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Who is too high and who is too low? No-Doubt Future Starters OG Brody Wisecarver DB Daniel Edwards WR Patrick Bryant C Josh Kreutz Potential Future Starters DE Sedarius McConnell DB DD Snyder Role Players/Depth Pieces LB Trevor Moffitt DB Joriell Washington WR Theodore Lockley LB Dylan...

Don't know why you are critiquing me here. My football credentials? Very minimal. If this is your really your stance, you should be critiquing every other LB coach in the country at a Power 5 school who didn't think these kids could play at their school for one reason or another. Is your...

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Imagine being Shammond Cooper right now. You are being recruited by basically every P5 program. You have a final four of Texas, Oklahoma, Mizzou, and Illinois. Oklahoma publicly showers you in love. Shockingly, you pick Illinois on January 3rd. You sign on Feb 6th. On February 6th, the same...

Bernard Kouma enters the chat.

I am the biggest Illini football homer, and I always drink the orange Kool-Aid, but I am not optimistic about this recruiting class at this time. This class is the most important class since 2017 and we don't have much to show for it yet. We need players who are no-doubt future Power 5 starters...

Top Priority and highest ranked target we could have reasonably gotten, Travion Ford, heading to Mizzou.

Thompson has set up a visit to Cincinnati this weekend.

Kahlil Whitney announcing he will be leaving UK.

So the argument this thread is making is: 1. Lovie wanted to hire his own son (widely considered blatant nepotism) to be an assistant coach for the football team in an absolutely pivotal year. He hires him to work on the side of the ball that needed to show the most urgent improvement, despite...

Donnie Tillman is going to UNLV.

Anyone have a list of 2020 and 2021 visitors for this weekend's BBQ?

No one is questioning if this team will be more talented than the teams we fielded through 2015-2018. The question is, will that translates to wins? That comes down to the coaching and scheming.

The hot rumor on the street is that the Illini will be hiring a new assistant coach in the coming days to help with recruiting.

Man, recruiting at Duke is just a different animal. Right now, Duke has extended 7 offers for the class of 2020. ONLY 7! Compare that with the roughly 50 that we have offered. Duke has 2 commits already, both are top 25 players. Duke should probably have 3-4 scholarships to hand out in the 2020...