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UConn offers AJ Griffin (5* Wing)

If we clone his Dad, we have one gritty solid 4 year player. That’s fab

And Geno? Cmon. He’s 24/7 on his Program. Whenever he’s not top an dominant ... it’s a peculiar fail on something he tried. He’s not taking anything off his fastball.
 
Pudge said:
And Geno? Cmon. He’s 24/7 on his Program. Whenever he’s not top an dominant ... it’s a peculiar fail on something he tried. He’s not taking anything off his fastball.
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@Chief00 is just still bitter about Title IX all these years later.
 
Pudge said:
If we clone his Dad, we have one gritty solid 4 year player. That’s fab

And Geno? Cmon. He’s 24/7 on his Program. Whenever he’s not top an dominant ... it’s a peculiar fail on something he tried. He’s not taking anything off his fastball.
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Geno is obviously self motivated but we all need a kick in the pants or self kick every now and then - especially at Geno’s age.
 
Stainmaster said:
@Chief00 is just still bitter about Title IX all these years later.
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Chief knows Geno, good guy. But, that doesn’t change Chief’s opinion of First Night. Although, as I have said before, it’s a great night out for the Casual Fans. However, its not competitive basketball. Chief has accepted it as a means to expand the fan base but not Chief’s thing.
 
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I'm guessing Neil Ostrout of the JI was looking hard for something to write about the Huskies.

Griffin’s father is a former college teammate of UConn coach Dan Hurley, and his sister is about to begin her career with the Huskies women’s program.

Griffin is far from committing to play for the Huskies or anywhere else at this point as he’s just finished his sophomore year of high school. But he knows some see UConn has a good fit for him, perhaps starting with his sister Aubrey.

“I know she likes it,” Griffin said with a laugh by phone Tuesday afternoon.

Will Griffins be a UConn sister-brother act?
 
Chief00 said:
Chief knows Geno, good guy. But, that doesn’t change Chief’s opinion of First Night. Although, as I have said before, it’s a great night out for the Casual Fans. However, its not competitive basketball. Chief has accepted it as a means to expand the fan base but not Chief’s thing.
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I suspect the real reason for the dual First Night was the bad look each would have had with lots of empty seats had they continued with separate First Nights.
Take a look at attendance for the men and women the last five or more years. Too many games on TV, too few good opponents, too poor a record (men), aging of the diehards with few replacements from the younger grads or residents, apathy on the part of students, yadda, yadda , yadda.
 
Chief00 said:
The grind continues and you can start to see how the pieces may start to fit in the puzzle. As Chief has been saying - be patient - it’s a process - good things will happen.
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Chief, why don't you call it recruiting? That is what you're talking about, correct? I'll take another guess -- recruiting involves the mens bball coaching staff and the grind is you making vague comments like be patient - it's a process and the always insightful - good things will happen. Maybe I'm casually off base. If so, enlighten the Yard on the specifics of THE GRIND. If you don't want to answer my question I'll be patient because I now know that it is a process and that good things will happen.
 
Scrutiner said:
I suspect the real reason for the dual First Night was the bad look each would have had with lots of empty seats had they continued with separate First Nights.
Take a look at attendance for the men and women the last five or more years. Too many games on TV, too few good opponents, too poor a record (men), aging of the diehards with few replacements from the younger grads or residents, apathy on the part of students, yadda, yadda , yadda.
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If I were to guess I think it's cutting the overhead in half for what is, essentially, a glorified pep rally. Why do two of them?
 
HooperScooper said:
I'm guessing Neil Ostrout of the JI was looking hard for something to write about the Huskies.

Griffin’s father is a former college teammate of UConn coach Dan Hurley, and his sister is about to begin her career with the Huskies women’s program.

Griffin is far from committing to play for the Huskies or anywhere else at this point as he’s just finished his sophomore year of high school. But he knows some see UConn has a good fit for him, perhaps starting with his sister Aubrey.

“I know she likes it,” Griffin said with a laugh by phone Tuesday afternoon.

Will Griffins be a UConn sister-brother act?
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Has a good fit? They really have fired all the editors these days.
 
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CL82 said:
If I were to guess I think it's cutting the overhead in half for what is, essentially, a glorified pep rally. Why do two of them?
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The inner Chief says why do any? But, I get the rationale - expand the fan base with Casual Fans. The recruits it may appeal to aren’t necessarily the ones you want to go to war with.
Does Chief think the expand the fan base theory is a successful narrative - of course not. However, I recognizes certain powers to be might.
 
QDOG5 said:
Chief, why don't you call it recruiting? That is what you're talking about, correct? I'll take another guess -- recruiting involves the mens bball coaching staff and the grind is you making vague comments like be patient - it's a process and the always insightful - good things will happen. Maybe I'm casually off base. If so, enlighten the Yard on the specifics of THE GRIND. If you don't want to answer my question I'll be patient because I now know that it is a process and that good things will happen.
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Good questions -I may respond when I have some time and after some thought - then the thread will get locked again after another 24k views.
 
CL82 said:
He also brought in Polish 6' 1" guard Ania (Anna) Makurat and has 2 transfers 6' 1" forward grad transfer Evelyn Adebayo (averaged 18 ppg 11 rpg and 9 blocks) and Tennessee leading scorer point guard 6' Evina Westbrook (#2 player in HS class behind UConn's Megan Walker.) He also picked up the # 1 US high school senior Paige Bueckers and top Croatian guard Nika Muhl for 2020. All of this in the past few weeks. Geno has been busy.
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Is Evelyn related to Bam?
 
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With the NBA changing it’s rules for draft eligibility can we really still expect guys like this to come to college?
 
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Doomed
Doomed
Doomed
And doomed
 
RichZ said:
Sometimes younger brother doesn't want to follow in older sister's footsteps. Couldn't close the deal on Brooks and Nykesha, and they were local.
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Calhoun thought Brooks was soft and did not really go after him hard.
 
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Chief00 said:
Calhoun thought Brooks was soft and did not really go after him hard.
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He didn't have any interest in him, if I recall correctly.
 
CL82 said:
He didn't have any interest in him, if I recall correctly.
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Indeed. Although, he did turn into good college player his Jr and Sr year. LOL but it never turned into a Ryan Gomes - I Expletive up deal.
 
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