Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

[Dan]

Welcome to the Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

IL Returnees
1) Ty Rodgers
2) Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn

IL Signees
1) Morez Johnson (2024 PF) committed on November 4th, 2021.
2) Jason Jakstys (2024 F) committed on July 23rd, 2023.
3) Jake Davis (Mercer guard) committed on April 1st.
4) Tre White (Louisville wing) committed on April 9th.
5) Kylan Boswell (Arizona guard) committed on April 14th.
6) Carey Booth (Notre Dame forward) committed on April 16th.
7) Ben Humrichous (Evansville forward) committed on April 30th.
8) Tomislav Ivisic (Croatian center) committed on May 6th.


Unofficial IllinoisLoyalty List of Illinois Basketball Potential Targets by soupy17


IL players in transfer portal
1) Niccolo Moretti entered transfer portal on April 29th.
2) Coleman Hawkins entered transfer portal on May 1st.


Transfers/decommits from the program
1) Dain Dainja entered transfer portal on April 1st, committed to Memphis on April 5th.
2) Jase Butler decommitted on April 8th, committed to Washington on April 23rd.
3) Sencire Harris entered transfer portal on April 15th, committed to West Virginia on April 21st.
4) Amani Hansberry entered transfer portal on April 16th, committed to West Virginia on April 21st.
5) Luke Goode entered transfer portal on April 22nd, committed to Indiana on April 26th.


2025 Recruiting
1) Jeremiah Fears (2025 PG) committed on January 22nd, 2024.

 

[john1952]

 

[BrimfieldBomber]

 

[jezzadownunder]

 

[illinifan1987]

 

[lilbox]

with all the talk about the Demin stuff it makes me wonder how long before the rules and regulations start to change for NIL, only league in the world currently paying players without contracts.

 

[NB2D]

 

[illiniguy24]

The weather is starting to get a bit warm for Demin, anyways. Staff needs to look for a cooler fabric that will mesh better with the guard-ments

 

[Goldtop]

No one knows where the NIL market is going to go, but I really hope no school jumps in and pays Egor $2 mil

 

[Illini4Christ]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788697685333037290

Great job big man, your Illini family is proud of you.

 

[frozenrope9190]

This has been a wild ride. Season ended like 6 weeks ago.

 

[Illiniindian]

No one knows where the NIL market is going to go, but I really hope no school jumps in and pays Egor $2 mil

I agree,
However, the only way this insanity stops is if there are programs willing to pay $2 mil for one player.
So for his sake and the future of college basketball as we know it, I hope gets $5 mil.

 

[Snoopy]

Common guys, dip into your 401k. Take out a 2nd mortgage. We can make some Russian kid we all learned about 3 days ago rich! Delaying retirement a few years will be so worth it if he gets us an extra weekend of basketball next March! \s

 

[Illini92and96]

The NIL era is going to be susceptible to the winner's curse for less proven players - "the party who wins an auction of a commodity of uncertain value with a fair number of bidders typically pays more than the asset is actually worth". You win the auction, yes, but no one else bidding thought the price you won at made sense.

To the extent that NIL is limited for a given school, which is probably often the case despite internet musing, schools that materially overpay will suffer. It's obviously different with a known commodity with a proven track record, but there will be major NIL misses on promising, but unproven talent. Not saying Egor specifically, but people like him.

 

[sharpshot16]

No one knows where the NIL market is going to go, but I really hope no school jumps in and pays Egor $2 mil

UConn and BYU are the two at that dollar amount bidding back and forth.

We don't have a bag that big left. I said we had to go back to the donors months ago when Egor wanted a mil.

 

[Kendall Gill’s Uncle]

with all the talk about the Demin stuff it makes me wonder how long before the rules and regulations start to change for NIL, only league in the world currently paying players without contracts.

Who is going to regulate it? The NCAA has very limited power now.

 

[IlliniwekKDR]

Well I woke up to completely new information this morning

 

[MDchicago]

I agree,
However, the only way this insanity stops is if there are programs willing to pay $2 mil for one player.
So for his sake and the future of college basketball as we know it, I hope gets $5 mil.

Expect that he will get his $2M or close to it. If we ever get to something closer to true free agency, note that the NBA market today (even with a soft salary cap) has top players making ~3x what top coaches are making. $2M for a top CBB player is still less than 40% of what top college coaches are making (which historically benefitted from the absence of player payments in the system), so there is plenty of room for movement. Though the NIL player comp system (such that it is) is still restricted in that the institution making money off of the enterprise is prohibited from paying players directly. For now anyway...

 

[derrick6]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788697685333037290

Great job big man, your Illini family is proud of you.

Illini for life

 

[Kendall Gill’s Uncle]

I’ve seen some on here mention that this team has a lot of good parts but is missing an alpha or go-to scorer. I’m not trying to criticize that and am honestly curious about this. Who was the alpha/go-to scorer on UConn this year? I feel like their best weapon was their depth in quality pieces and balance.

 

[illinifiedler]

Where did BYU get $2 million from??

 

[Warren Carter Fanclub]

Where did BYU get $2 million from??

A big donor who owns wedding chapels.

 

[illini0440]

Where did BYU get $2 million from??

They have signed 1 transfer. Plenty of money for them to spend.

 

[Illinirog70]

Guys, how many times have we (and virtually every other school) gone through this at the hands of an eighteen year old?

In this case WE NEVER HAD HIM! He is being handled and so are we...

We got a visit, which got our blood pressure racing. But this type of high profile, megastar singular player almost never comes to Illinois. And maybe that's a good thing! Egor-types typically go to Memphis, USC, Texas, where big money grows on trees...

We get guys (Ayo, Cofi, Shannon) that Brad can shape into great players on very good teams. So RELAX! We'll get another good player or two and will field a team that we can be proud of.

And Egor (Igor, Ogor, Ugor, Agor, Sometimes Ygor) will probably sign with the Dodgers--everyone else has!

Go get 'em, Brad! I love the way he's constructing this team.

 

[BWA]

Okay insiders, I'm really curious. How many donors are there contributing big dollars for our NIL fund? Is it like 5 guys donating 80% of the money, or is it more spread out than that?