Recruiting Boost?

[superjohn]

Limited to a single transfer now? I did not know that.

They just changed it days ago.

 

[Tenspro2002]

I should add that Ollie's problem as maybe looking at the recruiting rankings too much. We brought in some top 50 and top 100 guys who couldn't play. Needed more scouting

The recruiting effort was so lazy. Even without the injuries, Durham was exactly the sort of guy who is chronically overrated at the college level because of "potential."

Karaban is basically the opposite.

Night and day approach to recruiting.

 

[Tenspro2002]

I think we are automatically a kid in the transfer portal's top choice if we show that we want him after this run

Just show them how Newton, Alleyne, Calcaterra, and Diarra have thrived coming here out of the portal. And we'll need guards next year just like them.

 

[KingAG]

Another thing working in our favor is play style. The media is in love with it and you have NBA draft guys lauding our ball movement, play style and how is pro-ish. The threes, dunks, and movement is going to entice a lot of kids.

 

[superjohn]

Just show them how Newton, Alleyne, Calcaterra, and Diarra have thrived coming here out of the portal. And we'll need guards next year just like them.

And Joey is the only one we know for certain who won't be back.

 

[August_West]

Just remember guys, with the exception of maybe Miami, FAU and SDSU and even UConn aren’t riddled with 5 star talent. It’s about having the right pieces.

Bama, Arkansas, Kentucky , Duke were littered with burger boys and 5 stars and looks how they went out.

Yes, this will help recruiting but Hurley is smart enough to not fall in love with rankings or stars next to their name

 

[August_West]

And Joey is the only one we know for certain who won't be back.

we know another. but I already got deleted today for quoting a player verbatim, so I wont again.

 

[businesslawyer]

Agree on all points. It was a class that looked good on the recruiting services, but Ollie didn't really do his homework in the way Hurley and staff do. There were red flags before they even arrived. Vance might have become a useful player if he didn't think he was better than he was. I have a pretty high degree of confidence in the incoming group, but Hurley hasn't been 100% either, missing on a couple of guys.

I don't understand this at all, and it's been expressed before recently. OF COURSE Hurley hasn't hit on 100% of recruits. He's not supposed to. No one is supposed to. That's not even the goal.

 

[BGesus4]

What an amazing two man class our last one ended up being. If either of those guys don’t end up being the immediately contributing studs they ended up being, we don’t even sniff the type of success we’ve had.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Let's not compare JC's recruiting to Ollie's. JC's laziness didn't force him to recruit guys based on their Instagram dunks.

You made your point: Technically, Ollie did "capitalize" on the title, by doing what anybody should be able to do after winning a championship. And then, he put the car in cruise control and drove it into a ditch.

You could hold a clinic in bad takes.

 

[hardcorehusky]

This. The 2016 recruiting class was four top 100 recruits (Gilbert, Durham, Jackson, Diarra) and Vital. The class results weren't great for a number of different reasons, but it was a hell of a class. The next year it started to crumble (though that next class definitely outperformed their rankings).

and to think Vance Jackson is still playing!!

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Just remember guys, with the exception of maybe Miami, FAU and SDSU and even UConn aren’t riddled with 5 star talent. It’s about having the right pieces.

Bama, Arkansas, Kentucky , Duke were littered with burger boys and 5 stars and looks how they went out.

Yes, this will help recruiting but Hurley is smart enough to not fall in love with rankings or stars next to their name

I agree with you on this. Who cares what the recruiting services say? I want Hurley to be like Calhoun was back in the day, where a scholarship offer from UConn brought 10 more major offers from lemmings right behind it and probably bumped a recruit a full star. See Shabazz Napier if you want to see how that worked.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I don't understand this at all, and it's been expressed before recently. OF COURSE Hurley hasn't hit on 100% of recruits. He's not supposed to. No one is supposed to. That's not even the goal.

I mean, it is the goal, just not a realistic one. I'm not being critical, I think he's hitting at an amazing rate. I was being complementary. This staff knows these players really well. They do a lot of due diligence. I think by 2016 Ollie was recruiting by recruiting service rating in part, not putting in the effort to find the gems. Got lucky with a local kid in Vital.

 

[hardcorehusky]

I mean we did get DHam that year, Jalen the next year, and then a top 10 class in 2016. Remember that we were in the AAC.

I definitely expect our recruiting to remain stellar now that we are in the BE

Don't forget we had a Ferrari in the garage too?

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

If the “rest of eternity” equals two or three more recruiting cycles, then you are spot on. But maybe you should google “eternity.”

I think you knew what I meant? I was kind of using the word for emphasis.

But thank you Business Lawyer guy, for always keeping all of us peasants intellectually and semantically in-check on here.

 

[Kembacity]

Like many others I think this run HAS to help our recruiting out, and what I hope it will help is landing us guys who aren’t guaranteed starters minutes. We can likely be selective in the portal and our pitch will resonate more than some others because of the success we’ve had with a team with many weapons, how crucial that depth was and how much fun everyone on the roster is having this year. I hope it helps us land more Joeys in the coming years whether it’s to fill a gap in shooting, ball handling, rebounding, etc.

I’d even think someone like Joey will be willing to give his time to chat with a potential transfer to talk about his time with the team and going from Cali to cow country

 

[nomar]

You could hold a clinic in bad takes.

I never do this but "Reaction Scoreboard"

 

[nomar]

LMAO. No, he didn't "make his point" technically. He made his point. I could say "you're a human being technically," but all it does is add nastiness to a statement of fact. Here's the thing -- facts aren't nasty or nice, they're just true.

