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2025 Recruiting: Meleek Thomas wants to visit UConn

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Don’t know his stance on bling but I’m sure our NIL folks can cobble enough scratch to get one of these

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We have a marginal idea of what our starting five will be in 6-7 months and we are talking about the year after next. I do know this….if this staff happens to “cobble” together a team for next year that somehow is good enough to be in a position to three-peat then I will worry about the “next” year.

Somehow I get the sense moving forward we are going to be top ten pre season every year. That’s where we are at now. Probably stays that way until Hurley decides to retire or take a job in the nba. He is the face of CBB. A few more years where he keeps us near the top and one or two more chips and then HOF.
 
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AntG168 said:
The last sentence is completely false. Most portal entries have predetermined destinations when they enter the portal
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I’m guessing he means when you are recruiting hs kids to get a commitment during their senior year you have no idea who will be in the portal at the end of the season. If, so, not completely false at all. But as someone who liked your post has lectured us, i guess you weren’t stating a fact and I respect your opinion.
 
Although Arkansas and Indiana indicates money as a factor, I like our chances whenever Hurley gets someone on campus.
 
Is there anything known about the timing of a visit? I’m assuming perhaps in May, though I wouldn’t mind if the visit were after the NBA Draft, since Castle and Clingan will likely both be lottery picks, and possibly multiple other UConn players could get drafted.
 
cohenzone said:
I’m guessing he means when you are recruiting hs kids to get a commitment during their senior year you have no idea who will be in the portal at the end of the season. If, so, not completely false at all. But as someone who liked your post has lectured us, i guess you weren’t stating a fact and I respect your opinion.
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Interesting twist when the adverb "completely" gets added to "false" in a sentence when the subject in that sentence is quite specifically "[t]the last sentence" by way of directly quoting another post.

I happen to agree with your interpretation stated in your first two sentences, and your opinion that it was no "completely false." The "at all" part is superfluous, in my opinion, because it is sufficient rebuttal to claim it's not "completely."
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
I think you have this backwards but it’s a cool story I guess.
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Sooo you think that Betsy cooled on UConn because he’d rather play on a losing team a good distance from Connecticut where no body is going to ever hear about him again or care about versus playing for the home state school that just won back to back championships and possibly becoming a local hero and doing all of this in front of your family ( like DC). If he’s not that smart then maybe they didn’t want him all that much in the first place. Just saying .
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Interesting twist when the adverb "completely" gets added to "false" in a sentence when the subject in that sentence is quite specifically "[t]the last sentence" by way of directly quoting another post.

I happen to agree with your interpretation stated in your first two sentences, and your opinion that it was no "completely false." The "at all" part is superfluous, in my opinion, because it is sufficient rebuttal to claim it's not "completely."
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I accept your critique as being possibly completely well taken maybe. Unfortunately ( or not) depending on your opinion, a lot of people here probably completely need a picture drawn to get the point. Or not.
 
UConniki said:
Sooo you think that Betsy cooled on UConn because he’d rather play on a losing team a good distance from Connecticut where no body is going to ever hear about him again or care about versus playing for the home state school that just won back to back championships and possibly becoming a local hero and doing all of this in front of your family ( like DC). If he’s not that smart then maybe they didn’t want him all that much in the first place. Just saying .
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I don’t see the need to bury the kid. I wish him luck, but I am happy with where UConn is right now. Things have never been better.
 
cohenzone said:
I accept your critique as being possibly completely well taken maybe. Unfortunately ( or not) depending on your opinion, a lot of people here probably completely need a picture drawn to get the point. Or not.
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No, I think they get that we are aging pedants with law degrees, who needed to write accurately and with purpose professionally. We can recognize and draw distinctions between facts, thoughts, opinions, and feelings. We also understand the differences between how we frame our arguments, and whether we employ active & passive verbs. We're also less inclined to expect an elevated value being attached to anti-intellectual posturing, though we may work our rhetoric more pragmatically in real-time verbal encounters.

And in transactional settings, we need precision & clarity to get the job done, and manage foreseeable risks that could occur if we were sloppy or disordered in expression.

And then there's a whole new set of challenges when seeking to work together collaboratively with counterparts who see advantages in not competing in zero-sum activities.

Just because these elements seem picayune & feel tiresome for many sports fan(atic)s doesn't mean they are dumb, wrong, bad, without value, etc.
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
No, I think they get that we are aging pedants with law degrees, who needed to write accurately and with purpose professionally. We can recognize and draw distinctions between facts, thoughts, opinions, and feelings. We also understand the differences between how we frame our arguments, and whether we employ active & passive verbs. We're also less inclined to expect an elevated value being attached to anti-intellectual posturing, though we may work our rhetoric more pragmatically in real-time verbal encounters
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I was told that there would be no math.
 
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