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Chief00 said:
Just got in - that eighth letter is almost in place. Some UConn haters are already saying they were looking for cash - but if that's really the case - why sign with Georgetown in the first place?
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Thanks chief ! This player is a foundational championship type kid. Forget the one and dones. Give me a high quality 5-10 pg who can dictate game flow. That's how uconn won chips
 
scrappy2.0 said:
Thanks chief ! This player is a foundational championship type kid. Forget the one and dones. Give me a high quality 5-10 pg who can dictate game flow. That's how UConn won chips
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You want 5'10? We better keep looking! ;)
 
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Fishy said:
We almost have the eighth letter - we're 87.5% of the way to good news. Or 12.5% of the way to terrible news.

I think.
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It would be a miraculous turnaround if we landed Waters and then managed to get at least one of: Agau, Wilson, or Whaley. Throw in the Utah kid and we would actually somehow manage to be significantly better off than we would've been with no defections.

Crazy times. At least there seems to be a realistic chance for light at the end of the tunnel, which didnt seem possible a few weeks ago.
 
Time to reel this one in Chill........

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I don't want to be a Debbie Downer or whatever, and if we get Waters and the G'Town transfer I'll totally be okay but.. Do we need Waters? I mean this board LOVES Vital, which I personally think is insane. IMO he's the 4th guard right now. Add Waters and he's the 5th. That's a LOT of guards to begin, I understand we play 3 guards, but these are very undersized guards. I guess my point is that why would Waters come here with this guard depth chart? (Even if he's better than Vital)
 
Ant One said:
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer or whatever, and if we get Waters and the G'Town transfer I'll totally be okay but.. Do we need Waters? I mean this board LOVES Vital, which I personally think is insane. IMO he's the 4th guard right now. Add Waters and he's the 5th. That's a LOT of guards to begin, I understand we play 3 guards, but these are very undersized guards. I guess my point is that why would Waters come here with this guard depth chart? (Even if he's better than Vital)
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We have nine players, so yes we need him.
We have no recruits rated inside the top 100, so yes we need him.
We haven't gotten the top Connecticut recruit since Olander, so yes we need him.
We have four guards, one of whom has suffered catastrophic injury two of the last four times he's played competitive basketball, so yes we need him.

Also, five guards is not "a lot." It's standard to carry that many, though we'll be at least a touch unusual with four who are probably primarily PGs, and none who are swingmen.

Who cares, though? He's a top 40 recruit, and we have open scholarships. We have never, in the history of the program, been a position to turn down a kid like that.
 
Matrim55 said:
We have nine players, so yes we need him.
We have no recruits rated inside the top 100, so yes we need him.
We haven't gotten the top Connecticut recruit since Olander, so yes we need him.
We have four guards, one of whom has suffered catastrophic injury two of the last four times he's played competitive basketball, so yes we need him.

Also, five guards is not "a lot." It's standard to carry that many, though we'll be at least a touch unusual with four who are probably primarily PGs, and none who are swingmen.

Who cares, though? He's a top 40 recruit, and we have open scholarships. We have never, in the history of the program, been a position to turn down a kid like that.
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And, he is a top-notch outside shooter, which is the 2nd biggest need for this team. And he is further building for the future, as he is unlikely to leave early
 
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Ant One said:
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer or whatever, and if we get Waters and the G'Town transfer I'll totally be okay but.. Do we need Waters? I mean this board LOVES Vital, which I personally think is insane. IMO he's the 4th guard right now. Add Waters and he's the 5th. That's a LOT of guards to begin, I understand we play 3 guards, but these are very undersized guards. I guess my point is that why would Waters come here with this guard depth chart? (Even if he's better than Vital)
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If I had a choice of 2 bigs or Waters I'm with you, there is a dire need and he's not one, although a Top 40 kid would never be a bad thing. I guess I'm gun shy now though and bringing him and taking minutes form a kid like Vital, would he leave? I hope not but now for whatever reason it makes me think of these awful things. I love Vital, the kid he is the Husky he is and the gritty, plucky player he is. Want him to be part of this program for 4 years and a guy we lean on when the recruits come in. New Rodney!
 
Waters substantially improves the team. Can't believe Vital would leave, he's an integral piece of the team with or without Waters. As far as bigs are concerned, getting Waters should help recruit them. Every big wants to play with a quality point guard, and we'll have several of them. It also makes us look like a great team missing only the big man piece. They can be that final piece.
 
We need anyone who wants to come here, we're offering top 200 talent. If there's a top 40 recruit who wants to come here yes we need him.

And that's before considering that we'd be keeping a top CT kid home and in a guard-centric offense you can never have enough ball handlers
 
Ant One said:
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer or whatever, and if we get Waters and the G'Town transfer I'll totally be okay but.. Do we need Waters? I mean this board LOVES Vital, which I personally think is insane. IMO he's the 4th guard right now. Add Waters and he's the 5th. That's a LOT of guards to begin, I understand we play 3 guards, but these are very undersized guards. I guess my point is that why would Waters come here with this guard depth chart? (Even if he's better than Vital)
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Not to pile on but this is silly. Five guards is what a team is supposed to have. We are going to depend a lot on Alterique, a kid who is coming off of two major shoulder injuries and who has no experience at the college level. Vital isn't a point guard and the grad transfer is a stop gap who can fill in but we can't depend on as a major piece, he was the fourth leading scorer on the tenth best A10 team. For those reasons and the fact that we can't even field a legit D1 roster as it stands, we need him.
 
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