What a whack post. Who pissed in your Cheerios? I gave the context. I didn't just throw a word in.

"Capitalizing" isn't binary, is it? It's a FACT Ollie didn't truly capitalize on our title, or we wouldn't have ended up in shambles. That may not be nasty or nice, but it's true. I gave AW credit for pointing out Ollie's initial recruiting class was good.

And AW knows I wasn't being nasty to him. He doesn't need your help. He agreed with my post, for .

 

[CONN78SEJ]

If we win this, we will be considered "blue blood" by most everyone. Reading around various team's message boards, including the existing BBs and teams that hate us, they are all but admitting and resigning to it. All that chatter is absolutely going to help us even more with recruiting.

Yeah, probably helps us in recruiting, but does Hurley start going after the one and done 5 stars that Calipari has always feasted on? Because if he does, that doesn’t guarantee another NC. Hurley has to be careful here.

 

[TheChamps990411]

UConn has the #4 ranked class in 2023, behind only Duke, Kentucky, and Mich St., so there isn't much boosting room available. The boost in recruiting really comes down to winning individual battles which ride on a series of intangibles such as NIL, playing time (i.e. how many many of prior top recruits go to draft or transfer).

I was looking at some tape on our class and the least hyped of the group is Jaydon Ross and watching him all i could think was Jeremy Lamb 2.o. This was a great class itll be interesting to see what kind of classes Hurley brings in over the next decade. We could have some legendary classes.

 

[EROCK CONN]

What's absolutely insane to think about is Hurley and this staff signed the #4 recruiting class coming off mediocre seasons that ended with first round tournament exits. Kind of scary to think what he will be able to do now.

 

[Jbirdp5]

While this is true, Jalen Adams was a top get, Daniel Hamilton as well. But think of Isaiah Whaley. He is what you're describing, a mid-major talent. Yet he worked his butt off, he's in the G-League scoring and rebounding

I think Ollie’s problem in recruiting was that he didn’t build classes he simply recruited players. Hurley seems to be much better at forming a team and a vision with the players he brings into the program.

 

[Ewekon]

That wasn’t the point I was trying to make. There’s another thread out there for that.
I’ll chime in anyway. I think we are the closest thing to bring the next blue blood. If Hurley gets a couple championships the argument is there. You’ve got to have sustained success with more than one coach. Thompson’s Georgetown? Tarks UNLV? Donovan’s Florida? Not blue bloods. People now doubt Wooden’s UCLA or Knights Indiana.

Worst case now. 6 final fours in less than 25 years. 4 champs, 1 TBD

 

[Sick Puppy]

Yeah, probably helps us in recruiting, but does Hurley start going after the one and done 5 stars that Calipari has always feasted on? Because if he does, that doesn’t guarantee another NC. Hurley has to be careful here.

Yup. It's about being competitive, winning, championships. It drives enrollment and downstream revenues. It's about the money. He gets it. I'm long UConn, even though we are...
Doooomed!

 

[fatlucy]

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.

 

[Umami Zen]

Has our brand been enhanced by Fifth banner?? Of course.. But we recruited a top 5 recruiting class without that advantage. It should allow us to pick the right guys for any portal needs we might have if they are a Program fit.

I think Danny has made it pretty clear.. He and his staff are pretty proud of their skill development and SnC platforms and are going to select talented two way players that are the right fit. Sometimes.. The Top 25 rated guys (exception Castle) are not willing to make the sacrifices needed to succeed at UConn.. All about finding those kind of high character talented kids.

Find it interesting now that Danny has a national platform that he is emphasizing the fact that he and his coaching staff have built a Program that doesn't cheat or lie to recruits.. Won't speculate on who he might be referring to. He/They keep it real..

 

[Edward Sargent]

Complete “free agency” via the transfer portal, in combination with NIL, will be the two biggest factors impacting recruitment in the years to come.

Enjoy this years final four and next years incoming recruiting class because college BB as it looks now is heading down a path that will no longer be about coaches, tradition, facilities, fan bases.

It will still be about coaches, tradition, facilities and fan bases!

 

[Edward Sargent]

You’ll have to explain that.

In todays transfer portal every player is eligible to transfer without penalty anywhere. How is that the same when compared to the transfer restrictions that were in place in 2019?

The portal is great for parity in college basketball and parity made this tournament one of the best I can remember.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Maybe when we offer top players, they'll be less likely to drop UConn from their Final 4. Why would a recruit drop us before narrowing down from four aka 5* Naas Cunningham? Maybe some of these recruits may reconsider.

It's definitely in the program's interest to fill the NBA pipeline with Huskies. There was a drought, but it's coming back.

 

[CL82]

Has our brand been enhanced by Fifth banner?? Of course.. But we recruited a top 5 recruiting class without that advantage. It should allow us to pick the right guys for any portal needs we might have if they are a Program fit.

I think Danny has made it pretty clear.. He and his staff are pretty proud of their skill development and SnC platforms and are going to select talented two way players that are the right fit. Sometimes.. The Top 25 rated guys (exception Castle) are not willing to make the sacrifices needed to succeed at UConn.. All about finding those kind of high character talented kids.

Find it interesting now that Danny has a national platform that he is emphasizing the fact that he and his coaching staff have built a Program that doesn't cheat or lie to recruits.. Won't speculate on who he might be referring to. He/They keep it real..

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.