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I watched a decent amount of tape on Booth and he plays similar to a soph-junior CoHawk though more secure with the ball. He's very similar in that while athletic and is quite successful when he's taking the ball to the rim, he opts more for a very perimeter oriented far less efficient shot, so...

My gut feel with the roster this year is the positional numbers are going to be fairly meaningless outside of Boswell at the 1 and Ivisic at the 5 and will be based on rotation and matchup more than anything. Just based on how the team is constructed thus far, we're guard light especially on...

Considering we're dealing with the NCAA, it would be par for the course for them to deny him eligibility a couple days before the season starts for something like once signing an autograph for a fan and getting a free bottle of wine for it in return only for the NCAA to lose a court battle a few...

We're the Illini. He's The Tomahawk to me. We've needed a new one since the NCAA took our Sweet Sioux one away.

Big big get. Literally. Get a quality CG/SG and I think we're in really competitive shape next year for a B10 title.

Now this is interesting. He looks like he prefers going left as a righty and even fades at times to the left while shooting. You don't see that much, but I'm gonna guess he's a fellow right handed, left footed player. You don't see many of those, but they will tend to have a very strong right to...

Never in a million years would I have guessed we'd be seriously talking about international transfer fee rentals from Real Madrid to fill out the starting lineup on an Illini basketball recruiting thread, yet here we are, lol. Crazy what's going on. Just crazy.

So I am not a lawyer and this is certainly conjecture, but as someone who has been a juror multiple times and a foreman once, sometimes jurors can get stuck in the weeds when there's confusing or misleading testimony and I think Kansas' DNA expert could indeed fit that bill and TSJ'S defense...

From my understanding, that is not an agreed upon fact and only the accusers side of the story. If I recall correctly, TSJ after being shown a picture of the accuser claimed he did not know who she was and that they did not have contact. And while yes, it can be proved the TSJ and the accuser...

I don't know how much we have left in the bank, but if we can scrounge up $2.5M (I'm guessing we have somewhere around $2M based on the crumbs we've been given thus far), yeah, in my opinion you go for two $1M+ players in your biggest positions of need in a Center and SG/CG and call it then and...

This might be a crazy take, but if Christie is even remotely possible, I think you go and max out the NIL bank that we have for him and a B10 starting caliber 5, and forget going after a big money wing and go wing by committee. Then have the private donor NIL match anything Coleman wants if he...

I think that's the conclusion many of us came to prior to last offseason, that this past year would be a make or break year for us, and might even be our last real chance of securing a future as a top half B10 team. We had some of the best talent in the B10 West, all the B10 competition was...

No no no, don't do that right now, anything but that. Why? Oh, uhhhhh, it's uhhhhh, under renovations, that's it. Has nothing to do with it being a landscape of depressing recruiting results and talented players leaving or being a bastion of despair as we accept our inevitable melancholic...

Honestly, the only thing insiders said about him was he was unplayable. In fairness to Nico, he actually outperformed where most thought he'd be, being one of our better players on the Spain trip and then sorta holding his own against low level competition. His games against Valpo and Southern...

They're related for sure, but if you are to get 2 similar NIL offers, recruiting likely still holds sway. The question is how much and how much is that sway worth to a given player. $1.15M likely wouldn't be too much different than $1.1M per se. If you're losing despite being the highest...