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OT: So which posters have been the most reliable with inside info?

what we really need is a comprehensive list of the posters who only come to the board when something negative happens. after every win they dont post or when we land a recruit and up until yesterday they were no where to be found
 
Chief00 said:
Chief' posts are a public service, and therefore free!
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There's a saying that comes to mind but I'll behave... ;)
 
That would be me. My inside sources tell me that Fishy is a complete jerk who likes to dress up in women's clothing and sing old showtunes. Take it to the bank.
 
I don't have a problem with any specific posters so much as I question whether the system is rigged in their favor. If you're going to post stuff with the disclaimer that "recruiting is fluid" then you can never really be wrong.

And I do think there are people on this board who know more than me. But it can't be this one way street where you're celebrated when you're right and then nobody questions you when you're not.
 
champs99and04 said:
I don't have a problem with any specific posters so much as I question whether the system is rigged in their favor. If you're going to post stuff with the disclaimer that "recruiting is fluid" then you can never really be wrong.

And I do think there are people on this board who know more than me. But it can't be this one way street where you're celebrated when you're right and then nobody questions you when you're not.
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Is there right in recruiting? Is is more like English class and less like algebra
 
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Mr. Wonderful said:
I'm not putting anyone on ignore. I prefer to just "call people out," and if it's me calling you out, be certain that you needed it.
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Actually, it was pretty much me calling you out, and yeah, you absolutely needed it. I was just trying to polite about it.

Try to be less self important, it will make you less boring.
 
mauconnfan said:
Oz had it right according to everyone. Some snake came in and sweet him away telling him things he wanted to hear.

Who cares anyway the more you read about this the less likely this kid would have been real good for this program if he even set foot on the basketball floor.

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Thats not how recruiting works. Kid's dont change decisions like that "in the 11th hour" after being a "lock for months and months". I know you guys were really swayed by the UConn compliance following him on twitter too...
 
UConnSwag11 said:
what we really need is a comprehensive list of the posters who only come to the board when something negative happens. after every win they dont post or when we land a recruit and up until yesterday they were no where to be found
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I could bang off at least ten without even taking a breath. But I'm not one to 'out' people. Most know the usual suspects anyway.

Amazing thing is, we keep arguing with them. Myself included.

I take the justification that, despite it being a Sisyphean exercise, I refuse to let incorrect memes to repeat themselves over and over, masquerading as, and eventually becoming, de facto truth. Not on my watch.
 
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BUConn10 said:
Thats not how recruiting works. Kid's dont change decisions like that "in the 11th hour" after being a "lock for months and months". I know you guys were really swayed by the UConn compliance following him on twitter too...
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Actually, yeah, they do. It happens with Calipari all the time. Very few guys can do it, but Cal and K most certainly can. No idea if this happened with Diallo.

Not a big Parrish fan, but I remember this article:

Gary Parrish just told the most John Calipari story ever | Kentucky Sports Radio

He doesn't mention it, but the story was about Mick Cronin/Marcus Teague.
 
intlzncster said:
Actually, yeah, they do. It happens with Calipari all the time. Very few guys can do it, but Cal and K most certainly can. No idea if this happened with Diallo.
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What's your point? You said that doesn't happen in recruiting in general. I'm telling showing you it does.

And specific to this circumstance, neither of us has a clue what happened with Diallo.
 
CL82 said:
Actually, it was pretty much me calling you out, and yeah, you absolutely needed it. I was just trying to polite about it.

Try to be less self important, it will make you less boring.
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You were calling me out? I'm sorry, I didn't notice.
 
I hope we never get to the point where none of our insiders deside it's worth sharing anything anymore. The thing people don't understand about insiders, is they aren't on the staff, which means they don't get live updates for every change that takes place during each individual recruitment. One hour Diallo could be telling the staff, withthin the next hour he could be committed to Kentucky. People have a hard time grasping that.
 
Mr. Wonderful said:
You were calling me out? I'm sorry, I didn't notice.
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He says two replies later, lol.

