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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4274560, member: 71"] Gminski & Roy went to ACC schools when the ACC was as good a basketball conference as there was and football clearly took a backseat on campus. Campbell (and not listed, Garris) went to B-10 schools when the B-10 also had a legitimate claim to being the top hoops conference. The last three names listed are all intertwined in terms of UConn. Foster was (a tossup with Isiah Thomas) the top HS PG in the country his senior year. He was locked up by Larry Brown at UCLA early but Perno kept offering even though he was told no countless times. Bagley was also a HS senior that year (and was set to play for then D-2 Central Ct, until BC ended up with an open scholarship very late in the process) and as a HS teammate of Mike McKay, kept lobbying (along with McKay) for an offer from UConn, Perno said no. Once Bagley demonstrated his talent, Perno decided to look at smaller PG's and landed Giscombe (really a 2 guard in a small PG's body) and Hobbs (who DP thought would help land Ewing, a HS teammate). The following year, because of the two smaller guards, there was no room for Adams (and once BC offered, we may not have had a shot anyway). Massimino was all over Pinone early on and with Corny already there and Aleksinas transferring in, Pinone may have gone elsewhere even if Rollie wasn't in the picture. I don't know the story behind Murphy, Williamson or Luckett (beyond that they each went to less than substantial programs) and fully believe that we should have made some effort to land each of them. One name that (unless I missed something) I haven't seen yet was Sly Williams. Yes, he did have his issues (not the least being that in HS he verbally committed to two schools while enrolling in a third) but from what I remember (and what many have stated) when he wanted to play (unfortunately for him wasn't often enough) he was as good as anyone. [/QUOTE]

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