Recruit Signing

[rich1122]

Silly post.

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[Chief00]

I've never heard anyone say we wait until after camp to sign recruits, and considering HFD reports we currently have over 100 offers extended I'd say it's safe to say whoever told you that is full of it. I've never heard of a coach offering a scholarship without the intention of accepting a possible commitment.

Coach P pushed that evaluate in camp BS. I am in agreement thus far recruiting has been a failure for 2014, that's what I believe to be the truth.

 

[huskymedic]

Coach P pushed that evaluate in camp BS. I am in agreement thus far recruiting has been a failure for 2014, that's what I believe to be the truth.

In agreement with who?

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

We arguably just reeled in our best recruiting class to date in 2013. I guess Lamelle, Boyle, Lagow and Schafenacker think your opinion is dogsh!t. We now have a track record of sending players to the NFL and all of our games will be on ESPN, we couldn't say that in 2004.

That's a pretty big leap from what I said to infer that the players in this class suck.

If you, Spackler, and the other dreamers want to believe that we're on equal recruiting footing with Cuse, BC, and RU then by all means have at it. All those kids that P himself said bring up the conference thing must not really happen.

 

[businesslawyer]

For some reason they didn't go after Connecticut kids early, those would have been the logical early commits. Drove HfD crazy. Now with camp season underway there is no excuse not to push for June-July commits.

Driving HFD crazy is only a one-zone fare. If that.

 

[freescooter]

Do you guys have any idea how valueable a UCONN scholarship offer is right now? Wait - never mind clearly not.

Apparently people around here want us to be throwing UCONN full ride athletic scholarships around like $5 dollar chips at the Atlantic City Taj Mahal.

Nope. Ain't gonna happen folks. And all the players that come to UCONN camps, even if they don't get the winning lottery number, they all know that they're on film - and it's gonna get seen by people that matter.

Negative nancy's make me want kick holes in walls.

81 days till kickoff.

Well, if the kid is from Connecticut we don't really care how good he is. Zip codes baby!

 

[tduconn]

What worries me is the longer this goes without an athlete expressing an interest, what we reel in with the UConn bait is left-overs. What a WVU fan once "suggested " to me is when UConn picks up most of its interested candidates Nov-Jan., its because there were few BCS choices that may be perceived better, left.

If an athlete was really interested in UConn above others, I don't think they'd wait for a camp to express that interest........doesn't mean they will sign, as verbals are only verbals. That being said, my fingures will be chewed to the knuckles if there isn't a nibble early after camp opportunities at Uconn end.

 

[Waquoit]

This thread reminds of that ESPN commercial that I thought was funny:

"It's June and P doesn't have any recruits yet"

"Is that bad?"

"It's not good!"

 

[Srqhusky]

That's a pretty big leap from what I said to infer that the players in this class suck.

If you, Spackler, and the other dreamers want to believe that we're on equal recruiting footing with Cuse, BC, and RU then by all means have at it. All those kids that P himself said bring up the conference thing must not really happen.

The fact we are getting these guys despite the conference shows how good p is as a recruiter. Do not worry we will have a class this year

 

[whaler11]

The fact we are getting these guys despite the conference shows how good p is as a recruiter. Do not worry we will have a class this year

Um what guys?

 

[Srqhusky]

Um what guys?

Referring to last years class. They knew what was going down and stuck with us. They want to be huskies. They see the development an the nfl training the school provides. Thwy see the comraderey the classes have together We are going to have a strong but small class this year.
There were a few uconn report articles that said uconn was showing Interest in me and they want to see me I. Camp. Type responses. We are all very anxious to get the first one. They are only verbals but Who is it going to be? What position. ? We are only talking about a 12 pack this year.

 

[whaler11]

Referring to last years class. They knew what was going down and stuck with us. They want to be huskies. They see the development an the nfl training the school provides. Thwy see the comraderey the classes have together We are going to have a strong but small class this year.
There were a few uconn report articles that said uconn was showing Interest in me and they want to see me I. Camp. Type responses. We are all very anxious to get the first one. They are only verbals but Who is it going to be? What position. ? We are only talking about a 12 pack this year.

A: There is no way they sign a 12 player class
B: All the NFL picks were recruited and developed by the prior staff.

This coach was hired for his recruiting prowess and as of today that's laughable.

