Recent content by DReq

Let’s hope the bats keep heating up. This pitching staff needs runs in a big way.

I had no idea I would make a certain Illini of a few decades ago into the most mentioned player in a thread about kids young enough to be his grandsons! There are far more old guys on here than I thought.

I can't help but think of how we would look if an Illinois high school star went to Indiana our of high school and then transferred back home to Illinois. We would be welcoming him home and assuring him that Illini nation would take care of him. LG is going back home (probably), getting a very...

I ran across a pair of those in the local thrift store recently. I almost bought them to burn them before they got out again.

Keep it up! (The NHL watching, I mean ;))

As you noted, we are still in collecting mode but did you see Marcus meeting this standard at this time last year? Not many people did. It is fun to see this team reconstitute itself and I am pretty sure they will once again make us all proud with Underwood making the stew.

See post #112.

The Goodman Extrapolation.

It seems to me that a "retention payment or bonus" would require that you actually work until the date selected. That would involve not going to your new employer and bringing your recruits to them. Otherwise, he is just taking a well-paid vacation while working against the interests of his...

I get it. We are firing Nike and getting Armani to design our uniforms for the next decade. You can't say I don't know how to read between the lines.

Just think how we would have responded to someone who told us at the end of last season pre-portal edition that we would finish this season in the top 10 and ahead of Duke, UNC, Kansas and Kentucky. It is where we want to live but not too many of us saw it just a year ago. Now, let's make this...

Well there will have to be some belt-tightening around the Calipari household. Cut those coupons. Personally, I'd love to be in a position to take a $1.5 mil cut. I'd even tolerate people yelling Sooooeeeeee Pig at me for the $7 mil. And how did they keep it so under wraps? /s

There is no doubt that those observations show an improvement. No one can say he is an AA at this point but we can pick one of those up in the portal (I hope). We need a team from 6-10 who can do some good even if it is in only 10-15 minutes per game.I l like what appears to be improvement and a...

I see you mean developing HS players. Homegrown appeared to me to be the old saw of getting Illinois based players. I think pursuing a plan to avoid offending a “very capable backup” by not bringing in a proven starter is a strategy for mediocrity. Players who need a path created for them to...