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HooperScooper said:
We still have someone in the Ross role. Jayden Ross. :)
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Do we? I know everyone is saying he's back, but Dan Hurley said on the Dan Patrick show that we have one more guy deciding whether to stay or portal. Unless I'm forgetting someone, it's gotta be Ross, no? And the way he said it, it seemed like it was tied to if AK returns.
 
Mr. French said:
I liked Betsey a lot in high school recruiting, but I didn't dig into how well he played this year.
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Was curious and went to the Cinci board where they were kind of "good-riddance" to him. Repeated thoughts that he could shoot, but was unathletic, didn't play D, and didn't rebound.
 
boog204 said:
Do we? I know everyone is saying he's back, but Dan Hurley said on the Dan Patrick show that we have one more guy deciding whether to stay or portal. Unless I'm forgetting someone, it's gotta be Ross, no? And the way he said it, it seemed like it was tied to if AK returns.
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What's the rule we have on here? Until someone announces they're leaving or enters the portal they're still at UConn.
 
80shusky said:
This is interesting. I think we recruited him didn't we? His stats look...underwhelming.
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For what we need right now, he may be a decent fit. Off the bench development kid.
 
boog204 said:
Do we? I know everyone is saying he's back, but Dan Hurley said on the Dan Patrick show that we have one more guy deciding whether to stay or portal. Unless I'm forgetting someone, it's gotta be Ross, no? And the way he said it, it seemed like it was tied to if AK returns.
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If I read your post correctly, Ross is waiting for Alex to decide. If Alex comes back, Ross will leave. If Alex goes, Ross stays. Either way, we still need another forward. Wouldn’t it make sense for Danny to bring in a better player than Ross, sooner than later, as a lot of available talent is flying off the portal?
 
HooperScooper said:
What's the rule we have on here? Until someone announces they're leaving or enters the portal they're still at UConn.
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If we get penalized for using the power of deduction based on our coach being candid publicly, then the warden here is truly on a wacked power trip.
 
FearThePups said:
If I read your post correctly, Ross is waiting for Alex to decide. If Alex comes back, Ross will leave. If Alex goes, Ross stays. Either way, we still need another forward. Wouldn’t it make sense for Danny to bring in a better player than Ross, sooner than later, as a lot of available talent is flying off the portal?
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I’m wondering what Karabans hold up can he at this point. He knows his position with the NBA - nothing to be discovered there. Only thing is confirming NIL is there.
 
FearThePups said:
If I read your post correctly, Ross is waiting for Alex to decide. If Alex comes back, Ross will leave. If Alex goes, Ross stays. Either way, we still need another forward. Wouldn’t it make sense for Danny to bring in a better player than Ross, sooner than later, as a lot of available talent is flying off the portal?
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Not getting into any of it. I was just generally confused whether we knew one way or the other. FWIW, I think Ross can be a really good player. Confidence is the great equalizer. The skills are there, IMO.

And we absolutely could use another forward up front to hopefully be a backup 4/5 as needed.
 
superjohn said:
This isn't true.
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Okay, that's how I interpreted it, then. He didn't make a direct correlation but said we have two waiting to decide. One decision (AK) is coming "sometime soon, maybe this week," and "another guy deciding."
 
boog204 said:
Okay, that's how I interpreted it, then. He didn't make a direct correlation but said we have two waiting to decide. One decision (AK) is coming "sometime soon, maybe this week," and "another guy deciding."
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Yes, we currently have 8 guys for next season and we could have 10 guys based on the decisions of AK and Ross.
 
boog204 said:
Do we? I know everyone is saying he's back, but Dan Hurley said on the Dan Patrick show that we have one more guy deciding whether to stay or portal. Unless I'm forgetting someone, it's gotta be Ross, no? And the way he said it, it seemed like it was tied to if AK returns.
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Some people still have an archaic mindset and operate under the mindset of until a guy announces he's leaving he's on the team
 
superjohn said:
Don't see the fit, we need a big athletic forward and a backup point guard. He's neither.
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I loved Jasper Floyd at Fairfield and he had a damn good season at North Texas, a top-75 team that lost to UC Irvine in the NIT semifinals.

Floyd is a thickly built 6'3 195 two-way point guard who was Fairfield's best defender and fit in excellently in North Texas' defensive system. Also shot 34% from three last season and has a career 79 FT%. If he's open to backing up at a team like UConn, he'd be an excellent fit.
 
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RuffRuff said:
If we get penalized for using the power of deduction based on our coach being candid publicly, then the warden here is truly on a wacked power trip.
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I remember that rule originally coming about on the 'yard, and it was just to stop speculation based on nothing. We actually had a relative of a player (Emeka's back-up) as a regular - so we knew that transfer rumors could get back to the players, and it didn't do much good, so we tried to stop it in its tracks. This board was basically "social media" back then (that and things like the ESPN.com comments section, which was a dumpster fire).

Once there was a media report or a quote, it was fair game.
 
FearThePups said:
If I read your post correctly, Ross is waiting for Alex to decide. If Alex comes back, Ross will leave. If Alex goes, Ross stays. Either way, we still need another forward. Wouldn’t it make sense for Danny to bring in a better player than Ross, sooner than later, as a lot of available talent is flying off the portal?
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Well I’m not going to imply that he’s staying or leaving. What I will say is if there’s a better, more proven skilled wing available then no matter, we need him to be at Storrs. The reality is question marks don’t win titles better players with the ability to make plays do. I hope we don’t assume there will be a jump but that’s just me. I do trust them, for the most part.
 
RuffRuff said:
If we get penalized for using the power of deduction based on our coach being candid publicly, then the warden here is truly on a wacked power trip.
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I've gotten a rap on my knuckles for less on here. :)

What I meant is Ross is still here so why replace him with someone else for his role. I'm assuming he's staying since he hasn't said he's leaving.
 
My guess is outside adding perhaps one or two people, we won't know the final roster for quite a while.

Logically, including walk-ons we will need to be around 15 bodies in order to hold competitive practices. I imagine that at most we would want three to be walk on level players. I can see picking up an emergency point guard and an emergency center very late in the process. Players who have plated at a low level D1 program who wouldn't mind the prospect of virtually zero playing time to be part of a program capable of a deep tournament run.
 
Samoo said:
Are they hard to find, or are there a lot of options?
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What I meant was that there are usually a lot of guys total, but not a lot of guys that accept backup roles as a transfer.
 
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