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The Viking said:
The sad thing is we aren't even losing these kids to monsters. PC? NC State? Oregon? VCU?

It's not even the blue bloods that are beating us.
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I agree, it's the caliber of the programs we're losing guys to that is making this so troubling. Then we get so excited about landing off the radar kids nobody had even heard of.
 
I feel like awfully dissapointing would be if we only landed Lubin and that's it. I don't get the logic of not counting hamilton. but I guess this is recruiting , every time we miss on someone there'll be doubt places on Ollie's abilities.
 
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FlaHusky said:
I agree, it's the caliber of the programs we're losing guys to that is making this so troubling. Then we get so excited about landing off the radar kids nobody had even heard of.
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Who knows what Lubin will be...but remember he was listed as the no. 58 recruit in his class of last year. He got hurt. Lets see what he turns out to be this year as a senior before we completely write him off. Get Cassell and Robinson and suddenly this is a great class.
 
wtf... forget this guy.
Nobody was rooting harder for him to come to any school more than UConn fans
 
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Kosongo committed to the ducks....? That is hilarious...Reminds me of the quote from Will Ferrell in Wedding Crashers..."Dude, look at me...I am flying...bam! WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!". LOL
 
I guess my question is who does Dana Altman have that recruits better than our staff? Phil Knight/Nike?

Mr Russell has some Fishy stuff happening from what I see..........but we lost a pretty good one but have a keeper already in Rakim, let's not forget that!

Ray made a mistake but he's not the only one this year........guess it's fun to come in the 3rd in the PAC12
 
I say no big deal. We have Facey and Lubin at power forward. We are all set. Also DD could return. Robinson and Cassell are much more important. We shouldn't commit to more than 4 players before spring. Who knows if DD and Boat are coming back. Also we will need two ships for 2015. Also every year good players are found in the spring. Ray is not a loss.
 
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3uconn said:
@ReggieRankin: "I got along great with the Oregon players and coach Dana Altman. It was the best fit for me" Ray Kasongo
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There is no response that is more generic than this. At least we know the kid can read stuff that's given to him. Feel for him a bit, but he's ultimately the won who made the decision and the one who was trying to hit on KO this week.
Just bizarre.
 
superjohn said:
Seriously WTF is going on? He is friending Ollie on twitter yesterday, retweeting UConn stuff non stop. We have insider posters saying everything is pointing to him going to UConn, there is an article earlier today where Kasongo says he is heavily leaning towards UConn. Is Nike money being funneled to Ro Russel? There should be absolutely no reason to choose Oregon over UConn, reminds me of Purvis and many others, this will not work out for Kasongo. Feel badly for the kid but he should have listened to his heart not outside influences.
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What the hell is Phase1 Academy anyway? http://pointstreaksites.com/view/phase1academy/home-page-313

Are you kidding me? This is the sort of school that got Ro Russell and Xavier Rathan-Mayes in trouble in the first place.

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Three years ago PHASE 1 launched our first Academy in Toronto, Ontario. Despite tremendous efforts to grow the program for Canadian athletes, it became very clear PHASE 1 Academy had to move south of the border. Top Canadian basketball players wanted to be in United States to maximum their exposure to NCAA scholarships and future professional careers. In order to better serve the growing number of migrating Canadian student athletes and offer PHASE 1's proven training system to a more aspiring athletes, the decision was made to move PHASE 1 Academy to Phoenix, Arizona. PHASE 1 Basketball Academy (P1A) and its Teams is our most comprehensive program for male & female athletes. We field teams from grade 9 to adults. P1A is a year-round development program for competitive players. Our team of professional coaches and staff create the best possible environment for the development of an intermediate player to their full potential.​
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http://fcatucson.webs.com/thestartoffca.htm
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What kind of mindless illiterate has the Canadian school system unleashed on unsuspecting Americans in the Cactus state?

Are they serious? How is this NOT going to end up in a XRM scenario? When I read caw's earlier post today about Phase1, alarm bells went off.
 
Hoophound said:
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We do need a great recruiter on staff. I've felt that for years now. We haven't had one in so long I can't remember who our last one was. However, I love the 3 guys we have and we aren't done yet.
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Who have been UConn's great recruiters (H. Dickerman)?
 
