Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

KasIllini · Sep 14, 2012, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Joel Goodson

Looks like the University of Illinois!

Nice handle

dontlikepants · Sep 14, 2012, 10:41 PM

I’ll echo the sentiment of many people on this board- even if we don’t get djack, xrm (how does one pronounce that?), Obama or Nunn, I’m sold on Groce. No, he hasn’t won a national championship yet, or a big ten regular season championship, or a big ten tournament championship, or a big ten game, or a non-conference game, or a pickup game at IMPE……but he’s won the biggest game of all. The game in my heart.

Jkat00 · Sep 14, 2012, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dontlikepants

I’ll echo the sentiment of many people on this board- even if we don’t get djack, xrm (how does one pronounce that?), Obama or Nunn, I’m sold on Groce. No, he hasn’t won a national championship yet, or a big ten regular season championship, or a big ten tournament championship, or a big ten game, or a non-conference game, or a pickup game at IMPE……but he’s won the biggest game of all. The game in my heart.

Couldn't have said that any better!

frankfortillini · Sep 14, 2012, 10:56 PM

"The game in my heart" ??

Dude, I hope you've been drinking.

HsvIllini · Sep 14, 2012, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by illbasketfan

So how about XRM wants to talk to KNunn i bett about his visit and the possibility of playing together wow. Like I said earlier this week Look for Great news from the Power of the

Great to see you back again - usually when you appear it's because good things are about to happen....

othawhitemeat · Sep 14, 2012, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by illbasketfan

So how about XRM wants to talk to KNunn i bett about his visit and the possibility of playing together wow. Like I said earlier this week Look for Great news from the Power of the

Awesome news!

Juice · Sep 14, 2012, 11:01 PM

Just wow....

PeoriaSteve · Sep 14, 2012, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by RyanK

Jerrance used to do something similar when we landed a commitment

That's the 1st thing I thought.

dontlikepants · Sep 14, 2012, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by frankfortillini

"The game in my heart" ??

Dude, I hope you've been drinking.

Sir or Madame,

I meant it figuratively (not even midgets could play a game, checkers even, 'in my heart')

Good evening to you.

Dan · Sep 14, 2012, 11:05 PM

Another busy day is in the books

Selected highlights from the hoops recruiting thread 9/14/2012-

BrooksTaylorFan: "Hmmm...Pookie suddenly decides not to visit Illinois.." [Thread]
RyanK: "The way I see it we have a lot of reason to be optimistic, but also reason to be pessimistic." [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn recently followed Malcolm Hill and Demetrius Jackson on Twitter. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn is at the pancake house. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn begins retweeting people who have spotted him on campus. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn has lunch at Firehaus. [Thread]
BrooksTaylorFan: "As of the visit with XRM yesterday, Groce is pitching him to join both Jackson and Nunn at Illinois as part of a Top 5 class." [Thread]
NnannasBananas11: "On my way to Gameday Spirit today, I saw two golf carts and a mini crowd of people in Illini gear outside of Firehaus, so I went to check it out." [Thread]
Illinois in the top 3 for Xavier Rathan-Mayes. [Thread]
Mbrew87: "Ford tweeted I-L-L and Kendrick just retweeted me when I said "Champaign Is #KendricksKingdom." [Thread]
Eric 22 with a list of Illini recruits' twitter accounts. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn headed to Biaggis for dinner. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn asks Xavier Rathan-Mayes for his phone number. [Thread]
BrooksTaylorFan: "It's definitely a done deal." [Thread]
saltygrapes: "John Groce has Kendrick sold both on him and the University of Illinois." [Thread]
saltygrapes: "Rob Smith is in Groce's corner, and that's a huge deal." [Thread]
Demetrius Jackson's upcoming visits. [Thread]
John Groce will visit Rashad Vaughn (2014 SG) next week. [Thread]

PeoriaSteve · Sep 14, 2012, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by HsvIllini

I-L-L

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Originally Posted by BrooksTaylorFan

+1. It's definitely a done deal. I just don't think he will announce it w/o some sort of announcement at the school. Nunn doesn't seem like the type who will just announce it over twitter. Hope I am wrong.

Excellent, I.........N............I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PeoriaSteve · Sep 14, 2012, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by pruman91

this site is head and shoulders above the other boards as far as recruiting news..

good job guys.....

+1, well done everyone.

