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junglehusky said:
Also, back when I was a student we had a tall kid from Texas playing bball, named Jake Voskhul. He even drove a big, jacked up white truck around - not exactly "low profile" or "local". But he was a UConn guy through and through.
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Totally. Saw him at Subway once with the prettiest girl I'd ever seen in real life up to that point. Though I am from Coventry, so perhaps I have low standards. ;-)
 
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Jake has also been to the White House, not to mention playing in the NBA for close to 10 years.
 
Most importantly, Jake was a teammate of Mike Leblanc.

Also true that Jake never scored 20 points in a game in high school or college.
 
Justwinbaby said:
He is 6'6" and not a stretched 6'3" like so many high school recruits. There are very few 6'6"+ QB's with a strong arm and good footwork that have the potential to develop and then maybe, just maybe, help change a program. Everything is about upside.
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Our last 6-5+ 4 year starting QB changed the face of the program and brought it to a new level (Dan Orlovsky). I'm hoping that Richard's here to bring the program to the next level!
 
We got two texas basketball recruits that year. Who was the other one?
 
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Let us not forget

Emeka Okafor - Houston, TX

Time to build a football connection in Texas
 
Sticking with football, Harris Agbor from Mesquite and Ryan Henegan from Arlington.
 
And Kijuan Dabney and Mike Smith are Texans too.
 
Justwinbaby said:
Ok, just for the record, and despite my intent to be quiet.....

Last season my son's team threw the ball but the first three games were very early whippings so he did not get to throw much. The next to the last game he broke his ankle and needed surgery that he fought back from. He actually only had to throw in five games and had over 1600 yards. After fighting back from the ankle break and the surgery he had Alabama tell him he had a spot during a camp visit and they would be there for his first few games. He then helped his team win the Texas State 7on7. After that championship he had numerous typical top ten teams calling and telling him he was their man and they would be here for the first few games of the season. A week before the season practices started he was told that their offense was changing to a run based and all the college coaches arrived to see the Texas State 7on7 MVP hand the ball off over and over and they quit coming. Throughout this process he won numerous camp MVP awards along with a high school All American Bowl QB MVP. He had dozens of local public and private high schools try to recruit him away but he stayed loyal to the program despite the obvious signs, he had a team he refused to walk out on. He is a real 6'6" frame with the ability to easily carry 245 lbs. He came to the Uconn camp and he did not have an incomplete pass while throwing to kids he did not know and his team did not lose a game. Every coach in the SEC and Big 12 have said he has the strongest and most accurate arm they have seen but they needed him in a program that threw more than ten times a game and we understood, I would have said the same thing. So he came to a Uconn camp with another highly desired QB and went toe to toe and was made an offer and everything was set. Now a new QB entered the mix on literally the last day. He was not at the camp, or went unnoticed. Maybe it was too far.

Rankings on those "scouting" sites are largely based on what college coaches say after a kid visits the program on campus. If those guys had the ability to evaluate talent they would call them coaches and not several other less flattering descriptions. I actually told a Rivals scout to stay away from my son, he was later terminated but not before he refused to evaluate Richard. If a player visits a lot of colleges, or high profile programs, the writers add a star or say something nice. The thing about those "scouting" operations is that they follow the programs and they do not have the expertise or ability to have a program follow them. Richard visited Alabama at a camp and then Uconn at a camp. He did not make the circuit, did not get kicked out the door by Uconn, and anyone who thinks he does not have the stronger arm needs to quit looking at film because there is no help. Even in a run based offense he was able to keep his yards per completion at the top of the stats charts. His running yardage is poor because the only time they passed was when everyone knew they had to pass......off of deep drops with play action.

So, Uconn has a new QB, a local product from a good school who seems to be a good kid and Six schools have since come back into the picture concerning Richard. I have no doubt Uconn offers an exceptional education, that the new qb recruit is a good kid and can maintain the program, but as I told Richard last night he has something impossible to teach. He is 6'6" and not a stretched 6'3" like so many high school recruits. There are very few 6'6"+ QB's with a strong arm and good footwork that have the potential to develop and then maybe, just maybe, help change a program. Everything is about upside.
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Well, if nothing else, this sure has made signing day interesting for folks around here.

Having been involved with sports my entire life, I have learned one absolute. Parents have a lot more difficulty with everythign going on, as compared with their kids playing.

I don't mean this sarcastic, or offensive in anyway, there are many, many readers and writers around here that have gone through exactly what is going on now for the Lagow family, and literally thousands of other families around the country, that have raised kids to the age of legal adulthood - are all going through right now.

One way or the other, there will be some kind of relief in the next 24 hours - the entire purpose of creating the NLI - was to relieve the kind of pressure that exists for recruits and families, that we're all reading and experiencing right now through this writing.

As I"ve written before, if it fits, it sticks. (BTW - the student section at Rentschler field and the cheerleaders have by far, hands down, the best football cheer in the country, and I won't write it here....the Lagow's will have to find out for themselves)


but anyway - in recruiting, if it fits, it sticks. We'll see if Lagow and UCONN are a fit, and they stick in a matter of hours now.
 
