Just because a kid is a "low tier" talent relative to what'a immediately available and chooses not to go to UConn, a program who all of us here obviously think is already above the tier of program that this kid may be entitled to, doesn't necessarily illustrate our demise, my personal feelings on our current predicament aside.
There's a million factors that go into choosing where you will be playing, especially when that decision is effectively only a few months away and the clock is quickly ticking, which is the case for all of the late uncommitted 2017 prospects and declared grad transfers. One of the biggest factors this late into the game for most of these guys is relationship with the coaching staff and returning players, and that can only really be won with putting in the time recruiting. We really don't have that luxury when considering the circumstances, we are jumping on all these kids hard and late and to a low level kid it can reek of suspicious desperation from an elite name.
I don't think it's fair or properly placed criticism on the staff for missing on a guy like Darien Williams, even if he's not the most dazzling prospect, and I think that even goes for a guy like Mamoudou 2. So what he has exchanged a significant amount of chit chat with Chillious in the past while he they were associated with Washington, that doesn't make MD a lock to follow him to UConn in the slightest, there's a ton of other variables at play. If you want to direct your aim at the real source of pain it's not the current staffs ability to recruit or close on these last remaining kids, or maybe even UConn's reputation on the recruiting trail currently (I hope), but our coaching staff's obliviousness to what was in store this coming offseason, just ill-preparedness not a good look.
