Tookie Brown (Committed to Georgia Southern)

[Kitaman]

DogMania said: but maybe we just don't know all that's happening behind the scenes.

I would largely be inclined to believe that this is the case.

Well what are we paying Chief for?

 

[uconngb]

With so many recruits decommitting and fifth years seniors becoming available you think that UConn would land a few good ones. Are there a lot of programs with available scholarships like UConn? I don't know.

So far I'm just not getting the warm and fuzzies that were making a lot of inroads with these available prospects, but maybe we just don't know all that's happening behind the scenes.

As Fishy pointed out, how disappointing it is that we just came off winning a national championship and completed the new practice facility, and that we're not killing it in recruiting this past year. The only explanation for it, in my opinion, is our conference affiliation. It's flat out killing us. I wish we could get out of it, but I don't see anyway out in the foreseeable future.

You left out one other possibility, I'm sure because none of us want to believe it can be true: that our staff are either just not good recruiters, or don't know how to close. Not sure whether to believe it or not, but apparently we were the front runner for Stone at some point.....and he clearly knew about the conference. From what I gather from the true "insiders", such as Fishy, we need new blood on the recruiting front maybe as much as we need a better conference.

 

[Jerry1714]

You give me likes all the time weirdo might want to clean that up

Not bright and delusional, lethal combo.

 

[sammydabiz]

Well whatever is happening "behind the scenes", we've lately had nothing to show for it..... I can only imagine how desolate this recruiting class would be w/o the title run last year.

 

[Towney007]

I KNOW WHO WOULD EVER COME TO UCONN. SHIP IS SO SINKING GUYS JUMP OFF WHILE YOU STILL HAVE YOUR LIFE. OLLIE AND ALL THE POSERS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO CLOSE. YOU EVER READ GRANT CARDONE'S BOOK ON CLOSING? OLLIE SHOULD READ THAT. BUT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THIS CONFERENCE IS DRAGGING US INTO THE ABYSS AND THERE IS NO WAY WE'LL EVER GET OUT. REALLY THE SCHOOL SHOULD JUST TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE ON GAMPEL BECAUSE ITS JUST NOT WORTH IT. THE ACC HATES US BECAUSE WE'RE GOOD AT STUFF AND THE B1G HATES US BECAUSE THEY THINK WE'RE DUMB.

I MEAN GUYS ONE RECRUIT CHOSE MARQUETTE OVER US. A WHOLE, COMPLETE, LIVING BREATHING BASKETBALL PLAYER CHOSE ANOTHER SCHOOL OVER US. I MEAN WE DON'T STAND A CHANCE. KEVIN OLLIE SCARES PEOPLE OFF WITH HIS NBA CONNECTIONS AND REALLY HE SHOULD JUST BE GONE ANYWAY. WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS GET BIG TIME. ANYTHING LESS THAN 17 ***** RECRUITS PER YEAR>>>> THATS RIGHT PER YEAR>>>> IS UNACCEPTABLE> SEE I CHOSE THE WORD 'UNACCEPTABLE' SO I CAN SOUND LIKE A THIRD GRADE TEACHER.

GUYS NO ONE WOULD EVER COME HERE AND THEY WON'T EVER AGAIN. THANKS CBS SPORTS. THANKS Obama.

 

[Fishy]

Stop wasting space.

 

[selles]

Stop wasting space.

He's not wasting space, he's justifiably freaking out about the absurd bastion of negativity this place has become over the past few months.

 

[Towney007]

Stop wasting space.

Ha! This place is home to some of the most ambitiously stupid opinions on college recruiting i've ever read in my life. It's just a cavalcade of lame argument redundancy. Don't wanna waste space? You could delete half these posts and just come up with a branded 'they won't come here, here's why' rattle basher post and thumb tac one into every thread so we can get it out of the way. No reason for 70 people to say the same things over and over again. Waste space he says. In the Bone Yard, he says.

 

[Fishy]

Then why are you here?

It's a big internet and there are plenty of other UConn boards out there - find one that works better for you.

