Hell of a day
This could be good or bad. You make us nervous my man.
Hell of a day
Nothing to worry about from what I have heard. Get ready for tomorrow, it will be a great day for Illini Nation.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MISS LIPPY!
that reminds me.
My insider....close to the front line tells me to drink lots of beer tommorow and wear my cup!!!
My insider....close to the front line tells me to drink lots of beer tommorow and wear my cup!!!
Says the dude who came up with the Power Five Sports Misery index to prove that, you know, we are a fanbase who has uniquely suffered?
This is demonstrably untrue. How many of us thought that a guy like JoeBert needed to just put a few things together and he'd be beastly? I and many others were posting during the 2013-2014 season and following offseason about how we liked the flashes we saw from Tate, his great court vision, and how he just needed to develop an outside shot. Many of us expected big sophomore leaps for players like Austin Colbert, Aaron Jordan, and DJ Williams during Groce's tenure. Tons of us expected huge things from JCL this last year after a freshman campaign where he set an Illinois record for 3s by a freshman.
This could be good or bad. You make us nervous my man.
I don't know what the issue was with Groce not playing DJW more, but he is going to get an opportunity to show to Coach BU what he can do. He looked fairly good in the few minutes of PT he got last year, but I don't recall him ever getting a goo straight 10 minutes of clock to develop some flow.....so yes the bench guys who are going to have an opportunity to impress the new staff are a bit of mystery. I agree with that. I am cautiously optimistic.Yeah, but specifically in wins and losses, not in recruiting. I feel like in some ways the recruiting focus around here obscures how bad we've actually been. The relative amount of success we've had recruiting for both sports (top half of the P5 in basketball and well above the bottom in football) during that period would make our performance look even worse.
(Hmm. I wonder if there's a methodology I could use to look at that.... Food for thought)
The JCL one I'll give you, the others I don't remember at all. Especially Tate. And the other thing is, hype for players who have been on the roster but haven't played is basically the same thing as hype for recruits. It's the idea that the mystery box holds the key to everything, when the real key to everything on most occasions is leaps like the one Malcolm made from his sophomore to junior year, or the one Chester Frazier (perhaps the most maligned player in Illinois boards history) made from his junior to his senior year.
I saw a post under the dunk gif that asks why illini wants 8 guards. This is actually a good point.
I saw a post under the dunk gif that asks why illini wants 8 guards. This is actually a good point.
Lucas, Frazier, JCL, Jordan, Da'Monte, Smith. Who am I missing?
so who works at the bakery that made the cake for after the announcement tomorrow??? haha sorry just being ridiculous
Lucas, Frazier, JCL, Jordan, Da'Monte, Smith. Who am I missing?
Lucas, Frazier, JCL, Jordan, Da'Monte, Smith. Who am I missing?
My insider....close to the front line tells me to drink lots of beer tommorow and wear my cup!!!
I think they were adding DJ and Kipper
Assuming Smith commits.......Lucas, Frazier, JCL, Jordan, Da'Monte, Smith. Who am I missing?
Those are not guards.