SHU gets a good TNT team next week
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i have always liked Spanarkel's work.
Definitely.
The game is in South Orange.
Oh God, Walsh game for the network? Joy.
UConn rolling so far three televised wins over top competition while we get whooped in secret scrimmage and squeak by lowly Monmouth. Danny running a machine up there
Also, their recruiting is on FIRE!
Already signed two (2) 5* Top 10 recruits. Also getting them out of Los Angeles and Charlotte. Beat out other big programs for them.
They are a WAGON!
Their recruiting has been on fire for 30+ years save for a brief period under Ollie and when Danny first got their and they were in the AAC.
Yet still won a championship at that time. I don’t even remember who was on that team aside from Napier
Uconn played 8 players in the title game, only 6 scored and one starter did not
Giffey
Boatwright
Daniels
Nolan
Brimah
Samuel
Kromah
Omar calhoun from the city was on this roster
These poor exhibition showings doesnt help the student fanbase get excited. People ask why no student support. There u go
I got news for you. Student fanbase doesn't obsess over exhibition showings like the mature, adult fanbase does.
Yep. Like Coach Molinaro said, we’re not prepared. It seems like we never are. Meanwhile UConn and others are in mid season form.
Yes but I believe those were all Calhoun recruits.
Believe they still recruited well though even after Ollie started to drop off and after Danny first got there and were relegated to the AAC (or whatever that league was). Just not at the level that Calhoun had going for like 20+ years or Hurley’s had going the last few years.
RU then. Better? Point holds.
Or how about even Monmouth. They were much more ready to play than we were. We always come out flat and play down to our competition. It gets old after a while.
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Supposedly 20-25% more than anyone in the league this year. But I don't believe the stuff that one hears or comes out publicly when it comes to specifics or exact details with this stuff. Bottom line we know there isn't a program in the league better resourced than UCONN. It's common sense. They are the blue blood. They are a big state school with football. They have an enormous, rabid fan base. And there is that CT law I posted about recently that I read apparently helps their donors give more because of the tax advantages compared to what exists in other states.
Very True.
They were running off of the Calhoun Championship Reputation and Brand.
Fine, why didn’t you say this in your original post. Comparing SHU (or many, many other programs) to UCONN is pointless.
Because I had just watched UConn take down Purdue by a lot and it struck me how Danny has them rolling, playing high level competition in televised exhibitions etc.
I can compare them. Stop the think small mentality. Plenty of teams are doing it.
Yes, Uconn has so much in NIL, but Danny has them playing like a well oiled machine. For a guy with 20 million at his disposal, he got a guy that never started at seton hall, a guy that barely played at Duke, Mullins only played in 1 exhibition. He’s such a good coach and that has nothing to do with NIL
Again with the money? Challenge yourself! Play multiple televised high level exhibitions! We can at least match what RU has done. If we keep admitting defeat we can never win. There's a reason Uconn is in midseason form already and it's not just because of 10 extra million. It's a culture they running up there. We limp out against bad competition. Even Monmouth came out ready to play. If it's just money, how could they match us with a fraction of the budget? DO BETTER
In both cases, it’s because both teams have a core of returning players. We have 13 new guys, that’s not good and somehow that needs to be improved upon. If we had four or five key guys returning then yeah go out and get a high level exhibition game.
Who is admitting defeat? Last year we won 21 games and finished fourth in the BE. It can be done. Holloway can coach. But it can’t be done consistently if your team budget is roughly 2/3 of the average BE budget.
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