Precious Achiuwa generic update

[mdkhusky]

Literally none of you know who an insider is or who anyone on this board is or what they know

 

[UconnU]

Maybe I missed this earlier....

AAC Basketball: Way-too-early power rankings for 2019-2020 season

"Those freshmen will add some needed quality depth to UConn’s roster, but the big fish out there is five-star wing Precious Achiuwa. The Huskies are considered the favorite to land the nation’s No. 13 overall prospect (according to 247sports) and have been for a while, but a few other schools – namely North Carolina, St. John’s, and Memphis – are trying to get into the mix. "

Not news but more press can't hurt.....right?

It’s all just rumors and speculation. He hasn’t taken an OV and often fails to even mention us when asked about his recruitment. I wouldnt bet on us.

 

[goskis2018]

Literally none of you know who an insider is or who anyone on this board is or what they know

I know for a fact @SubInATub has connections to Pikiell if that helps

 

[lange10]

It’s all just rumors and speculation. He hasn’t taken an OV and often fails to even mention us when asked about his recruitment. I wouldnt bet on us.

It’s a quiet recruitment and our staff is tight lipped. I don’t think anyone really knows where we stand. I’m sure he’s a long shot but you never know.

 

[krinklecut]

Except for Akok, Gaffney and Bouknight. It's a dumb pissing contest in any event. Nobody really closely connected to the team would be able to reveal details showing those connections or those connections would dry up. I take everything from everyone with several spoonfuls of salt.

If Precious comes here, what does that mean for Zion's "Next"? Is he a fraud then? No. It means that Dan Hurley himself can't predict what these kids will do with any certainty, nor could Ollie or Calhoun. The most we can get from any insider is a vague sense of what the staff thinks, which may or may not be accurate itself.

It's not remotely true that chief called those. Literally every time I see chief say he's hearing something I've seen it said by another insider on a different thread, or even the same thread. He's never first with news. Ever.

 

[JimHurley]

It’s a quiet recruitment and our staff is tight lipped. I don’t think anyone really knows where we stand. I’m sure he’s a long shot but you never know.

This is what I implied the other day. I’m not saying we are the favorite to land him, but we are still in the running. He’s not quite a NEXT...

 

[RipCity]

Except for Akok, Gaffney and Bouknight. It's a dumb pissing contest in any event. Nobody really closely connected to the team would be able to reveal details showing those connections or those connections would dry up. I take everything from everyone with several spoonfuls of salt.

How many pyramid schemes have you fallen for?

 

[Dove]

I only trust Chief.

Post Coma Syndrome

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Literally none of you know who an insider is or who anyone on this board is or what they know

I know someone is not an insider when they regurgitate something already said to the public on a consistent basis and claim to get it on their own.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Is he on a visit at Memphis right now?

 

[olehead]

Just want to point out that not getting an official isnt necessarily a bad thing. He took/is taking official visits to UNC, Kansas, UCLA and one other correct? Link between these schools? They’re all far away and would be fun to visit. The kid is smart to have all his expenses paid on these trips and get chauffeured around. He’d be dumb to visit uconn, which is right next door, especially during final exams / summer vacation. Don’t you guys want smart kids?

If I was him, I’d use my last official visit on Arizona state, USC, or maybe Hawaii? Top choice would be Louisville though

That was the standard when I was coming out. Select at least one visit as a vacation visit.

 

[Devland]

Is he on a visit at Memphis right now?

Doesn't hurt to scout the future opponents.

 

[NJHoops]

Is he on a visit at Memphis right now?

The 22nd.

 

[nomar]

Literally none of you know who an insider is or who anyone on this board is or what they know

Hogwash. Everybody who thinks I don't have any inside info whatsoever is 100% correct.

 

[HuskyHawk]

But he didn't break any of these.

Anyway, we're on the "Let's argue about Chief" part of the thread. It comes after Bargaining. Probably should shut this down.

By that standard nobody here ever “broke” anything. None of the so-called insiders. Nothing. Which is fine. It’s what I said on the whole.

 

[HooperScooper]

It's not remotely true that chief called those. Literally every time I see chief say he's hearing something I've seen it said by another insider on a different thread, or even the same thread. He's never first with news. Ever.

And yet people eat up the information when husky99 tells us "I'm hearing...." because he read it somewhere or asked Zags (who by the way would print or tweet it himself if he actually knew something and take credit for it rather than tell someone else).

I highly doubt anyone posting anything on here gets something from the UConn coaches. Don't you think if they did it would be the last time the coaches ever told them anything?

 

[Chief00]

This is disrespectful to BF.

Actually, as usual, you got things wrong.

 

[Mano]

ITT, did I miss something or did I miss nothing?

 

[Chief00]

I can't recall a single player since Andre that chief predicted, by name, a future commitment. This is just more of his nonsense attention-getting because someone else actually says something substantial.

You don’t remember the dam break last autumn. You must live up stream - LOL

 

[Chief00]

But he doesn’t... it’s made up and people believe it. BF and Zion actually are connected.

Yeah - you were the genius that was suppose to disprove Dre was coming to the game. You probably found out Chief was correct, but wouldn't man up.

 

[Walker11]

And yet people eat up the information when husky99 tells us "he's hearing...." because he read it somewhere or asked Zags (who by the way would print or tweet it himself if he actually knew something and take credit for it rather than tell someone else).

I highly doubt anyone posting anything on here gets something from the UConn coaches. Don't you think if they did it would be the last time the coaches ever told them anything?

Considering that our insiders have spanned 2-3 different coaching staffs it is obvious that there is no connection to the staff. What is the commonality? Is Chardis more in the loop and more loose lipped than he should be? Doran? No chance. The clear answer to me is a connection to a booster who is fed vague tidbits as one of the benefits of his or her generosity. And given that our guys know the exact same information at the same time, I'd guess there is one particular loose lipped booster. I believe @Matrim55 works in sports media, albeit in a different sport so he may be a little plugged into that equation.

 

[HHusky]

I'm thinking Chardis is much TIGHTER lipped in his new position. His journalist job seemed more connected to fans and recruiting fanatics. Yes the staff turnover (2010-2018) makes things much harder to keep up with recruiting.

 

[polycom]

Yeah - you were the genius that was suppose to disprove Dre was coming to the game. You probably found out Chief was correct, but wouldn't man up.

From what I know it didn’t happen the way you claim it did.

 

[Walker11]

I'm thinking Chardis is much TIGHTER lipped in his new position. His journalist job seemed more connected to fans and recruiting fanatics. Yes the staff turnover (2010-2018) makes things much harder to keep up with recruiting.

Yea this is why I said no chance. I was just mentioning the only holdovers I could think of to point out that it's highly doubtful anyonr in the program is talking to our insiders.

 

[HHusky]

Calhoun and staff were masters at utilizing the media (esp. Chardis) to help recruiting.
Not sure either regime since can figure out how to accomplish that. (Certainly newspapers power is vastly diminished over the last several decades.) With the new "media" scene it is much harder to accomplish what Calhoun dominated.