Grew up in Champaign. Don’t even try to have this convo with Cards fans. I never full understood it. But it feels like it’s passed down thru generations.
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
Hereforit
- Littleton, CO
Fun story for the crazies on this board. Nemanja Jokic - the middle brother, Nikola is the baby bro - is a friend of mine (we workout at the same gym here in south Denver) and I was congratulating and joking with him about getting his agent license this summer, which he did, and how he needs to start funneling even more elite Euros towards Illinois. He laughed of course as we have discussed the whole Misko/Illinois connection in times past, and as you might imagine he knows Misko quite well. But as we talked about his new path he mentioned he will focus more on the college guys. He got his license as an agent for the NBA but I believe there’s another one for the NCAA that he’ll have to get next, but think that NBA license needed to be attained first if I’m not mistaken.
Nemanja hears all about the Illini-Balkan stories from me, which he honestly already knows a fair amount about, but I show him the Mirk videos that are posted on this board which always produces copious amounts of hilarity for us both. Anyways, great dude. One I will be continually talking about Illinois with as well.
Nemanja hears all about the Illini-Balkan stories from me, which he honestly already knows a fair amount about, but I show him the Mirk videos that are posted on this board which always produces copious amounts of hilarity for us both. Anyways, great dude. One I will be continually talking about Illinois with as well.
Yeah, definitely animpulse control problem appears to be the biggest commonality between the two…IMO.
Seems like Knight had a more of persecution complex than Hurley…very seething and volatile. Seemed to have more of a problem with humanity itself.
Whereas Hurley is more of a breathtakingly arrogant, self-aggrandizing…near megalomaniacal pr*ck.
Both kinda batsh*t.
Media tends to sensationalize the trope.Patrick Yeah, definitely animpulse control problem appears to be the biggest commonality between the two…IMO.
Seems like Knight had a more of persecution complex than Hurley…very seething and volatile. Seemed to have more of a problem with humanity itself.
Whereas Hurley is more of a breathtakingly arrogant, self-aggrandizing…near megalomaniacal pr*ck.
Both kinda batsh*t.
Knight was a psychopath. He couldn't have coached today with cell phones. He would have been in prison. Not exaggerating.
Agree... I don't know why I did, but I read his book and it gave me a bit of a bias towards him.... I don't like him, but can absolutely respect his ability to win and to build probably the best team culture in CBB. He can for sure be an a**hole but it also seems like the media really juices it when he does have a blowout.Media tends to sensationalize the trope.
I think the whining that we get from a lot of the prominent coaches in CBB (about players, the environment, etc.) is harder to stomach for me than Hurley's antics.
Why on earth would state matter more than proximity? There are parts of Illinois that are a 30 minute drive from St. Louis and a 5 hour drive from Chicago? It's unreasonable that people should root for the team whose games they can actially attend, just because another team much further away happens to be within the same arbitrary lines drawn up on a map 200 years ago?