Recent content by Kilgore Trout

Thanks, best laugh I’ve had here in a long time

How do they work out any sort of "balance" in NIL between incoming and retained players? Seems like it would piss off retained players if they pay someone more to come in after they agree and stay? This wide open NIL era is so bizzare in so many ways.

I didn’t pretend to know anything beyond what I learn watching. If your team had 9-10 excellent players could you go with an “everbody is a starterl” philosophy? That whichever 5 players practices the best, or meets some sets of goals/priorities preceding the game are that game’s starters? Maybe...

What a year its been. I hope we to get to watch several of them back next year. Watching this game I honestly believe the Illini win if that could have just shot an average %. Thanks to every one of them.

Sorry this is behind the paywall but thought you would enjoy the headline. Wall Street Journal Artlicle - "The European Superteam Taking Over March Madness" "Illinois has pummeled its opponents on its way to the Sweet 16. But college basketball’s newest superteam isn’t homegrown—it’s from...

What's happening with Fagbemi? After all the great athlete talk by Brad I expected to see him at least in some games. Does he have good potential or just not ever going to be good enough to play much?

With probably a lot more NIL than AJ will ever see.

I think of this as a game that we won against MSU and lost against the refs

I had hoped that a condition of signing Andrej Stojakovic would be that his dad Peja (who must be aware enough of the Illini's defensive struggles) would have obtained assurances that a new defensive coordinator would be brought in.

Is Hamer still going to be defensive coordinator- or hopefully moved to a more appropriate position?

Given how universal the condemnation of our last years defensive "plan" and execution were, can anybody explain why BU is seemingly so attached to Hamer? If he is hearing from our AD, from big NIL contributors, etc that a change is needed, is there any other explanation other than BU just...

I want to thank you for taking the time to give us your honest take on everything

Living in Wisconsin, my local sports news is always, of course, about the Badgers. Wouldn't it be nice to read a news story entitled like this about one of our favorite Illiin? John Blackwell plans to be ‘a Badger for life’"

For those of us who avoid X, can someone share what Leonard has to say here?

For me, the whole nepotism problem, the seeming inability of the offense or the defense to make in game adaptations, the loss of good assistant coaches, and so many players to the portal, has taken me from firmly believing Underwood is an excellent top level coach; to the firmly wondering if he...