Recent content by sadcubfan69

I may be in the minority on this, but we can appreciate his efforts, especially in 2023-2024, while recognizing this is not a critical loss. The decision to not tell anyone he was deciding to redshirt until right before the first game of the season is bailing on your team. I’m sure he was...

Losing Tim Anderson and Chester Frazier were much bigger losses than anyone wanted to admit, both from a relationship with standpoint and in terms of roster management and overall strategy. Replacing Tim and Chester with Tyler and his friend as yes men leaves just Antigua to check Brad, and that...

This was my exact reasoning for why recruiting over Ty with Tre White was a mistake with no hindsight bias

I have loved college hoops my whole life but it has reached the point to where I don’t think I can remain invested anymore if our entire roster is going to do a complete turnover year over year. This isn’t the college game we have grown to love, it’s a worse version of the nba (which I did not...

Yikes.

My thoughts exactly. Scouting, practicing, in season preparation to actually win games right now. Never-ending re-recruitment of your current players. Constant pulse checks and monitoring about possible future portal additions. Freshman recruiting. All at the and time. I’m with you, why bother...

On a good (often veteran) team, a lot of freshman naturally struggle to get minutes. Immediately transfer. On a bad (often younger) team, freshman can get a lot of minutes and their stats but the team/situation is bad. Immediately transfer. What is the point of recruiting freshman? Have one...

Instances like this make me think NIL will be regulated in the near future because this is a large sum of money and boosters are understandably pissed.

Ohio state paid Quinn Ewers over $1M and he had no intention of ever playing a snap for them.

I think eventually teams will make NIL deals multi year agreements and/or back loaded to avoid a skyy situation, or to a lesser extent, guys getting paid then mailing it in or transferring anyway the next year.

Having guys on the team that want to be here and buy in to the culture and the type of basketball the team strives to play is better than a disgruntled but more talented guy on paper. Each team left playing is less talented on paper by recruiting ranks than this past year’s Illini team. Onto the...

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assume the underwood rumors over on Illini guys

Coleman was one of the few guys I enjoyed watching each game. Like you said, he really cared and was trying to make the right team play even if it didn’t work out. Seeing him grow from freshman to senior year if he comes back would be really cool with how rarely that seems to happen in the NIL /...

Is it not true that even when he was carrying the team (Texas, IU, Wisconsin), that his points were coming from objectively terrible shots? The contested stepback, isolation 3s off the dribble were a constant of his shot selection all year. Even when he was “on”, the ball movement stopped when...