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I guess he likes clouds and rain six days out of seven. Why are we on so many final lists lately but never get picked? We seem to follow the blind dart thrower approach to recruiting. Throw as many darts as you can and eventually one will hit the bullseye.
 
Didn't Kasongo read our poll??? 85% of us wanted him to sign with UCONN! I guess Colson read it. May I suggest that in the future, polls like that be banned??
 
apparently playing in a place where no one knows the school even has a basketball team is better than having an entire state obsessed with the games and your team.

This kid is a friggin genius and an balloon knot for the whole "PWEASE FOLLOW ME COACH OLLIE!!!! I LOVE YOU AND WANT YOUR BODY" tweet.

I can understand how a kid goes to Oregon and not UConn, I can't understand how he gets down to Oregon OR UConn and goes OU, unless he's a football player
 
He may be 17 but the way the kid handled this, asking Ollie to follow him on Twitter etc.., seems pretty low. Even someone that age should know better. This one is really a head-scratcher. He will toil in anonymity out there on the west coast and be lucky to taste the NCAA tournament. If this decision was the product of someone else's influence they really didn't do him any favors.
 
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Hoophound said:
I'm still trying to figure out the sky is falling posts.

We lost Abu to NC State, fair enough.

I still can't figure who we lost to PC because it wasn't Kris Dunn. We had no scholarship for him. We didn't even have a scholly for Andre Drummond.

Kasongo was ours to lose and he made that quite obvious publicly. We then signed Lubin. We probably muddied the water there. Lubin is a physical freak.

We do need a great recruiter on staff. I've felt that for years now. We haven't had one in so long I can't remember who our last one was. However, I love the 3 guys we have and we aren't done yet.
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Huh? Kris Dunn was a freshman this past season. We signed Phil Nolan and Leon Tolksdorf way after Dunn committed to PC. We absolutely had a scholarship for him. Drummond and Dunn were initially the same year but Drummond reclassified really late in the process.

And the other guy we lost to PC was Brandon Austin, and this year we lost Chukwu to them. That's alot of guys to lose to a clearly lesser school.

We get Cassell and Robinson and this is still a great class, but at best we seem to have a 50% shot at Cassell and I'm not optimistic about Robinson at this point.
 
His Twitter followers just dropped from 610 to 575 lol. But honestly, we don't want someone like this on our team. Ray has shown his true colors to the UConn fan base. If he would lead a head coach and national following on like that only to kick us to the side, or if he lets some crooked handler make all his decisions, then he's the weak minded player that couldn't handle us anyway. Rakim will be triple the player Kasongo ever becomes.
 
Hoophound said:
I'm still trying to figure out the sky is falling posts.

We lost Abu to NC State, fair enough.

I still can't figure who we lost to PC because it wasn't Kris Dunn. We had no scholarship for him. We didn't even have a scholly for Andre Drummond.

Kasongo was ours to lose and he made that quite obvious publicly. We then signed Lubin. We probably muddied the water there. Lubin is a physical freak.

We do need a great recruiter on staff. I've felt that for years now. We haven't had one in so long I can't remember who our last one was. However, I love the 3 guys we have and we aren't done yet.
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Lets not be naive. We signed Lubin after the staff felt they lost out on Kasongo. Sugar coat it all you want, the fact is UConn is losing out on recruits to schools it shouldn't be.
 
With all the talk about Devin Robinson, I just went to a scouting site to check him out. It says he's 6' 8", 169 lbs?? That's a typo, right??
 
upstater said:
What the hell is Phase1 Academy anyway? http://pointstreaksites.com/view/phase1academy/home-page-313

Are you kidding me? This is the sort of school that got Ro Russell and Xavier Rathan-Mayes in trouble in the first place.

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What kind of mindless illiterate has the Canadian school system unleashed on unsuspecting Americans in the Cactus state?

Are they serious? How is this NOT going to end up in a XRM scenario? When I read caw's earlier post today about Phase1, alarm bells went off.
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I don't think it was mine. I
 
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