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HuskyfanDan said:
my definition of begging for a offer is kids that are local who deserve a offer and to be recruited earlier then others because they are local.

when outlow runs over defenses for 2 season down the street from your campus and you only offer because bc and 5 others did already and he was deciding in 2 weeks thats extremely weak recruiting wise/strategy wise.

marchi is known. he worked out at uconn a lot. i posted a vid a while back of him at uconn for example. coaches kept telling him camp for the offer. all of a sudden temple discovers him and offers. in a blush and rush uconn then offers him a week before he camps. do u realize how silly that looks saving face? hopefully the kid loves uconn enough it doesnt effect his impression of the school being a local but my god that is a awful strategy and then worse blinking when the fire got warm.

we are stringing dintino along. when cuse or some 1 decides they want a center and offer, just watch the fireworks.

cooper has small offers and a old bc one im not sure if its still good or not

phillips has bcs offers

ruther is a tommy hopkins of this year

holmes got a rutgers offer and maybe another bcs one. all of a sudden we just offer 2 weeks ago(supposedly)

love the strategy. what is it again? can u explain it to me?
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This, or the perception of "this," (and it may be totally unfair) is one reason I've soured on PP. I did not hate PP's hire. But, as time passes, it seems he is unwilling or unable to adjust to the present college FB environment. Maybe there was more time when PP last coached in college, or maybe Syracuse still had the "tradition" necessary for selectivity. Maybe he's gun shy, afraid to pull the trigger. Whatever the reasons, what Dan describes above is not very comforting. Late offers, as a reaction to other offers, sounds like the poor bastard who always oversleeps and has to catch a later train, stumbling into work one minute before the work day starts. Really bad for his image and the image of those he represents.
 
whaler11 said:
You can save the links. I go by what people do, not what they say. That a college player about to be drafted credits his current coach means nothing. If he didn't the people doing the drafting would question his 'makeup'.
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I've spoken with him at length about this personally and he had both positive and negative things to say about RE and P. But on the whole he really liked both guys and what he said publicly is sincere.
 
HuskyfanDan said:
my definition of begging for a offer is kids that are local who deserve a offer and to be recruited earlier then others because they are local.

when outlow runs over defenses for 2 season down the street from your campus and you only offer because bc and 5 others did already and he was deciding in 2 weeks thats extremely weak recruiting wise/strategy wise.

marchi is known. he worked out at uconn a lot. i posted a vid a while back of him at uconn for example. coaches kept telling him camp for the offer. all of a sudden temple discovers him and offers. in a blush and rush uconn then offers him a week before he camps. do u realize how silly that looks saving face? hopefully the kid loves uconn enough it doesnt effect his impression of the school being a local but my god that is a awful strategy and then worse blinking when the fire got warm.

we are stringing dintino along. when cuse or some 1 decides they want a center and offer, just watch the fireworks.

cooper has small offers and a old bc one im not sure if its still good or not

phillips has bcs offers

ruther is a tommy hopkins of this year

holmes got a rutgers offer and maybe another bcs one. all of a sudden we just offer 2 weeks ago(supposedly)

love the strategy. what is it again? can u explain it to me?
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I agree 100% "HFD" and regardless, Uconn should offer all the top in state recruits before any other D1 school.

-C.J. Moore no scholarship from us yet

-Brice McCalister no scholarship from us yet

-Connor Dintino (rated #9 Center by rivals) no scholarship from us yet

-Marcus Outlow regardless of where he ends up by signing day had 6 other scholarships before we offered

-Arkeel Newsome had another offer before we offrered

-Alex Huard no offer

Y'all get the point.
 
UconnFamily said:
I agree 100% "HFD" and regardless, Uconn should offer all the top in state recruits before any other D1 school.

-C.J. Moore no scholarship from us yet

-Brice McCalister no scholarship from us yet

-Connor Dintino (rated #9 Center by rivals) no scholarship from us yet

-Marcus Outlow regardless of where he ends up by signing day had 6 other scholarships before we offered

-Arkeel Newsome had another offer before we offrered

-Alex Huard no offer

Y'all get the point.
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UCONN should get the best players it can. From Alaska or Canada or NJ or CT
 
UconnFamily said:
I agree 100% "HFD" and regardless, Uconn should offer all the top in state recruits before any other D1 school.

