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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 5115793, member: 21"] I have a feeling your post will get deleted, but in the meantime, I have little doubt that Hurley and the staff will do all they can to develop Singare where he'll have developed enough by at least next season to get some meaningful playing time. Based on what I've seen from other raw bigs that have come to UConn and not played, he seems to pass the eye test as one who has the athleticism and growing feel for the game where he'll see the floor sooner than most people think. (Tom, I think we might want to not delete that post, to inform the board about not posting about recruiting over current players and to preserve my reply that Singare just might develop enough to have a prominent role at some point.) UConn has been built on the backs of under-ranked players who just needed time to develop and I don't want to see that ever change here, at least having some that develop into solid contributors. Ross is a perfect example of this, who was ranked above 100 and looks like he could be playing like he's a top 25 player at some point. Time will tell, but Ross clearly meets the eye test in my opinion. We'll see how he does as the competition increases. We're not going to get 3 to 4 top 50 recruits every year and are going to need to recruit some developmental players where they eventually earn meaningful playing time. If not those type of players simply won't come here knowing they won't have a shot at cracking the lineup. I think that's important and a signature quality of Husky hoops. Seems that Hurley is very loyal to his players and will give every chance possible for the ones who were recruited to be developed a chance to play. I'm not talking about the few that simply fill the bottom part of the roster who are just glad to be here and practice with the team. Singare doesn't seem to be one of those type of players, but one who came here with hopes that he'd be able to develop and eventually play a solid role. Time will tell. We don't ever post about players being recruited over or transferring. Granted both happens, but we show respect for all our players. [/QUOTE]

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