Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

[HereSoIDontGetFined]

Not a good start to portal season at all. Staff needs to pivot.

To high school players, hopefully.

 

[ChiefGritty]

Sellers and Dix both likely headed elsewhere. Z is coming but they felt very confident about both of those guys. Need to pivot ASAP

If I may make a suggestion

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[ImGonnaBeILL]

Dix wouldn't have fit here anyway

 

[Emerson Bigguns]

I feel like Sarr is the most important piece. We get him, everything should fall into place.

I'm waiting for Z, as it would also be a clear sign that Tomi isn't playing the field... Quality big guys are the hardest to find.

 

[Trueblue777]

It didn’t start well last year either and it turned out alright.

 

[DewLou]

Looks like the wind was blowing the stink from Iowa west and he followed it.

 

[Heisenbobble]

If I may make a suggestion

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As a bench piece, maybe. If we're looking at him to be our volume outside threat, we're in trouble.

 

[PleaseMakeABowlGame]

Looking like another mid-tier big ten season coming. ya wanna buy in, but we just can't finish in recruiting. I said it earlier: you need to do your work early and then plug wholes. Can't miss out on all your guys to start, and then have desperation time when the market is dry and the prices are up. Didn't work last year, ended up with a fairly mid-tier team (very lucky actually that it wasn't worse and you had the international guys), not looking good this year again.

 

[OB positive]

It just sucks that we lost again and waisted all that time when we could have maybe should have been focusing elsewhere.

 

[Heisenbobble]

I'm waiting for Z, as it would also be a clear sign that Tomi isn't playing the field... Quality big guys are the hardest to find.

Yeah, I'm not completely sold that Illinois has the Brothers Ivisic in the bag yet.

 

[NJB Illini]

We may be playing the waiting game again for our big pieces, which sucksssss.

 

[thefalcon5]

Have we ever gotten our top guy(s) in the portal? Maybe TSJ, but honestly that was courtesy of scUM admissions.

If we miss on Sellers/Dix/Sarr that might be the most brutal collection of offseason failures.

 

[Hingle McCringleberry]

Thank god we are now a football school

 

[Emerson Bigguns]

No one likes a Dix tease...

 

[FloridaMan]

It didn’t start well last year either and it turned out alright.

 

[OB positive]

Time wasted we can never get back.

 

[theNewGuy]

Don't really want to "wait" for those big fish to enter the portal. It seems like the prices get even more inflated when you wait and teams get desperate.
i.e. Coleman hawkins getting $2M...

 

[lstewart53x3]

Not a good start to portal season at all. Staff needs to pivot.

 

[IlliniwekKDR]

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I didn't, not really. Dix seemed plausible to me. I just said we weren't getting all of Dix, Sellers and Sarr, which was far too obvious to gloat over.

We'll be fine.

That was surprisingly optimistic. Is everything okay?

(Just teasing you, btw ha)

 

[ILLInNashville]

 

[RimPressure]

To high school players, hopefully.

??? Why? I'd much prefer to get older. I really hope we don't start 3 or 4 freshmen again next year. (KJ, Will and Morez at times, and I'm counting Tomi as a freshman this past year)

 

[logjam]

No one likes a Dix tease...

We got reamed...

 

[Joel Goodson]

Obviously a motivated fan base willing to contribute NIL funds, I imagine not having a football team to compete for donor money helps quite a bit as well.

But to your second point, Creighton has a little under 10,000 undergrad and post grad students every year, while U of I has over 55,000. So despite the passion of Bluejays fans, I see no reason Illinois should not be able to overwhelm their NIL amount.

Rumors had been that we were willing to match any NIL number presented by other schools, but I take @DB11Headband's comment about mom's getting what they want to mean that being so close to home was the tiebreaker for the Dix camp.

I don't follow Creighton, so I have no clue about their booster situation. But all it would take is one Warren Buffet to dwarf our NIL pool. number of students is far from a good indicator here

 

[ImGonnaBeILL]

Never have liked Dix.

Not judging anyone that did/does

 

[the juiceman cometh]

This does make me wonder, do we really have a top-10 NIL? I find it hard to square that claim with the way we are always missing out on our primary portal targets.