Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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There is absolutely no way he should have been allowed to stay in this game. Part of this has to be a reputational thing. He should have been given a T and an ejection for making contact and staring down a ref. He lost control and didn't know who he was looking at here, if you take his word for it.
The refs understand time and circumstance. There's probably a 1% chance at most that he would've gotten a T there, right after the winning shot.

You just don't get to that level as a referee, if you have no pulse on situational awareness.
 
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Counterpoint: He didn’t get kicked out of that game. In fact he’s been ejected from 1 total game he’s coached. Zero suspensions.

Like I said, I don’t like or condone his sideline actions, but personally I think he’s controlled crazy. He knows where the line is.
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And the fact that the Big East was too cowardly to suspend him for the Marquette incident does not mean he was in control of himself. It means the Big East is a joke and didn't want to harm UConn, whose tournament success is a source of income for the conference.
 
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Okay, no Michigan on this list. Thank God!

Not only did scUM steal a national championship from us 37 years ago, they are now trying to steal my top 2 fav recruits!

I may have to get court side tickets to the next game we play at Michigan, so I can get decked out in Orange and tell them how scUMmy they are all game!

They play into that back-door recruiting with managers and agents too! And I'm sick out it 🤮

AJ Williams might turn into one of our most important recruitments outside of BPett.

Need to lock up Bentley now and have him reclass asap!

OA stealin Moussa K away from other programs in a couple weeks like Hurley just did with Bowman, would make me feel a lot better about where this is heading at the current moment...

Because you know what they say? You've got to keep up with the Jones' or the world... Or in this case, the Hurley's! (But not Bobby lol) 😵‍💫
 
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The refs understand time and circumstance. There's probably a 1% chance at most that he would've gotten a T there, right after the winning shot.

You just don't get to that level as a referee, if you have no pulse on situational awareness.
I don't care about the moment. He put his forehead on an official and even did a slight headbutt while in that position. That is borderline assault.

I get not calling a T when a coach is yelling or something in that situation, but intentional bodily contact he 100% should be T'd up and thrown out.

He does the things he does because he has gotten away with it, not because he knows how to play the game or control himself.
 
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Well, if lived in Detroit or Buffalo, would you chear for team Canada in the Olympics? Would you chear for the Buffalo Bills or the Toronto Argonauts?

In you live in El Paso, is Team Mexico or Team USA in soccer?

I don't know man....unless you were born in those countries, the Benedict Arnold conversation is real. :) :) :)

You know, Hammond, Indiana fans will have the same choice. Are you a Bears fan or a Colts fan? That's obviously the better comp.
Or maybe it’s the opposite dilemma: Why should fans from Illinois be Benedict Arnolds and be fans of an Indiana team?
 
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And the fact that the Big East was too cowardly to suspend him for the Marquette incident does not mean he was in control of himself. It means the Big East is a joke and didn't want to harm UConn, whose tournament success is a source of income for the conference.
Ok. I stand corrected, but it looks like Google gives you different information depending on the time of day you ask.

You have a right to your opinion. I still don’t think he’s on a Bob Knight trajectory, but it wouldnt be the first time I’ve been wrong.
 

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#165      
Well that can't be bad
Agreed. Exciting. Although Arizona will be tough to beat.

Just like how we are far out ahead for Pettigrew. It’ll depend on Quinten, though. He already looks beefed up in the Ayo Vlog at Ubben. A sophomore Quentin is likely a pre-season all-B1G player his sophomore year. Could they start together? What happens if Vaaks doesn’t make the NBA draft too?
 
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It looks like a pretty heavy emphasis is being placed on staying near home. There are a lot of southern schools on that list. KY and NC aren't that far. IL and BYU are the clear outsiders. So, do you stay near home, take the biggest bag, or go where you will learn the most and get the bigger bag later?
BYU rumored favorite, so I don't know if staying close to home for a year matters much.
 
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