Same here lol. (I definitely do not miss the pathetic recruiting from our previous coaching staffs. Getting a whole slew of young talented recruits is so refreshing) Its definitely a great time to be a die hard Fighting Illini fan right now. Pretty much everyday when I enter & exit this awesome website, I am always more confident in what we are building here. Great times ahead! GO ILLINI!
Name checks out.
What do you mean by high enough D1? D1 is D1. Santa Clara is D1 so… yes, he’s used up his free portal transfer by transferring there. It doesn’t matter whether or not it’s in a power conference.
Coleman Hawkins will play more than 8 minutes a game... Regardless of who we get.
Coleman, Nance and Dain will all rotate the 4/5. Coleman only getting 8 minutes a game is absurd.
We won’t get both Nance and Mayer like JMoser thought. Therefore there is going to be 20-25 min extra, of which the bulk is going to CH and Dain. I think they kind of fight for those mins.
I don't see how we lose either way. Both are superb basketball players who would make the team much better. Of course if we got both of them we'd probably be the best team in the nation.
No, not even close. Have you seen how stocked teams like Duke, Kentucky, UNC, Arkansas, etc are?
"And he's clearly better than Darius Garland"Good article from Robert on Ty Rodgers:
Kind Of A Big Deal
Remember when Dee Brown, Deron Williams, AND James Augustine were invited to the USA Basketball training camp? It was then that we knew that that trio was way better than their recruiting rankings. In the RSCI, Dee was ranked 19th, Deron 48th, and Augie 78th, but all three being invited to a...illiniboard.com
I think Robert doesn't follow the league and somehow messed up his google search.
Read the comments. It was pointed out, and he owns it the fact that he didn't bother to look up the 2019 draft and that Garland is the best NBA player on the list.
No such thing as a downvote on Loyalty. Has to be said with words or GIFs:
which would make it even odder that he's doing assessments of who the best players are 4 years later, but whatevs, no big deal. Speaks really highly of Rodgers to snag an invite all the same. There isn't enough data out there to really back up whether Team USA Invites are a better predictor or future success than Recruiting Site Rankings so I wouldn't make too big a deal out of who is or isn't underranked, but always great when they're looking at our future recruits highly. As far as I'm concerned, once you step on the court, you're just a player now and your recruit rank doesn't matter.
lol yeah, if Underwood recruited Coleman away from entering the Portal and dropped his minutes from 19 MPG to 8 MPG (absent injuries and concussions) at a time when the entire rest of the big man room left, that would be some ultimate Anime Betrayal type thing.
Everyone has to earn their minutes.
If it needs to happen, it needs to happen. Would be a pretty shocking development though.
My best guess is that Podz will end up with a nice career in some business and live his life in the Bay area. He will be exposed to a climate change unlike anything he knows...and that in itself will make this move one he will never regret. Plus, he will get to play a lot of hoops against some pretty good competition in Gonzaga, St. Mary's, Brigham Young, and San Francisco....not really much of a step down in competition at all if you are educated in college hoops. But he better get used to driving in traffic much like the Dan Ryan at rush hour. Likely, he will never regret leaving C-U, but we will never know.
What do you mean by high enough D1? D1 is D1. Santa Clara is D1 so… yes, he’s used up his free portal transfer by transferring there. It doesn’t matter whether or not it’s in a power conference.
But wait ... aren't these the bad guys?No such thing as a downvote on Loyalty. Has to be said with words or GIFs:
Don't know much about Anime, but Hawkins passes the eyeball test. Dain does not. And while I would welcome Dain Dainja to make a great contribution, the fact remains that he has played 9 mins of college ball. 9 minutes. He may be a wide body and getting stronger in the weight room ... but ... 9 minutes.
Hold on to your butt because I'm about to blow your mind. Do you know who has even fewer minutes than Dain coming into this season? All four freshmen. They have 0 minutes. Combined. That's right, 0. And yet, we're expecting major minutes from them, too.
