Recent content by ChiTownIllini23

I hate how college recruiting has become. I hope we aren’t the stalking horse here.

I do think Tomi and Big Z playing together could bring extra motivation and elevate each other’s game. Let’s just hope they’re both playing for the O&B next season.

This I actually buy. The publicly available NIL budget data for P4 basketball school is around $3.2M. And average P4 player NIL is around $200K. I have a hard time buying that someone is throw $1.8M at Morez AND let him play on the perimeter. In addition, there were a lot of excuses being made...

I applaud you for writing all of this to carry water for Brad but it’s time to take a step back and do a holistic evaluation of his ability to lead the program. You wrote all of that as an excuse that players are leaving for $$ but why does Illinois lead that category? Morez left because he...

What went wrong in the process though? Sure players are moving constantly the last few years, but doesn’t change the fact that Illinois is near the top in the number of transfers. Did we fail to develop incoming recruits where 3rd or 4th year transfers are being sought after? Did we recruit...

They went on worse teams/smaller schools for bigger roles. But doesn’t mean they couldn’t have developed into better players and collectively moved the team forward had they stayed.

This is such an apologist post for Brad. And no, the fanbase is not to blame for him not being able to retain his players. If he was able to retain and develop his recruits - Miller, Curbelo, RJ, Podz, Goode, Epps, Clark, Morez, etc like Painter did then he didn’t have to bring in guys like...

The sky IS falling. It’s clear that players don’t value Illinois as an upper echelon program that even given reasonable playing time and NIL anren’t enough to get them to stay. It’s also pretty clear by now players have issues playing under Brad and Tyler that they don’t stay more than a year or...

Hawk and Goode transferred. Podz, RJ, Clark, Morez, Dain, Epps, Curbelo, Ty (sitting) all left over the last few years because they’re weren’t happy with their minutes or how they were used. Even if we ignore Hansberry and Sincere leaving because of Chet, that’s still a lot of talent leaving...

Hawk and Goode transferred. Podz, RJ, Clark, Morez, Dain, Epps, Curbelo, Ty (sitting) all left over the last few years because they’re weren’t happy with their minutes or how they were used. Even if we ignore Hansberry and Sincere leaving because of Chet, that’s still a lot of talent leaving...

Is the system to be blamed for the transfer portal madness, or is it the team and/or coaching staff, or both? We have seen a number of our top players leaving last few years, but teams like Purdue and MSU are able to retain majority of their top players and the continuity is translating into...

Even 11 is optimistic. Baylor who just beat their 5th ranked team is jumping us for sure and Auburn had a good lead on points for us they may not get ding much for the UT loss. I think 12, or maybe staying at 13. Unfortunately the B1G has been good this year and our resume will not be strong...

In this age of transfer portal, I have a hard time seeing Brad building a better program over time (than the heyday of Ayo and Kofi). The lack of trust and development of freshmen is real, hard to entice these kids to stay when you’re not giving them a chance to succeed, soon enough this is...

Been out of the loop a bit lately so this is a late post. How much of an upgrade is Mayer compared to Grandison? Grandison is the better shooter and Mayer’s length plays well on defense.

Don’t care if she’s a 10, the real question is can she play the 2?