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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    We do have a recruit actually visiting today- that is something right? I still expect crickets, but at least we’ll know about Ben H one way or another in the next couple of days - I think we’re his last visit
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    Illini Basketball

    Wait, what? Ty Rogers took a pull up jump shot and made it! Where was that all year?!?!
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I would doubt Onyenso would wait out the full draft process though- he’s not getting much buzz and is not high on any mocks - a late second round pick isn’t worth much these days in terms of any guaranteed money He’s now hearing what he’s worth in NIL money from schools so I would imagine it...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Agree - these portal rankings are completely randomn, beyond the top guys who everyone knows are good - for the rest, they enter the portal, someone at 247 looks up their stats and where they were ranked coming out of HS and put a ranking on them. HS rankings are highly subjective but at...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    It may have something to do with OA being on board now - maybe he has a different approach to what he wants people to know It's also that the portal has gotten completely crazy with the money being thrown at these kids - one of the impacts of high profile jobs changing hand this year is the...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I’ll bite- I’ll take Humrichous given our current roster. Claude is a better all around player but we don’t need a PG and a wing that shoots 23% from three and takes 3.3 of them a game is not good for the team (why did he keep shooting them?) Xavier recruited over Claude for a reason
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    Yeah we probably don’t need the daily refresh of this thread anymore- not much to talk about - all the major changes that have any impact on us have happened now
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    If anyone can make him into something it’s OA - but this is not what we’re looking for that can help immediately
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    If we’ve learned anything from NFL and MLB free agency it’s that the feeding frenzy early on with the deep pocket teams are always going to overpay for talent There will be “bargains” once the Arkansas, Louisville, Kentucky’s of the sport spend their cash we will be in better position- the...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    We’re going to need a bigger bag
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    That’s a good read- it’s weird that 247 still hasn’t ranked him even though he’s been in the portal a long time now
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    OA coached Brea on the Dominican National Team several years ago - which was the previous interaction OA coached Onyenso for the last two years at every practice at Kentucky and developed him into Kentucky's starting Center for one of the best teams in the country See the difference?
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    If OA pulls both Quaintance and Boogie here, he will be a legend I know we all want the veteran transfers - but just with those two and what we already have we would be one of the best teams in the big ten next year
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I think Chin led Quaintance's recruitment to Kentucky, so I wouldn't expect him to follow OA - but who knows, I'm sure OA has a good relationship given he would have been coached by OA at Kentucky Given he reclassified he will have to spend two years in college before going pro so there's that...