Re: Article on what's wrong with UConn recruiting
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 7:20 am
Bill, yes that's what I'm saying. Without Calhoun's influence, UCONN is uconn. Are they terrible? No. They are a mediocre to decent team, however that's a radical shift from just several seasons ago when they were right up there with Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc. Without Calhoun, I don't care who the recruiter was...the guy was already a bonafide HOFer. Calhoun got Napier and Napier had one of the BEST INDIVIDUAL tourney performances EVER! He won the MVP and at the time ESPN, SI, etc. were raving about how he put the team on his back for that run. It was discussed as being one of the best individual performances in the tourney...ever. To act like a guy who averaged 21.1 pts throughout the tournament was not the clear MVP and not the reason they won is ridiculous. Of course it's a team effort, but would you bet your house that without Napier that year they would have won or even made a deep run? I'd bet my house they wouldn't have won it all without him. And again he's here because of Calhoun. Assistants can help recruit players but it ultimately comes down to the head coaches. I could serve as an assistant coach for coach K, will you give me all the credit when we win championships with players I recruited? Clearly coach K deserves no credit, it was all me!
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In relation to where they were recently, they are most definitely on a clear downward path. When's the last time you heard of UConn losing recruiting battles to St. John's? Again, they had to settle for a 2 star grad transfer to help fill out their depth chart. Not saying he can't be good but it speaks volumes when a program that was a blue blood a handful of years ago is now forced to settle for a 2 star. I named 3 clear underachieving seasons not 1. These 3 seasons have also been consecutive. True, 1 season does not make a trend but 3 seasons can. You are acting like the departure of Calhoun and the AAC era coinciding with this downward trend are totally by chance when there is significant correlation. Again, UConn may turn it around next year, who knows? All some of us are saying is that UConn is clearly trending down. By UConn standards, the past 3 seasons have been an abomination. By Bethune-Cookman's standards, it's a pretty nice 3 years.
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In relation to where they were recently, they are most definitely on a clear downward path. When's the last time you heard of UConn losing recruiting battles to St. John's? Again, they had to settle for a 2 star grad transfer to help fill out their depth chart. Not saying he can't be good but it speaks volumes when a program that was a blue blood a handful of years ago is now forced to settle for a 2 star. I named 3 clear underachieving seasons not 1. These 3 seasons have also been consecutive. True, 1 season does not make a trend but 3 seasons can. You are acting like the departure of Calhoun and the AAC era coinciding with this downward trend are totally by chance when there is significant correlation. Again, UConn may turn it around next year, who knows? All some of us are saying is that UConn is clearly trending down. By UConn standards, the past 3 seasons have been an abomination. By Bethune-Cookman's standards, it's a pretty nice 3 years.