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Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
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217sports
- Springfield
They've done everything right with Laughery so that would especially be annoying from a central Illinois HS.
Joel Goodson
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Maybe he wants to get out of his backyard.
Still fighting an uphill battle even if we do everything right.
Gotta string together some winning seasons as being a part of a winning program is more important to some recruits than it is to others.
Gotta string together some winning seasons as being a part of a winning program is more important to some recruits than it is to others.
I think this is often a bigger thing than we give it credit for being. Iowa isn’t where I’d pick to study abroad, but its not easy for teens to break out of that high school thinking of “this will be a lot for fun if my parents never know about it” mode. If you parents can’t travel that far, cheer for me on Zoom!
Isaiah Montgomery, 3 star OT from Virginia who visited us last week, commits to Pitt
Joel Goodson
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100%. For kids from the Chicago area, CU is far enough away from home (for the vast majority). For kids near CU, not so much.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Speaking to the importance of getting Austin Brown. Illinois has only received one commitment that was ranked in the top-6 in the State of Illinois since the end of Zook's run (2012): Gabe Megginson (4th). Pearl was 6th by 247 rankings only (not composite) and Aaron Bailey was 6th right when Zook was canned. Brown would break that cycle.
Austin Brown would be an amazing get for this staff and restart our IL recruiting and hopefully drive more top in state recruits to the flagship school of the state.
Joel Goodson
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Yeah, he's a couple of steps up the food chain. We need kids like that.
Big boy Baer with 3 CB for Sparty. gross
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
Looks like we have someone joining the famILLy22 shortly per Bielema’s Twitter.
Doug Bucshon reporting that Ashton Hollins has committed.
If reported 40 time is close to accurate I like the pickup. Would think Bostick is probably going to Iowa if we have Pugh, Beatty and Hollins at WR but who knows
Joel Goodson
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Yeah, I think staff was all in on Pugh (not saying they didn't want Bostick). And when he committed, the die was pretty much cast. Pretty similar players.
Hollins: McDonald knows what he's doing, so am giving him the benefit of the doubt. Kids slip through the cracks every year. This year, even more so. Especially, kids from rural backwaters.
Did you see his quote about McDonald in the Werner article? They are definitely using McDonald’s past NFL successes as a recruiting tool.
"I feel like I'm going to be good because he's put 27 kids in the NFL, and I'm just going to listen to him and whatever he tells me to do I'm going to do because he did it before.”
Kid can fly. Great athlete
The 247 article on his commitment made it sound like he also played QB and really hadn’t played that much WR. If I read that right it could definitely be a reason for him flying under radar.
Welcome aboard Ashton. Coming from small town south is an impressive pick up. Committed is the key. Good luck this year in football.
Looks like Eddie McGee
Joel Goodson
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runs like Fayson (maybe better)
long smooth strides, looks like a good one
We’re his 2 sub 4.4 40 times FAT?
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