Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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doowink
WyattEarp said:
Four years is what we’re traditionally/historically used to, for most of our fandom…but because of Covid it’s changed…

I’m with you to there…
But let me ask you this:

Was it weirder when Trent Frazier played 5 years for us? OR would it have seemed weirder to see Trent playing for Iowa against us his 5th year?

(If it were possible then)
How about Dee or Deron or Nick or Kenny in Michigan or Indiana Jerseys their 5th year?

What is your honest reaction as a fan?
IMO we wouldn’t be fans if it didn’t bother us a little.
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Like Luke Goode draining 3 pt shots for Indiana next season…I understand that’s just the way it’s gonna be with the way things are in todays CBB world…but I’m not gonna lie ….its gonna feel weird
 
#403      
Illinicpa14
What you see right now is baseball free agency all on 1 year contracts and with more teams. So by definition without a cap, you have to overpay the field to get your guy unless there’s other circumstances.

And despite their histories, the Yankees have to overspend too, they just have more money to do it.
 
#405      
illinoispeak
How do we feel about...

Boswell
Hunter Silas
David Jones
Himrichous
PJ Hall

DGL
Ty Rogers
Tre White
Booth
Morez

Davis
Jansky
 
#407      
Illini2010-11
doowink said:
Like Luke Goode draining 3 pt shots for Indiana next season…I understand that’s just the way it’s gonna be with the way things are in todays CBB world…but I’m not gonna lie ….its gonna feel weird
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I don't think Goode is truly comparable in the fact that he already graduated. Attending IU is also getting him scholarship to their prestigious business school for MBA.

I view him much more like a grad transfer, and I can't fault him in the slightest. From the long-term financial perspective, Goode is making the correct decision in every way by leaving Champaign. It will obviously feel weird seeing him play for the enemy, but I am happy that he gets to fulfill his childhood dream and get a great MBA as well.

puke GIF


Now never to speak good of IU ever again!
 
#408      
ChiefGritty
Fighter of the Nightman said:
the "bones" of a very large, engaged and NIL-donating Illini FOOTBALL fan base are there.
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That's fine and dandy but if the existing flesh and blood on the basketball side isn't functioning, we have a fundamental enterprise-wide immediate term crisis.

illinoispeak said:
How do we feel about...

Boswell
Hunter Sallis
David Jones
Himrichous
PJ Hall
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A good rule of thumb is that if you're creating the preseason #1 team in the country, you are being unrealistic in terms of the likely possible outcomes in the portal.

Sallis, Jones and Hall would all be top 15 guys, maybe top 10. Any one of those three, or Bryce Hopkins, would be a transformational coup on their own.
 
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7 Year Illini
ChiefGritty said:
I think the issue with the first point indicates the issue with the second.

"Unless your coach leaves" is still emerging from the framework the NCAA itself opened up, that not playing automatically upon transferring is a right of the athlete that is being withheld.

The thing, the ONLY thing, that college athletes have an inalienable moral right to is the fair share of the money their talents bring into the University on the basis of their labor. That's the north star here.

Over the course of the 20th Century the NCAA got a comical amount of leeway to make the "student-athlete" concept stand up as something distinct from an employment relationship in the course of business. Courts and legislatures deferred and deferred and deferred in hopes that the NCAA could create a defensible framework for them to affirm.

All they had to do was cut the kids in on the money. It wouldn't have been easy, it wouldn't have been simple, it wouldn't have solved every problem, but had the organization accepted that the status quo was untenable it could have LED on building a new system that worked.

Instead they panicked, started throwing everything overboard that wasn't "amateurism" and torched their credibility to the ground. They have painted themselves into the corner of being SELF-ACKNOWLEDGED monopolists in the business of college athletics. And part of that process was bedding in the notion that free transfers are an integral component of player rights, in a totally unintentional and path-dependent way.

The system could survive, indeed thrive, with the players getting paid. It would collapse in a decade without any restrictions on player movement. Everyone can see that now, but some of us were saying this in the mid-2000's (and others even before that I'm sure).

It's a spectacular failure of institutional stewardship, and I will continue to beat the drum that it COULD have been different.

Now though, proceeding from where we are? Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again is one heck of a riddle.
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EXACTLY! I have been saying for years. Make them employees. Give them a cut.

But no, the administrations and the NCAA wanted to preserve FAKE AMATUERISM that HARMED KIDS. So if you are pining for the old system, just remember, it actively HARMED KIDS. They were taken advantage of. Good riddance to the old system.
 
#414      
Manual3for4peat
The NCAA is such a joke, they did nothing with this brewing mess for years, now we have this crap. Watching Coleman play for someone else would suck.
 
#418      
Keisersose
Indy Illini Fan said:
I think that its definitely on the table that he comes back to college and it isn't Illinois ...

We do not have a 5 ... Until we do ... We aren't the best situation for him ... Just is what is ...

There are already teams circling on this one ... Blue bloods ...
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So Hunter Dickinson at the 5 and Coleman at the 4.

Oh No Do Not Want GIF by CBC
 
#419      
Heisenbobble
illinoispeak said:
How do we feel about...

Boswell
Hunter Silas
David Jones
Himrichous
PJ Hall

DGL
Ty Rogers
Tre White
Booth
Morez

Davis
Jansky
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In fairytale world, that's awesome! It ain't happening, though. Jones doesn't seem to be entering the portal. PJ Hall will get a huge bag from someone IF he even enters the portal. And Sallis is another major question mark on if he'll return to college. If he does, all the blue bloods will want him.

Also, it's Rodgers, Humrichous, and Jakstys. Just FYI.
 
#422      
Chiieeff
Have there been any updates on Humdinger? Curious if there have been any additional visits, rumors, or X posts to give pause. I will remain confident in him wearing Orange until otherwise noted. He will be a big piece for us!
 
#425      
illiniguy24
Admissions issues…best player playing the nba draft game but possibly transferring….are we about to be Michigan this year?

/s


(But also kinda nervous)
 
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