Pitino on the state of recruiting

[TheHorde]

Recruiting is especially difficult if you’re like Dracula and you have to wait until dark to roll out of your coffin to meet with recruits.

 

[RuffRuff]

2023:
PG - transfer
SG - 2nd year 4*
SF - 3rd year 4*
PF - freshman 4*
C - 3rd year 4*

2024:
PG - 2nd year transfer
SG - transfer
SF - freshman 5*
PF - 2nd year 4*
C - 2nd year 4*

Skipping this down year, but next year I’m assuming we will have:
PG - transfer
SG - 3rd year 4*
SF - freshman 5*
PF - either transfer, 4th year 4*, or 3rd year 4*
C - 2nd year transfer

UConn both develops its recruits and plugs holes with transfers. That has been a pretty successful formula. The bar is incredibly high in a Dan Hurley system, but if you meet it, your role is secure

The challenge going back to the 2023 template is that it requires devoted rebuild years, maybe 2. It was great for that first NC season as we were ascending back, but not sure it's needed anymore now that we're back in the big leagues. Still important, in a more condensed format.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

You’re talking about the wrong year.

I thought the board was in agreement that the 2019-2020 team was hot and ready to make a run. But maybe people will change their answers for the sake of saying I’m wrong lol

Would have been a tough hill to climb but I thought we at least had a shot to make a run. First time in a long time there was a glimmer of hope that we were on our way to bigger things…

Then after several people in my office came down with terrible ‘colds’ including me with a 104 fever, my boss pulled me into his office and said be prepared to work from home for the foreseeable future because the higher ups were moving quickly and something big is happening. I worked for a large Wall St bank and it was really ominous…