I agree with you. I'd be curious to know just what number of NBA ready one and dones you can have start or in your rotation and be a team that can win a title.
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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You're not convinced because Duke made the Final Four as a 1 seed and lost by 3 to another 1 seed? That looks like a great result to me.
Like @Indy Illini Fan said, our rivals are recruiting 4*/5* while we took on a 3* with no hm offers... Competition is getting stiffer by the day
He kinda looks like someone that would attend Iowa tho
It is a great result (however rare it may be that you get such a result with a team built that way). Though, I also understand that a core of freshmen most typically ends with Rutgers/Illinois type of results.
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IlliniKat91
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Kinda? My first thought before fully reading the tweet was, "That boy was born to be a Hawkeye with that awkward, gawky, ginger vibe."
And I say that as a fellow ginger
It seems we are going to live and die by the portal and foreign exchange. The hs guys are hit or miss.
Joel Goodson
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I prefer players with more soul in their game
Huckleberry Harris looks like he's straight outta Mayberry. Not sure even Fletch could pump this dude up enough to fight for rebounds in the B10.
Joel Goodson
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meemaw says don't judge a book by its cover. dude might end up being a killer
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Having watched Drake this year, he also looks like the poster child for a player Ben McCollum would recruit.
Only 19 of the top 100 kids in the 2026 class are committed (Ehtan Harris isn't even top 120 according to 247). Schools who do NOT have a top 100 recruit include; Kansas, UCONN, Indiana, Michigan, Auburn, Florida, Houston, Gonzaga, Duke and ofcourse, Illinois. FSU, Georgia Tech, and Mizzou are the top 3 classes.
I fear we're drastically overreacting to a Landon Davis commitment. Which is why i love this forum.
I fear we're drastically overreacting to a Landon Davis commitment. Which is why i love this forum.
Joel Goodson
- it's all ball bearings, nowadays
nevertheless, a good chunk of the base is worried or edging towards panic
This forum does not edge toward PANIC.
As a redhead, this cuts deep lmaoI prefer players with more soul in their game
I don't mind one 5 star freshman on the team. However you still have to ask yourself whether that's the most efficient way to use NIL. I wouldn't know that as an outsider.
I can definitely take Dook last year results but the problem is we don't have Dook NIL so we have to use our NIL more efficiently.
Last year Duke had 4 5 star freshman and 1 didn't even really play. They had 5 recruits in the top 21 and 6 in the top 40. Then they were also able to surround them with veteran talent.
It worked for Duke last year but you have to have a ton of money and the Duke name. Also, it took having a generational freshman in flag paired with perfect compliments in Kneuppel and Maluach. You're not going to be able to replicate that every year.
Looks like a guy we'll learn to love to hate.
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