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SAMCRO said:
kris, don't get me wrong, I love your passion for CT HS FB, but I believe that if it was Boyle or another CT player who won some 7v7 passing league, you would be touting that as a big indicator to how prolific they could be. These leagues are great for developing the skill. While true there is no rush, there is a time limit you need to make a decision in, topped off with all 7 guys on defense know you're throwing the ball (so they're not cheating to stop the run). But agreed, we are both on the same page with being happy these two kids are UConn bound!
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I agree that good can come out of 7v7 leagues. However, I wasn't on here raving about how Boyle did playing for Jack Cochran's team over the summer. Look, I want both kids here to compete. It makes us better on offense and defense, when you have two top level QBs pushing each other everyday. They both played on successful 7v7 teams, I'm happy for them both. But, does that mean that either one will win games for UConn in the Fall? Maybe it will make more sense this way. RL won a TX 7v7 Championship against the best teams around, then he played in the regular season, with those same skill guys, against top-notch competition, and finished 5-6. I think the kid is extremely talented, more so then anyone on the roster right now, but there's no correlation between 7v7 and regular season success, in most cases. It's beneficial, it's a marketing tool, and can get you noticed, but unless it equates to wins in the regular season....it's a glorified scrimmage.

Having said that, I hope RL holds true to his commitment. I hope he brings his Raptor, his swagger, his skills to CT, wins the job from day 1 and proves he has "IT". It wouldn't be the first time I've put my foot in my mouth.
 
Unless Richard planned to start this year I don't see him being in an odd man out situation. I really believe that Chandler's performance from last year, while reinstituting passing in the offense, was too error prone to guarantee starting again. I feel Casey will get a legit shot to start this year as well. Both freshmen because they have size and the reputation of arm strength and passing accuracy will get a shot to compete but it's a lot to learn the offense in summer camp so you can start a game vs Michigan in Sept. I don't expect a freshman to be thrown in like that. However, after a year of experience with the program I would expect them to have a good opportunity to win the job. They both will have the advantage of height over the older guys ahead of them. Neither will have an advantage over the other due to being a local product and will need to win it on the field. Leadership, knowing the playbook, accuracy, reading defenses, finding open receivers, placing the ball where receivers can make a play and making throws with touch will be the things that will win the job, not whether he is a local product. If all performance aspects are equal with all four, the experienced guy will start but I don't think we will see that. Given our recent history with the QB position, Richard will be coming into a very promising situation in relation to the potential for starting very early in his career. He will need to show that he is better than his competition but if what his dad says is true he may be up to that task. We want him here and it would be a shame if he felt that it's not a good situation to come into. If he decides to go elsewhere as a better opportunity - best of luck, but I feel his opportunity here is wide open. Just my two cents.
 
Srqhusky said:
Actually was referring to okafor ! Came in same year as voskuhl. . Texas connection !
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Not trying to thread jack, but you're wrong.

Voskuhl was on the 99 championship team and Okafor was on the '04 team. Definitely not the same years.
 
The only relevant data point that I can offer Mr. Lagow, Mr. Boyle or even Mr. Cochran is this. In 2005, we recruited two above-average running backs ("Recruit A" and "Recruit B") who grew up about 45 minutes from one another, while we already had the program's all-time leading rusher on the roster.

Recruit A stepped up and took the job from our all-time leading rusher in 2006, and earned All Big East honors. In 2007, with the all-time leading rusher out of the picture, Recruit A came into camp a little heavy and lost his job to Recruit B, who then was injured and lost his job to Recruit A again, as we won our first Big East Title. The following year, in 2008, Recruit C came along and stepped ahead of Recruit B as the backup to Recruit A, who left for the NFL after running for 2000 yards. Recruit B and Recruit C tag-teamed in 2009 as a major part of probably our most diverse offense since we went I-A, and then Recruit C took the reins in 2010 as we won another Big East title.

It goes without saying that Recruit A is our only megastar to date, Donald Brown, a first-round pick. Recruit C is Jordan Todman, another All American who is also in the NFL. And Recruit C is Andre Dixon, arguably one of the most beloved players in UConn history, who is likely to remain so forever.

I know that QB and RB are completely different positions and that you rarely play more than one at a time. However, my point is that there is definitely both room and demand for all of these players: there hasn't been a single year since Dan Orlovsky hung 'em up in which we have relied on only one QB. We're very, very likely to need more than one, not just in 2013 but also in 2014, 2015 and every year of their eligibility.

I say, bring it on, bring them all on, because if the competition looks anything like our RB competition from 2006-2010, we're all winners.
 
We had a walk on from California starting for us two seasons ago.

Once you're here, you're a Husky and the best man will play period.

I hope Richard still wants to be a Husky because were all really excited to have big time Texas QB coming to Storrs.

The QB job could quite literally not be more wide open.

A Juco transfer in Whitmer who was ok.
Redshirt freshman in Cochran.
2 incoming freshman in Boyle and hopefully Lagow.

If Richard proves to be as good as advertised he could come in and be a 4 year starter.

