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Massive start for in-state recruiting in the Class of 2027. Especially since this looks like the best crop of prospects the state has seen in over a decade according to rankings.

Might be an unpopular comment, but congrats to Singleton. Obviously, it sucks for us. You expect a persons word to be worth something even though in reality we are dealing with 16/17 year old kids, but hopefully they gave him life changing money (subjective) and he balls out. We will be fine...

I clicked on his profile and hit the Illinois logo which took me to 247 scholarship distribution. It says that Reggie Corbin, Dele Harding, and Stanley Green are scholarship seniors this season🤣. I’ll take them if they still have some eligibility!

That’s because that is Jacas😆

I understand that offer lists are much more important in determining how highly regarded a recruit is, and much better indicators of success than site rankings. Yet, man it is annoying how after guys commit to the Illini they seem to slowly drop down in rank.

Is it possible we see any (possibly pressured) decommitments later on in the process? We could see possibly 5-7 4⭐️ recruits commiting alone along with some high 3⭐️s. Wonder if that pushes out certain players if we hit our cap on this class

What a great pickup! Need all the OL help we can get for the coming years. Also nice to see us pick up one of the better in state prospects. Time to focus in on guys like Sutter, Anderson, Rankin, Hill, Riordan, Hankins etc. and see if we can win some more big boy battles with our in-state...

Basing it off his performance at Hampton compared to Grandison’s at Holy Cross. No disrespect t Grandison just different body types, and games led me to make that statement.

I don’t mind if Stanley isn’t granted eligibility. He’s a much better rebounder than BBV, and Grandison, but we will need him more in 2021-2022 with no Kofi, and most likely FR Mac Etienne as our only polished/semi-polished BIG.

Did you hit your head on something? I don’t care what the coach acts like if a school like us can go 10-2 without major recruiting violations.

The way this class is setup we may take as many as 28 guys and multiple transfers due to the 30+ players that will be gone after this season. While a lot of these guys dont have the star rating we want, you must realize that we aren’t halfway through this class. We will get the Top 1000 guys and...

Tarique Barnes looked pretty good as a true freshman. Can’t speak on the others because they haven’t played yet, but I’m sure if you look past the stars and he sees that we’re bringing in linebackers who are 6’2 and run in the 4.5s I don’t think he minds

When looking at the film of this class I am extremely surprised at the Florida guys (Rosiek, Moffitt, Edwards, and Bryant) as they all seem vastly underrated. On the other hand not so impressed with the Georgia or Texas commits so far. Interesting how they keep pulling these guys with crazy...

Do we have any interest in Enrique Cruz? Instate recruit who has been a fast riser, and is now ranked a 4 star by 247.

What you’re saying makes sense, but that’s how a lot of transfer recruiting battles work. Usually they go somewhere the recruit has had a connection too beforehand. On that note we landed former four stars like Eifler, Hightower, and Christian Bell (I know he is going somewhere else) so it’s not...