real fit.