OT: Paul White to Georgetown

[Huskies4ever]

leave it to someone to prove Uconniki's point

Uconniki called myself and others here who live in CT "small minded". He doesn't need anyone to encourage him.

 

[Huskies4ever]

Top 25 classes are reward for having multiple players. UConn could have landed a bunch of these 3 star kids, mixed in with Hamilton and Purvis, and that would have launched them into the top 25.

I thought we were discussing here the prospect of landing top 50 kids. Because UConn has always grabbed one or two of those and mixed them in with kids outside the top 100, many of them with next to nothing in terms of offers. The top 25 class rank is largely meaningless because many schools don't offer more than one or two scholarships on an off-year. There are only 13 to go around. So a school that suddenly grabs 5 3-stars suddenly looks like it had a good year.

I can't recall off the top of my head, but have we ever landed three 5 - star recruits in one class? I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but probably 99%.

 

[Huskies4ever]

Have to land Robinson, this recruiting period has turned awful.

#AAC

Let's give KO a chance. He is ONLY STARTING HIS SECOND YEAR! He is also not JC, but I think some on here are vastly underrating him as a recruiter.

Also, we have the new practice facility coming along, and a new conference, which for now is hurting us. Hopefully, that will change.

 

[Huskies4ever]

2005
andrew bynum 6
jeff adrien 41

Just curious, why mention AB, and not RP?

AB was never a Husky. He might as well have committed to us, and before coming to Storrs, decommitted and went elsewhere.

You are devaluing the significance of getting Rodney Purvis to come to UConn one way or another. It doesn't matter. He is now a Husky.

 

[Gurleyman]

I can't recall off the top of my head, but have we ever landed three 5 - star recruits in one class? I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but probably 99%.

If we did, it was either 1991 with Donyell, Rudy Johnson and KO/Fair - or 2001 with Caron, Taliek and Hazelton.

The star system is relatively new to basketball recruiting vernacular. Tough to know whether Hazelton would have been considered five star as a local McD's guy or a four star based,on his consensus ranking in the 40s.

 

[Huskies4ever]

If we did, it was either 1991 with Donyell, Rudy Johnson and KO/Fair - or 2001 with Caron, Taliek and Hazelton.

The star system is relatively new to basketball recruiting vernacular. Tough to know whether Hazelton would have been considered five star as a local McD's guy or a four star based,on his consensus ranking in the 40s.

Thanks. My point being that if Robinson is in fact a 5-star, and we land him, then 2014 would be one of our better recruiting classes.

 

[Gurleyman]

Addressing some points in this thread:

Brimah was brought in for reinforcements right now. This could be it for Bazz, Giffey, Boat and DD - guys who stuck with us through the probation and coaching change. Brimah may be of limited help, but whatever limited help he can provide - even five fouls against another big - could help win a tournament game. Toraino Walker came out of nowhere once. Okwandu helped us beat Arizona. We knew we had problems inside last year, and there were slim pickings for bigs for the spring signing period, but Brimah was perhaps the best one left on the table. Given our small window with this current nucleus, you bring him in 100 times out of 100. If he doesn't get off the bench for meaningful minutes this year, so be it, but ignoring him to wait for guys you could maybe get another year or two down the road is silly. We know an empty chair won't help Bazz or Giff.

We haven't needed Connecticut kids since we landed Smith/Burrell when we were trying to establish ourselves. Now we just get players. if it's a Connecticut kid fine. if it is a NYC kid who wants to stay close to home but not too close, fine. if someone wants to travel cross country fine. There's no long-term advantage to keeping locals at home - not like theres a lucrative pipeline that you are getting in on. And Chukwu isn't a Connecticut kid anyway.

If Robinson came, we'd possibly have our best recruiting class ever by rankings if Purvis was included. That's how close we are. Robinson may not come, especially if we pull Larrier out of our hats, but we're not far off (we are also UCLA shenanigans away from disaster, but I try not to think about that).

Comparing Facey's eligibility concerns, which stem from a quirk in the rules regarding the start of your five-year clock, to someone who is a high risk academically because of grades, is being intellectually dishonest.

 

[uconnbill]

Bad recruiting ,while they were in Fl investing time in Brimah,they should have stayed in Ct and went after a ct kid Chukwu. Bad decisions being made, thats my point, I live in Fl, no one in FL recruited him.

You know more than Ollie and his staff because....Just shake my head at some of these post about the sky falling

 

[OkaForPrez]

How has nobody in 5 pages of this thread connected Uconn Niki to South Tampa Bill. Its obvious isn't it?

 

[nomar]

You know more than Ollie and his staff because....Just shake my head at some of these post about the sky falling

Because UConniki is an ESPN Insider, that's why. Get with the program, Bill!

 

[Huskies4ever]

You mean UConniki is 6'5" and 250?

 

[upstater]

This is definitely a kid who isn't afraid of competition, because they have 3 guys in front of him. Bizarre.

Former Georgetown forward transfers to Oregon

Transfers to Oregon

I still wonder how Georgetown manages to get 4 top 100 players to commit to power forward

 

[Gurleyman]

Thanks for bumping this @upstater - now everyone can bask in my stellar prognostication skills!

Addressing some points in this thread:

Brimah was brought in for reinforcements right now. This could be it for Bazz, Giffey, Boat and DD - guys who stuck with us through the probation and coaching change. Brimah may be of limited help, but whatever limited help he can provide - (yada, yada) - could help win a tournament game. Toraino Walker came out of nowhere once. Okwandu helped us beat Arizona. We knew we had problems inside last year, and there were slim pickings for bigs for the spring signing period, but Brimah was perhaps the best one left on the table. Given our small window with this current nucleus, you bring him in 100 times out of 100. If he doesn't get off the bench for meaningful minutes this year, so be it, but ignoring him to wait for guys you could maybe get another year or two down the road is silly. We know an empty chair won't help Bazz or Giff.

We haven't needed Connecticut kids since we landed Smith/Burrell when we were trying to establish ourselves. Now we just get players. if it's a Connecticut kid fine. if it is a NYC kid who wants to stay close to home but not too close, fine. if someone wants to travel cross country fine. There's no long-term advantage to keeping locals at home - not like theres a lucrative pipeline that you are getting in on. And Chukwu isn't a Connecticut kid anyway.

If Robinson came, we'd possibly have our best recruiting class ever by rankings if Purvis was included. That's how close we are. Robinson may not come, especially if we pull Larrier out of our hats, but we're not far off (we are also UCLA shenanigans away from disaster, but I try not to think about that).

Comparing Facey's eligibility concerns, which stem from a quirk in the rules regarding the start of your five-year clock, to someone who is a high risk academically because of grades, is being intellectually dishonest.

 

[James]

Thanks for bumping this @upstater - now everyone can bask in my stellar prognostication skills!

Some classic boneyard panic mode posts earlier in the thread.

 

[August_West]

Thanks for bumping this @upstater - now everyone can bask in my stellar prognostication skills!

Epic.

 

[pj]

Thanks for bumping this @upstater - now everyone can bask in my stellar prognostication skills!

"Brimah could help win a tournament game". That is so prescient, I'll give you credit for predicting an and-one at a crucial moment of the most difficult victory.