-C.J. Moore no scholarship from us yet

-Brice McCalister no scholarship from us yet

-Connor Dintino (rated #9 Center by rivals) no scholarship from us yet

-Marcus Outlow regardless of where he ends up by signing day had 6 other scholarships before we offered

-Arkeel Newsome had another offer before we offrered

-Alex Huard no offer

Y'all get the point.
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You are wrong on Newsome... UConn has been all over him since after his freshman year. UConn was his first offer, followed by UMass. Arkeel Newsome ~ "UConn was the first school to offer. I can definitely see myself there."

The roommates from Suffield Academy - McCallister only has FCS offers and CJ Moore only UMass. Not sure we are missing the boat on these... could always be wrong.

I agree 100% on Dintino
 
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huskymedic said:
You are wrong on Newsome... UConn has been all over him since after his freshman year. UConn was his first offer, followed by UMass. Arkeel Newsome ~ "UConn was the first school to offer. I can definitely see myself there."

The roommates from Suffield Academy - McCallister only has FCS offers and CJ Moore only UMass. Not sure we are missing the boat on these... could always be wrong.

I agree 100% on Dintino
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Your right about Arkeel
 
-it's cheaper to recruit kids from the region vs Alaska
- kids from the region sell tickets to local towns, family friends and possibly create new family season tix holders.
- they are a walking breathing uconn advertisement to the rest of the kids at there hs. Most d1 type players are pretty popular hs kids, helps push uconn to prospective students.

Listen if we can land a quality player from Alaska then fine. But at what cost vs landing the best kids from the region at home. If New England was full of d2 kids then yea, buy a condo in Florida and spend the whole time recruiting down there. But it's not. New England is on verge of being a 20 a year type honey hole for recruits. As time goes on it will rise more with ct and am both making progress the past decade really. That ignores the explosion of football in NYC, and the reemergence of prep/post school ball in the region also. About15 prep/post schools have come to life recently to go along with the fball burst. The region is now stocked enough where its a value to uconn.

A great example is using other sports. I remember kids going to watch bball games because of Craig. I remember family taking a bus full to storrs to see Matty pitch. I remember reading about all the locals going to from Brookfield to see lutrus and he was a home town hero for a bit. Local kids sell. End of story.

Ct hs football is a mess. All sports really. From the 50pt rule to the shot lock which I think is even worse. But a chance is slowly developing where better levels of play are obvious. Uconn is fueling it. A lot more can and hopefully will be done. It starts with not making crapy decisions. Moving the ship games to ccsu qualifies towards that.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
If they are worthy, then yes. But why make kids a priority if you can get them to commit after Signing Day? Why b!tch and moan about kids like that? We should not be recruiting kids simply because they are from CT. That is a recipe for failure.
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Exactly why CT kids should be a priority, well said by HFD:

-it's cheaper to recruit kids from the region vs Alaska
- kids from the region sell tickets to local towns, family friends and possibly create new family season tix holders.
- they are a walking breathing uconn advertisement to the rest of the kids at there hs. Most d1 type players are pretty popular hs kids, helps push uconn to prospective students.

And im entitled to my own opinion, no one is b*tching and moaning
 
UconnFamily said:
Exactly why CT kids should be a priority, well said by HFD:

-it's cheaper to recruit kids from the region vs Alaska
- kids from the region sell tickets to local towns, family friends and possibly create new family season tix holders.
- they are a walking breathing uconn advertisement to the rest of the kids at there hs. Most d1 type players are pretty popular hs kids, helps push uconn to prospective students.

And im entitled to my own opinion, no one is b*tching and moaning
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You listed 3 kids whose best offers may end up being from FCS schools. But we should offer them because its cheaper to recruit them and they sell tickets.

I sincerely apologize for disagreeing with your opinion.
 
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HFD isn't 'wrong'. Two players being equal take the local kid. Don't take a Connecticut kid for the sake of it but so many of these kids are equal, local is a good tiebreak.
 
whaler11 said:
HFD isn't 'wrong'. Two players being equal take the local kid. Don't take a Connecticut kid for the sake of it but so many of these kids are equal, local is a good tiebreak.
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And how do you know they are equal?
 
LIUCHusky said:
I think I would prefer to trust the professional talent evaluators rather than people like us.
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Yeah I'm talking about their determination that they are similar. Not message board poster opinion.
 
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