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CL82 said:
Because 11 and 14 year old basketball players don't watch games or follow March Madness?

In any event when 18-19 year olds come into Werth and see the 4 national championship banners they probably are just confused and don't know what that means. Frankly they may not even notice them because they are so distracted by all the NBA banner hanging on the wall. Not that playing in the NBA really matters to these kids, am I right?
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If these kids thought the UConn program stinks, we wouldn't be lining up this type of class. I'm sure these kids don't follow college hoops a ton but the brand is still strong.
 
CL82 said:
Because 11 and 14 year old basketball players don't watch games or follow March Madness?

In any event when 18-19 year olds come into Werth and see the 4 national championship banners they probably are just confused and don't know what that means. Frankly they may not even notice them because they are so distracted by all the NBA banner hanging on the wall. Not that playing in the NBA really matters to these kids, am I right?
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You're an idiot.

What you're describing is what I am saying UConn and Hurley is doing well--branding our history to recruits.

11-14 year olds obviously watch March Madness. But your average kid doesn't consider UConn a blue blood. Ollie did his work to ruin that possibility for the past 4 years. Nor do they care about our history in the tournament. They want to get to the NBA. Who do we have to show? Kemba and Drummond, really. Young kids don't really even remember #34. That's it. I'm sure Hurley and the staff are making our history much more well known to recruits. The athletic department has done a good job branding in NYC too. Part of the reason why we're able to reel in some higher rated guys still.

I work with and coach teenagers 5 or more days a week all year. I am well aware of the average kid's priorities.
 
Walker11 said:
If these kids thought the UConn program stinks, we wouldn't be lining up this type of class. I'm sure these kids don't follow college hoops a ton but the brand is still strong.
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People dont realize these kids dont have time to watch sports. They're already playing and practicing 24/7. When I was playing AAU baseball I watched maybe 1 baseball game per month.

Some kids are big fans and will watch because it's an interest, but for a lot of kids they couldn't be bothered
 
husky429 said:
You're an idiot.

What you're describing is what I am saying UConn and Hurley is doing well--branding our history to recruits.

11-14 year olds obviously watch March Madness. But your average kid doesn't consider UConn a blue blood. Ollie did his work to ruin that possibility for the past 4 years. Nor do they care about our history in the tournament. They want to get to the NBA. Who do we have to show? Kemba and Drummond, really. Young kids don't really even remember #34. That's it. I'm sure Hurley and the staff are making our history much more well known to recruits. The athletic department has done a good job branding in NYC too. Part of the reason why we're able to reel in some higher rated guys still.

I work with and coach teenagers 5 or more days a week all year. I am well aware of the average kid's priorities.
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Average kids have probably never heard the term blue blood. But they did see what Kemba and Shabazz did in a 4 year span.
 
husky429 said:
You're an idiot.

What you're describing is what I am saying UConn and Hurley is doing well--branding our history to recruits.

11-14 year olds obviously watch March Madness. But your average kid doesn't consider UConn a blue blood. Ollie did his work to ruin that possibility for the past 4 years. Nor do they care about our history in the tournament. They want to get to the NBA. Who do we have to show? Kemba and Drummond, really. Young kids don't really even remember #34. That's it. I'm sure Hurley and the staff are making our history much more well known to recruits. The athletic department has done a good job branding in NYC too. Part of the reason why we're able to reel in some higher rated guys still.

I work with and coach teenagers 5 or more days a week all year. I am well aware of the average kid's priorities.
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I guess I could be an idiot, or maybe you are just insecure and name call when challenged. I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

Either way I will respectfully disagree that the average high school is unaware of UConn's success. I can tell you in my experience they watch the tournament and know our players. But what the heck, if you are still coaching kids in that age bracket ask them this afternoon whether they ever heard of UConn and see what they have to say about us. Ask them if they can name any UConn players or whether we've won any natties and post back to let us know their response.
 
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husky429 said:
You're an idiot.

What you're describing is what I am saying UConn and Hurley is doing well--branding our history to recruits.

11-14 year olds obviously watch March Madness. But your average kid doesn't consider UConn a blue blood. Ollie did his work to ruin that possibility for the past 4 years. Nor do they care about our history in the tournament. They want to get to the NBA. Who do we have to show? Kemba and Drummond, really. Young kids don't really even remember #34. That's it. I'm sure Hurley and the staff are making our history much more well known to recruits. The athletic department has done a good job branding in NYC too. Part of the reason why we're able to reel in some higher rated guys still.

I work with and coach teenagers 5 or more days a week all year. I am well aware of the average kid's priorities.
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It sure seems to me he had his tongue way into his cheek.
 
husky429 said:
18-19 year old Kids don't remember uconn's glory days. They were 1, 4, 11, and 14 years old. In their memory, we stink.

