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Rahsool Diggins transferring (merged threads)

Banta55 said:
Wasn't just UConn other high major programs as well..I believe TM was lead recruiter
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Hits and misses happen, and good players are found in the later part of the top 150.

Look at Paul Mulcahy at Rutgers, a #145, who I don't think UConn aggressively recruited, if at all.
 
UCFan1513 said:
Dang how did Hurley miss so badly on the talent evaluation
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We have no idea if it was an evaluation miss at this point. We know he couldn’t contribute in year 1. Is that what the staff expected? Idk. Very possible they expected to be able to develop him into a big contributor by year 2 or 3.

His current offers are mostly based on hs performance (which drew a bunch of strong offers) and him not being able to crack or starting lineup—hardly a dataset that you could draw a certain conclusion on his college career from. His current offers are also probably hurt heavily by the transfer portal. If you’re a top school why take a guy that may be great in a year or two but probably can’t help you right now when you can get guys in the portal every year you know can help you now. There will be other Digginses out there that they can get once theyve already developed into an impact player.
 
Improviser said:
Hits and misses happen, and good players are found in the later part of the top 150.

Look at Paul Mulcahy at Rutgers, a #145, who I don't think UConn aggressively recruited, if at all.
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He was one of the first kids we were linked to after Hurley was hired.
 
tcf15 said:
Technically, they don’t have to, but it’s in the interest of both the school (for APR reasons) and the student athlete (for eligibility reasons) for them to finish out the semester, especially when we’re about a month away from the end of the semester.
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Newton posted an IG story at ECU yesterday. I assumed they all would just finish the school year before moving on.
 
Improviser said:
Especially so at Kansas State where he reached the NCAA 4 out of his 5 years there.

Before that it was in 1995-96, that K State last reached the NCAA tournament.

A blurb from Google:

Martin, who coached the Wildcats for five seasons between 2007-12, recorded 117 wins, the most in any five-year stretch in K-State history.
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Curtis Kelly played with him.
 
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Banta55 said:
Wasn't just UConn other high major programs as well..I believe TM was lead recruiter
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Right. First, it may not even be a talent evaluation issue. He seems skilled but has a kids body. And I have a hard time blaming the staff for any misses during covid when we couldn't really see the guys play. What may have been telling is the closest HM with the best Intel (Nova) prioritized a kid in the 160s.
 
I'm really happy for this outcome all the way around.

*Dan Hurley missed on a talent evaluation (along with many other HCs)
*Dan Hurley didn't compound the mistake, and was honest with the kid through the whole season
*Dan Hurley probably tells him to move on, more so than Rahsool spurns UConn...
*Sool finds the best coach possible in a league that will allow him to thrive
*Dan Hurley reloaded with a clear upgrade, and multiple years of eligibility
*Dan Hurley isn't done yet.
 
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“With ‘Sool choosing UMass, I feel he can have a great start with a coaching staff that is starting from scratch,” Archbishop Wood John Mosco said. “He can go in and not have seniors and older players ahead of him. Now it is up to him to prove to everyone the player we all know he is!”

By the way, is Amherst closer to Philly than Storrs? ;)

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Storrs South said:
Wonder if he is referring to CFJ based on the last sentence
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Lol would make sense since the rumor mill says that Floyd left because he was mad about the whole Diggins situation. Our two supposed star guards in the waiting...ending up at one of the worst A10 schools lmao
 
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aburks41 said:
Lol would make sense since the rumor mill says that Floyd left because he was mad about the whole Diggins situation. Our two supposed star guards in the waiting...ending up at one of the worst A10 schools lmao
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What you say is true, but this may be a real opportunity for Diggins to shine. He should certainly get enough run that we will see if the skills are there or not. I'm thrilled that he found a decent landing place quickly.
 
Hope Sool crushes it.. One word of caution to him.. Dan Hurley is pretty chill compared to Frank.. LOL
 
Huskybass said:
What you say is true, but this may be a real opportunity for Diggins to shine. He should certainly get enough run that we will see if the skills are there or not. I'm thrilled that he found a decent landing place quickly.
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It's a good spot for the long-term, but not in 21-22 though: starting point guard Noah Fernandes is still around and he had an excellent season last year: 14.9p, 5.3a, 2.6s, 43.5 fg%, 36 3p% in 33.6 mpg.

If I'm Frank Martin, I'm not messing with Fernandes' PT entering his fourth college season, he was their best player last season by a mile.
 
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Congrats to Sool - Frank Martin is a top notch coach
I hope Sool thrives and becomes the player I knew he could be before he came to UConn
Too bad things didn;t work out in Storrs
 
Diggins getting hooked up with Frank Martin is cool, but UMass is still UMass.

This kid didn't have P5's or even the upper tier of mid-majors banging down his door. It's fair to say there's a reason he didn't get playing time.

Chalk it up to a recruiting whiff by Hurley (and a bunch of other coaches who were high on him), but this is absolutely not a case of "refusing to play young talent and riding them out of town".
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Diggins getting hooked up with Frank Martin is cool, but UMass is still UMass.

This kid didn't have P5's or even the upper tier of mid-majors banging down his door. It's fair to say there's a reason he didn't get playing time.

Chalk it up to a recruiting whiff by Hurley (and a bunch of other coaches who were high on him), but this is absolutely not a case of "refusing to play young talent and riding them out of town".
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I mean, we'll probably never know the whole story about Sool/CFJ.

Hurley invests too much into recruiting these young men and cares too much about them as young adults...it seems clear he's not going to badmouth any of them if the situation has to come to an unexpected end.

Yes, I definitely an a glass-half-full guy and lean more towards being a Hurley stan, but calling any of these HS ranked 75-125 transfers a "recruiting whiff" by the coach (by any coach, for that matter) is probably oversimplifying a very complex and difficult-to-predict recruiting/player development situation.

It could have been that the improvement arc seen for the kid during high school "should" have continued...but maybe he just plateaued due to inherent "Peter principle" reasons, maybe he didn't/wouldn't/couldn't put in the effort levels needed to continue to improve during college ball in year #1, maybe he decided after a year that the "brutal honesty" that Hurley promises his recruits was actually annoying, maybe this, maybe that...

Bottom line is that the portal definitely makes it super-super-easy for the solution to these difficult situations to be..."let's just separate, move on, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL" versus "let's find a way to make it work for us in the remaining 3 years you have left here."

There's good and bad to that for both sides.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Diggins getting hooked up with Frank Martin is cool, but UMass is still UMass.

This kid didn't have P5's or even the upper tier of mid-majors banging down his door. It's fair to say there's a reason he didn't get playing time.

Chalk it up to a recruiting whiff by Hurley (and a bunch of other coaches who were high on him), but this is absolutely not a case of "refusing to play young talent and riding them out of town".
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Diggins never really got a chance to look good if we are being honest. He fell behind due to an ankle injury and then only received garbage time minutes surrounded by walk ons and other end of the bench guys. I would have loved to see him spell Cole here and there for a few minutes with the starters. Those minutes would have been much more telling.

I think the kid has talent. Glad he found a program where backup minutes should be available in year 1.
 
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