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Recruiting Boost?

CL82 said:
It’ll definitely help us based upon recency bias. It also takes away the argument that “Hurley hasn’t won anything”.

I think the biggest advantage it gives us is in the portal. Newton, Allenye and Joey show that you can be enormously successful as a transfer at Connecticut. We have to become even more attractive to kids in the portal.
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Imagine if he win last year with Ollie’s guys????!!!
 
I think with the style of play, the way Dan Hurley is portrayed, the NBA prospects, the role that freshman and transfers played, the Natty, celebrity endorsements (mainly Bill and AJones) our alumni, our gear, this is a very attractive brand for fans and transfers.
 
fatlucy said:
If you’re a top recruit, how do you not choose UCONN/HURLEY over any other program? Kensucky can’t win, Puke has an unproven coach, Kansyass has an old coach in decline, North Carolina sucks, the list goes on and on.
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A: You want to make top-of-the-market NIL $$$
 
You can’t build a program with players whose priority is NIL and the highest bidder. Hurley is spot on that he recruits players that want to be at UConn regardless of NIL and want to be part of his vision and system.
 
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Poe said:
You can’t build a program with players whose priority is NIL and the highest bidder. Hurley is spot on that he recruits players that want to be at UConn regardless of NIL and want to be part of his vision and system.
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But he (nor we) can't ignore the importance of NIL in today's college environment. Players deserve to have some cash and we as a community need to support that. No more hungry Huskies who can't afford to go to the movies or go to a restaurant.
 
Keep the momentum going is the mantra. Market the hell out of this championship. Market the hell out of the fact this is the 5th championship in history. Put up signage or billboards in NYC and Foxwoods and Mohegun Sun. There is so much foot traffic from people all over the country and the world in those places.

Hurley's comment about recruiting players without it being all about NIL is great, and I agree with him, but NIL has to always be improving.

Things in this world change on the dime. Let's just look at college basketball and nothing else. Marquette had a very good season with a BE reg season title and the BET title. They were on top of the world at that moment. When the Sweet 16 rolled around, they were down in the dumps and now UConn is on top of the world. I am not dissing Marquette, they had a good season and I like them a lot.

Another example, Villanova after last year made 3 Final Fours in a 6-year span and won 2 national championships. Nova fans felt great and they should've for sure. Then about 1 month later Jay Wright's retirement set them back and now the fans are wondering if Nova will ever return to their platinum age of basketball.

Things change quickly. UConn players, coaches, admin, and fans should enjoy this championship and the spoils that come with it. But UConn needs to parlay this into great PR brand building and sustainable success, which does not mean winning titles every year. Use this to enhance the brand and name recognition of UConn to help football.
 
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I think Hurley will take stock of what he has and recruit from there. He has often talked about having Sanogo and how he need shooters around him. He went into the transfer portal got some to go along with Hawkins and got Karaban who can stretch you at the four. He now can say, "Look what happens when I get the guys I want and they are willing to buy and work hard. Are you willing to work hard because we can do great things together." I think it's very much the same approach JC took once he started building the program.

Also, Hurley's post game interviews and interactions with people had to impress a lot of recruits. I think another way he is like JC is that he tells like it is. He doesn't go out of his way to blow sunshine up someone's ... and has a plan in place for them. He told Hawkins he had a two year to plan to get him to be a 1st rounder and that in return he'd get a run at a NC as coach. Both reaped the rewards from Hawkins trust in him and vice versa.
 
UCfor3 said:
I'm sure it will help recruiting but unlike in the past, NIL will still be a huge factor as well. We need to be able to compete in that area at least to some degree.
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I think NIL is the biggest difference maker. I wonder if a school with a plethora of wealthy alums like Notre Dame will become a big time player again. It is hard to beat a top 5 class. The trick at the highest level is to keep reloading each year as you get so many 1 and done players. They either play professionally or leave for a bigger bag or more playing time.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Absolutely. KO's undoing was not capitalizing on the recruiting trail after the 2014 title. I still find that mind-boggling. Some of the recruits he brought in were mid-major talent at best. I'm confident that won't happen to Hurley.
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Really think it was more to do with recruiting to be in the AAC..
 
