UConn (only) Recruiting (only) Speculation

[Geew1992]

I feel like this situation might be a little different. I feel like Azzi/PB following Kiki (and Raegan Beers) was more of a “Hey, come to Uconn. We’re interested.” Sort of follow. Where with Lara Somfai there was obviously interest on her part first because she took the visit there in the first place and then the follows from the team came after.

Beers visited Uconn before OK. So she had to have some kind of interest.

 

[Bone Dog]

Careful there. my cousin is a UC Berkeley prof. Sort of emeritus but doing one class. One of my sons is a UMich grad who chose it over UVa. UConn isn’t viewed at that level, but like in most of academia, what you choose to study varies all over the place not to mention how much a student puts into it. But UConn is a fine public university.

As a prof approaching retirement myself, with experience of a few state universities including in the UC, what I mainly know is how uneven university education really is. When I was at UCI, I noticed that the undergrads couldn’t tell the difference between the tenured faculty and the adjuncts and grad student TAs. This is mainly because they hardly ever see the tenured faculty. My daughter reported this to be the same at Berkeley even now. Very few of her classmates had actually met a professor.

Grad students have a different experience of course. But that’s not relevant to this discussion.

This is why I don’t think UConn is significantly different from the top state universities academically. The undergrads will mainly be working with TAs and adjuncts. I’m sure there’s lots of other things to distinguish these schools in terms of extracurriculars and social life.

 

[HuskyNan]

I see we're no longer discussing recruiting