DevILLDawg
- Meredosia, Illinois
Not worse case scenario but close...especially if top Chicago talent starts heading to Mizzou. We could relive Jeremiah Tilmon...
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Tilmon wasnt from anywhere close to Chicago and it was a blessing he didn't come to illinois.
Geoff and OA can recruit Chicago and the rest of the planet pretty well, agreed it would be pretty disgusting to see TA at miznoz but not really a hindrance to Illinois. At least he would be earning a paycheck instead of drawing money from Illinois so he could run his training facility instead of actually coaching the team that's paying him.
DevILLDawg
- Meredosia, Illinois
I did a poor job phrasing that. I was alluding to missing out on a guy we really wanted and they end up at the Zoo.
robertgoulet
IL Board Resident Crooner
- Austin, TX
How dare he consider going to help a fellow Chicago coach and not think about how the Illinois fans would feel about it.
Honestly, this made me feel better, thank you for the perspective.
I think it's a fair concern, but pretty confident that kids growing up in Chicago do not ever think about Missouri basketball. This is way better than him going to MSU, Michigan, IU, etc.
Adds a little more fuel to the fire for Braggin' Rights as well.
With portal recruitment dominating, I feel like TA is less effective. But maybe given a few years, a lot of players he knows will all be in the portal though.
TA is very effective with portal recruiting …
He’s got serious relationships with big time agents …
TA seems like a great relationship builder. If you are able/willing to comment, how strong was he at on the court development and or game-planning? Always felt like he was on the staff to get people here.
How much opportunity did he have to show his skills offensively or defensively gameplay wise with Tyler and Hamer running the show ?
He was by the far the best player development coach we had …
TA is a pretty proven player developer. He wouldn't have had great success with the draft development stuff before he came to Illinois if he wasn't. And he surely knows everyone from all of his draft development work.
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mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Would be a great hire for them (gulp for Illinois).
Any way we can ship Hamer to Mizzou instead?
adogster
- Scottsdale, AZ
Let’s see how close he gets to the salary he demanded to stay here
Dennis is a great guy back in the day my son played AAU basketball with him on the Illinois warriors program
Then we should balance against the players lost, the player development that didn't happen, and the future players not secured.
Missouri could pay him what he’s after … CY was making like 700k …
splitter
- and not Nebraska
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This is an important observation, in my view. Positioning Illinois as a developmental school would be aided by having an outstanding individual-skills developer like Tim Anderson. Fletch is fantastic. Staff can point to major development successes. But adding to the staff an individual-skills guy like Anderson would be fantastic.
sacraig
- The desert
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