A lot of very good players have verballed and we have none. That's a huge red flag some are trying to ignore.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

First verbals;
2006 Poles 6-20-05
2007 Teggart 6-29-06
2008 1 before July, Eric K?
2010 Smallwood 7-1-09
2011 Nebrich 6-6-10

You cant fail before you even start. Lets see who we get before we give out grades.

 

[Carl Spackler]

wasn't too long ago, at all, that the angst that the ninnies have around here, was happening in October, November, December.......and it was an absolute embarrassing media freaking circus that we actually were interested and had return interest from a single highly rated player .now the angst is happening in june,and the players coming in to camps - fwiw - on a message board, are a much different level than the players coming in a few years ago.

Just one little way to show that yes indeed - progress.

None of it means jack though, in reality, we're 10-14 in the past two seasons, and we need to change that. Our offensive line, and ability to block with 10 guys on offense - is the key to this season, and none of them are new recruits, and neither are their backups.

Our recruiting class is small this year, the focus, I think, is clearly elsewhere - they'll get their players for this class, but they know they need to focus on coaching, and winning.

 

[Srqhusky]

A: There is no way they sign a 12 player class
B: All the NFL picks were recruited and developed by the prior staff.

This coach was hired for his recruiting prowess and as of today that's laughable.

A lot of very good players have verballed and we have none. That's a huge red flag some are trying to ignore.

Laughable. Haha. Three players playing in the big 33. Lol. If you are referring to late verbals take a look at Duncan's list of first verbals. You are laughable.

Want to bet we get a verbal by July first. Loser is banned from board for July!

 

[mcs333]

Since PP coached these NFL draftees the last two years, I would say he had as much if not more responsibility in the development of these players. Also they all noted that PP played a huge part in helping them prepare for the NFL.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

and to beat a dead horse

2012 Obie M. 6-14-11
last year only Noel and T Hopkins were early by mid June

 

[APA]

First verbals;
2006 Poles 6-20-05
2007 Teggart 6-29-06
2008 1 before July, Eric K?
2010 Smallwood 7-1-09
2011 Nebrich 6-6-10

You cant fail before you even start. Lets see who we get before we give out grades.

According to Scout, these are the first verbals for the last 8 years:

2006 Hicks 2/1/05
2007 Nixon 1/24/06
2008 Tr. Williams 2/15/07
2009 Osiecki 3/1/08 (4 by the end of May that year)
2010 Smallwood 7/1/09
2011 Nebrich 6/6/10
2012 Samra 5/20/11
2013 Thomas 2/25/12

 

[whaler11]

Since PP coached these NFL draftees the last two years, I would say he had as much if not more responsibility in the development of these players. Also they all noted that PP played a huge part in helping them prepare for the NFL.

What were they going to do, not give him credit? Reasonable people can disagree on this piece but each of those players were very good before this staff set foot on campus.

 

[huskymedic]

According to Scout, these are the first verbals for the last 8 years:

2006 Hicks 2/1/05
2007 Nixon 1/24/06
2008 Tr. Williams 2/15/07
2009 Osiecki 3/1/08 (4 by the end of May that year)
2010 Smallwood 7/1/09
2011 Nebrich 6/6/10
2012 Samra 5/20/11
2013 Thomas 2/25/12

FWIW... Don't think Scout has the right data for Mike Hicks. Mike committed @ end of June 2004. Mike was a RS in 2005 so he couldn't be class of 2006 and I think that 2/1/05 might be NLI Day.

Also both Nixon (Bridgeton) and Williams (Canterbury) committed but had to do PG years?

Osiecki and Thomas committed immediately after Junior Day events - something that didn't happen this year.

 

[Dann]

here is a great example of whats going on.

recruit named klock you can all look up. seems to be a solid regional d1 prospect from pa. over the past 4 months all the ususal teams offered. he then took tours. he went to cuse, bc and temples and rutgers....he is making his decision within a week. a couple days ago we decide to offer.

