Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (October 2017)

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For Brad Underwood, Illinois is a destination program. For Danny Manning it is, how do I become the heir apparent to Bill Self or Roy Williams.

Totally irrelevant... it is the Weber argument for Illinois.
 
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james81

North Carolina
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People stop being dorks. Stay off the wake forest board.

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Seriously.

Some of those fans aren't using objective argumentation or logic in making their case. The same is true here. Fans are fans, and as such, rationality plays second fiddle to homerism.

The thing is, their fans have no clue where Ayo is going. And neither do our fans. We can all speculate. We can all make arguments for why our school is the best choice. But we're all projecting our own biases onto Ayo, and I'm pretty sure Ayo is going to make a decision based on criteria that nobody here is fully aware of.

We'll know in 2 days. Driving one's self crazy by following each Tweet or message board post isn't the most constructive way to spend the next two days, but that's just me :)
 
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sacraig

The desert
Well I seems to me that is more reason to be concerned. MP wears Jordan, he announcement is at a Jordan store, CP is a Jordan guy, Jordan even had a wake forest edition CP3 shoe.

Of course, the Jordan brand doesn't sponsor either of the college teams in question, and Nike, who owns Air Jordan, sponsors both teams. This seems like making a whole lot of something out of nothing.

Occam's razor: MP wears Air Jordan, so Ayo has a connection there.
 
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kcib8130

Parts Unknown
Of course, the Jordan brand doesn't sponsor either of the college teams in question, and Nike, who owns Air Jordan, sponsors both teams. This seems like making a whole lot of something out of nothing.

Occam's razor: MP wears Air Jordan, so Ayo has a connection there.

That has to be the first time that logic has been used in this thread.

Maybe even this board.
 
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Totally irrelevant... it is the Weber argument for Illinois.

Logic...yes.

Practically this staff is a much better recruiting staff than Weber ever had and what 5 star did we lose to a stepping stone coach? Maybe we did. Please remind me.
 
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sacraig

The desert
That has to be the first time that logic has been used in this thread.

Maybe even this board.

Give it time and I will also invoke Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
 
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Is THT down to 5? Not sure who officially is left in play for him according to his list.

Top 7:
Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Iowa State, Ohio State, Saint Louis, Xavier.

Official Visits (per 247):
9/22 - Xavier
10/6 - Georgia Tech
10/13 - Iowa State
10/20 - Illinois
 
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So Thursday is when we find out if Ayo fits BU's system.:cool:

Might be the day our chances increase dramatically with regard to Okoro/EJ/Whitney and THT for this year even...Gotta think having Ayo on board attracts these guys at least a few if not even a late bloomer/stock increasing player in the spring?
 
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Wake is the 4th best program, it will always be that way unless they become 5th. Never going to be more popular than UNC, Duke, and NCST. Don't see him going to a much smaller university that geographically separates him from family and friends.
 
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mhuml32

Cincinnati, OH
Not that it is the end all be all, but Ayo retweeting all this Wake stuff might be nothing, but it certainly isn't positive. Have we ever had a commitment where the player retweeted the other team's stuff and not ours and then committed to us? It's not that it's 1 or 2 things. It's that it's 6 or 7 yesterday.


Should have seen the Bradford recruitment. He's was posting all kinds of crazy things on Twitter and Intagram, snapchatting with Memphis and Tennessee. Was a big shocker when made a Vine of himself committing to Illinois.
 
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BananaShampoo

Captain 'Paign
Phoenix, AZ
Should have seen the Bradford recruitment. He's was posting all kinds of crazy things on Twitter and Intagram, snapchatting with Memphis and Tennessee. Was a big shocker when made a Vine of himself committing to Illinois.
Bradford? Methinks you are mistaken. Assume you mean Black.
 
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