It's like clockwork, every spring/summer he panics about recruiting and the lack of commitments/guys we didn't get. Last year it was the massive mistake we made in not going after Avery Brown, the kid who committed to Columbia.
"A top 5 recruiting class in july means diddly" is blatantly untrue. It means less than a top 10-15 class in fall of the next year, but it means SOMETHING. It allows for a margin of error with not needing to hit every single remaining top target.
You seem like someone who wants UConn to be unsuccessful so you can say "see I was right!!!". Be happy we've had the most successful offseason in many years, stop worrying about who we don't have. Be positive for once
How is wanting to win a game in the tournament not wanting UConn to be successful? Genuinely confused still at whatever point you're trying to make to not appear wrong. I even liked your earlier post when you said people are overreacted negatively about this class. It's a great class. I just think it could have been better if we didn't go 0-2 in the tourney the last two years. Again, fail to see how that is an unfair point to make...
It is insane how far some people will go to defend a staff that hasn't had a lick of postseason success.
We’ve had 2 top 10 classes per 247 since 2011. The Fab year with Gilbert & them, and last year after factoring in the mid year reclassifications.
Edwards is down to Kentucky and Tennessee and will choose very soon. Kentucky is the consensus pick.
After edwards, Bowen, Griffith, who else is being captured in ETC that were original targets we’ve missed on?
There's a reasonable discussion to have about preferring Griffiths or some other local kid to someone we recruited from outside the northeast. When you take it a step further and start complaining that every northeast kid is better and we droped the ball by not getting them, it's a little more questionable and starts to make me wonder what the motive is. When you then take it a step even further and suggest that the recruits we got have shown nothing to suggest being a top 100 recruit you are no longer living in reality. That's why Ricker got crucified
Edwards, Middleton - Miranda was a target at one point although I don’t think we’re out on him yet.
It's not a crazy take that winning will help, I just don't think it's an important one. I don't think these kids care about that, at least not 5* ones that we're struggling to get. They want to get to the NBA and that's priority number 1, 2, and 3
Ok, I never saw Middleton as an Original Target. His name seemed to pop up recently around the time we got connected to Solo & them. It just seemed to move fast once connected. (Offered June 6)
I believe before we were out on Edwards we were in Middleton’s top 5 outta nowhere it seemed. And after all these recruits being offered I am wanting Stewart.
They offered him a year before he released his top 5
Assuming Hurley is in Chicago for Castle's game tn. If Kimani is with him I think that basically confirms we are out on Middleton.
I don't necessarily disagree -- but I think it's more if a chicken or the egg scenario though. Does winning get 5* kids or do 5* kids result in winning?
I could also be wrong on him being an original target
We offered him early (June 2021) then basically heard nothing until April of this year when we made his top 5. So it's hard to say
