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I don't think he's a lock to UConn, but you guys really need to stop taking what a recruit says/tweets at face value. We've seen this happen countless times where recruits say they aren't locks - even when everyone knows they are - to try to build drama for their announcement.

Again, not saying that's the case with Diallo, but that tweet is more than likely meaningless.
 
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It doesn't matter who this team brings in as a recruit until a real leader emerges. We've seen it this year with great talent, but lack of an experienced leader.
 
UCFan1513 said:
It doesn't matter who this team brings in as a recruit until a real leader emerges. We've seen it this year with great talent, but lack of an experienced leader.
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Thanks Buzz Killington...

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UCFan1513 said:
It doesn't matter who this team brings in as a recruit until a real leader emerges. We've seen it this year with great talent, but lack of an experienced leader.
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Adams. You can already see it. That kid wants to run the court.
 
Question for you older folks: how did you survive following recruiting in the pre-Internet area, without tweets from kids and insiders on message boards?
 
Stairmaster said:
Question for you older folks: how did you survive following recruiting in the pre-Internet area, without tweets from kids and insiders on message boards?
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The Sporting News was a really the best source for recruiting info. It was either weekly or bi-weekly. It's main recruiting focus was football, but it generally had some good basketball stuff. I also used to receive a subscription mailer called "Big East Briefs". Recruiting wasn't as huge back then. One reason was because there was no internet. The other main reason is that most players stayed 4 years in college. Most freshman were just spectators or minor contributors.
 
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Kmoney said:
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The Sporting News was a really the best source for recruiting info. It was either weekly or bi-weekly. It's main recruiting focus was football, but it generally had some good basketball stuff. I also used to receive a subscription mailer called "Big East Briefs". Recruiting wasn't as huge back then. One reason was because there was no internet. The other main reason is that most players stayed 4 years in college. Most freshman were just spectators or minor contributors.
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Big East Briefs! Man, my dad used to get those all the time in the early and mid-90s. I used to love reading them when he was done. I also loved that they ranked all the BE teams. It was a great way to get my dad and I to argue about stupid crap.

They didn't compare to Chief's Briefs, but this was the stone age remember.
 
Stairmaster said:
Question for you older folks: how did you survive following recruiting in the pre-Internet area, without tweets from kids and insiders on message boards?
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Can't think of the guy's name but he was a recruiting guru in North Carolina sponsored by Cabella's and I remember thinking :"what is a Cabella?" Other than he and a few others we relied on rumor. Come to think of it sort of like today.
 
Stairmaster said:
Question for you older folks: how did you survive following recruiting in the pre-Internet area, without tweets from kids and insiders on message boards?
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I wouldn't consider myself old, but following recruiting was a lot more interesting. Big East Briefs, Bob Gibbons, Brick whatever his name was, Husky B&W, Blue Ribbon, Recruiter's Handbook, and the Sunday Norwich Bulletin (of all things) were gold. You'd see a blurb that UConn was interested in someone, you'd look them up in the rankings, find a scouting report, and just see what happened. Today you hear about every player in existence who is offered, you immediately see their perfect mix tape, and then argue with a bunch of idiots about their chair game. I personally preferred hearing Jeff Kulas telling the board that we're dark horses in the Khalid El-Amin sweepstakes and waiting and hoping.
 
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boog204 said:
I wouldn't consider myself old, but following recruiting was a lot more interesting. Big East Briefs, Bob Gibbons, Brick whatever his name was, Husky B&W, Blue Ribbon, Recruiter's Handbook, and the Sunday Norwich Bulletin (of all things) were gold. You'd see a blurb that UConn was interested in someone, you'd look them up in the rankings, find a scouting report, and just see what happened. Today you hear about every player in existence who is offered, you immediately see their perfect mix tape, and then argue with a bunch of idiots about their chair game. I personally preferred hearing Jeff Kulas telling the board that we're dark horses in the Khalid El-Amin sweepstakes and waiting and hoping.
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Wow, I forgot about Bob Gibbons. He was an ACC homer. Kinda like Zagsblog is for Kentucky and Duke now.
 
Ricker said:
Jeff Kulas = JKul as I recall is a blast from the past and was the 3Uconn tcf15 of the 1990's on the old aol board. Does he still post or follow here under a new name.
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Yup, he was legit. He always had an inside scoop. I still remember him posting from either the Nike or ABCD camps about an unknown, skinny, athletic kid from Florida that UConn should try to get an "in" with. The next day the legend of Tracy McGrady was everywhere. Pretty cool. The other guy I remember was DNASoft who ran a UConn recruiting website.

Before that it was mostly newspaper and Bob Gibbons. My dad still has a binder somewhere with all of the newspaper clippings from Donyell's recruiting year starting with an article about how UConn is primed to have a Travis Best/Rick Brunson backcourt. Really united my dad and I. I'll have to search for that binder one of these days.
 
Ricker said:
Jeff Kulas = JKul as I recall is a blast from the past and was the 3Uconn tcf15 of the 1990's on the old aol board. Does he still post or follow here under a new name.
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No. Crossed paths with him on a political board a few years back, which took over as his bigger personal interest. He said he had kids and then found something had to give, and it ended up being following sports in depth.
 
Kmoney said:
Wow, I forgot about Bob Gibbons. He was an ACC homer. Kinda like Zagsblog is for Kentucky and Duke now.
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Bigtime... Loved UNC and Duke especially if I remember. Seemed every year some random guy would commit to Duke and immediately jump 40 spots in the rankings. A year later, they would be outed as a total stiff. Still, I always liked his stuff as it was pretty "deep" with the rankings. You could always find the Marcus Thomas's and Chad Wise's of the world somewhere in his "list."
 
Stairmaster said:
Question for you older folks: how did you survive following recruiting in the pre-Internet area, without tweets from kids and insiders on message boards?
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It was easier!!
 
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