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SG Bruce Brown (Miami Commit)

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Officially staying in 2016: http://scouthoops.scout.com/story/1538437-brown-receiving-heavy-interest?s=75

"I’m not going to 2015 anymore,” he said. “I’m going to stay 2016 and stay with my class."

His recruitment is burning hot with high-majors on the board extending scholarship offers. He insists he has no timeline and won’t extend any regard to geography. It’s all about fit.

”I have offers from Texas, UConn, Indiana, others … there’s a lot of interest,” he said.

Brown added that the Huskies were happy to take him either as a 2015 or 2016 prospect, while everyone else primarily views him as a junior, not a senior. The Longhorns obviously represent a new offer given the coaching change, but Shaka Smart had recruited him at VCU and simply transferred that interest to a bigger program. In recent days, SMU has extended an offer as well.
 
Hey, I'd rather have him in '16 than not at all. We're still way up there.
 
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This means our chances of landing him just plummeted.
 
I have a feeling this will be a really disappointing recruitment, we'll probably end up in his top 3 and he'll go elsewhere. I don't know why, just a weird feeling...
 
Huskyforlife said:
I have a feeling this will be a really disappointing recruitment, we'll probably end up in his top 3 and he'll go elsewhere. I don't know why, just a weird feeling...
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We tend to fare better with the local guys (like JA and SE). The big top 3 misses were, for the most part, guys who we got in on recruiting late from different parts of the country that were not traditional UCONN hotbeds. I know that some folks are still sore over T. Mack, but we made his top 3 after recruiting him for just a couple of months (his thread here was created on September 12), which when isolated is incredibly lucky.
 
I wanted this kid for '15 but really want him for '16 as well. Hell of a player, we have to have a leg up here, he's cousins with Jalen and we've been on him for a while.
 
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Maybe Ollie needs to show recruits how well Curry and Thompson have done since Golden St. dumped the St. Johns' boys, first Mullen then Jackson.
 
tcf15 said:
Officially staying in 2016: http://scouthoops.scout.com/story/1538437-brown-receiving-heavy-interest?s=75

"I’m not going to 2015 anymore,” he said. “I’m going to stay 2016 and stay with my class."

His recruitment is burning hot with high-majors on the board extending scholarship offers. He insists he has no timeline and won’t extend any regard to geography. It’s all about fit.

”I have offers from Texas, UConn, Indiana, others … there’s a lot of interest,” he said.

Brown added that the Huskies were happy to take him either as a 2015 or 2016 prospect, while everyone else primarily views him as a junior, not a senior. The Longhorns obviously represent a new offer given the coaching change, but Shaka Smart had recruited him at VCU and simply transferred that interest to a bigger program. In recent days, SMU has extended an offer as well.
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This puts a damper on our chances of landing an impact back court player for this coming season. we don't appear to be involved with any of the transfers, if we land someone at this stage it would be totally out of the blue. Hoping the Gibbs rumors are true.
 
St. John's is going to be a real pain in the ass with all the recruiters they have.
 
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I feel like our staff gets in a good place with all these recruits and then drops the ball after that. Really frustrating.
 
Interesting. Perhaps this means we're pushing harder for Heron as our top SG target, or that Brown's lack of shooting touch scared us off.

Regardless, I'm disappointed in this development.
 
Very frustrating. . I think they spread themself to thin with the 10,000 offers a year...
 
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jazyj said:
look at every other program in the country
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No, look at the Duke's and the Kentucky's. They offer significantly less players and still obviously end up with some of the best. It's a fact we offer too many players. Recruits want it to be known that they are a top priority of ours, and when they see we are offering 5 guys at the same position they play, they aren't gonna be happy about that.
 
Could we have backed off when we knew he wasn't reclassifying? Doesn't make a lot of sense that we would back off considering it seems that we spent a fair amount of time recruiting him, he's local and he's Jalen's cousin.
 
Dogbreath2U said:
Can't you guys ease up a little? We've had some very good news lately.
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With Bruce? He just was asked what schools have offered / recruiting him the hardest and UConn wasn't listed. That means we're an afterthought, a safety school.
 
CTBasketball said:
With Bruce? He just was asked what schools have offered / recruiting him the hardest and UConn wasn't listed. That means we're an afterthought, a safety school.
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Well that's what you think it means.
 
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