UCONN, Stanford or N. Carolina?
Yikes..........................., Check out the UCONN Boneyard forum and they are on an absolute suicide watch. They lost out on next door player A. Boston last week and Jones this week. They did not do well this year. Is there cracks in UCONN's recruiting foundation?BearPedz said:
Furd.... GD it all.
GOLDEN said:Yikes..........................., Check out the UCONN Boneyard forum and they are on an absolute suicide watch. They lost out on next door player A. Boston last week and Jones this week. They did not do well this year. Is there cracks in UCONN's recruiting foundation?BearPedz said:
Furd.... GD it all.
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Willtalk said: It is a combination of many factors. Geno, who's program had the reputation of being excellent in developing players to succeed at the next level, usually had his pick of the type of players who were committed to being the best they could become. That type of players would commit to his very rigid and Spartan program. That type of player is no longer coming out of high school in the numbers that used ot exist for Uconn to draw on. The basketball landscape has changed.
Then if you add the fact that Geno recognizes that fewer players are willing to buy into his system. I makes him really unsure if he really wants to adjust and continue to coach. John Wooden, some years after he retired, once stated that he did not feel he could coach the then present day player coming out of high school. This is the issue that Geno now seems to be facing. The fact that players know Geno contemplating retirement or at least leaving Uconn does not help their recruiting on bit.
The dynamics of tha sport are constantly changing. Geno, himself, was once the vanguard of a change that took place when he began his career. It seems obvious now that it is changing once more. Cal has felt that effect in respect to a college's academic standing not having the importance that it once had as well.
I assume you are being sarcastic. If not you would certainly not mean the second round, because the Pac 12 had 4 teams make it into the final eight last season with out playing the top two teams. To end up playing the top team in just their own regional a team would have to be ranked as low as 8th in their own regional. Which would mean the bottom half of the entire 64 team bracket.polarbear said:
The Pac-12 has been exciting for a few years with a few teams going deep into the NCAA tournament- Cal, Huskies, Ducks, Beavers, etc. Now it appears we are going back to annual Furd coronations with the rest of the teams playing for who will face Notre Dame or UConn in the 2nd round.
"Might make me like Stanford(sic)".....Real Cal fans don't speak those words.Schroeder71 said:
Haley Jones might make me like Stanford. I predict that she'll help the Cardinal stay at the top of the conference if
not own it. She gets her points in the natural flow of the game. She seldom tries to go one-on-one to score during the regular course of the game. However, she is capable of taking over a game during crunch time. Haley can play any position on the floor in college except center. In high school school she can play any role for her team or position including point guard. Jones was gifted with the super springy legs. I remember as a 6-1 freshman that she blocked Salesian's Angel Jackson (6-3 or 6-5) multiple times.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/28/mitty-star-haley-jones-nations-top-recruit-chooses-stanford/
At least I'll be able to watch her perform some times. Congratulations, Haley! Stanford also has the #2 recruit in the class of 2020 in 6-4 post, Cameron Brink, from Oregon. HJ & CB became best friends on the USA all-star
team that they played on over the summer. I had a feeling that they might wind up together in college.
When the going gets tough, a real fan "looks elsewhere?"CalFanatic said:
He might be looking elsewhere because he's thinking..."Will we even have enough players to cheer on the next two years"? Stanford has more players in this class than we've landed in two years. The recruiting is anemic. We are the #13 team in the nation!! What is going on? I've never seen anything like this since the big CH class that put us on the map. We have ONE post with real game experience next year!!
Thanks for the reminder that the "sky is falling".CalFanatic said:
He might be looking elsewhere because he's thinking..."Will we even have enough players to cheer on the next two years"? Stanford has more players in this class than we've landed in two years. The recruiting is anemic. We are the #13 team in the nation!! What is going on? I've never seen anything like this since the big CH class that put us on the map. We have ONE post with real game experience next year!!
Not only that ..he wants to go to the hated Furds!mbBear said:When the going gets tough, a real fan "looks elsewhere?"CalFanatic said:
He might be looking elsewhere because he's thinking..."Will we even have enough players to cheer on the next two years"? Stanford has more players in this class than we've landed in two years. The recruiting is anemic. We are the #13 team in the nation!! What is going on? I've never seen anything like this since the big CH class that put us on the map. We have ONE post with real game experience next year!!