Recent content by Illinois13

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    Lovie Smith receives 2-year contract extension through 2023

    Appreciate your sensibility on donations vs game day tickets, seriously. I don’t have your billfold, but wish we had more alumni with enough money/generosity to buy their friends and family the stubhub tickets and let their families go and enjoy the game day atmosphere of Grange Grove and...
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    Iowa State 84, Illinois 68 POSTGAME

    Haha - the response was me keyboard warrior-ing my immediate flashback... but I share the same sentiment. Just figured I'd spell it out without all the painful details of each poor admin decision, recruiting miss, and tough break. Seriously though, it's been tough to endure.
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    Iowa State 84, Illinois 68 POSTGAME

    The problem is Henson built the program to a different level and so-on. Kruger rebuilt the foundation with Peoria. We hit a back-to-back home run coaches by hiring Self and experienced a sustainable growth model. Weber inherited Self's roster and won big early in his tenure but couldn't match...
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Gonzaga

    First five minutes we need a quick 5pts from Trent, layup from Ayo, Gorgi something nice off the glass, and an AJ 3 - would love for kipper to get to the line too
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Gonzaga

    What an interestingly officiated game so far. I agree with about 50% of the calls on either team and noticed a ton of travels and no calls. Shaky performance from the zebras.
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    Illinois 99, Evansville 60 POSTGAME

    Kipper played well. In our minds, he should crushing teams because we know he can do it. For whatever reason, I think his presence will be felt against better teams. He won't be outclassed and has the tendency to play at the level of competition.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (October 2018)

    Re-hashing a tough moment this week and went to the buckeye board to see the reaction of landing EJ. Found 22 posts in the "EJ Liddell" thread - and one with EJ praising Holtman's winning culture. Maybe OSU has a different bball forum, but damn we need to get it together.
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Western Illinois

    Man. That hit by Stanley was so dumb.
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Western Illinois

    hover the mouse over 'btn tv' near the top of the page. then select games on btv - then choose the UI game.
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Western Illinois

    Make sure you're using Google Chrome. When you click Xfinity you'll notice your pop-up blocker stops the secondary site from loading (this is up in the https bar). Either turn it off in the browser, or click to allow the pop-up. You should be logged in shortly thereafter.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (August 2018)

    Haha... think that's based off your cookies and searching habits :oops:
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (August 2018)

    Back up. Think about what has changed since the IDWTI recruitment or anything in the past 10 years. We have Rivals and 247’s premium and free boards, Robert’s illiniboard, and several other affiliates. The recruits read twitter, reddit, facebook, discord, etc. So we push and pull info from the...
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    Basketball Uniforms

    I really like these - ready to be done with 1’s and zigzags (to beat the dead horse).
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (April 2018)

    Ok - makes more sense now. Groce's inexperience really showed in the ability to hedge his bets... or perhaps loyalty to assistants. Either way, seemed like a good guy. Watching the tourney the past two years was a constant reminder that he identified the right talent (maybe earlier than most...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (April 2018)

    Apologies if there is some missed context to this comment, but genuinely confused because we landed plan A in Donsumu. Not sure we missed in too many areas otherwise - Landers/THT (get it) but then landed Jones/Griffin and both appear to be great prospects. Then, due to extensive roster...