I think you overestimate how much these kids follow college bball. Most kids are all about the NBA and BallisLife mixtapes.. what they know are the 30 second clips from SportsCenter.

Luckily, Hurley is doing a great job branding our history to recruits.
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CL82 said:
Because 11 and 14 year old basketball players don't watch games or follow March Madness?
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Lol @husky429. Shabazz and Kemba are still in the NBA. They definitely don't remember the first 2, but they definitely remember the 2nd two. Kids watch MORE sports when they're 11 and 14. I watched literally every sport and 3 hours of SportsCenter a day when I was that age. If they're watching mixtapes and house of highlights, they'll see Kemba going off and google where he went to school if they don't remember. The last 2 championships weren't "normal". Kemba and Bazz got more coverage than usual because of the unusual runs (and LeBron tweeting about Shabazz, etc.).
 
CL82 said:
I guess I could be an idiot, or maybe you are just insecure and name call when challenged. I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

Either way I will respectfully disagree that the average high school is unaware of UConn's success. I can tell you in my experience they watch the tournament and know our players. But what the heck, if you are still coaching kids in that age bracket ask them this afternoon whether they ever heard of UConn and see what they have to say about us. Ask them if they can name any UConn players or whether we've won any natties and post back to let us know their response.
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Eh you're probably right. In a pissy mood today--my best player dislocated his knee. My bad.

I think what it boils down to is I know kids don't view uconn as a top school like kansas, unc, duke, kentucky, etc. Even nova. We're more like a non P5 Florida to them.
 
husky429 said:
Eh you're probably right. In a pissy mood today--my best player dislocated his knee. My bad.

I think what it boils down to is I know kids don't view uconn as a top school like kansas, unc, duke, kentucky, etc. Even nova. We're more like a non P5 Florida to them.
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Sorry to hear it. Hope he/she heals quickly.

I'll agree that Kansas, UNC, Duke and Kentucky are all tough to recruit against. Of all of them only Duke and Kentucky really worry me though. We can compete against Kansas and North Carolina.
 
husky429 said:
Eh you're probably right. In a pissy mood today--my best player dislocated his knee. My bad.

I think what it boils down to is I know kids don't view uconn as a top school like kansas, unc, duke, kentucky, etc. Even nova. We're more like a non P5 Florida to them.
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That can change quickly, there wasn't a single kid 5 years ago who considered Nova a blueblood.
 
husky429 said:
Eh you're probably right. In a pissy mood today--my best player dislocated his knee. My bad.

I think what it boils down to is I know kids don't view uconn as a top school like kansas, unc, duke, kentucky, etc. Even nova. We're more like a non P5 Florida to them.
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I think the window is closing on us even being in the same conversation as Florida. We need to win important games quick. We need a number back in front of our name and a tournament bid within the next couple years just to maintain where we are.
 
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Blue bloods stay consistent. We haven't been so no way we are a blue blood. yet.
 
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UConn is still big time. Hurley arrived just in time to bring us back to the top before we lost too much cache.
 
If Indiana is a blue blood then we may as well consider adding San Francisco. They had a great run a little while back!
 
superjohn said:
Agreed, IMO there are only 4 true bluebloods. Kentucky, Kansas, Duke. and Carolina.
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I have to agree. In the present day landscape of men's college basketball, these are the four that seemingly year in year out are considered to be potentially competing for a national title, and consistently being ranked in the top ten. All kinds of arguments can be made to include other schools, or even what really constitutes a blueblood, but I'm not going there.
 
superjohn said:
UConn has as much of a claim as Indiana or more of one IMO. Indiana hasn't won it all in 31 years, UCLA has all the history but hasn't won it in 23 years. Kentucky, Duke, UNC, and Kansas are the only consistently great programs who also win titles.
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UCLA has the most titles, a top 5 win%, tied for 2nd most FF, and 2 final fours in the last 11 years.

Blue blood is about history, so don't think you can dismiss that out of hand. Lineage. Bloodline. You need continued current success, sure, but UCLA's final fours being within a decade are good enough for me considering the overwhelming history.

Teams with 15 or more Final Fours is a pretty easy cutoff. UNC, Kentucky, UCLA, Duke, and Kansas. All between 15-20 FF. Next highest is 10 FF. All 5 of those schools wear blue. Easy, done.
 
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brihman said:
If Indiana is a blue blood then we may as well consider adding San Francisco. They had a great run a little while back!
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And lets not forget CCNY! The won the NC and NIT in the same year!
 
We were a blue blood. If Hurley can recruit the talent he can bring us back to near that because success breeds success. All of a sudden we're in the tourney picture every year making runs and getting the exposure which will bring recruits. Can't be done without talent. Without Barrett and Williamson this year how good is Duke? Get a quality big man to go with the guards. The whole program rides on that.
 
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