Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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the juiceman cometh
IlliniDawgs said:
Fun fact, preseason rankings literally couldn’t be more irrelevant if they tried to be
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They're relevant for media coverage but I agree they are pretty useless. In this age of the transfer portal especially the presason rankings are going to be even worse. I wish they didn't exist honestly. The should wait two weeks into the season and then come out with their first rankings, so there's at least some data behind them.
 
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BretMyBeachHouse
Heisenbobble said:
Believe what you wanna believe. And you don't think Hawkins will have an idea where he stands until the season starts? LMAO. Gotcha. This is a recruiting thread, so I'll leave it at that. Done.
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Hawkins has a couple more days to enter the transfer portal in order to play somewhere else this year. From his interview it sounded highly unlikely that he would be entering the portal.

My guess is that it wouldn't matter who we might bring in, he'll be sticking around and fighting for his minutes. I don't see any of the guys on our team as locks for starting right now. Way too much inexperience to figure out who's going to come out on top. Not to mention additions.
 
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logjam
IMPE Legend said:
I tried to make this point a few days ago. Constant player movement is not good for maintaining what college sports is. Which is that fan connection. I was told that people need to stop rooting for individual players and deal with it. Oh, and that the 3 point line had more of an impact than this portal has had. Don't think they understood what I was saying.

Maybe you are right and it will even itself out, but I doubt these kids that have been told what they want to hear their whole lives in AAU will stop believing their handlers any time soon. And this chaos is not good for the game. (and who we happen to sign today....or whenever... does not change that). I think NIL is here to stay and good for the kids. The numbers of players who wind up no where, the tone in Underwood's voice in his recent interview, and the negative impact on fan connection shows that the free transfer rule is not good for the sport. These two together are just bad.
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tim and eric deal with it GIF
 
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BretMyBeachHouse
BashCtIllini said:
strange choice but he's from Mississippi, so staying in state not really a great option, LSU is close to home.

I looked him up, he has got a big frame and he was bringing the ball up the court at 6'10". Moved like a guard, it was pretty impressive.
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funny, I hadn't thought of it as a strange choice. seems like young guys have a ton of opportunity at LSU and the coach seems like a decent guy. it's going to be very interesting in the portal era how teams like this rebuild.
 
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BashCtIllini
BretMyBeachHouse said:
funny, I hadn't thought of it as a strange choice. seems like young guys have a ton of opportunity at LSU and the coach seems like a decent guy. it's going to be very interesting in the portal era how teams like this rebuild.
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tons of opportunity but surely they're going to get a post season ban at some point in the near future.
 
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HailtotheChief
Heisenbobble said:
It's weird that BBV got accepted into Illinois' College of Law very recently, only to transfer out. But it's all good.
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Maybe he likes Saul Goodman and the University of American Samoa has a spot for him.

In all seriousness I am excited for BBV. He could shoot from outside when he arrived and maybe that's why he left because to be a pro anywhere that will be his role.

GIF by Stan.
 
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the juiceman cometh
Heisenbobble said:
It's weird that BBV got accepted into Illinois' College of Law very recently, only to transfer out. But it's all good.
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As an attorney I can say from experience it takes a good student to get into a good law school like that, but takes a smart person to find something else, anything else, to do instead of actually becoming a lawyer. BBV is a smarter person than I.
 
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alaskaillini
Dear Dan,
Is there any way you can create a "block all but..." button, so I could block everyone but you, Illini0440 and Indy Illini Fan. It would be great if I only had one or two pages of recruiting thread to read daily. The other posters can be entertaining at times, but I don't have an hour a day to keep up with the recruiting thread at this time.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Best regards,
alaskaillini
 
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