1) were way late to the party, way late
2) his hs is one that we should have a good connect in and have a yearly grasp on who to watch. how did we not offer him earlier?
3)maybe he didn't reach out to us? a lot of kids don't. were not in a good position right now. but we need to reach out to all kids and prove ourselves by showing pf vids and stuff. how did we let this kid get under the radar so much from us but not everyone else on the east coast? not like he has a grades issue or anything.

were talking about a good prospect that comes from a area where uconn has some pull and connections and yet we were late to the party. way late. how can we let these types of things happen over and over again? its like the ol from jersey and so many more. there are fundamental things wrong with this program much deeper than the HC who is also wrong.....when i say clean house, im talking about the janitor up.



ALSO the first commit dates trying to be pushed here are funny. you guys will go to any depth to try to defend P. lmfao we have never got a commit before summer. what a crock of poop. you guys are literally trying to convince yourselves and each other that everything is just magically going to be ok by making up things to help warde and p look like things are ok. maybe thats easier for u guys to handle then listen to me, but trust me its laughable and its the reason we are where we are today.

Today:
125 offers out
45 have verbals to other schools
30 have publically not listed or are not considering us
of the 55 left, a large % of them are southern recruits who have not shown anything public that we are in it. still just unknown
most of our new england offers have gone elsewhere.
most ny, nj and pa offers have no interest.

we have 2 ct rbs begging for offers who both have bcs offers from elsewhere. we have a 3* ol begging for a offer at a position of need that we have not offered and he will be camping elsewhere now. we have a ct qb who we only offered becuase temple did camping at b12 and b10 schools now. we have 3 other ct qbs who are all borderline looking around seeing where they stand. we have a qb up in mass from a hs we should be friends with, who has other bcs offeres but not one from us. btw he may be a dual sport player.

just a mess

we cant even get a verbal from sylva, bryan or fuchs. unreal

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

A: There is no way they sign a 12 player class
B: All the NFL picks were recruited and developed by the prior staff.

This coach was hired for his recruiting prowess and as of today that's laughable.

A lot of very good players have verballed and we have none. That's a huge red flag some are trying to ignore.

When Edsall was here, he was a "poor recruiter" but a great "player developer." Now that P is here, he gets zero credit for player development and it was all Edsall's recruiting.

The facts change depending on who you want to blame.

 

[Carl Spackler]

here is a great example of whats going on.

recruit named klock you can all look up. seems to be a solid regional d1 prospect from pa. over the past 4 months all the ususal teams offered. he then took tours. he went to cuse, bc and temples and rutgers....he is making his decision within a week. a couple days ago we decide to offer.

1) were way late to the party, way late
2) his hs is one that we should have a good connect in and have a yearly grasp on who to watch. how did we not offer him earlier?
3)maybe he didn't reach out to us? a lot of kids don't. were not in a good position right now. but we need to reach out to all kids and prove ourselves by showing pf vids and stuff. how did we let this kid get under the radar so much from us but not everyone else on the east coast? not like he has a grades issue or anything.

were talking about a good prospect that comes from a area where uconn has some pull and connections and yet we were late to the party. way late. how can we let these types of things happen over and over again? its like the ol from jersey and so many more. there are fundamental things wrong with this program much deeper than the HC who is also wrong.....when i say clean house, im talking about the janitor up.



ALSO the first commit dates trying to be pushed here are funny. you guys will go to any depth to try to defend P. lmfao we have never got a commit before summer. what a crock of poop. you guys are literally trying to convince yourselves and each other that everything is just magically going to be ok by making up things to help warde and p look like things are ok. maybe thats easier for u guys to handle then listen to me, but trust me its laughable and its the reason we are where we are today.

Today:
125 offers out
45 have verbals to other schools
30 have publically not listed or are not considering us
of the 55 left, a large % of them are southern recruits who have not shown anything public that we are in it. still just unknown
most of our new england offers have gone elsewhere.
most ny, nj and pa offers have no interest.

we have 2 ct rbs begging for offers who both have bcs offers from elsewhere. we have a 3* ol begging for a offer at a position of need that we have not offered and he will be camping elsewhere now. we have a ct qb who we only offered becuase temple did camping at b12 and b10 schools now. we have 3 other ct qbs who are all borderline looking around seeing where they stand. we have a qb up in mass from a hs we should be friends with, who has other bcs offeres but not one from us. btw he may be a dual sport player.

just a mess

we cant even get a verbal from sylva, bryan or fuchs. unreal

Funny - that the information on a Trey Klock, from Hummelstown, PA, that is available on rivals.com, to anyone with a working internet link, and not a paying subscriber, seems to suggest that eveyrthing you're writing is wrong. certainly doesn't seem that hank hughes has lost this kid under the radar. I honestly have no idea what your experience is in reality when it comes to intercollegiate athletics Dan, and you know I like you, but seriously man - you got to get yourself under control.

