Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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tatupu70
I don't understand the posters who keep saying anyone giving a dispassionate view of the offseason is a "sky is falling" nut who needs their medication checked.

Sometimes the game doesn't play out how you thought it would. It's OK for people to question the process in those cases. Hopefully some new players will enter the portal and sign with IL, but at this point, it looks like BU should have upped the offer on the guys he wanted.

I expect that he will adjust his plan for next year, like he has in the past. Very successfully.
 
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LFOD
madillini4 said:
Some of you need to step away from the keyboard and see your doctor about changing medication.
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#278      
jacekpardol
ILL3in1 said:
Very odd
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Not to be mean but are we really sweating Moretti? If coach thinks they can upgrade from Nico I'm all for this. Everyone we have following the run was very dispensable, maybe coach has a bigger vision then the quality of the players we have been loosing. What if a player like Nico asked for a bag and Brad was like "nah, we're good" which could very well be the case.
 
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Navy_illini
I understand people’s fear and we need to add players
Here’s how I can relax
1. How many quality players are still available
2. The top ranked transfers don’t equal best. Look back at last year

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2023 College Basketball Transfer Portal

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My biggest concern is we don’t have a solid core returning like last year. The players who have transferred were solid players not great players
 
#289      
PepeSilvia
FI_8905 said:
Boy, Illinois fans were sold a bag of goods on Moretti. "Looks great in practice running the scout team". :)
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I honestly think he can be a good college player. Just not at the Big10 level right now maybe in a year or two if he gets stronger.
 
#290      
LouHenson
Can one of the insiders give a reason why no interest in Cliff? Is it just money (does not seem like it given the programs linked to him), or the clogging the land problem. Put him in the “dunker” spot. No question he would be one of the best defensive centers ever to play at Illinois. Maybe, just maybe if Coleman sees we had cliff he would come back. I just don’t see Coleman getting drafted? Hope I am wrong? Can he still come back not sure if this is (like Kofi) third time trying?
 
#291      
Fighter of the Nightman
I don't like the new reality of the transfer portal madness more than anybody else ... the days of watching a player like Dee Brown in an Illini jersey for four seasons in a row and play three of those with 90% the same team seem like such a distant memory that it's unreal.

With that said, I'm highly skeptical that some of you won't be just as invested in next year's team if we are winning, lol ... when Trent and 'Monte and Kofi left us, nobody here thought TSJ would be in an Illini jersey someday, let alone one of the greats. Last offseason, I didn't even know who Marcus Domask WAS, and I'm positive very few people thought he had the chance to be an all-conference player.

If we are winning games next year and look primed for another deep NCAA Tournament run, we'll ~all of a sudden~ "love this team," haha. Again, I miss the old days of pre-transfer mania ... but at the end of the day, we cheer for the program and the "laundry," as some have said. And we will learn to love whoever is repping the Fighting Illini.
 
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IMPE Legend
madillini4 said:
Some of you need to step away from the keyboard and see your doctor about changing medication.
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Not being critical of you so much when I say this, but I find it funny that so many people are acting like our roster turnover is somehow a normal thing. Its not. Totally different from a few years ago. And not even normal for the majority of teams in today's portal world. Especially for a team that was just in the Elite 8 and the coach went on and on about how much he loved the players. This is simply not normal and to act like there is no reason to be concerned when the team is going to have 2 players back next year (well, maybe...the portal isn't closed yet) is crazy. I don't think Brad has been nearly as successful bringing in transfers as some of you think to just sit back and assume he's got this all under control. Or at least bringing in players at this scale. Probably forgetting people(Dain should go somewhere), but last few years the impact transfers have been:

- Domask, Gurrier, Harmon
- Shannon, Mayer
- Grandison, Plummer, Payne

Obviously a good list, but it spans 3 years and nothing from that list makes me think we can suddenly create a top team in one off season around 2 holdovers. So worrying actually makes sense. Maybe it will work out, but there's a pretty good chance it won't. That's just being realistic.
 
#296      
madillini4
ChiefGritty said:
There are 50 posts chastising people for freaking out in this thread and zero posts freaking out.
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What in the world are you talking about? Every other post I read is someone freaking out or not being able to follow along with the thread and asking about players that have been talked about over and over. I didn’t even mention people freaking out and you put worlds in my mouth. Why do you feel the need to interject all the time with baseless arguments? It’s gotten beyond annoying to be honest.
 
#297      
WeWillWhen
Fighter of the Nightman said:
I don't like the new reality of the transfer portal madness more than anybody else ... the days of watching a player like Dee Brown in an Illini jersey for four seasons in a row and play three of those with 90% the same team seem like such a distant memory that it's unreal.

With that said, I'm highly skeptical that some of you won't be just as invested in next year's team if we are winning, lol ... when Trent and 'Monte and Kofi left us, nobody here thought TSJ would be in an Illini jersey someday, let alone one of the greats. Last offseason, I didn't even know who Marcus Domask WAS, and I'm positive very few people thought he had the chance to be an all-conference player.

If we are winning games next year and look primed for another deep NCAA Tournament run, we'll ~all of a sudden~ "love this team," haha. Again, I miss the old days of pre-transfer mania ... but at the end of the day, we cheer for the program and the "laundry," as some have said. And we will learn to love whoever is repping the Fighting Illini.
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Annual roster churn for a decade-plus hasn't seemed to dim the passion of UK basketball fans. Just saying.
 
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ChiefGritty
IMPE Legend said:
Not being critical of you so much when I say this, but I find it funny that so many people are acting like our roster turnover is somehow a normal thing. Its not. Totally different from a few years ago. And not even normal for the majority of teams in today's portal world. Especially for a team that was just in the Elite 8 and the coach went on and on about how much he loved the players. This is simply not normal and to act like there is no reason to be concerned when the team is going to have 2 players back next year (well, maybe...the portal isn't closed yet) is crazy. I don't think Brad has been nearly as successful bringing in transfers as some of you think to just sit back and assume he's got this all under control. Or at least bringing in players at this scale. Probably forgetting people(Dain should go somewhere), but last few years the impact transfers have been:

- Domask, Gurrier, Harmon
- Shannon, Mayer
- Grandison, Plummer, Payne

Obviously a good list, but it spans 3 years and nothing from that list makes me think we can suddenly create a top team in one off season around 2 holdovers. So worrying actually makes sense. Maybe it will work out, but there's a pretty good chance it won't. That's just being realistic.
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As much as I hate it as a college basketball fan, as an experiment I'm fascinated to see how betting it all on the portal plays out.

We are aggressively testing a hypothesis in real time.
 
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Second place is 1st loser
madillini4 said:
What in the world are you talking about? Every other post I read is someone freaking out or not being able to follow along with the thread and asking about players that have been talked about over and over. I didn’t even mention people freaking out and you put worlds in my mouth. Why do you feel the need to interject all the time with baseless arguments? It’s gotten beyond annoying to be honest.
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To be fair, these threads by EOD exceed 300 posts. The repeat posts come from people that don't have the time to scroll back 10 - 15 pages to try and keep up with the full time Loyalty employees.
 
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