No problem, though, self awareness doesn't seem to be a big skill set for you.
 
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BUConn10 said:
Thats not how recruiting works. Kid's dont change decisions like that "in the 11th hour" after being a "lock for months and months". I know you guys were really swayed by the UConn compliance following him on twitter too...
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Like it or not they do with the Squid, not sure where the hell you've been?
 
mauconnfan said:
Like it or not they do with the Squid, not sure where the hell you've been?
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I'm saying he was never at any point a "lock" for our program. Him committing to UK doesn't mean he was swayed in the "11th hour", it means that he may have stated we led st one point or another but at the end of the day anyone with eyes and a brain could see that Diallo was not going to join this team because he had too much to lose and too little to gain by coming on board this train wreck.

Blowing smoke up everyone's aaa for months saying "he's ours. he's ours" and taking that at face value is the foolishness I'm mocking, Oz can say and think whatever he wants.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I hope we never get to the point where none of our insiders deside it's worth sharing anything anymore. The thing people don't understand about insiders, is they aren't on the staff, which means they don't get live updates for every change that takes place during each individual recruitment. One hour Diallo could be telling the staff, withthin the next hour he could be committed to Kentucky. People have a hard time grasping that.
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True, but that's not what happened with Diallo. UK did not just show up in December, they were leading for a couple months. If you truly have a dude locked up for two years - get him to commit in that period. It never came close to happening from my knowledge.
 
BUConn10 said:
I'm saying he was never at any point a "lock" for our program. Him committing to UK doesn't mean he was swayed in the "11th hour", it means that he may have stated we led st one point or another but at the end of the day anyone with eyes and a brain could see that Diallo was not going to join this team because he had too much to lose and too little to gain by coming on board this train wreck.

Blowing smoke up everyone's aaa for months saying "he's ours. he's ours" and taking that at face value is the foolishness I'm mocking, Oz can say and think whatever he wants.
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and you would think staffs and "insiders" know better than to say someone is a lock until they at least are ready to verbal. The best insiders here usually give us good news and then within 24 hours we hear something. they don't ever call anyone a lock a year before a kid is ready to publicize his commitment.
 
JMick said:
and you would think staffs and "insiders" know better than to say someone is a lock until they at least are ready to verbal. The best insiders here usually give us good news and then within 24 hours we hear something. they don't ever call anyone a lock a year before a kid is ready to publicize his commitment.
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Exactly. That action alone, declaring a player of his caliber a "lock" months before he declared, is what makes me laugh when I see all the "11th hour" garbage. If a kid is a lock, he commits, if he doesn't then he isn't a lock. End of story.
 
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BUConn10 said:
Exactly. That action alone, declaring a player of his caliber a "lock" months before he declared, is what makes me laugh when I see all the "11th hour" garbage. If a kid is a lock, he commits, if he doesn't then he isn't a lock. End of story.
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I fully admit the I drank the Oz koolaid. Now I look at his posts with a different lens.

Honestly I'd be shocked if Ollie still feeds him any info. Having a "leak" like that can mean a couple things. One - it's a mouthpiece for the program. Two - the staff is unaware he's posting info online. Three - the leaks "sources" are imaginary or at the very least up to interpretation.
 
Chief00 said:
I really don't agree Diallo changed his mind. I think KO was being fed very bad information - not saying intentionally but rather it was someone's incorrect and self serving read of the situation.
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How could he been fed bad info?
The kid was in Storrs all of the time.
Ollie spoke to him personally all of the time.
How could somebody else have given Ollie bad info(unless it was Diallo). He was trying to close Diallo himself.

He didn't need Miller to be the middle man for this one.
He was to big a recruit.
 
tcf15 said:
@SirHypeAlot

And if anyone says otherwise HFD will find you on Twitter and go on one of his patented rants. Still not sure what I did to have him @ me, but I'm still recovering from it.
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I even caught shrapnel lol :)
 
superjohn said:
You're wrong on this.
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Well if you say so.

I could have told you in October how that recruitment was going to play out. It really didn't miss a single beat.
 
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