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gtcam said:
Really happy for DHam
I loved him at UConn (one of the few here) and thought he had the skill set for the league BUT also thought he should have stayed at least one more year. KO and assistants tried their hardest to keep him at UConn but when DHam decided to go - KO was his biggest cheerleader and made a lot of calls and introductions for DHam - I know this as a fact
His problem was competing with and listening to his brothers
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Hi-Low said:
Ok, thanks..don't see any pics of him in Kansas uniform though so I guess we know the leader right now.
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Check his instagram
 
We can all speculate until Precious actually schedules, if he ever does, an official visit to UConn. Let him come in and lead them back to the National Championship like Carmelo Anthony did at Syracuse.
 
businesslawyer said:
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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Getting Precious is not just about getting precious. Just like getting Drummond wasn’t just about getting Drummond. We still use Drummond as a recruiting pitch to other recruits today. Hurley needs the opportunity to coach a guy like precious to the NBA to prove to other talent that he is capable of coaching high talent
 
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UConnSwag11 said:
Still amazes me UCONN isn’t considered a blue blood when being discussed by the talking heads but Kansas’s four of five national championships have come before 1990.

Edit: Wikipedia says they only have three
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The way I see it there are only 4 true blue bloods at the moment. Duke, UNC, UK, and KU. I consider a blue blood a school with the ability to recruit with success in any part of the country. Also to perennially be a top team each year. Villanova to me doesn’t quite have the blue blood “it factor” yet but they seem to be getting close.
 
businesslawyer said:
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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I'll take Drummond over Nadav, Doron, and any grad transfers every time.
 
Cuse Socks said:
Getting Precious is not just about getting precious. Just like getting Drummond wasn’t just about getting Drummond. We still use Drummond as a recruiting pitch to other recruits today. Hurley needs the opportunity to coach a guy like precious to the NBA to prove to other talent that he is capable of coaching high talent
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I accept that there is a benefit to having players in the league. There is a bigger benefit of winning games. Plus, the benefit of having players in the league is only a means to the end. The end remains winning games.
 
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Looking more and more like a race between Kansas and UNC.
 
JimHurley said:
Is it only me who doesn’t see the lure of Kansas at all?? It’s not only because I don’t like them. I also don’t like UNC, Duke, Kentucky but understand why recruits go there.
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They have a great basketball culture. I mean, their first coach was James Naismith. Really, they have the longest history of greatness of any program. And their fans are rabid.

It has a draw.

Now, Kansas itself is really boring, but when you're a star basketball player at a school with ~20K undergrads? I think they'll be a lot of fun things to do.
 
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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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I'm afraid we've become, as a league, primarily "filler" material and this contract will provide lots more cheap material for a number of sports beyond football and basketball and give ESPN a cheap way to find out how much revenue they can generate with the monthly fees for the Plus service.
If we see our major sports showing up on prime nights instead of Thursday and Sunday for basketball and Thursday and Friday for football then we'll know the league is drawing lots of viewers and ESPN bought themselves a bargain.
 
businesslawyer said:
I accept that there is a benefit to having players in the league. There is a bigger benefit of winning games. Plus, the benefit of having players in the league is only a means to the end. The end remains winning games.
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not for the recruits
 
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tzznandrew said:
They have a great basketball culture. I mean, their first coach was James Naismith. Really, they have the longest history of greatness of any program. And their fans are rabid.

It has a draw.

Now, Kansas itself is really boring, but when you're a star basketball player at a school with ~20K undergrads? I think they'll be a lot of fun things to do.
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won't beat Ted's or huskys
 
(Yes first post) been reading religiously for a few years on here and finally stepped up and got an account.

Anyone take any thought into the fact he was left off the Jordan rosters? I was expecting he not only make the rosters but be on the "home team." Bad timing for release date and trip to UNC? Seemed like a no brainer if UNC has and i'm sure they do have some pull as to what goes on with the Jordan game.

Certainly not going to change his mind away from UNC completely but if it were me, and I felt like I was deserving going to the game which i'm sure he does, this would hurt my chances of going to UNC. If we don't get a visit soon I don't know e are still really in the running TBH.

Thoughts?
 
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