Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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illiniguy24
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Why? Because we are in on a highly sought after recruit and we don’t know his decision before it’s announced? Any doesn’t it remind you of any of the high level recruits we’ve successfully landed in the last couple of years? Lol.
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Don’t take my post so literal. It just feels like one of the recruitments of old that we lose out on is all. The type of recruitment it has turned into does not remind me of our recent successes, which have been more straight forward and less drama.
 
#78      
theNewGuy
My sources are telling me those rich Mormon donors pitched in enough money to get Utah a foot back in the RayJ door.
 
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NarrowJ
I do not think I am firmly in either of the 'we-shoulda-told-him-no-thanks-a-long-time-ago' or the 'he-is-difficult-to-like-now-due-to-hardball-negotiating' camps, but given the information that's been provided to us that our offer dwarfed the Utah offer and also was reportedly significantly better than what Baylor was bringing- then what was his leverage to keep negotiating more and more money? It just seems like there's a lot more to this (certainly has to be?). I trust everyone involved though, so if he lands here, I'll be excited and happy.
 
#84      
BuckDitkis
BlueLeader said:
This recruitment has made this kid very hard to like. I really hope there are no locker room issues with him needing the ball constantly.
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What a silly take. Dude is playing this like anyone would. He waited for the landscape to settle and weighed his options and is using an announcement to drum up support. He’s doing everything right for himself as he should.
 
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Chuck Nuggets
NarrowJ said:
I do not think I am firmly in either of the 'we-shoulda-told-him-no-thanks-a-long-time-ago' or the 'he-is-difficult-to-like-now-due-to-hardball-negotiating' camps, but given the information that's been provided to us that our offer dwarfed the Utah offer and also was reportedly significantly better than what Baylor was bringing- then what was his leverage to keep negotiating more and more money? It just seems like there's a lot more to this (certainly has to be?). I trust everyone involved though, so if he lands here, I'll be excited and happy.
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There's the answer to everything that's puzzling to you or anyone else about this.
 
#88      
bergd91
The part about this roster I am excited about is the fact we have 5 bulldogs that will go get rebounds.
Dainja, Coleman, Ty, Quincy, and Hansberry. Then we have big guards that should attack boards. TSjr. Harmon, Domask, Sencire, and Goode.
Out rebounding the opponent leads to Wins.
 
#91      
RockfordIllini
Not that it counts for anything, but my thoughts: I’m actually not sweating the RayJ decision too much. If he picks us, great, because we desperately need a point guard and he’s the best available and would slot in nicely next to TJ, Coleman and our other vet transfers.

If we don’t get him, I’m confident we will land at least a BIG replacement level PG. Last year we had bags for TJ, Mayer, and Coleman. And so with Mayer gone, we presumably have a pretty good bag to throw at the PG position. The bag, plus a clear role on at a minimum top half (probably top 4) BIG team who should be a lock for the tourney and compete for a top 5 seed, is too good an opportunity for us not to land someone competent.

And the fact is, you never know how guys will perform/fit in. There’s too many high profile transfers/HS players that over or under perform expectations to be too invested in one players decision. 3 big misses that come to mind that weren’t misses at all in hindsight are Cliff (top 3 player nationally but one forgettable season at KU), Okoro (we desperately needed a center and he was in our backyard. Couldn’t crack the rotation at Oregon and has been solid but nothing special at SLU), and Tre Mitchell (the stretch 4 that would have completed the puzzle. Couldn’t get off the bench at UT and transferred again).

And as far as hits, Plummer wasn’t on most top 100 impact transfer lists but was third team BIG, leading the conference in made 3’s, no one wanted Feliz out of JuCo, and a certain unheralded transfer from Bucknell absolutely throttled us 3 times last year.

So bottom line, I would rather win games than press conferences. Of course the 2 are correlated and Ray J probably has the best odds of making an impact, but you never know until the roster come together and we see how the pieces fit. Hope we get him but we will be fine either way.
 
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WyattEarp
Whitmans Sampler said:
I heard it’s going to be an NIL live auction between Daddy Brad and Scott Drew.
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I heard it was gonna be a live stream
talent show.

Brad is gonna be in a steel cage match at Pizza Hut p-lot and then perform some dramatic monologues where he gets to yell a lot.

Scott for his part is going to do a mime routine…might break character to do a short Bible reading from 2nd Corinthians.
 
#98      
Wrightandjohnstreet
Baylor. Im sure there’s a backup plan. I just think the “insiders” on this board should refrain from the click bait GIFs and posts that imply things are a done deal when that has never been the case with this recruitment and Illinois’ side of the info has consistently been wrong throughout while national smoke has been on point
 
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