No. Football is the superior sport.
Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
No. Football is the superior sport.
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
1. This dying network TV exec led super league nonsense is based on football, so unless you want to be in new Div 1A...
2. There are plenty of schools who juggle football, basketball, women's hoops, AND baseball (and a couple of these schools aren't in the SEC or B1G to boot) so this idea rings hollow...
3. By the way I already know that NIL gets its money separately from TV money, but an NIL system that relies on rich donors and grandpa & grandma's monthly check isn't the best system..... I think the TV/streaming money may dry up come time after the next media rights deal, but some of that should be able bee allocated to NIL now.
4. Positive note: if there is a school who do an "NIL Moneyball," Illinois has a ready made source of computer geeks and professors to pull it off hehe.
No way....I'd prefer to be consistently competitive in each rather than UK in one, Vandy in the other. That was the state of our being through late in the Tepper years, with football consistently mid-pack or slightly above and basketball top quarter of the conference. All it takes is the right FB coach to get us there, and it very well may be BB.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
It's scary because Illinois football is a "have not" in the scheme of the top-40 programs. If Illinois football had an extra $15 million annually to pump into their program and the narrative was curtailing those expenses across the system, we would be [rightly] going bonkers.
Michigan is probably the best chance at an upset, at least of the 3 you mentioned. I don’t think they’ll be all that great this year, and as I’ve said before am penciling that one in as a W this year… perhaps overly optimistic but we’ll see. Win half of the one score games… things’ll be looking pretty decent
Ryllini
- Lombard
100% yes. All day!
MustangWally
- Mayfield
We won five games by an average of 3 points. We were just as close to being 0-12 as we were to 9-3.
Don't say that. I liked @Indy Illini Fan's version better.
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
subscriber article, but you'll get the gist:
Not to nitpick but we beat IU last year.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
To have the WR desert between the Dudek injuries/AJ Jenkins meteoric rise to until IW11 switched to WR, it's amazing how much the WR recruiting has changed. Kudos to George McDonald helping right the ship as well. Just gotta find a way to transfer some of this magic to the D-line recruiting (need big years from Coleman and Jacas).
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
So, could we expect a commitment today? These transfers have already visited or are currently visiting and i hope we can get this locked up soon.
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
OV, getting serious:
Cleveland DL, 6' 6" 260. lotta good offers: https://247sports.com/Player/jayquan-stubbs-46147171/
Cleveland DL, 6' 6" 260. lotta good offers: https://247sports.com/Player/jayquan-stubbs-46147171/
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Joel Goodson
- dawgville
double sucks:
if someone could explain this, I'd appreciate it
if someone could explain this, I'd appreciate it
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
Walters strikes again. he always seems to go after Illinois players that leave. I'm not saying it's wrong or anything, it's just that extra gut punch to us that gives Illinois fans a little more heartburn.
And, just got a high 4* DB to reclassify up and sign with Purdue for the '24 class. Again, where was this at UI?
Can’t reply specifically to Calvin Smith, but Purdue does have six or seven former Illinois coaches/staffers that either coached or were involved with the recruiting of our transfer out players. Many relationships are already established. I’m not sure if it’s normal for a coordinator to take that many guys from the program he leaves , but maybe BB was fine with those coaches & personnel that did leave.
Walters to BB thus far
We'll have to see how good these players end up being long-term, but pretty sad we keep losing players/recruits to the mighty Boilermakers.
We'll have to see how good these players end up being long-term, but pretty sad we keep losing players/recruits to the mighty Boilermakers.
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
another transfer
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Walters to BB thus far
We'll have to see how good these players end up being long-term, but pretty sad we keep losing players/recruits to the mighty Boilermakers.
How about Walters wins some games first
He won against us. I'm hoping the wheels fall off over there, but us going 5-7 against an easier scheduled compared to their 4-8 doesn't negate the fact that he's been a pain in the butt since he took the job.
Don’t know if it will equate to more wins than the Illini, but on paper Purdue has recruited much better with the high school and portal kids compared to Illinois.