Anybody know times that some of our targets are announcing today?
Of course I agree. In Florida and Texas, you have teams with multiple P5 players. In Illinois, you're lucky if you entire conference has that many quality players. In the south there's spring football. I lived in Texas when I was in junior high. Even at that age, we had 200 kids in my grade playing football (5 teams). Football was literally a class in our schedule. There's far more training, development, and emphasis put on it down there. I don't know what the argument is?
Werner is on radio and it sounds like Verdis Brown is going to Mizzou.
The debate is whether similarly rated recruits in Illinois are equal to ones in Florida, Texas etc. I was just pointing out the evaluating prospects is not an exact science but it is likely easier to assess a kid with a degree of certainty who plays against other top kids every week. Luke Ford may turn out to be star but he was probably tougher to assess being a man amongst boys most weeks
Werner is on radio and it sounds like Verdis Brown is going to Mizzou.
Werner is on radio and it sounds like Verdis Brown is going to Mizzou.
If I'm not mistaken, he was talking to Mizzou homers at that time though.
Granted, I don't follow this as much as others do, but I've seen nothing recently that suggests he's going to Mizzou. Maybe not Illinois, but nothing suggesting Mizzou.
He just had his final visit there Dec. 16th
When is Brown's decision expected?
He was talking to Gabe DeArmond, who is pretty solid source, and DeArmond said his sources (which he noted were the same sources as Werner) were telling him Brown will sign with Mizzou.
“I want to always come home to my city and make you all proud”
“I want to always come home to my city and make you all proud”
There's a Navajo (I believe) saying that you should always behave in a way that would make your family at home proud. It's great for Verdis to have that attitude.
So much for the sting of losing Luke Ford. Would have been nice had he stayed at home. We could use more downstate representation. Regrets will be his.
Welcome to the Illini Nation, Verdis. You made the right choice. I-L-L-