Don't waste another minute of your time here.

 

[sammydabiz]

Ha! This place is home to some of the most ambitiously stupid opinions on college recruiting i've ever read in my life.

 

[huskyharry]

We just need one more good domino to fall our way...just one...then the good mojo will start flowing again.

 

[Kitaman]

He's not wasting space, he's justifiably freaking out about the absurd bastion of negativity this place has become over the past few months.

Umm its an annual ritual, magnified especially after non Championship years. When school lets out it will lessen. But the next ritual will be glorified practice reports leading to unrealistic expectations.

Its what we do.

 

[Dogbreath2U]

We just need one more good domino to fall our way...just one...then the good mojo will start flowing again.

Yep, I think that there is truth in this statement. I hope that KO refines his recruiting approach, but that he continues to target some of the top-level recruits.

 

[Towney007]

Then why are you here?

It's a big internet and there are plenty of other UConn boards out there - find one that works better for you.

Don't waste another minute of your time here.

For the same reason you are, corky. Because I like to talk about basketball.

This board's perfectly fine, I plan on staying. If you don't like reading my posts, then hide them. Or find another board.

It's a big internet, you know.

 

[mauconnfan]

For the same reason you are, corky. Because I like to talk about basketball.

This board's perfectly fine, I plan on staying. If you don't like reading my posts, then hide them. Or find another board.

It's a big internet, you know.

"Hide them" and "...find another board" with Fishy cold spell disaster for not only your posts but.......well, you'll see!

 

[Huskyforlife]

Fishy take it easy on this guy. He obviously doesn't know who you are.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Fishy take it easy on this guy. He obviously doesn't know who you are.

Evidently not, but then that's just strike one for stupidity all by itself.

As to the actual topic, which seems always shunted aside, my take is this: Ollie is closing 4-5 star recruits at about the same rate as Calhoun. Ollie is not identifying the underrated players while they are young, pursuing them early, and turning them into contributors. That was Calhoun's single best skill set in my opinion, identifying and developing talent. Ollie is all over the guys everyone else wants, he doesn't seem to be finding the diamond in the rough. There is still time for that, but it is worrying.

 

[Stinger92860]

Evidently not, but then that's just strike one for stupidity all by itself.

As to the actual topic, which seems always shunted aside, my take is this: Ollie is closing 4-5 star recruits at about the same rate as Calhoun. Ollie is not identifying the underrated players while they are young, pursuing them early, and turning them into contributors. That was Calhoun's single best skill set in my opinion, identifying and developing talent. Ollie is all over the guys everyone else wants, he doesn't seem to be finding the diamond in the rough. There is still time for that, but it is worrying.

Scott Burrell recently told a friend of mine that Calhoun was a great recruiter. Shame on me for forgetting that fact. I always think of him as the fiery coach on the sideline with the advantage of being a great game coach. He also made his players better, which is not something all coaches can say. i had lost sight of the fact he was a great recruiter, with a great staff.

 

[D-NICE]

Is is he related to Taliek?

 

[husky99]

For the same reason you are, corky. Because I like to talk about basketball.

This board's perfectly fine, I plan on staying. If you don't like reading my posts, then hide them. Or find another board.

It's a big internet, you know.

Haha.. good luck man

 

[tcf15]

 

[CallMeBruce]

That seems an awfully low-level program for a guy that good, but I guess he wants to stay local. Georgia Southern has never so much as won an NIT game, and they've got one postseason appearance ('06 NIT) since 1992.

 

[Walker11]

That seems an awfully low-level program for a guy that good, but I guess he wants to stay local. Georgia Southern has never so much as won an NIT game, and they've got one postseason appearance ('06 NIT) since 1992.

Maybe he just played out of his mind when we all saw him face Rock but he seemed like a big time talent. I would have loved landing him.

 

[Danzz]

We are banking 3 scholarships for no apparent reason whatsoever. I have no idea why we shouldn't be talking about that constantly.

The dumbest thing we could do is make offers just to fill scholarships. We've done that and it usually backfires with transfers.