What possible good comes from writing stuff like this? Just ask yourself that once in a while - for the rest of us.

John Battle
UConnReport.com


Three-star tight end Trey Klock of Hummelstown (Pa.) Lower Dauphin has had a productive off-season, as several offers have come his way. His most recent came earlier this week from UConn, who hopes to get him on campus in the coming weeks as the big junior closes in on making a final decision.

"The UConn offer is one that I've been excited about for a while," said Klock. "I've talked with Coach Hughes a few times and they've said how impressed they were for a while so it was great to finally get the call that I had been offered."

Klock has had an opportunity to gather some information on the Huskies from a Class of 2013 recruit.

"I honestly don't know too much about the university, but I would love to learn more about it," he said. "I need to get online and do some research and talk to some people about it. I've talked with UConn signee Junior Joseph before, so I'll probably get in contact with him soon."

The big tight end has interacted with Coach Hughes for several months, and also had a chance to see him in action.

"I've seen Hughes coach twice now at the Lauren's First and Goal at Lafayette College and I like his style," said Klock, who also has offers from Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse, Western Michigan and Bucknell.

Klock has mentioned in recent interviews that he may be close to making a final decision, so is that still true, and will he have time to visit UConn first?

"Although I plan on making my decision in a few weeks, I would still like to possibly plan a visit," said Klock, who plans to set a decision date in the coming days.

While a visit to UConn may still be in the works, Klock does have a visit planned to Georgia Tech on June 11th.

 

[Dann]

Funny - that the information on a Trey Klock, from Hummelstown, PA, that is available on , to anyone with a working internet link, and not a paying subscriber, seems to suggest that eveyrthing you're writing is wrong. certainly doesn't seem that hank hughes has lost this kid under the radar. I honestly have no idea what your experience is in reality when it comes to intercollegiate athletics Dan, and you know I like you, but seriously man - you got to get yourself under control.

What possible good comes from writing stuff like this? Just ask yourself that once in a while - for the rest of us.

John Battle
UConnReport.com


Three-star tight end Trey Klock of Hummelstown (Pa.) Lower Dauphin has had a productive off-season, as several offers have come his way. His most recent came earlier this week from UConn, who hopes to get him on campus in the coming weeks as the big junior closes in on making a final decision.

"The UConn offer is one that I've been excited about for a while," said Klock. "I've talked with Coach Hughes a few times and they've said how impressed they were for a while so it was great to finally get the call that I had been offered."

Klock has had an opportunity to gather some information on the Huskies from a Class of 2013 recruit.

"I honestly don't know too much about the university, but I would love to learn more about it," he said. "I need to get online and do some research and talk to some people about it. I've talked with UConn signee Junior Joseph before, so I'll probably get in contact with him soon."

The big tight end has interacted with Coach Hughes for several months, and also had a chance to see him in action.

"I've seen Hughes coach twice now at the Lauren's First and Goal at Lafayette College and I like his style," said Klock, who also has offers from Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse, Western Michigan and Bucknell.

Klock has mentioned in recent interviews that he may be close to making a final decision, so is that still true, and will he have time to visit UConn first?

"Although I plan on making my decision in a few weeks, I would still like to possibly plan a visit," said Klock, who plans to set a decision date in the coming days.

While a visit to UConn may still be in the works, Klock does have a visit planned to Georgia Tech on June 11th.

carl with all due respect, you just confirmed everything i said

uconn offer-june 4th
gtech offer-late may, he visited early may and now recently
announces a top 5 with no uconn(bc the favorite, gt, cuse, temple and ruty also in it)
cuse and rutgers visits mid may
cuse offers early may
temple offer late april
rutgers visit late april
bc visit mid april
rutgers offer early april
bc visit and offer early april
fall 12 pitt, psu and rutgers visits

in what u just posted here it says he knows almost nothing about uconn and needs to internet search about us. thats embarassing. we should have a 10 minute dvd that pumps us the best way possible that every hs prospect should get in the mail. we don't. when he commits to bc next week its ok. p only needs 12 commtis and we have never got one before august and yadayadayada with the excuse from ppl here....

listen i would love to land him, but come on with this late to the game strategy....

