Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
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Easier for him to relate to the kids. Makes it natural
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
My guesstimate: 25% the season record, 25% the bowl win, 50% the T-bar and reaction. Kids must love a coach like Bret.
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
The upcoming choices is where my mind has been floating towards recently. Going from my post last week that this recruiting class is not only trending with higher quality to start but also earlier locked-in commitments.
Date of 4th Commitment
2026 class - January 15th
2025 - March 11th
2024 - June 11th
2023 - May 30th
2022 - April 18th
They never ran out of time to fill up the class before, so now there's a lot of remaining time to grab another 12-16 prospects. The upcoming choices: who's allowed to commit and prioritizing harder "gets" while risking the (more) sure things is going to be fascinating. I'm wondering if the staff is going to take another 3-4 guys that are ready commit and in their bigger pool to raise the floor considerably on the class compared to previous ones, but then start taking bigger risks.
For example, let's say the staff adds Owen Fors (IOL), Kenyon Alston (WR), Lesroy Tittle (LB), and Gene Riordan (IOL) in the next three weeks. To pause for a second, this is such an example of how far things have improved. Three of those four would be competing for headliners in previous classes and they have picked up a combined 11 P4 offers in the past three weeks, but they are likely to just be the middle-group of this upcoming class. Back to the discussion. That would put them at seven commitments, which means the class is already 35-45% full. The choice becomes to keep gobbling up the guys you like and want to come to press your luck. Do you then throw the entire weight of the staff after bigger fish like Jacob Alexander, Nasir Rankin, Cam Thomas, Zachary Washington, Kai Pritchard, JC Anderson, and Mack Sutter? There's also guys that would be huge adds in positions of need but it's unknown on their interest level with Illinois, like a McHale Blade.
Allen Trieu with a crystal ball for Cam Thomas to Illinois: https://247sports.com/Player/Cam-Thomas-46133506/
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
nice shirt:
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
Cali WR, plays for IMG, 2027 | 4
WR 6’0" | 180lbs | 4.46 40yd Laser| 10.76 100m | 22'11" LJ: |
sheesh!
WR 6’0" | 180lbs | 4.46 40yd Laser| 10.76 100m | 22'11" LJ: |
sheesh!
DReq
Always Illini
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I keep reading the list of recruits visiting on the 26th and I am beginning to wonder if Bret has in mind a full blown scrimmage with just recruits. It looks like a full roster visiting. (is /s needed?)
Bret is working this program into something truly special.
Bret is working this program into something truly special.
1m4tr
Cliffmas
#262 in entire country? We should be ecstatic if we get this kid. Wow!!
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
teammate of Beerman. establishing a beachhead in Cincy is really, really, very, very, really good
OSU can't take 40 kids per class. plus, they recruit nationwide. lotta VVG players in Ohio. if we can get ourselves into that next tier, we're golden
1m4tr
Cliffmas
Amazing!! That would be a huge get “when” we get him. I won’t doubt 0440.
1m4tr
Cliffmas
When this guy makes his cut and heads upfield, he looks unstoppable. Fast twitch all over.Cali WR, plays for IMG, 2027 | 4
sheesh!
He’s right on Stepps level from what I’m hearing.
Funny how creating a winning culture and actually...winning...can impact this!!! As a 50+ year fan (LONG LIVE THE CHIEF!!!) I'm as giddy as a kid in seeing all of this happening.
Fair assessment. NFL production is the biggest and when Coach did the T bar to the whole SC sideline… that was huge. A lot of these young men just wanna know their coach has their backs and when he did that not caring if he got penalized or charged at. I’m telling you that made some wavesss
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
two more starting IOL from ND in the transfer portal
both these guys are super seniors or close. my guess is they see this as a chance to make a little money in their final year , and they may not have been penciled in as the starter anymore. I wonder if we have any interest in one of them
both these guys are super seniors or close. my guess is they see this as a chance to make a little money in their final year , and they may not have been penciled in as the starter anymore. I wonder if we have any interest in one of them
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
IMG Academy '28, 6’4 190| UA 8th grade All American|:
slew of good offers already
slew of good offers already
Been the strategy for a lot of schools ever since Urban Meyer took OSU recruiting national
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