I thought I had heard that Pullen would have come if offered as well.
Wasn't it Pullen who had the transcript issues? Or was that Beverly?
I thought I had heard that Pullen would have come if offered as well.
Jay Shidler .....one of the best pure shooters I've seen in my lifetime
Wasn't it Pullen who had the transcript issues? Or was that Beverly?
I define a mistake as a gettable player that we didn't offer (or we slow-played the recruitment). Bonus points if the player went to a B1G rival and tortured us for four years.
Beverly definitely had academic issues. I thought Pullen did too.
I didn’t remember Henson coming to Eldorado to see Duff but, I remember Joe B Hall from Kentucky coming to a game to watch him. I believe Eldorado’s Head coach at the time, Bob Brown, had a connection to UofI. Not sure how much interest there was from either Duff or Illinois.
Truly a sad night when that UE plane crash happened.
If we would have gotten DJax in 2013, we probably wouldn't have gone after QSnider the next year.
Shidler was a heavily recruited All-American that went to Kentucky and then averaged 6 ppg. He wasn't a recruiting mistake.
Did he come to the ILLINI, no, hence a miss...Was the recruitment handled incorrectly by others as well as the ILLINI, yes, hence a mistake is all I am saying...seems pretty apparent to me?
I think you mean Digger and Shumate were out, Mcleod was in? We are on the same page here.
The NCAA did not do the right thing because their own investigators and officials were part of the frame-up. http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...etball/2005-03-22/tate-facts-and-fiction.html
Ignoring definition set forward: Mike Thomas, for AD.
Sometimes I feel like the Thomas-blamers versus the Guenther-blamers is the clean line of demarcation between Illini keyboard warriors that all the rest of our takes flow downhill from.
Sometimes I feel like the Thomas-blamers versus the Guenther-blamers is the clean line of demarcation between Illini keyboard warriors that all the rest of our takes flow downhill from.
Sometimes I feel like the Thomas-blamers versus the Guenther-blamers is the clean line of demarcation between Illini keyboard warriors that all the rest of our takes flow downhill from.
Sometimes I feel like the Thomas-blamers versus the Guenther-blamers is the clean line of demarcation between Illini keyboard warriors that all the rest of our takes flow downhill from.
He was indeed, but must have had some issues when he got to college. Never turned into the player I expected. My high school team beat his in the state tourney. If there had been a 3 point line back then we'd of been in trouble. Seemed like he had unlimited range.
Hard to believe that a dartboard and a blindfold wouldn't have yielded as good of decisions since 2005 from our prior two ADs.
We can argue about those two but one thing I do know is this -- if it wasn't for the B1G Network, we'd be in twice the world of hurt we currently find ourselves. As bad as it is, it could have been death-penalty like.
Sometimes I feel like the Thomas-blamers versus the Guenther-blamers is the clean line of demarcation between Illini keyboard warriors that all the rest of our takes flow downhill from.
Guyton was a Central guy. Most of our Peoria guys came from Manual. Livingston, also.
Bill Cole came from Richwoods, so we have gotten some guys (well at least one) from Peoria who didn't go to Manual.