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With the free unlimited transfers it's basically in a players best financial interests to at least enter the portal every year

I'm not bought into the Williams hype either. Before last year he was looked at as a Luck/Lawrence level prospect, but I just don't see it. Faded in the big games and I have questions on if he can win over an NFL locker room.

If he's getting a million in NIL he can buy his family a house down there

Because it's a fun game for the fans and we aren't going to the playoff anytime soon regardless. Give me this over Toledo or Western Michigan

I mean all this is true but it still seems ironic that we fired a guy after back to back bowl seasons when we are basically treating that as the gold standard now. Those 7-6 seasons would end up being the best Illini football seasons for the next 12 years.

Ron Zook was fired after back to back 7-6 seasons

Yah this is exactly what he did last year, so I'm not really sure why people are clamoring for him to start all the sudden. When he starts going against people as big as him he struggles. We saw it in the Marquette game just like we saw it all last year during B10 play. I don't think a starting...

I think we underestimated how important it was to have a bunch of NFL guys on the roster. Sorta seems like last year was a perfect confluence of events with a group of non highly rated guys developing into NFL level prospects. Will be interesting to see how Bielema adjusts. He hasn't been...

Mark Few has made 2 Final Fours in 24 years. It's hard to win a bunch of games in a row in the tournament. Lot of luck involved. We ran into some buzz saws and had some bad games at bad times. 8 seed Loyola that was a top 10 KenPom. 5 seed Houston who was a top 5 Kenpom team. An 8 seed Arkansas...

I agree. Never understood on judging a coach on what amounts to be around 5-10% of the season. Sure we all want to see some tournament success, but single elimination tournaments are always going to be a little random. We hired Groce because he made a Sweet 16 with Ohio and look how that worked...

I think that was the week after the big locker room fight with Michigan so they had guys suspended too. I remember wondering if all the negative attention that week would rally them. Backbreaking loss

There were rumors at the time he was interested in the Texas job. That shouldn't be too surprising as that's probably a top 10 job and he has regional connections to that area.

I do like the way this roster can be mixed and matched in different ways. The problem is most of them have the same gaps, shooting the ball and the inability to play PG.

My unscientific reading of the tea leaves is that it appears Brad is looking for an avenue out, but that there may not be one at the moment. Seems pretty clear he would take Texas, but it also seems pretty clear he isn't option 1 for Texas. We will see what other jobs pop up once the dominoes...

Good info. I still think BU would still be outside looking in on Texas job, more due to his age than his lack of success in tourney. They may want a safe pick after the Beard debacle though, and BU has shown he can run a program. Can't see him getting that close to the Kansas job in the...