Recent content by Retro62

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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Since Coleman entered the portal, if he comes back to Illinois, does that count as a portal "get"?
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I think, for Loyalty, "Best Stressed" is a better category.
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    Like trying to coach Matthew Mayer
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    Yetilich *nod to Pru
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Fess up…are one of you posters Sean Miller?
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    And now for a brief “Mutual of Omahaesque” interlude: My daughter is a National Park Ranger at Yellowstone…you use the correct term, Bison…we actually don’t have Buffalos in the U.S. The offspring are called “Red Dogs,” for obvious reasons…and now you know! I sincerely hope I have not started...
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    A little protection, but not Juwan Howard level protection. I don't wish him ill, I actually hope he does okay...not great...just okay...like, okay enough to beat Satan.
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    Hard to believe that all they could get is Pope. Is this a situation where the AD just makes a really bad impression on people, as we saw with Thomas? Is it that he didn't really conduct a serious search beyond big names he thought Kentucky would surely be able to get? I think, in comparison...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I don't want to go through the next season as a Prius.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    So, either Tre didn’t listen to Skyy about Illinois, and made his own mind up, or he did listen and Skyy had regrets, or he looked at Skyy and said I don’t want to deal with that and Illinois didn’t either. Or, none of this has anything to do with it and I’m throwing spaghetti at the wall…I...
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    Games Thread - The National Championship

    Well, I’m torn. I hate the idea of Purdue getting a Natty before we do, but Hurley seems like such a smug d**k, and Painter seems like genuinely good guy. Tough call.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Could be…but Michigan doesn’t seem like a team poised to make a run in the BTT, let alone the NCAA.
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs UConn

    Ready to enjoy the Boston TSJ party
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    3/29 Games Thread

    Root for whomever plays either next…it may be the only way to stave off nausea