Who's Left for 2014?

[Skies17]

Off the top of my head this is what I got...

Devin Robinson
JaQuan Lyle
Sam Cassell Jr.
Ray Kasongo

Are we still looking at these guys;
Devonte Graham?
Jabari Craig?
Keondre Dew?

Can we count ourselves out of;
Rashad Vaughn?
Kelly Oubre?

Don't think I missed anyone ... there's still potential for this class to be one of our best ever, but the window may be closing.

 

[UCONN#1]

Off the top of my head this is what I got...

Devin Robinson
JaQuan Lyle
Sam Cassell Jr.
Ray Kasongo

Are we still looking at these guys;
Devonte Graham?
Jabari Craig?
Keondre Dew?

Can we count ourselves out of;
Rashad Vaughn?
Kelly Oubre?

Don't think I missed anyone ... there's still potential for this class to be one of our best ever, but the window may be closing.

Bonzie Colson
Melvin Swift
Rakim Lubin

 

[Skies17]

Bonzie Colson
Melvin Swift
Rakim Lubin

Can't believe I missed Colson - late night yesterday ... what's the deal with all these PFs? I know Colson isn't in the bag, but we've thrown around Scholarships to Kasongo, Swift, Lubin, Dew, and Craig recently. Obviously a PF is required in this class, but are we unsure about our chances about Colson or do we see these guys as just as good options as Bonzie?

 

[huskiesNhoos]

Can't believe I missed Colson - late night yesterday ... what's the deal with all these PFs? I know Colson isn't in the bag, but we've thrown around Scholarships to Kasongo, Swift, Lubin, Dew, and Craig recently. Obviously a PF is required in this class, but are we unsure about our chances about Colson or do we see these guys as just as good options as Bonzie?

I'm a fan of colson, but several of these guys are better options. Kasongo would be a great get, and if Lubin is still playing at the level he was a year ago he would be too

 

[7774]

You're missing all the players that will blow up over the course of this season and become coveted recruits in the spring. It happens every year.

 

[mauconnfan]

We have a lot of options left some of which I am sure aren't even on the board as we speak. It will all work out, the staff has worked too hard for it not to!!

 

[upstater]

Best bets are probably Kasongo and Robinson.

Cassell is going to be very difficult, Colson we are so late on, and he has good options in ND and Pitt (heh), Lyle has been ticketed for Kansas, Memphis and DePaul.

Dew and Lubin seem under the radar types.

I'd definitely like to see another scorer join.

 

[Skies17]

You're missing all the players that will blow up over the course of this season and become coveted recruits in the spring. It happens every year.

As much as late Spring commitments have produced some of our best players, they're usually a result of missing on earlier targets. I'm sure everything will work out but as a fan I'd much rather pick up verbals from DRob, Colson/Kasongo, and Lyle/Cassell Jr and not have to fret anymore ... I know it's an overreaction but I'm going crazy watching guys drop off the board while we seem to be dead in the water.

 

[upstater]

As much as late Spring commitments have produced some of our best players, they're usually a result of missing on earlier targets. I'm sure everything will work out but as a fan I'd much rather pick up verbals from DRob, Colson/Kasongo, and Lyle/Cassell Jr and not have to fret anymore ... I know it's an overreaction but I'm going crazy watching guys drop off the board while we seem to be dead in the water.

Well, they need to hit on one or two more in the Fall, but I think everyone was expecting them to fill in the class with one or two in the spring. You can't have a big class without some kids playing roles. That's just how it is.

Our last big class was Tyler Olander, Jeremy Lamb, Roscoe Smith, Shabazz Napier, Niels Giffey, Enosch Wolf or Michael Bradley (I forget).

Outside of Roscoe, none of these kids were ranked high, and the odd thing is Roscoe was seemingly the least skilled of the wings and guards. I think Lamb, Napier and Giffey all had better skills.

 

[CTBasketball]

We swung for the fences in 2014, and whiffed. It happened in 2010, and we turned out okay.

 

[Rico444]

We swung for the fences in 2014, and whiffed. It happened in 2010, and we turned out okay.

Daniel Hamilton and Rodney Purvis say hello.

 

[CTBasketball]

Daniel Hamilton and Rodney Purvis say hello.

One recruit doesn't really make a class. And I consider Purvis more of a gift than a recruit. He was meant to go to UConn from the start and committed here virtually the day after he left NCST.

 

[Rico444]

One recruit doesn't really make a class. And I consider Purvis more of a gift than a recruit. He was meant to go to UConn from the start and committed here virtually the day after he left NCST.

He absolutely counts...I'm sure guard recruits have had second thoughts about coming here because they know he'll be here for at least two seasons.

 

[CTBasketball]

He absolutely counts...I'm sure guard recruits have had second thoughts about coming here because they know he'll be here for at least two seasons.

If Purvis has a good season in 2015 he's gone.

 

[DreamSeason]

Best bets are probably Kasongo and Robinson.

Yes, please.

 

[huskyharry]

IMHO, the most important priority is a big man with some muscle. For 2014/15:
We have PG options (could be very good options if RB comes back, TS develops or RP makes the transition), we have very good wing options (OC, DH, perhaps even DD if he stays to develop his wing skills). What we don't have is a big man with bulk or strength. As maligned as he is, TO brings that to the table but he will definitely be gone. Leon is the next closest thing and he is more of a perimeter player at this point.

 

[chevtheman]

Dew is a wing

 

[upstater]

We swung for the fences in 2014, and whiffed. It happened in 2010, and we turned out okay.

2010 was an OK year, if you're into championships. 2014? That was a bad year. We whiffed. What was worse was 2017. That was the year my pet snake ate my tarantula.

 

[HooperScooper]

Think spring. UConn usually does pretty well finding guys in the spring. Recruits who end up being available for some reason or another.

 

[huskiesnyc]

We swung for the fences in 2014, and whiffed. It happened in 2010, and we turned out okay.

I wasn't aware the 2014 recruiting class was over in September.

 

[Scot-e]

I think we are down to 50 prospects.

 

[Matrim55]

Dew is a wing

I don't think so. He's listed as a 6-foot-9, 230 lb PF/C by his high school, and the other recent (end of August) scouting report I read about him says he doesn't have ideal athleticism for the 3.

I've never seen him play, for what it's worth. Have you?

 

[James]

the only recruit I've grown some what attached to is kasongo, only because he seems wildly underrated with potential. after he got some tv time last night with our AD and most revered alum, ill be pretty disappointed if he passes on us. Nothing end of the world though.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

What's left for the class of 2014? Besides 9 months, about 25 guys we have heard of and 25 more that we haven't...not much I guess.

Good to know that we already whiffed on the class though. Now I can stop paying attention.

 

[chevtheman]

I don't think so. He's listed as a 6-foot-9, 230 lb PF/C by his high school, and the other recent (end of August) scouting report I read about him says he doesn't have ideal athleticism for the 3.

I've never seen him play, for what it's worth. Have you?

Keondre Dew is not 6'9 230 and sure AS HELL doesn't play 4/5