Click bait.
Yeah, I mean:
I agree, I feel like thats why we don't have Brandon Lee this year. He could've been that good strong defensive guard off the bench people were asking for.
Are you sniffing the wrong stuff? Another poster already said it. When you take away each team's best 3 players, Illinois is still significantly stronger than USC according to the torvic rankings. Move to southern LA dude.
We're definitely beating this one to death now haha, but if we're accepting this definition of depth, then the deepest team in college basketball was Coppin St., who played 49.8% of their minutes off the bench. they went 7-24 and were the third-worst team in college basketball.
The drop off is less severe because their starters are nearly as good.
We’re dying to be USC now? Why would I even trust musselman to coach up his 5 star to be as good as who Brad identifies - we had 2 freshmen significantly lower than Arenas in the rankings last year who cleaned his clock.
Since when did this board get so up tight about “well if god forbid mirk and Vaaks get hurt I wanna finish 7th instead of 9th”
Which honestly, because of the changing landscape of College Athletics and how Whitman has proven himself, I’m more confident having him at the helm than anyone else. Let him be the consistency we need at the moment, while everything changes. He’s shown at great lengths that he’s able to be flexible and adapt to the changing landscape; being competitive with less and but also helping go out and get the bigger items we need when necessary as well.I don't see how you give Whitman anything but an A+ for what he's done. I'm not a fan of super-long contracts, but if he wants a 10 year deal, then I'm good with it. $5mil in retention also seems reasonable. Not that you asked, but I don't understand and can't predict the arms race that is college athletics. The AD getting a contract that is roughly 1.3% of revenue seems crazy to me, but no doubt he's made a difference bigger than that so
Good for him. Good for the fans. Good for the University.
That sums it up perfectly! If a key player is out for the season, we're screwed. I would say that applies to Vaaks, Mirk, and Andrej. In that order.Since when did this board get so up tight about “well if god forbid mirk and Vaaks get hurt I wanna finish 7th instead of 9th”
So the argument comes down to "Why doesn't the team have Duke depth?"
So the argument comes down to "Why doesn't the team have Duke depth?"
Time to fire Whitman for allowing such nonsense.
He is our true hero. I want to know who hired him.
Perish the thought, but we've got to be less vulnerable to that than most, right?
I'm ecstatic having Illinois depth this season.
How did Eric Musselman get an account on Illinois Loyalty?
No? Pretty confident in saying he'll be our primary initiator this year.
Pretty sure it will be a lot more than that.
We've had our best player go down for a prolonged period of time recently and we didn't really skip a beat.
Vaaks will be the primary initiator, and has the skills to do so well, but he's bigger, longer, stiffer and lower AST% than all the guys you mention.
I don't think so. If Vaaks is out, that would be a huge blow to our chances. I can't see anyone else that could be that dishing, scoring PG like I think Vaaks will be. IMO the guy looks exactly like the kind of PG we want. Mirk is probably next on the list - we'd obviously be extremely thin up front and he gives us so much with rebounding, scoring, and passing. Next Andrej - excellent perimeter defender and can be electric scoring.