Not sure how many other programs can offer that opportunity.

Best of luck either way.
 
Sean said:
I've never head a kid say they WANT to redshirt year 1, even though most of them would probably be wise to do just that.quote]

Michael Vick is one. Frank Beamer had to assure his family that he would be redshirted as a freshman. And he was!
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Chin Diesel said:
Not trying to thread jack, but you're wrong.

Voskuhl was on the 99 championship team and Okafor was on the '04 team. Definitely not the same years.
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I was gonna say. Not even close!
 
Don't most programs bring in multiple QB's? I guess I don't see the issue here. If Weist has talked with Lagow and they like him a lot I don't see how he could feel left out. I'm really stoked to have Lagow play for UConn and I hope he follows through. I guess I just don't know what major program he would go to where he wouldn't have another QB, if not two other in his class?

I agree with someone who posted earlier that bringing in Boyle has less to do with Lagow and more to do with the perceived depth above them. Clearly they aren't confident in what they have and this situation is a perfect one for an incoming Frosh. A wide open QB competition against talent (Cochran and Boyle) that may be less experienced seeing how they played against lesser talent in CT.

Hope to see him commit tomorrow!!!
 
We have had the Browns, the Cundiffs, the Boxes and the Niebrichs. One has to deduce that none were D1 caliber players. All of them broke records as High Schoolers, but never developed to the next level. Hey it happens.

I cannot believe that we would back ourselves into a corner and say that we are done recruiting QB's for the year after we took one, but who knows. We owe it to ourselves to take the most talented kids on the board and let them fight it out.

I highly doubt that Richard would be the odd man out. PP get paid $1.5 million per year. You have to figure that he can evaluate talent. If Richard is the best then he will play plain and simple. Happens at every University I would imagine. He will get as many reps as the next guy. They don't make many mistakes in evaluation I think.
 
We certainly aren't stuck on a "local" kid. We are well aware that the competition level here is anything but great. We just want to win and mark our words we'd burn this place down if we thought a kid got a nod just cause he was local. Bottom line if us, ragtag collection of idiots can see that Richard will impose an iron will, Texas-style, certainly you know it too. We'll look for the NLI tomorrow, 7am central.
 
I like our team upgrading as much as possible and keeping CT kids while doing it.

But I hope Richard Lagow realizes that he's as much a CT kid as any recruit who's going to sign on with us tomorrow. He's been a CT kid for the past 6-7 months... this whole board is pulling for him and I for one like the fact his dad posts here too.

I can see a lot of young kids in this state wearing a Lagow jersey on weekends in 3-4 years and beyond.

Let's cross our fingers...

By the way I feel strange typing that in a Boyle thread. It's like putting a turd in his punch bowl, not that he reads this stuff.
 
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BNich said:
I was gonna say. Not even close!
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my bad. I thought two came from Texas when okafor signed but can't remember the other. Oh well back to thread
 
SubbaBub said:
If Lagow signs, I would expect him to win the job next year rather handily based on the level of competition. We've seen plenty of northeastern smurfs with gaudy HS stats come in and not show like a 1-A QB.

Lagow appears to have "it". He shouldn't be concerned about the competition. If he does the work he'll win the job.

What will really be interesting is if Casey.can push Chandler this spring. If not, then I'd be concerned about him transferring. Then this 2 QB class thing is kind of moot.

As JWB said, once recruiting is over, it's on to the next class. Everyone has to earn there spot. I like Richard's chances here regardless of the depth chart.

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Sorry, I have to take issue with this post, especially the beginning. Unless you're talking about the 2014 season, the idea that a true freshman is going to step in and win the starting job "rather handily" is ridiculous.

Whitmer showed that he has a pretty good skill set, and he produced decently well even with a complete genius as an offensive coordinator and turnstiles for offensive linemen. The poor kid was running for his life back there half the time. I expect that he'll be much more effective next year as a starter in Weist's system which allows him to make quick and short or immediate throws, which plays more to his strengths.
 
The Viking said:
But I hope Richard Lagow realizes that he's as much a CT kid as any recruit who's going to sign on with us tomorrow. He's been a CT kid for the past 6-7 months... this whole board is pulling for him and I for one like the fact his dad posts here too.

I can see a lot of young kids in this state wearing a Lagow jersey on weekends in 3-4 years and beyond.
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I think Lagow signs tomorrow. I mean, he's spending the night before signing day tweeting Emily Noonan. Does that, or does that not, sound like someone who #bleedsblue?

Richard Lagow™✅ ‏@RichardLagow
“@EmilyNoonan: UConn Women 6 points away from tying their 1st half scoring record. 62-17 at the half.” are they playing a highschool team?

Richard Lagow™✅ ‏@RichardLagow
@emilynoonan that's ridiculous lol
 
junglehusky said:
Also, back when I was a student we had a tall kid from Texas playing bball, named Jake Voskhul. He even drove a big, jacked up white truck around - not exactly "low profile" or "local". But he was a UConn guy through and through.
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White bronco with 10 gallon hat rack inside. Love it
 
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