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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 2184788, member: 2524"] I won't speak for the board's general opinion, but I for one was a skeptic from August 2017 on. If he had wanted to play college ball at UConn, he had the opportunity to enroll for fall 2017, we had the scholly, his friend Mamadou was here, he was not going to develop as a basketball player at Putnam Science Academy, and in fact he didn't. It made no sense to pick PSA over UConn. When he didn't enroll for the fall, I knew he wasn't enthusiastic about coming to UConn and there was a substantial chance that he would not. I didn't know if the alternatives were Kentucky, pros, whatever, his strategy didn't make sense to me, but I knew there was a giant risk he would never play here. I can't imagine how the coaches could have thought he was theirs. If so, giant miscalculation. Did they push for a 2017 commitment from him? They must have - so how could they not know he was resistant to playing for us? [/QUOTE]