Juice · Sep 14, 2012, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

Another busy day is in the books

Selected highlights from the hoops recruiting thread 9/14/2012-

BrooksTaylorFan: "Hmmm...Pookie suddenly decides not to visit Illinois.." [Thread]
RyanK: "The way I see it we have a lot of reason to be optimistic, but also reason to be pessimistic." [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn recently followed Malcolm Hill and Demetrius Jackson on Twitter. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn is at the pancake house. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn begins retweeting people who have spotted him on campus. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn has lunch at Firehaus. [Thread]
BrooksTaylorFan: "As of the visit with XRM yesterday, Groce is pitching him to join both Jackson and Nunn at Illinois as part of a Top 5 class." [Thread]
NnannasBananas11: "On my way to Gameday Spirit today, I saw two golf
carts and a mini crowd of people in Illini gear outside of Firehaus, so I went to check it out." [Thread]
Illinois in the top 3 for Xavier Rathan-Mayes. [Thread]
Mbrew87: "Ford tweeted I-L-L and Kendrick just retweeted me when I said "Champaign Is #KendricksKingdom." [Thread]
Eric 22 with a list of Illini recruits' twitter accounts. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn headed to Biaggis for dinner. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn asks Xavier Rathan-Mayes for his phone number. [Thread]
BrooksTaylorFan: "It's definitely a done deal." [Thread]
saltygrapes: "John Groce has Kendrick sold both on him and the University of Illinois." [Thread]
saltygrapes: "Rob Smith is in Groce's corner, and that's a huge deal." [Thread]
Demetrius Jackson's upcoming visits. [Thread]
John Groce will visit Rashad Vaughn (2014 SG) next week. [Thread]

illbasketfan · Sep 14, 2012, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by HsvIllini

Great to see you back again - usually when you appear it's because good things are about to happen....

Yes I like to only produce positives on the board tho when i get good leads on info but sit back and enjoy the rise or the blue and orange again!!

Dan · Sep 14, 2012, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ChitownIllini

Dan-

I lived through the Shaka Smart IllinoisLoyalty server meltdown (barely). Please don't let that happen again. Make a cash call and I'm in but can't live through another outage.

Chitown since the Shaka/Stevens server meltdown of March 2012, and subsequent server upgrade, I believe we are good

I think

HsvIllini · Sep 14, 2012, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

Another busy day is in the books

Selected highlights from the hoops recruiting thread 9/14/2012-

BrooksTaylorFan: "Hmmm...Pookie suddenly decides not to visit Illinois.." [Thread]
RyanK: "The way I see it we have a lot of reason to be optimistic, but also reason to be pessimistic." [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn recently followed Malcolm Hill and Demetrius Jackson on Twitter. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn is at the pancake house. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn begins retweeting people who have spotted him on campus. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn has lunch at Firehaus. [Thread]
BrooksTaylorFan: "As of the visit with XRM yesterday, Groce is pitching him to join both Jackson and Nunn at Illinois as part of a Top 5 class." [Thread]
NnannasBananas11: "On my way to Gameday Spirit today, I saw two golf carts and a mini crowd of people in Illini gear outside of Firehaus, so I went to check it out." [Thread]
Illinois in the top 3 for Xavier Rathan-Mayes. [Thread]
Mbrew87: "Ford tweeted I-L-L and Kendrick just retweeted me when I said "Champaign Is #KendricksKingdom." [Thread]
Eric 22 with a list of Illini recruits' twitter accounts. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn headed to Biaggis for dinner. [Thread]
Kendrick Nunn asks Xavier Rathan-Mayes for his phone number. [Thread]
BrooksTaylorFan: "It's definitely a done deal." [Thread]
saltygrapes: "John Groce has Kendrick sold both on him and the University of Illinois." [Thread]
saltygrapes: "Rob Smith is in Groce's corner, and that's a huge deal." [Thread]
Demetrius Jackson's upcoming visits. [Thread]
John Groce will visit Rashad Vaughn (2014 SG) next week. [Thread]

Dan deserves a high five and a raise too! Well done sir

DerekH198283 · Sep 14, 2012, 11:39 PM

OK - I think it's time to post these

WOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kOuCB5Cqo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phfMyDOpvSM

And last but not least

(this one kills me no matter how many times I've seen it):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrL7JjD8cs

illini2525 · Sep 14, 2012, 11:43 PM

Kendrick just tweeted this about his good friend that passed away a couple of months ago:@KNunnSG Happy Bday My Bro Gage!! R.I.P..Today Is A Big Day!! ��
12 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
Wonder why it's a big day!

JimmyChitwood · Sep 14, 2012, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by illini2525

Kendrick just tweeted this about his good friend that passed away a couple of months ago:@KNunnSG Happy Bday My Bro Gage!! R.I.P..Today Is A Big Day!! ��
12 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
Wonder why it's a big day!

Im pretty sure that it's obvious why

.
1 down 2 to go! Or maybe 2 down, 1 to go

BrooksTaylorFan · Sep 15, 2012, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by JimmyChitwood

Im pretty sure that it's obvious why

.
1 down 2 to go! Or maybe 2 down, 1 to go

Definitely the 2nd part.

JimmyChitwood · Sep 15, 2012, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by BrooksTaylorFan

Definitely the 2nd part.

