Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Nice!!!
Suggestion: could we have one thread celebrating the successful recruiting of ANOTHER five star (maybe), and then another thread where 43 people reply to one asinine statement about preferring to marinate 18 year-old would be superstars in high school where they can change their minds?
Suggestion: could we have one thread celebrating the successful recruiting of ANOTHER five star (maybe), and then another thread where 43 people reply to one asinine statement about preferring to marinate 18 year-old would be superstars in high school where they can change their minds?
Agree. Ayo is the program saver and the gift keeping on giving. I pray he has a productive and healthy career/life.
Illin618
I forgot the last i in my username
- Southern IL
Anyone had credible status on JJ Taylor and Dai Dai Ames for the class off '23? Not too long ago, Illinois seems to be atop the mix of schools pushing for both players talk seems to have fizzled a little for both players. Ames seems more likely, IMO. Anything??
Future Walk-On
- Peoria, IL
We have COME SUCH A LONG WAY. Guys picking us on national TV etc..... the dark days of 2013-2016 are no more.
I have no info, but from what I’ve read on here Taylor won’t be coming here.
LOL the Skyy Instagram-follow tea leaves proved accurate as he followed like half our team in the weeks leading up to his commitment, so I've been checking up on guys like TSJ and Ramey from time to time.
He has such a great pace and calmness to his game. Smooth
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
DB11Headband
- Chicago Burbs
Neither are happening.
Also worth noting that Michigan currently has 14 on scholarship right now I believe so that plus admissions will probably make it tuff for him to commit there
sacraig
- The desert
These guys always follow of ton of people from every school they are looking at. It's not worth following.
217sports
- Springfield
Major portal edition
Yeah. Coach will try to sabotage Skyy and put him on the bench to make sure he transfers... (Sarcasm meter turned high.) No. I think he will basically have the Ayo status (i.e., the top dog) and he won't be like Mark Smith or Adam Miller. So color me not worrying about the Skyy experience.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Good Lord, lol…Here we go again with the Final Four and National Championship talk
Can't win it all if you can't even make it to the Sweet Sixteen
Keep knocking on the door and it will eventually open.
Skipping the honeymoon and revisiting the prenup.
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
Here we go again with the Final Four and National Championship talk
Can't win it all if you can't even make it to the Sweet Sixteen
Hey, I get it, and technically, you're not wrong. But you know, what if we just enjoy a good day for the program and maybe dream a little bit about the future? There have been so many hard times to be an Illini fan. This isn't one of them. It's okay to be happy for a bit.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Seriously … people act like we’ve had seven shots at a Sweet Sixteen and can’t break through. We got upset in 2021 (same thing happened to Baylor literally this year) and lost a coin-flip game to an arguably superior team while we weren’t at 100% in 2022.
What would these pessimistic posters have us do? Assume we will never be better than last year?! Gotta walk before you can run, and 2018 wasn’t that long ago … our progress since then is amazing. If we keep getting 4-seeds and above and keep getting back to the Big Dance, we WILL get a favorable draw and we WILL break through for an Elite Eight and beyond. It simply eventually happens when you return to the Tournament routinely with the kind of talent we continue to get.
Not much of a shooter, but gets after it on D.
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