The September Dam...When is it going to break?

[pj]

According to Chief's Encyclopedic Dictionary: A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of high quality recruits (see UConn classes of 2017 and 2018).

Reservoirs of high quality recruits created by dams not only reflect the suppression of floods of said players to UConn but also create an environment conducive to movement of recruits (through often dark and unseemly alternate channels) to backwaters such as Syracuse and Providence where they risk irrelevance or, respectively, hypothermia or death by water fire.

The "dam break" often (quite often, actually) referred to by Chief is simply a metaphor signifying the removal of such a restrictive barrier and the subsequent orderly flow of recruits into an environment in which they can grow and flourish.

Great point. However, Chief did also say that the aftermath of the dam break would be a flood. So the flow of recruits may not be entirely orderly. That's OK, the main thing is there will be a flow!

 

[TRest]

If we get no commitments in September chief will say the Dam Breaking is a new dance move on Bunkey's instagram.

 

[KembaStepback]

It does. It doesn't imply that those "more" come in September.

Correct. Im sorry if my earlier post wasn't clear. What I meant to say was if Bouk and Gaffney/Wong commit in Sept one or more of Kofi Akok Precious need to commit for it to be a broken dam. If no one else commits, then it's just a splash IMO.

 

[intlzncster]

Funny thing is September is already almost half over. And if by the end of the month we have say 1 commit, Chief will still call that single commitment “the dam breaking”.

So little faith. Half empty vs half full.

The part about being clearer is what your definition of "dam breaking" entails. Its a metaphor. There's ambiguity unless you are specific.

Jalen Gaffney home visit (9/12)

I'll say it now, but dam breaking is NOT one commitment. We are talking three here if we're talking dams breaking. Maybe, just maybe, I'd allow two Sept commits as dam breaking stuff, given our results the last couple years. -intl

 

[intlzncster]

Post #23 of that thread. I told people to enjoy the summer . Let the coaches do the work over the summer. I hope you followed that advice. Numerous times I posted about the recruiting dam breaking in September.

Post #23 was by StepbackCity and said:

Bro wdym

 

[intlzncster]

The irony is the folks having it both ways are the ones who say it’s a layup prediction but they will be the first ones to criticize Chief, if we get no September commits. The hypocrisy is LOL.

How many commits in September? Not who. How many?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

You’ve really come to Chief’s defense in this thread, it’s interesting.

Stick to the plain meaning of my words and see that if Chief were no more than a fraud of a mirage of a poser, he wouldn't add up to anything troublesome enough to warrant the refutation he 'inspires.'

I see no harm, I feel no harm. And I find the self-certain naysayers and bloviators and overreachers much more worthy of my negative attention. I don't count you among them.

 

[Stainmaster]

Stick to the plain meaning of my words and see that if Chief were no more than a fraud of a mirage of a poser, he wouldn't add up to anything troublesome enough to warrant the refutation he 'inspires.'

This seems borderline fallacious. The amount of "refutation" Chief engenders is solely due to the group of people who egg Chief on and encourage him to continue being rude, condescending, and dishonest, among other things.

 

[TerryBoyz]

Sorry guys, I couldn’t resist.

 

[temery]

When I went to the Hoover Dam I got a hotdog at their cafeteria. They gave me a bumper sticker that said, "I just ate a dam dog!"

That's all I got.