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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 2180701, member: 1609"] I don't follow recruiting that closely as excitement over a player. with a less than 10% chance of coming here strikes me as self mutalation. I'm also am not privy to the inside rumor mill that has plagued the program for the last 8-10 years. But these are my observations from my position deep in the Sanoran desert. Rumors of JC's departure because of his critical illness plagued us in our his last few years and we struggled getting top recruits with a couple exceptions as a result. In fact one could say poor recruiting led to the APR disaster along with the Nate Miles fiasco. When you add these things , a dying couch ( who still looks pretty good) who in the mind of many was the program ,plus the destruction of the basketball conference that put on us on a national stage,the programs death was eminent. I could throw in the Connecticut economic disaster which has continued unabated. Along comes KO who dispite the odds had success that gave us hope. But the rumors continued , maybe UConn did the rare thing and defied the odds in achieving a seamless succession but that successor was much to good for the pitiful state of the program and would be off for parts unknown ,leaving backwater UConn to descend back into the depths. Fast forward until 2016 after shoring up the holes with post grads and transfers. UConn has a top recruiting class plus a 5 star transfer , six alleged top players joining a great guard and the best big prospect in years rececruited the year before. The fact that we forget integrating this much new blood is a difficult task at best and was compounded by the immediate injuries to two top recruits and the transfer leaving us pretty much short handed. Adams injuries sealed the demise. Now the rumors are that KO is not long for the program because of some sort of incompetenc. He went from too good for the program to this state because : fill in the blank The whole game is "separate the coach from the program by any means possible." creating a dissonance in the mind of the recruit. Apparently when you have the kind of success we have had in the last 20 years ,especially when you are considered undeserving ,you make a lot of enemies. [/QUOTE]

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