 

[whaler11]

When Edsall was here, he was a "poor recruiter" but a great "player developer." Now that P is here, he gets zero credit for player development and it was all Edsall's recruiting.

The facts change depending on who you want to blame.

No Edsall gets credit for what Edsall did. P will get credit or blame when we see how his players turn out.

 

[Rumrunner]

I think a lot of the frustration with 2014 is based in part on how structurally different recruiting is now. Recruiting is different, far different today, than it was in 2006. Texas changed things, for everybody. 10 years ago you didn't see early commits. But every year since, more and more are verballing before the summer.

It is all about early commitments. The recruiting game is won and lost long before the summer heat sets in. Every team has changed how they recruit in the past five years. Junior days are hugely important, locking kids down early is the name of the game. Whether Pasqualoni missed the memo on all of this., or discounts it, I don't know. Is there a chance for a great recruiting class? Definitely. Would I rather be assured of a great recruiting class sitting here in mid-June? Even more definitely.

As others have pointed out, 2013, with Lagow, boyle, QB U, schafenacker, et al, that looks to be a class that we as fans have a lot to look forward to. We even have the enigma of some recruits like Kivon Taylor (the next Teddy B?, Denard R. heck why not?), and then the local kid under the radar javelin thrower who eschewed the recruit circuit.

Right now, we have none of that to banter about. Buzz is good for a program. The next few weeks will be huge. Let's hope AN is the first signing. Then build, build, build. Commit after commit. Get the kids in prep/juco to go from soft verbal, to hell yeah, I'm coming. Make UCONN a place that recruits want desperately to go to, not some fallback, dodgeball leftover pick.

 

[Carl Spackler]

For the record folks - there was a very good prospect last february, that committed on the spot, early on, with an offer, and then the recruiting flood gates opened wide for him. Ended up with serious recruitment from dozens of 1A schools with lots of name recognition, and ended up at Clemson.

Isn't it possible that our staff may have learned an important lesson in that? The lesson that people are actually watching what we do like vultures? the lazy recruiters in the world that swoop in on other people's fresh meat?

Ogundeko committed in february 2012. I think our staff may have learned a lesson about offering players formal scholarships at junior day, and most likely are going about their sales business in a different way now, when on the path to the closing.

That's just me being crazy I guess though.

 

[Dann]

ogundecko:
1) came to our jr day as his first college experience. p did a great job sniffing him out. earlier that week he sent his video out to staffs
2) he saw noel and laray at the time very high and noel verbaled. that influence him and laray to be into it also. ogundecko verbaled not knowing what he had done really.
3) then calls and offers starting pouring in from the video and he quickly dc'd to step back
4) then the kid learned about the internet when it came to recruiting and played it to the last second he could. played everything up. every visit was a lean, every offer was the coolest thing and so on

your not on the ball carl with this. so because a kid turns around and goes elsewhere we shouldn't get early commits. amazing strategy. are u on p's staff????

 

[Rumrunner]

Carl, if the staff could have kept Ogundeko, who else who have followed? The staff should be drawn and quarter if they think that getting a jr day commit who is a freaking stud is bad for business. It sucks that he opened it back up, but man what might have been if he stuck, and others took a look at UConn, and said, "whoa, there's excitement there. I want in." That's what we need. Oh, and clock management.

The mindset has to change. Look how quickly kentucky is doing it.

 

[sdhusky]

ogundecko:
1) came to our jr day as his first college experience. p did a great job sniffing him out. earlier that week he sent his video out to staffs
2) he saw noel and laray at the time very high and noel verbaled. that influence him and laray to be into it also. ogundecko verbaled not knowing what he had done really.
3) then calls and offers starting pouring in from the video and he quickly dc'd to step back
4) then the kid learned about the internet when it came to recruiting and played it to the last second he could. played everything up. every visit was a lean, every offer was the coolest thing and so on

your not on the ball carl with this. so because a kid turns around and goes elsewhere we shouldn't get early commits. amazing strategy. are u on p's staff????

This thread reminds me of the folks on here that pee their pants if we have a bad turnover in the first half or give up a big play.

Judge the class when its done, not now.