2026 Recruiting: Update on Qayden Samuels - Visiting This Weekend

[AntG168]

i don't think it's as much about being out of state as it is $$.

This is a weird year with NIL - lot's of pause from programs that need to find ways to distribute the load, so if one program decides to go all in on one player, they may just get them.

If UConn offered him equal money as Arkansas….he’d be a razor back.

 

[superjohn]

i don't think it's as much about being out of state as it is $$.

This is a weird year with NIL - lot's of pause from programs that need to find ways to distribute the load, so if one program decides to go all in on one player, they may just get them.

I think that's the case.

 

[HooperScooper]

She had already decided to transfer yet she was there with Azzi and others at NYC draft for Paige. Guessing she made friends for life and liked it here just didn’t work out basketball wise.

In that same thread as HuskyNan's comment another fan of the women's team said she wasn't that highly ranked as a recruit but Geno decided to take her to fill out the class. She was never expected to play much. She got some run in 2023-2024 because of all the injuries. I can't comment on any of that because I don't follow the women's team much.

 

[Huskyforlife]

If UConn offered him equal money as Arkansas….he’d be a razor back.

Why in the world would we waste even a smidge of time on the kid if this were true?

 

[husky429]

Landrew was a football player, right? Likely more PF than SF and would be a beast in the weight room.

Just because someone played football doesn't mean you make them a PF. Bizarre comment. Have you watched him play at all?

 

[HW611]

Why in the world would we waste even a smidge of time on the kid if this were true?

We’ve been recruiting him for awhile. I’m sure when we first started he was appreciative and excited to have attention from the hometown school.

But as things start to pick up and it goes from offers to what he wants he could not want to come here when it comes to it.

Like Ant said a lot of CT kids simply just want to leave the state. Except for our 7’ loveable giants (DC and AD).

 

[superjohn]

We’ve been recruiting him for awhile. I’m sure when we first started he was appreciative and excited to have attention from the hometown school.

But as things start to pick up and it goes from offers to what he wants he could not want to come here when it comes to it.

Like Ant said a lot of CT kids simply just want to leave the state. Except for our 7’ loveable giants (DC and AD).

That in no way answered Huskyforlife's question.

 

[HW611]

That in no way answered Huskyforlife's question.

The first part did. They’d spend time on him for the same reason they did Betsey.

 

[superjohn]

The first part did. They’d spend time on him for the same reason they did Betsey.

No it doesn't. If Toure was never coming here no matter what like Ant is saying why would the staff show up to his high school games, AAU games, invite him up to campus several times, his coach talking about setting up an official visit most likely in September, going to his high school gym earlier this month to meet with him and watch him work out?

You answered why Toure would've been appreciative and excited early on.
Not why UConn would waste time on him if what Ant is saying is true?

 

[HW611]

No it doesn't. If Toure was never coming here no matter what like Ant is saying why would the staff show up to his high school games, AAU games, invite him up to campus several times, his coach talking about setting up an official visit most likely in September, going to his high school gym earlier this month to meet with him and watch him work out?

You answered why Toure would've been appreciative and excited early on.
Not why UConn would waste time on him if what Ant is saying is true?

Same reason coaches will pursue a kid committed elsewhere… same reason we may pursue a girl who rejected us at first.

What do you mean lol. These things happen all the time. Especially if the kid is open to being recruited.

 

[superjohn]

Same reason coaches will pursue a kid committed elsewhere… same reason we may pursue a girl who rejected us at first.

What do you mean lol. These things happen all the time. Especially if the kid is open to being recruited.

At least that's an answer to the question.

 

[REB1094]

First to commit between Toure/Landrew/Samuels gets the spot, and the others are a “call us if you want to transfer here if it doesn’t work out somewhere else” situation?

 

[Dove]

If UConn offered him equal money as Arkansas….he’d be a razor back.

Because of all the Championships and history of NBA success?