2024 Recruiting: Patrick Ngongba

[CL82]

Well the sad part is the kid ain’t trolling

Oh, I'm not confident of that.

 

[QuickDraw]

to quote @UCSouth with my new word of the day....He's Trollish

 

[Samoo]

Hurley is abysmal at winning close games. Now he is abysmal trying to recruit after a championship. Hurley just got paid and he seems to be on vacation while others are at work. I’m not amused. We need more than two recruits for next year’s class.

 

[Greg]

Can't blame gthe coach for the whims of a 19 yr old, 18 yr old or whatever. Bring bigger bags next time.

 

[Avon]

Hurley is abysmal at winning close games. Now he is abysmal trying to recruit after a championship. Hurley just got paid and he seems to be on vacation while others are at work. I’m not amused. We need more than two recruits for next year’s class.

Tough crowd

 

[KembaStepback]

Hurley is abysmal at winning close games. Now he is abysmal trying to recruit after a championship. Hurley just got paid and he seems to be on vacation while others are at work. I’m not amused. We need more than two recruits for next year’s class.

This post is so bad. I dont post here often but feel compelled. 1st of all it's UConn. Not an acronym. 2nd you say 'we' but are crazy critical. They just won the title!! You must be a miserable person to be around...

 

[kansashusky]

Not hearing great things here btw. It sounds like we are still a ways from a decision which is good.

A 2 man class after a natty would be really deflating.

 

[AntG168]

Not hearing great things here btw. It sounds like we are still a ways from a decision which is good.

A 2 man class after a natty would be really deflating.

Not after we just brought in a 5 man class. This was never going to be a big class

 

[pj]

Not after we just brought in a 5 man class. This was never going to be a big class

Of our 12 scholarship players, Newton and Cam Spencer finish up and Clingan, Castle, and Karaban are projected to enter the draft. That's losing all 5 starters and having 7 returning scholarship players, 6 open spots. This will end up being a big class, if not through high school graduates then through the portal.

 

[kansashusky]

Not after we just brought in a 5 man class. This was never going to be a big class

probably losing at minimum 5 players. Hurley has never been huge in the portal, so I guess I don’t follow your logic.

 

[AntG168]

Of our 12 scholarship players, Newton and Cam Spencer finish up and Clingan, Castle, and Karaban are projected to enter the draft. That's losing all 5 starters and having 7 returning scholarship players, 6 open spots. This will end up being a big class, if not through high school graduates then through the portal.

Point taken. Though I think projecting Karaban to enter the draft is a bit premature. I also don’t view transfers as apart of a “class”. In the transfer era I think we see less big classes than before anyway. One thing I’m not worried about with this staff is recruiting. I think “deflating” is rather strong and dramatic

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Clearly with several players with eligibility being unknowns in terms of the draft (i.e. Clingan, Castle, Karaban) using the portal to fill needs will be the best game plan once a key high schooler or two determine whether the class would be more than 3 incoming freshmen or not.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Of our 12 scholarship players, Newton and Cam Spencer finish up and Clingan, Castle, and Karaban are projected to enter the draft. That's losing all 5 starters and having 7 returning scholarship players, 6 open spots. This will end up being a big class, if not through high school graduates then through the portal.

Diarra will also likely graduate, though will have eligibility remaining if he wants to return.

 

[navery12]

probably losing at minimum 5 players. Hurley has never been huge in the portal, so I guess I don’t follow your logic.

No idea if it's actually how Hurley feels but we'd have 1 senior, 1 junior, 4 sophomores, 2 freshman so it does feel like there's potential to get really unbalanced with a ton of freshman coming in again

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

No idea if it's actually how Hurley feels but we'd have 1 senior, 1 junior, 4 sophomores, 2 freshman so it does feel like there's potential to get really unbalanced with a ton of freshman coming in again

Probs 2 portal players.

 

[slepers]

What am I speaking Spanish!!! What do you think it means!!!

Please change your handle to TheyareUconn

 

[HooperScooper]

This post is so bad. I dont post here often but feel compelled. 1st of all it's UConn. Not an acronym. 2nd you say 'we' but are crazy critical. They just won the title!! You must be a miserable person to be around...

He's kidding around. He's been doing this for a while. It's not funny anymore so just ignore him and maybe he'll stop.

 

[ToolzieFan]

probably losing at minimum 5 players. Hurley has never been huge in the portal, so I guess I don’t follow your logic.

We brought in Newton, Alleyne, and Joey C. last year. I assume we’ll end up with at least one more recruit, but seeing what the freshmen can do this year and picking up 2-3 guys from the portal based on that doesn’t seem unreasonable.

 

[Fan1978]

Not hearing great things here btw. It sounds like we are still a ways from a decision which is good.

A 2 man class after a natty would be really deflating.

2,man class is fine after fab five, good luck with your career at party city. Sorry to hear they are bankrupt and your balloon blowing career is in jeopardy. Must be deflating.

 

[kansashusky]

2,man class is fine after fab five, good luck with your career at party city. Sorry to hear they are bankrupt and your balloon blowing career is in jeopardy. Must be deflating.

Fan1978 lolololololol

 

[superjohn]

probably losing at minimum 5 players. Hurley has never been huge in the portal, so I guess I don’t follow your logic.

Dude, you're posting crazy stuff lately. Since we're living in these new portal days we brought in Newton, Joey, and Alleyne. They weren't the building blocks of the championship but we don't win it without them. The one hole on paper we had for this year was starting shooting guard, we brought in Cam Spencer.

Recruiting and creating a roster that works shouldn't be a concern with this staff.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Dude, you're posting crazy stuff lately. Since we're living in these new portal days we brought in Newton, Joey, and Alleyne. They weren't the building blocks of the championship but we don't win it without them. The one hole on paper we had for this year was starting shooting guard, we brought in Cam Spencer.

Recruiting and creating a roster that works shouldn't be a concern with this staff.

Yeah, I feel like Dan has avoided going full Pitino (you never go full Pitino) or even what Self did this year in driving off last year’s class. Dan is using the portal wisely. He keeps options open, like Newton coming back. Way better than what the portal would have offered.

Alex is no sure thing to get drafted. Flagg is in play. Johnson could break out and Singare could show great promise. The other freshmen could really impress. I don’t think we even know what we need aside from PG and we locked that down first. Abraham gives us another versatile forward.

 

[upstater]

This is the recruitment that intrigues me most. After seeing Sanogo develop an incredible array of offensive moves, deft footwork, modern NBA style offense, inside out, I should think that UConn would be the first place a mobile big man would want to come.

 

[kansashusky]

Dude, you're posting crazy stuff lately. Since we're living in these new portal days we brought in Newton, Joey, and Alleyne. They weren't the building blocks of the championship but we don't win it without them. The one hole on paper we had for this year was starting shooting guard, we brought in Cam Spencer.

Recruiting and creating a roster that works shouldn't be a concern with this staff.

Obviously looking way ahead here, but after this year there will be some serious holes. I guess I was just expecting a little more momentum with the HS kids following a championship.

Dan has said several times that Cam was almost a freak accident and almost a miracle we got him. Main target was Timberlake and we whiffed. Portal is mainly $ driven and that is not our strength here. It is our coaches and their ability to create relationships.

I guarantee if you polled the boneyard and said our class is going to be a top 30 guard and fringe 100 SF following a ship, everyone would say that is dissapointing. Still time left with PN, but I have no idea where they go from here. I’ll try to take some more Xanax.

 

[Scrutiner]

The opponents could be telling kids UConn has two sophomores and five freshmen among their top nine players. Where do you see yourself fitting in?