Take a look at next year’s roster.
Not my point. One year out of 35 does not a trend make. I'd love to see us sign the Gatorade Player of the Year or the runner up every year. That would show me something.
Connecticut doesn't produce nearly as many high level high major recruits as they did in the 70's-80's but there's still kids out there. Not sure why the staff never had interest in Claude, they certainly saw him play a lot.
The Gatorade Player of the year and runner up in the state being a UConn level player is a rarity. They're usually a Farifield or Yale level player. Clingan and Griffiths are more the outliers these days.
The last 7 Gatorade Players of the year have gone High Major...
I see it now. He’s going to go to Xavier and light us up for 4 years.
That would show you a significantly below average basketball team
None of these have really broken my heart. Drummond is really the only one who was/is a star.
How??
Mac Etienne, Tre Mitchell, and Matt Moyer aren't from CT.
Dunn, waters, Mitchell, Drummond are/were very good college players
Earl Kelley, Chuck Aleksinas, Corny Thompson, Norm Bailey, Mike McKay, etc.
Your post says Gatorade Players of the year not kids from CT.
Because the idea of taking the CT Gatorade POY every year just because they're from Connecticut is laughably stupid. Just recruit good players regardless of where they come from
I mean obviously, but most years taking them would not do anything to make you a "significantly below average basketball team".
Right. CT high school ball has become so remarkably uncompetitive I wouldn’t feel comfortable just taking the player of the year every year. Even NY, NJ has dried up a bit. The talent now is in the south and west cities like Atlanta and Houston. Need to get our brand to a point where we can recruit nationally again.
We are doing just fine with recruiting the Northeast
NY/NJ New England are loaded the next few classes.
How do you forget Tyler Olander, 2 time National Champion
247sports.com
Sorry to break it to you, Des, but if Coach can recruit a player that's good enough to take your playing time, he will do so.“I chose Xavier because It was just the best overall fit for me,” he said. “For one, they win a lot and have other good freshman guards coming in too along with experienced bigs. I’m really comfortable with the coach where he will allow me to develop as a point guard. If it takes two, three, even four years to pop off I trust that coach wouldn't recruit over me every year and help me develop as a pro.”
“They’ve just been doing what they normally do and my parents and I have been really taking a close eye on my top three schools,” he continued. “Once we did more research I thought Xavier was the best. They kept reaching out and building a relationship and all that good stuff.”
Xavier lands four-star point guard Desmond Claude
One of the biggest movers in the class of 2022 update, Desmond Claude has committed to Xavier. Claude chose the Musketeers over Kansas and Louisville and becomes Travis
And we already grabbed an elite southern guard out of SEC country to boot.
