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Just be sure we keep the Big 3 freshmen plus DangerGive me the over …
Just be sure we keep the Big 3 freshmen plus DangerGive me the over …
Blue guys >French wine
Who?How will we remember the Zach Perrin era...
Slaughterhouse Five comes to mind.I wished he was as influential on my life as Valerie Perrine
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Piper and Werner are reporting that he got a good professional offer and that's why everything changed so quickly.
Piper and Werner are reporting that he got a good professional offer and that's why everything changed so quickly.
Can I speculate with no proof of anything ?
You make way too much sense.It's no wonder that he left.
Last summer he played semi-pro basketball at Antibes on the Cote d'azur on the gold coast of France. Then he heads to the plains of Kansas (!) for a temporary fall stay and on to U of Ill for WINTER and Coach Underwood yelling, chewing out guys at practice, and hard study in school. All in a foreign language!
I can imagine that if anyone from France contacted him to come back and play basketball he'd be gone in a flash.
Here's the worrisome part. Who is counseling these young "sensitive" guys Like Skyy and Zak when they run into rough patches? I'm surprised that they just "up and left" almost before anyone knew. The pressure and tension they feel must be bled off before it arrives at a separation.
I know college life is HARD with studies and basketball, and Coach is not an easy guy to play for. And then to practice hard and then sit on the bench all game, we might ALL begin to wonder if its worth it and be tempted to bail.
In the big picture, when you bring in 7-8 new guys its hard for them all to meld together. Skyy may have been driven off by the team, but Zak slunk off to fairer shores.
Not concerned at all. Two distinct situations — a player’s camp who has no qualms about pulling a kid out when his playing time is reduced and a foreign player who hadn’t really had time to connect to program/players because of circumstances out of BU’s control and now it seems got a professional offer. Heck one of the reasons BU likes to keep a schollie open is because of mid-year transfers, so it happens at other schools.anyone concerned with the midseason transfers? what does it say about the program? Maybe nothing.... What does it say about the recruits? Don't follow other programs all that closely but is this happening elsewhere?
Matic Vessel??Has there ever been a player who actually put on an Illini uniform who has played fewer career minutes? Even hutch played more for us
It's only spelled "Champaign" if it's from the East Central region of Illinois. Otherwise it's just sparkling wine.We spell it wrong here
Here's the worrisome part. Who is counseling these young "sensitive" guys Like Skyy and Zak when they run into rough patches? I'm surprised that they just "up and left" almost before anyone knew. The pressure and tension they feel must be bled off before it arrives at a separation. I know college life is HARD with studies and basketball, and Coach is not an easy guy to play for. And then to practice hard and then sit on the bench all game, we might ALL begin to wonder if its worth it and be tempted to bail.
I certainly agree with you in theoretical recruiting processes. I'm just trying to understand the expectation to start midseason that Indy stated along with the "promises not being met" that 0440 stated. Just that from a staff resource perspective, spending time and resources on recruiting a player who has way way way different "take it or leave it" expectations than what the coaching staff knows they can even remotely offer, seems like a bit of an odd choice. And even if this was an either I come in midseason and get starting minutes or I walk type of ultimatum, it seems rather fruitless and possibly disruptive to bring that player onboard knowing full well you won't meet the playing time terms of his ultimatum. It'd be far more logical to me that he had an alternate pro offer, or he was concerned about Dain and Ty's progression along with Amani coming in next year and that he wouldn't be a starter in 2024.Just because he expected it doesn’t mean he was promised it. And as someone points out, didn’t really cost Illini anything to take him at mid-year if he was adamant about it. You hope being in the program and going through the process is beneficial for both parties and he enjoys/sees the benefit of it. If he does, all signs pointed to him being a productive player down the line. If he doesn’t (which obviously he didn’t), then scholarship is back open.
Sorry to see the kid leave as he certainly had talent. But didn’t work out, so I wish him the best and now wait patiently for BU and staff to find the next contributor to fill that scholarship.
Matic, probably. Good for Perrin, he wouldn't have likely played enough significant minutes here for his satisfaction, but now he'll be making a few Euros back home without having to do any homework. BTW, what's Hutch doing nowadays?Has there ever been a player who actually put on an Illini uniform who has played fewer career minutes? Even hutch played more for us
Anthony HiggsHas there ever been a player who actually put on an Illini uniform who has played fewer career minutes? Even hutch played more for us
Vesel appeared in 16 games for a total of 70 minutes. That's a big jump from Perrin's 1 game and 2 minutes, but it is still probably near the bottom. rdstone99 suggested Anthony Higgs, who redshirted his Frosh year and then left, so we get to quibble about whether he "put on the uniform".Matic, probably. Good for Perrin, he wouldn't have likely played enough significant minutes here for his satisfaction, but now he'll be making a few Euros back home without having to do any homework. BTW, what's Hutch doing nowadays?