Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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There are a lot of fish in the sea....and we have a lot of targets....also only like 3 or 4 kids we've offered are off the board.
How many of these fish in the sea haven’t been offered publicly?
Didn’t know where we stood with Harkey but Knapik visiting isn’t a bad thing. Guessing mcvay will be going elsewhere.
 
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When you start striking out on your targets, you start to wonder what’s going on behind the scenes…Sounds like we don’t have enough NIL.

That may be the case, but there's also a lot that isn't public and hasn't been announced yet. Case in point, Mateer, QB from WSU, hits the portal yesterday. Bunch of online message board chatter that he's headed for OU. Maybe. even likely, that it happens. A lot of this activity happens behind the scenes before it gets out to the public. I can't tell you how good our backchannels are vs others, but it happens
 
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Not looking great re portal. McVay ticketed to UNC and reportedly getting $1.5mm. Key not considering Illini. Malachi Coleman and his handler (reminds me of the relationship between Kamala and Kimchee in WWF) getting $35k from Gophers, Badger from ASU not visiting. Very tough scene on portal front.
Nothing against McVay, but I don't think he's worth that amount.
 
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That may be the case, but there's also a lot that isn't public and hasn't been announced yet. Case in point, Mateer, QB from WSU, hits the portal yesterday. Bunch of online message board chatter that he's headed for OU. Maybe. even likely, that it happens. A lot of this activity happens behind the scenes before it gets out to the public. I can't tell you how good our backchannels are vs others, but it happens
To be fair, talk of Mateer heading to OK is based almost entirely on his OC heading there rather than some behind the scenes action.
 
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Last year JC Davis was the only transfer who ended up being an impact player that committed before the end of the calendar year.

Priestly, Briggs, Hunt, Cox, and Franklin were all spring or summer commits.
This is a great point. It's easy to forget about losing the kid from Yale and believing our DL was going to be awful. Last winter portal season did not go well and we ended up with a great roster!
 
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Nothing against McVay, but I don't think he's worth that amount.

There isn’t a limit of NIL you can offer across your roster. That said, it’s hard to justify giving $1.5 million to a guy who’s only played 50 snaps the past two years and it hasn’t been good. Again, I’m saying that as I haven’t been a fan of him since he was a prep.
 
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This is a great point. It's easy to forget about losing the kid from Yale and believing our DL was going to be awful. Last winter portal season did not go well and we ended up with a great roster!
I wouldn't say our DL was completely awful this year but those offseason concerns were somewhat justified by how that position group performed this season.
 
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This has to be driving Bielema crazy knowing that we just finished a 9-3 season, and yet, You still can't get enough money to pull in the top transfers. I wonder how long it's going to be before he speaks out about this? It's got to be a slow burn for him. He's doing his part, he's getting the program back on track, but he needs help. The fanbase can only do so much, we need a big donor for football. If we don't get quality starting transfers this year, we will go back to being a 5-6 win team again next year. One step forward and two steps back it seems.
 
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we'll get our share. (and the ones Brett wants) this isn't a sprint, its a long
race that goes thru January and even for some kids, into April.
Totally agree. Like in MLB, it seems much of the market is waiting on the top free agents to sign and set the market price. The dominos will fall more quickly thereafter. I trust our staff.
 
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giving a new guy 1.5 million has ramifications all across the roster .
what signal does that send to everyone else on the team ?

If UNC is adding $13 million more (based on the various articles and podcast discussions) to their NIL, that's a big, big number to give to a fairly unknown college product. I'll consider it a sizable stretch on the truth.
 
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he makes the roster of my all name team
he makes the roster of my all name team
 
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