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You could say it’s myopic to think a million bucks is life changing for a kid with 20 years of professional life and 60 years of real life ahead of him.

RuffRuff said:
It's myopic. It says that another staff cannot develop, it says that money shouldn't matter.

All years are not equal. They have more time this year, they fell short in portal last year. I'm not questioning how he did in the past, I'm wondering if given the needs and misses that they explore a wider net. It's ok to question yeah know, without getting all defensive.
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BigErnMcCracken said:
You could say it’s myopic to think a million bucks is life changing for a kid with 20 years of professional life and 60 years of real life ahead of him.
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Right. Because you know where some of these kids come from and what they had growing up. To some, 1.5-2 million dollars does changes lives, not just for them.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
You could say it’s myopic to think a million bucks is life changing for a kid with 20 years of professional life and 60 years of real life ahead of him.
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The myopic is addressing the mindset that you should stick around UConn for less money & the development from Moore. I'm 100% with you on this - a kid needs to do what is best for them, even if it's outside of Uconn.
 
djct1999 said:
Right. Because you know where some of these kids come from and what they had growing up. To some, 1.5-2 million dollars does changes lives, not just for them.
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I know where the kid we’re talking about comes from.

Again, these responses are pretty much doubling down on myopia.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I know where the kid we’re talking about comes from.

Again, these responses are pretty much doubling down on myopia.
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Again, says you. Any elite basketball player has the right to choose where, why, and how much. We as fans don’t know the answers to any of that so who are we to say it’s nearsighted.
 
I have a strong suspicion (and just received a little insight) that the portal may not be very good to us this year.

Our pockets aren't deep enough.
 
HooperScooper said:
Well UConn did recruit Sanon out of high school and Hurley will get all the information he needs to evaluate Sanon from his brother.

Only downside? The Boneyard would butcher his name. :)
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Can he guard a chair?
 
husky99 said:
We got money... not SEC money
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I keep hearing that. What does that mean? We got money relative to who? In the end, does it matter how much we have when a sec or big 12 school can go 2x on a kid we want?
 
husky99 said:
We got money... not SEC money
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Well then we need to do everything we can to beg claw or steal our way into a P4.

If the post before yours is true, where the portal truly won’t be good to us this year, then that is total BS. We NEED guys from the portal- badly and we need some of the best.

We NEED to have the funds to pony up to some of these guys and not being able to afford it because of the conference that we are in cannot be the excuse.

We are different from all other BE schools. We owe them nothing. It is a dying conference and we need to GET OUT NOW.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I have a strong suspicion (and just received a little insight) that the portal may not be very good to us this year.

Our pockets aren't deep enough.
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Good thing is we have Hurley who can get the most out of guys. Just go through and look at the top portal guys last year, a lot of them weren’t even that good or worth the price they got. Hope is UConn gets one stud & finds quality that isn’t necessarily “top transfer” type players. I believe in the staff and their ability to do that. Does really speak to the urgency of getting into a power conference & hopefully that day comes soon. The whole structure of college athletics is silly right now, no other pro sports leagues operate in this manner. But we have to do what we have to do in order to compete.
 
djct1999 said:
I keep hearing that. What does that mean? We got money relative to who? In the end, does it matter how much we have when a sec or big 12 school can go 2x on a kid we want?
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If the people you are competing with have more than you, things aren't equal and in 99% of the cases you will lose.

Good thing is we have Hurley who can get the most out of guys.

Wow, where do we begin on this???????????????????????????????????
 
Fatroony5 said:
Good thing is we have Hurley who can get the most out of guys. Just go through and look at the top portal guys last year, a lot of them weren’t even that good or worth the price they got. Hope is UConn gets one stud & finds quality that isn’t necessarily “top transfer” type players. I believe in the staff and their ability to do that. Does really speak to the urgency of getting into a power conference & hopefully that day comes soon. The whole structure of college athletics is silly right now, no other pro sports leagues operate in this manner. But we have to do what we have to do in order to compete.
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Spot on.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I have a strong suspicion (and just received a little insight) that the portal may not be very good to us this year.

Our pockets aren't deep enough.
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I have felt this since we missed on both Meleek and Acaden. The $ is crazy now, & without being in another conference for a TV contract, our recruiting allure won't ever match the football teams for tip top talent. Hence the SEC dominating the sweet 16. Inconvenient Reality
 
FreeKlaiber said:
I have felt this since we missed on both Meleek and Acaden. The $ is crazy now, & without being in another conference for a TV contract, our recruiting allure won't ever match the football teams for tip top talent. Hence the SEC dominating the sweet 16. Inconvenient Reality
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Didnt we just sign 3 5 star recruits? How many should we be signing?
 
FreeKlaiber said:
I have felt this since we missed on both Meleek and Acaden. The $ is crazy now, & without being in another conference for a TV contract, our recruiting allure won't ever match the football teams for tip top talent. Hence the SEC dominating the sweet 16. Inconvenient Reality
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We didn't miss on them. We prioritized other kids.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
I continue to say freshman who were meant to be good players never bided their time.

I’m not even talking about the successful NBA guys either. Players like Rashad Anderson, Dehnam Brown, Jeff Adrien played often as freshmen.

Guys who are expected to eventually be big time contributors biding their time so consistently is new for this program to this era.
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There will be some who are patient, but I don't blame any player who wants more minutes. Remember that for some of them, they're only playing basketball for a few more years of their life. If they want to chase playing time, that's a totally understandable decision.
 
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