Recent content by The Galloping Ghost

We reached the pinnacle of the sport only to slide into irrelevance. Staying on top is hard. We've seen how easily it can all go away. Thankfully, now the administration and coaching staff have their eyes on the prize in every single facet. We have the best assistant coaches money can buy. We...

Really appreciate the staff finding ways to play in MSG year in and year out. Those games get a lot of eyes and it helps show we are a national brand. Not to mention, it probably helps OA recruit the NYC kids when he can point to us consistently playing there.

I like Dain and Amani a lot. I think both are going to have really solid seasons. Now that we know our front court, though, it's pretty obvious why we were fine with them walking. We got significantly longer, better shooting, more versatile, and just plain better fits for what we want to do...

When Brad was spotted in Europe, you just knew this was his mindset... Now can he pull the double?

So we went from the players not being able to get a single cent over the table to full-on world soccer, uncapped teams paying transfer fees to pro clubs, huh. Wild. I can't wait to see if this works and am fascinated to see how it possibly blows up in our faces. The off-season is never dull.

I wish follows were as binding as LOIs. Oh, the number of players we would have had.

And if he does come back, we have to be the ones giving him the most money. Not doing so would be an unthinkably poor, fan-crushingly bad allocation of resources.

For me, personally, there is no player or combination of players that would make up for losing Hawk to another school. I doubt it'll happen, but we're also in a world where anything feels like it can and will happen.

She averaged 2 or more blocks a game in three separate seasons. Yeah, that certainly fills an area of need.

It feels like we've waited 10 years to see Morez suit up in the orange and blue. If we only get him for one year, please be because the following season he's in the league. If he transfers out after all of this, man, that will be killer. No matter how good Poopy McGee is. Yeah, my rabid fandom...

I have a close friend who's a diehard St. John's fan. I ended up watching most of their games that season between that and Belo being there. It was shocking how Mike Anderson was fumbling that clearly talented team. A truly dreadful coaching job. And count me in on Posh if he's a possibility...

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Honestly, you shouldn't be. I always appreciate your posts and perspective. The board is a better place with you here. I just vividly remember you questioning whether we'd make the tournament, which felt like taking your valid concerns a bit too far.

Iron: "This Illinois team is a sure fire tournament team in my book" ChiefGritty: "I cannot agree, unfortunately." https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/post/illini-basketball-2023-2024.31802/page-6#post-1927250 Always gotta keep the receipts, just in case...

Honestly, hope this thread stays relatively quiet for the rest of the off-season.