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If it’s a long thread I just start from the newest posts and scroll back to see how interested I am
 
JS said:
There ought to be something between mega-threads and umpteen threads covering umpteen pieces of news. I'm sorry I can't explicate a magic thread size solution, but maybe I can shed a little light.

Cordorone is right that the issue is mega-threads. Not sure it's recruiting in particular, although that's been the general topic of most megas (and Collier in Minnesota, with 800 posts and 67,000 views, isn't exactly a shorty).

The problem with mega-threads as I understand it is that they're discouraging to first-time users. This isn't just an adminanimus (come one, come all, get your new words here). It's also the view of professional site analysts.

And maybe recruiting news is what lures a lot of first-timers, so Collier/Minnie can get as long in the tooth as it wishes and no one says "Ye gads, it's a mega-thread hiding in plain sight."

So anyway, the rationale is that more experienced people will know to go to the end of a long thread for current news even if they haven't been following the thread all along, as many of them do.

Newbies on the other hand will just click on the thread, start reading, and find the news, as I put it to another mod, "...discouragingly unfathomable and old."

He (you can guess who) replied "Not only an apt description of many threads, but also an accurate description of many of our posters!"

Like I said, I haven't given it enough thought to suggest how threads can be broken down a bit without falling prey to Occam's Razor, and ideas are welcome.

(Recruiting threads broken down more not only by class but maybe by time of posting?)

This issue is a work in progress. All that's happened so far is Whack-a-Mole on a few of the most overgrown moles.

"Why me?" they cry.

"Because you're too big."

"But how big is too big?"

"You found out when you got whacked."

So now I'm being distracted by wondering if there's a word for an otherwise magnanimous admin with an animus. I'll work on that while you all work on how big is too big. We'll compare notes later.
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"Adminanimus" is a delightful neologism. Nice work and worth the read in an otherwise hackneyed thread topic.
 
Bama fan said:
"Adminanimus" is a delightful neologism. Nice work and worth the read in an otherwise hackneyed thread topic.
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If our admin were of a certain zoological persuasion, he might be voted the hippopotamus with unanimous adminanimus.

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tazmaz said:
Halle Douglass guard #67 ProspectNation #94 ESPNW 2020 verbals to Wisconsin. Had 30 offers and narrowed choices to UW Minn and Marquette.
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Just a heads up, that belongs on the non-UConn recruiting thread:)
 
DaBball said:
Just a heads up, that belongs on the non-UConn recruiting thread:)
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Yes, perhaps a suggestion of adding UConn to the title. That would make things more precise and maybe easier for people to pick out among all the threads.
 
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Blue Star has shuffled some of their rankings.

For 2023, Judea Watkins continues to be #1, but they've moved UConn POI Jada Williams down from #2 to #7 which I don't get considering she had a good summer.

Another POI moved down is Milaysia Fulwiley, from #3 to #6. Also a head-scratcher.

Two players I think UConn will be in on at some point--Essence Cody & Chloe Clardy--come in at #5 and #15 respectively.

How Breya Cunningham isn't ranked, much less in the top-10, is mystifying.

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Also some changes to the top-10 of 2024. The #1 remains Kendall Dudley who UConn will definitely recruit. The interesting one is Hope Masonius at #5. She is the youngest of the Masonius basketball clan, and she is followed on social media by Chris Dailey. Her mom Ellen was an assistant under Geno back in the '80's.
 
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Perhaps a policy limiting recruiting threads to a shelf life of 30 days might work. i.e., a recruiting thread for the month of October would open on Oct 1, and close on the 31st at midnight. A new one would then start moments later for the month of November with a duration of 30 days.
 
Carnac said:
Perhaps a policy limiting recruiting threads to a shelf life of 30 days might work. i.e., a recruiting thread for the month of October would open on Oct 1, and close on the 31st at midnight. A new one would then start moments later for the month of November with a duration of 30 days.
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Trying that on for . . . um, size.

Note the new title of this thread.
 
Alydar said:
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She was all energy at 9.
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I can't even do that now. As Dominique Wilkins now says, "I used to do that, now I can't even jump off a curb.".
 
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vowelguy said:
How tall is September? Is she a guard or a forward?
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I don't have the exact figure now, but it is growing. It once was seven, but now it is nine. Stay tuned!
 
victor64 said:
McLean gets the so-called "UConn bump". Yet inexplicably, Bueckers drops to 2. No disrespect toward Cardoso but there is no way that she is better than Bueckers. I don't care what criteria they used.
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Well, UConn no longer has a commitment from the number one player of 2020. That is not ;) acceptable.
 
victor64 said:
McLean gets the so-called "UConn bump". Yet inexplicably, Bueckers drops to 2. No disrespect toward Cardoso but there is no way that she is better than Bueckers. I don't care what criteria they used.
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The only possible criterion is height.
 
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Those USAB U-16 MVP awards are over rated. :rolleyes:
 
victor64 said:
McLean gets the so-called "UConn bump". Yet inexplicably, Bueckers drops to 2. No disrespect toward Cardoso but there is no way that she is better than Bueckers. I don't care what criteria they used.
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Bueckers has always been #2 at ASGR behind Cardoso; that based on tweets from McCormick who only releases a non-subscriber list maybe once a year if that. No idea where Mclean has been ranked by him. You're thinking of her ranking at other places like ESPN or PN.

As with all lists, I have quibbles. I think Gusters is way too high but he's always had her up there. That said, and fwiw, if UConn hits on their last two targets they will have #'s 1-2-11-17 on ASGR plus Muhl.
 
Also should note that Piath Gabriel, another UConn POI, is ranked #107 on the above ASGR list.

I don't recall McCormick ever giving numerical values to players but he does here. Cardoso the only 99, Bueckers the only 98, Edwards the last of eight 97's.
 
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BTW, Olsen must've messed with some of his rankings lately too because there are changes at ESPN.

2020:

Mir Mclean is up 11 spots to #21.

They keep moving Aaliyah Edwards down for some inexplicable reason. She went from 22nd to 26th in this latest re-shuffling.

He also made changes to the 2021 class.

Aaliyah Moore and Payton Verhulst each up one spot to 7 and 8.

Kiki Iriafen up three spots to #9.

Raven Johnson also up three spots to #13.

Saylor Poffenbarger climbs from 21st to 17th.

Jersey Wolfenbarger up from 23rd to 19th.

Teoni Key was a big mover. She was in the 50's I believe and is now #21.


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victor64 said:
McLean gets the so-called "UConn bump". Yet inexplicably, Bueckers drops to 2. No disrespect toward Cardoso but there is no way that she is better than Bueckers. I don't care what criteria they used.
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And that’s why these rankings shouldn’t be taken seriously. Just fan’s opinions.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
Also should note that Piath Gabriel, another UConn POI, is ranked #107 on the above ASGR list.

I don't recall McCormick ever giving numerical values to players but he does here. Cardoso the only 99, Bueckers the only 98, Edwards the last of eight 97's.
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LOL. I’d love to see the mathematical equations they use to come up with these hair splitting numbers.
 
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