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I don’t think anyone knows where he’s going to go. If UConn lands Precious, that would be a hell of a recruiting effort. UConn’s been horrible the past 3 years, I wouldn’t blame him for not coming here.

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HungryHuskies said:


I don’t think anyone knows where he’s going to go. If UConn lands Precious, that would be a hell of a recruiting effort. UConn’s been horrible the past 3 years, I wouldn’t blame him for not coming here.
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Cuse Socks said:
Jay Williams was on First Take yesterday and he mentioned something about Cole Anthony and Precious looking like they’re going to team up at UNC
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I don't think he's coming here but the state of affairs of college athletics is absolutely pathetic. "Analysts" shouldn't be floating possibilities (or goading) high school recruits to schools on national television. ESPN has always walked a fine line but they have become nothing more than a recruiting service for Duke and UNC and the power 5 in general.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
I don't think he's coming here but the state of affairs of college athletics is absolutely pathetic. "Analysts" shouldn't be floating possibilities (or goading) high school recruits to schools on national television. ESPN has always walked a fine line but they have become nothing more than a recruiting service for Duke and UNC and the power 5 in general.
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ESPN just signed a 12 year media rights deal for our conference, why would they want to undermine it's success by diverting talent to existing power conferences? Maybe their coverage is due to the teams you mention being ridiculously good and deservingly high profile? ESPN is running a business that depends solely on ad dollars at the end of the day, viewers ultimately decide what's covered.
 
I’d absolutely love Precious to help rebuild our NBA pipeline, but there will be a few grad transfers available that will make us a better team in 19-20’ than we’d be with Precious.
 
lange10 said:
I’d absolutely love Precious to help rebuild our NBA pipeline, but there will be a few grad transfers available that will make us a better team in 19-20’ than we’d be with Precious.
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disagree
 
BuckleyNerd said:
ESPN just signed a 12 year media rights deal for our conference, why would they want to undermine it's success by diverting talent to existing power conferences? Maybe their coverage is due to the teams you mention being ridiculously good and deservingly high profile? ESPN is running a business that depends solely on ad dollars at the end of the day, viewers ultimately decide what's covered.
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bc they have the ACC network
 
If he comes, great. If not, we will certainly survive. No one, not anyone is bigger than team. I am not sure he is a team guy despite many of the money makers having been team guys. Well, maybe it was just UConn team guys (Allen, Walker, Marshall, Hamilton etc...), you guys all know the drill. If he comes here both UConn and Precious will end up better off. Either way we will become great again!!!
 
ASweet3781 said:
I don't think he's coming here but the state of affairs of college athletics is absolutely pathetic. "Analysts" shouldn't be floating possibilities (or goading) high school recruits to schools on national television. ESPN has always walked a fine line but they have become nothing more than a recruiting service for Duke and UNC and the power 5 in general.
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I remember back in 2010 Doug Gottlieb told Roscoe Smith on national television to decommit from UConn. A year later Roscoe was cutting down the nets with UConn.
 
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lange10 said:
I’d absolutely love Precious to help rebuild our NBA pipeline, but there will be a few grad transfers available that will make us a better team in 19-20’ than we’d be with Precious.
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The track record strongly suggests that graduate transfers are not a particularly successful way for us to build our program.
 
lange10 said:
I’d absolutely love Precious to help rebuild our NBA pipeline, but there will be a few grad transfers available that will make us a better team in 19-20’ than we’d be with Precious.
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If that's the case then let the vultures get the transfers.
 
BuckleyNerd said:
ESPN just signed a 12 year media rights deal for our conference, why would they want to undermine it's success by diverting talent to existing power conferences? Maybe their coverage is due to the teams you mention being ridiculously good and deservingly high profile? ESPN is running a business that depends solely on ad dollars at the end of the day, viewers ultimately decide what's covered.
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They just bought 12 years of filler content for a song. They don’t give a crap about diverting talent to their premium content conferences
 
UcannUconn said:
I’m thinking he was being sarcastic.
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Fishy said:
The track record strongly suggests that graduate transfers are not a particularly successful way for us to build our program.
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Precious would have a great impact on our recruiting moving forward and as I mentioned it’d build our NBA pipeline back up, which we desperately need.

All I’m suggesting is there will be grad transfers that fit more of our team needs to be successful in ‘19-20 IMO. Long term solution? No. Guarantee we land one of these grad transfers I’m talking about? No. But I’m sure there will be some incredibly talented scoring wings that’ll be on the market that would help us immensely.

Edit: Scouring the grad transfer market from last year and unless there is better talent out there this year, my take is far off. Does lend itself to another question, though. If we miss on Precious, do we prefer a decommit 4 year player that we don't necessarily love, or a grad transfer that leaves another open scholarship for '20-21?
 
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lange10 said:
Precious would have a great impact on our recruiting moving forward and as I mentioned it’d build our NBA pipeline back up, which we desperately need.

All I’m suggesting is there will be grad transfers that fit more of our team needs to be successful in ‘19-20 IMO. Long term solution? No. Guarantee we land one of these grad transfers I’m talking about? No. But I’m sure there will be some incredibly talented scoring wings that’ll be on the market that would help us immensely.

Edit: Scouring the grad transfer market from last year and unless there is better talent out there this year, my take is far off. Does lend itself to another question, though. If we miss on Precious, do we prefer a decommit 4 year player that we don't necessarily love, or a grad transfer that leaves another open scholarship for '20-21?
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That's a legit question. If it's a recommit Hurley has recruited and fits our needs then take him. Otherwise look for grad transfers that fit our needs. They occupy only 1 year on the roster. A lot of speculation right now. April will tell us how many additional open schollies we have. Remember we are still in a rebuilding process. Impatient fans must learn to practice patience.
 
lange10 said:
Precious would have a great impact on our recruiting moving forward and as I mentioned it’d build our NBA pipeline back up, which we desperately need.

All I’m suggesting is there will be grad transfers that fit more of our team needs to be successful in ‘19-20 IMO. Long term solution? No. Guarantee we land one of these grad transfers I’m talking about? No. But I’m sure there will be some incredibly talented scoring wings that’ll be on the market that would help us immensely.

Edit: Scouring the grad transfer market from last year and unless there is better talent out there this year, my take is far off. Does lend itself to another question, though. If we miss on Precious, do we prefer a decommit 4 year player that we don't necessarily love, or a grad transfer that leaves another open scholarship for '20-21?
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Every year there will be a grad transfer or 2 who are better than Precious will be next year. Reid Travis and Damion Lee, for example. Maybe Tucker next year. Maybe we land one of these types.

But the vast majority are a huge dropoff and an important part of Precious' value to us would be in the way it helps our brand and future recruiting.
 
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Grad transfers are grad transfers because they aren't getting drafted. We need NBA level talent asap.
 
Fishy said:
The track record strongly suggests that graduate transfers are not a particularly successful way for us to build our program.
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Depends on the grad transfer. Miller, Gibbs, Kromah as a 7th man? Sure. Onuorah, Anderson? No thanks.

Either way, I'd much rather take the Top 10 recruit. Even if Precious doesn't dominate from Day 1, recruiting begets recruiting. It'd make it that much easier to get the next top guy.
 
Ewekon said:
Grad transfers are grad transfers because they aren't getting drafted. We need NBA level talent asap.
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We need the best players we can get. There are many college players with no NBA future who are better than college players with an NBA future. Different games. If you really wouldn't take the 1 year we got out of Nadav and the 3 from Doron over the 1 from Andre, I don't know what to tell you.
 
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