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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    This is a good point. Fewer and fewer 5th year plus guys left. Things are more diluted now as the covid year glut continues to filter out. It does feel like NIL has made redshirts a lot more popular though too?
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    No doubt they can be, but I also do wonder why we wouldn't at least attempt a pivot here and go after a different veteran guard. Not getting Blackwell is not a surprise, he joins a list of early targets we've missed on - it happens and we will be fine; Brad has more than earned the benefit of...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    If only Brad and his staff knew what they were doing… frustrating. Feels like he never listens to us.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Cool. I’m in. Might as well take a shot at someone that you think could develop and see how they look as the year goes. Need another practice body anyway I would think.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Yeah if we don't end up getting Blackwell, that would not be a surprise to me, as we've missed before on our early high profile portal targets. What would be a surprise to me, though, is if we miss but also NOT pivot to someone new, whether that ends up being a different guard or someone...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    (this is not the start screen but I feel like it should have been)
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Would this imply a pivot from Blackwell or just a backup plan? I'm sure we'll be fine either way but curious...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    If they are going to announce returners today, I guess I'd think that they would do it before the CvC event so as to not take away from the focus of that actual event too much. But on the other hand, I really don't know what I'm talking about and no one should listen to me, so I'm torn. I...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I would imagine part of the sell to get Z to come back would have to be that he will get more minutes in general, so yeah that'd mean more minutes with both twins on the floor. The weird thing with Z on defense is he seems to move very well for his size, and thus is more capable than Tomi at...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Well if we end up pivoting from Blackwell we will get someone else good, not worried there. I'm mostly hoping we get #TheRetention announcement asap! (Hopefully tomorrow??) edit: (I don't think it's necessarily worth overpaying for Blackwell. I think he's good and I'd be thrilled if we got...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I thought Blackwell was at UCLA today? Would the visits overlap? I get having multiple guys for the same spot visit but doing it on the same day seems odd to me.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    lol it's literally in the post right above mine. I must have been behind or something when I posted and now it's too late to edit. Sorry Heisenbobble
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Sorry if this was posted somewhere else and I missed it. Find it fairly interesting to hear his comments.
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