Sportsfan71 said:
Really think it was more to do with recruiting to be in the AAC..
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Other schools like SMU and Houston didn't have that problem. When UConn moved to the AAC, most expected us to dominate a one or two team league and we never did. I'm sure we never finished first in the regular season and I don't think we won the AAC tournament either under KO's watch.
 
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Much as I hate to quote Seth Greenberg, he made an excellent point last night.

"UConn doesn't just gather top players. They gather players to make a team."

Today he expounded on that idea with Dan Patrick. Worth a listen on why we're not like other blue bloods.

 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
To be fair, he capitalized on it for one cycle, then completely coasted for the rest of eternity. But I get your point.
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This is just wrong. You can say that Ollie's recruits didn't pan out, but look at the 2 classes after the championship based on recruiting rankings:

2015: Jalen Adams #23, Steven Enoch #84

2016: Alterique Gilbert #32, Juwan Durham #50, Vance Jackson. #77, Mamadou Diarra #126, Christian Vital #166

And, Ollie's class in 2014 had Daniel Hamilton #17 and Sam Cassell Jr. #18 JUCO

On paper, UConn was recruiting well under Ollie, but some of the players had injury issues and some players were not happy with their roles. Add in his divorce and pushing away Calhoun and the program collapsed symbolized by the 2017 recruiting class.
 
UConnJim said:
This is just wrong. You can say that Ollie's recruits didn't pan out, but look at the 2 classes after the championship based on recruiting rankings:

2015: Jalen Adams #23, Steven Enoch #84

2016: Alterique Gilbert #32, Juwan Durham #50, Vance Jackson. #77, Mamadou Diarra #126, Christian Vital #166

And, Ollie's class in 2014 had Daniel Hamilton #17 and Sam Cassell Jr. #18 JUCO

On paper, UConn was recruiting well under Ollie, but some of the players had injury issues and some players were not happy with their roles. Add in his divorce and pushing away Calhoun and the program collapsed symbolized by the 2017 recruiting class.
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It wasn't even bad roster construction those two years, not perfect but workable. And man 2016 had three guys injured off the bat and not small injuries, but season/career ending ones.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Other schools like SMU and Houston didn't have that problem. When UConn moved to the AAC, most expected us to dominate a one or two team league and we never did. I'm sure we never finished first in the regular season and I don't think we won the AAC tournament either under KO's watch.
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I guess you were asleep during the Jalen Adam's shot? LOL! We won an AAC tournament. How could you forget that? I guess you just wanted to forget all the Ollie years after the 2014 Championship.
 
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3rdbass said:
I guess you were asleep during the Jalen Adam's shot? LOL! We won an AAC tournament. How could you forget that? I guess you just wanted to forget all the Ollie years after the 2014 Championship.
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That's why I said "I think"..... I wasn't sure and was too lazy to check. Regardless, we didn't dominate the AAC the way most expected we would.
 
When Hurley came in, it didn't seem like he wasted his time with reaches. He went after realistic targets that fit the project. And every year since, it seems he set his sights just a bit higher while continuing the success. I'm feeling that now, anyone he's interested will at least pick up the phone.
 
Waquoit said:
When Hurley came in, it didn't seem like he wasted his time with reaches. He went after realistic targets that fit the project. And every year since, it seems he set his sights just a bit higher while continuing the success. I'm feeling that now, anyone he's interested will at least pick up the phone.
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Yea, we just became relevant to a whole new generation of young basketball players. They may not remember Shabazz and his run (rising HS juniors would have been 7-8 at the time) but they certainly know Jordan Hawkins, Andre Jackson, and Adama Sanogo. To say nothing of the validation that this provides coach, as you allude to.
 
Mike Honcho said:
Yea, we just became relevant to a whole new generation of young basketball players. They may not remember Shabazz and his run (rising HS juniors would have been 7-8 at the time) but they certainly know Jordan Hawkins, Andre Jackson, and Adama Sanogo. To say nothing of the validation that this provides coach, as you allude to.
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Yeah, 4-5 years back seems to be the attention span of most recruits. Beyond that it's pretty irrelevant. That's why we can't run hot or cold if we want to maintainour success. Like some "experts" said, we win it and then go cold (KO years and no tourney wins since 2016) while some other programs are consistently ranked high every year and go further in the tournament. We need more consistency going forward. With that said, the commentators praised and were blown away by our 5 for 5 record in title games.
 
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