Yeah, Ive been under that assumption for quite awhile actually. Just hate saying it considering how many times we have lost out. It's a new era though so I guess we should just start expecting to get who we want lol. XRM is in the cross hairs now

stevo99 · Sep 15, 2012, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by illini2525

Kendrick just tweeted this about his good friend that passed away a couple of months ago:@KNunnSG Happy Bday My Bro Gage!! R.I.P..Today Is A Big Day!! ��
12 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
Wonder why it's a big day!

Yep!

As has been mentioned by a couple posters with much more info than I could ever dream to have, this recruit playing for this high school at this moment in time is simply as big as it gets.

Don't think the bluebloods won't take notice of this.

illini2525 · Sep 15, 2012, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by BrooksTaylorFan

Definitely the 2nd part.

You mean 2 down 1 to go?

illini2525 · Sep 15, 2012, 12:14 AM

Man I hope this all comes to fruition it has the same feel to me as when there was a lot of the buzz around Shaka possibly coming. I have no doubts about the insiders information just scared to go back to that dark place. But as of now it seems like it was a good think we didn't get Shaka.

theanonymousillini · Sep 15, 2012, 12:40 AM

Ran into the team and Kendrick tonight. The hype is real.

Cheers.

Sep 14, 2012, 11:05 PM	#3335
Dan Admin Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 25,908	Another busy day is in the books Selected highlights from the hoops recruiting thread 9/14/2012- BrooksTaylorFan: "Hmmm...Pookie suddenly decides not to visit Illinois.." [Thread] RyanK: "The way I see it we have a lot of reason to be optimistic, but also reason to be pessimistic." [Thread] Kendrick Nunn recently followed Malcolm Hill and Demetrius Jackson on Twitter. [Thread] Kendrick Nunn is at the pancake house. [Thread] Kendrick Nunn begins retweeting people who have spotted him on campus. [Thread] Kendrick Nunn has lunch at Firehaus. [Thread] BrooksTaylorFan: "As of the visit with XRM yesterday, Groce is pitching him to join both Jackson and Nunn at Illinois as part of a Top 5 class." [Thread] NnannasBananas11: "On my way to Gameday Spirit today, I saw two golf carts and a mini crowd of people in Illini gear outside of Firehaus, so I went to check it out." [Thread] Illinois in the top 3 for Xavier Rathan-Mayes. [Thread] Mbrew87: "Ford tweeted I-L-L and Kendrick just retweeted me when I said "Champaign Is #KendricksKingdom." [Thread] Eric 22 with a list of Illini recruits' twitter accounts. [Thread] Kendrick Nunn headed to Biaggis for dinner. [Thread] Kendrick Nunn asks Xavier Rathan-Mayes for his phone number. [Thread] BrooksTaylorFan: "It's definitely a done deal." [Thread] saltygrapes: "John Groce has Kendrick sold both on him and the University of Illinois." [Thread] saltygrapes: "Rob Smith is in Groce's corner, and that's a huge deal." [Thread] Demetrius Jackson's upcoming visits. [Thread] John Groce will visit Rashad Vaughn (2014 SG) next week. [Thread] Last edited by Dan; Sep 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM.

Sep 14, 2012, 10:41 PM	#3327
dontlikepants Location: Chicago Posts: 31	I’ll echo the sentiment of many people on this board- even if we don’t get djack, xrm (how does one pronounce that?), Obama or Nunn, I’m sold on Groce. No, he hasn’t won a national championship yet, or a big ten regular season championship, or a big ten tournament championship, or a big ten game, or a non-conference game, or a pickup game at IMPE……but he’s won the biggest game of all. The game in my heart.

Sep 14, 2012, 10:56 PM	#3329
frankfortillini Location: Frankfort, IL Posts: 183	"The game in my heart" ?? Dude, I hope you've been drinking.

Sep 14, 2012, 11:01 PM	#3332
Juice Posts: 1,542	Just wow....

Sep 14, 2012, 11:39 PM	#3342
DerekH198283 Location: Urbana, Illinois Posts: 11	OK - I think it's time to post these WOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kOuCB5Cqo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phfMyDOpvSM And last but not least (this one kills me no matter how many times I've seen it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrL7JjD8cs

Sep 14, 2012, 11:43 PM	#3343
illini2525 Posts: 10	Kendrick just tweeted this about his good friend that passed away a couple of months ago:@KNunnSG Happy Bday My Bro Gage!! R.I.P..Today Is A Big Day!! �� 12 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone Wonder why it's a big day!

Sep 15, 2012, 12:14 AM	#3349
illini2525 Posts: 10	Man I hope this all comes to fruition it has the same feel to me as when there was a lot of the buzz around Shaka possibly coming. I have no doubts about the insiders information just scared to go back to that dark place. But as of now it seems like it was a good think we didn't get Shaka.

Sep 15, 2012, 12:40 AM	#3350
theanonymousillini Posts: 84	Ran into the team and Kendrick tonight. The hype is real. Cheers.