Obekpa has been out for quite some time. Chandler will be here pending some academic issues. The staff of course is making sure if something happens with Chandler they're not left empty handed so they are looking at other bigs too as they should.
Straight from UConn staff they needed a big who could play right away. Nolan signs therefore they must have told him the same thing. Nolan went to 4 different high schools and completely narrowed, opened, narrowed, opened his list so nothing should come as a shock. UConn is a nice choice for him.
I agree that it is a good choice for him .. Provided he gets the playing time of course . I wish we could get a 6'10 kid to commit to us without seeing the school or meeting the staff.
Bingo. Nobody disputes that UCONN needs a big man. That doesn't mean if they landed Tony Parker eyebrows are not raised considering Tony Parker never visited, seem to love his other visits and UCONN is taking on water in terms of losing players and no post-season next year. Obviously Nolan is not Parker, but you see what I mean. It is not that UCONN is not allowed to land a big man or do well or that Coach Calhoun cannot recruit.
But the point is you can count on one hand the number of players who visit one school, say they love the city and love the school and indicate to people close to them that they love those things and then a few days later verbal to a school they did not even visit or even meet the coach. I am sorry that does not happen often at all let alone all the bad things at UCONN recently and Calhoun's status. I know they won a NC in 2011. That has not stopped numerous players WHO ARE ALREADY on the team from jumping ship already. And again those are players who are already there.
But again Dave's other point is right, we have options including a really good one. Let's move on.