Originally posted by Dominicfrank:
Agree this is all on recruiting. Calhoun had better recruits that rounded out teams. Kevin has lost all depth. Shabazz was a Calhoun guy so was Boat, next year they are all on Ollie right ?
Also agree, But Uconn's had a rough 3 years in the negative recruiting dept. as to what coaches can use
against them. And remember when Boat, Daniels and Drummond committed nobody knew the end of the
of the" Best Basketball Conference in the country" would be dying a slow death. JC always had that
very
important selling angle to any recruit. JC said that was always a big thing and in the beginning he'd tell
kids well maybe you can't play for Georgetown and with Patrick Ewing but you can come to Uconn and
compete against the best. To the point that Uconn passed them.
In 2011 Omar who committed in June was being talked about as a flip to elsewhere ( maybe not a bad thing the
way he can shoot or dribble his team out of games ). because of the APR ban, the programs uncertainty and
JC's age. Then suddenly with the APR ban on the horizon ... Pitt, Cuse leave followed by Notre Dame. Uconn
also lost 3 schollies in 3 years ending in 2012-13 and couldn't get another 2012 commit, despite winning a
NC the year before, except Nolan who was a last minute add on because of losing AO, Drummond and Roscoe
to the APR ban. Then about a year later Rutgers leaves... Ville jumps Uconn to the ACC and a couple months
later.... the Catholic-7 are gone. No one can tell me all of this doesn't have a huge effect on recruiting.
Now KO/Uconn has to walk away from any marginal student because of the APR and Ollie's best conference
in America ( the Old big East which doesn't exist anymore)... that JC had to sell to recruits..becomes you
get to play at Tulane in a HS gym or places not much better, while Uconn becomes all these schools NC
game. If your Uconn....the only place you can go in the AAC is down.
This post was edited on 2/3 12:09 PM by the Blades
