Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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BfosterL said:
He and his family will be missed, but good for Olano. Make as much as you can, he most likely will not be kicking in the NFL. 15 years ago, yes, but his leg isn't strong enough for the NFL currently IMHO
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How much money do these players really get in these NIL deals?

If David Olano can really get $250,000, $500,000, or whatever more than the Illini can or is willing to offer - that's some major coin to turn down.

The young man is 21 years old. When I was that old, I could barely dream of a payday like that - for me and my family.

What's his risk in taking a NIL deal with another team, even a hated rival? Yeah, for sure, he's going to get some Illini fans mad at him. I'd take that risk.

I like the dude and wish he would stay. I'm not going to waste any "getting mad" energy on the deal. This is the NIL world we live in now.

As I've said before, do not fear the portal. I trust Coach B to get our Illini share.
 
#455      
Illiniindian
Agree. Actually super excited for Illinois St in the FCS championship. I hate to admit it, but those football players at ISU seem more like student athletes than do our Big Ten football players.
 
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Illiniguy74
It's going to be interesting (likely unfortunate) to see the outcome when 1,000s upon 1,000s of kids "refining their craft" as grade schoolers and high schoolers (practicing sports) instead of paying more attention to their academics who won't get NIL dollars and are unprepared to compete for jobs that don't require that they shoot a ball, throw a pass, etc. What will be even more unfortunate will be that many/most of these kids will be destined to remain in the same dire economic circumstances they grew up in due to the lack of preparation to work outside of sports.
 
#461      
RowdyFromRow22
Bringing in a big boy with experience.
Couldn’t find anything on his PFF

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#465      
SescIllini
Shief said:
Did he just say the quiet part out loud? The SEC can no longer dominate because everyone can pay players, and payments are now above board.
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Just my 2 cents from being hooked on college football since 1980. Illinois and BIG fan and bias.

-SEC high school areas (Florida, Texas, Georgia, Lousiana, Mississippi) still produces a ton of talent, much more than other conferences
-SEC/South values football than other conferences
-Bluebloods (Major SEC/BIG, Notre Dame, USC) still win every recruiting battle at every level (high school, JUCO, transfer portal)
-High school players that will not play in year 1 or 2 should seriously consider MAC level or lower Major to get on the field. Many players getting paid who developed at lower level schools, especially QBs.
-NIL and Transfer portal has allowed non-blue bloods to reduce the disparity of talent level. Greater parity and opportunity for a Major P5 program that isn't a blueblood to get player a high quality non-starter at a blueblood and develop into an NFL level talent. Illinois has benefitted much from NIL/transfer and has allowed them to get a second chance from recruiting errors/misses.
-NIL/transfers (part deoux) has caused blue bloods not to be as deep in the second/thrid string as they used to be. In football this matters, you will have injuries.
 
#466      
jcron13
If the dumb !!! powers in the administration hadn’t screwed up the honorary degree for Shad Khan we would be closer to a Texas Tech type situation. I know he has been great in his gifts to this University but he is in a position to do much more. I couldn’t blame him if he takes a pass.
 
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Bucktown
illinoistradition said:
This is a great point. I was recently talking to the mom of a D1 player who is in the portal, and she lamented that despite the sums of money being thrown out by some very nice schools, she wishes her son could have played a decade ago without all the added stress of these decisions. It has weighed a lot on all of them, and that's a lot for a 19 year old to consider.
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Their peers and the (social) media puts the pressure on these kids to 'say' how much money they are getting. The pressure is really self induced, therefore.

They should find the right fit where they'll be the most happy to achieve their goals and the money should be secondary. If their goal is to just get the most money that go get it. Unfortunately, many parents are chasing the bag too.
 
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Bucktown
SescIllini said:
Just my 2 cents from being hooked on college football since 1980. Illinois and BIG fan and bias.

-SEC high school areas (Florida, Texas, Georgia, Lousiana, Mississippi) still produces a ton of talent, much more than other conferences
-SEC/South values football than other conferences
-Bluebloods (Major SEC/BIG, Notre Dame, USC) still win every recruiting battle at every level (high school, JUCO, transfer portal)
-High school players that will not play in year 1 or 2 should seriously consider MAC level or lower Major to get on the field. Many players getting paid who developed at lower level schools, especially QBs.
-NIL and Transfer portal has allowed non-blue bloods to reduce the disparity of talent level. Greater parity and opportunity for a Major P5 program that isn't a blueblood to get player a high quality non-starter at a blueblood and develop into an NFL level talent. Illinois has benefitted much from NIL/transfer and has allowed them to get a second chance from recruiting errors/misses.
-NIL/transfers (part deoux) has caused blue bloods not to be as deep in the second/thrid string as they used to be. In football this matters, you will have injuries.
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This is true for rankings. I don't know the answer, but is is true also for ultimate success? Could it be that there is a loop where the SEC areas send more kids to over ranked SEC schools and therefore get upward ranking bias?
 
#473      
DERV64
Brad likes to go to the Balkans to get basketball players....I think Bret could take a page from that book and be the 1st coach known to get offensive linemen from sumo wrestlers in Japan. You cant convince that they wouldnt be roadgrading guards and most have the agility and athleticism to be taught decent pass protection techniques.
 
#474      
BrownTown
Another day passes...

And X isn't in the portal. Gonna be a long couple weeks here hoping he enters the draft and stays.

If I tune in to SNF in 2 years and he names another school during starting lineup intros. It's gonna hurt me
 
#475      
bigcityillini
therealmiket86 said:
Indiana has had a lot of success with G5 players
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I think this is a misconception of the current roster construction. Indiana is currently constructed something like this.

QB - P4 transfer.
RB - P4 transfer
WR - commit, P4 transfer, non power five, P4 transfer, commit
TE - P4 transfer, P4 transfer
OL - commit, P4 transfer, P4 transfer, non power five, P4 transfer, P4 transfer

DL - non power five, non power five, commit, non power five, non power five
LB - commit, non power five, commit, P4 transfer,
DB - P4 transfer, P4 transfer, non power five, commit, commit, P4 transfer, commit, commit

KR: P4 transfer
P: commit
K: P4 transfer

So in total it’s:
16 P4 transfers
8 non power five
10 commits.

Yes they have had a good run of some non P4 kids. But the majority of their offense in P4 transfers. And they have over three times the amount of P4/commits playing when compared non power five guys. The breakdown for Miami, Ole Miss and Oregon is way less than Indiana even.
 
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