Recent content by sbillini

Everything we’ve heard from people that know a lot more than most of us indicated that Brad wasn’t trying to push anyone out unless it was a HC gig. I guess somegring could’ve changed recently, but my guess is no. Besides, if he was, I’m assuming he wouldn’t have waited until after boyton and...

I appreciate you using my supposedly flawed logic right back at me. Doesn’t change my point though. People fly 8 hours for two hour meetings all the time. Everyday. Especially when we’re talking 10 figure decisions. And people have time constraints and scheduling is hard. Especially when...

Ah the splitting hair on wording. I’m sure his agent hadn’t been “contacted” either lol

You think an AD who’s about to make the most important he has to make every decade or so (hopefully not less) and probably boosters don’t want to meet with that guy in person before getting serious about talking to him? Especially given the pace they want to make the hire, it seems perfectly...

now I remember why I stopped reading game threads. Got sucked back in.my mistake Bad game against the best team in the country. It happens. These guys have been the most fun, energetic, passionate team we’ve had wearing the jersey in 20 years. Will love them and thank them even if we don’t...

Signed up for a account and looked at what the terms are for illini MBB. seems to essentially be setup up like a private equity vehicle (flat % management fee + % carried interest going to NILLY). In this case NILLY keeps 1% of everything invested plus 5% of all NIL retained from the athlete...

Essentially looks like: - Pay the athlete an upfront sum (generated from investor funds) to acquire "0-25%" of the NIL rights for that athlete. - From that 0-25%, some of it "could" be shared with the investors - Work with the athlete to maximize the NIL revenue (and, thus, maximize the 0-25%...

I think this Domask turnover debate is an interesting one. To me, overall he's a good ball handler, but with one glaring weakness, and one that teams (not just Wisconsin) have clearly scouted out. He has a tendency to too easily get his back to the basket when dribbling. Works great when...

Dain getting away with a walk…but love his game tonight!

Agreed. They basically have a hot take about people having too many hot takes. It's really quite impressive when you think about it.

My understanding was it was mutual. I always thought he was a pretty decent coach but with an abrasive personality. The irrational Maryland fans turned on him and sounds like admin did too, so seemed like a - “if I’m gonna leave, it’ll be on my terms” kind of situation

While there's always some more extremists that think it hurts them somehow, i think the more prevalent thought is that it doesn't help them. That professor is still fighting and clawing for research grants after the university cut its budgets and teaching in a dilapidated lecture hall while some...

I think when you tell a professor at a state school that has a history of being financially strained that likely feeds down to their daily work, this argument will be too derivative/tangential to hold much weight. And it'll be hard to provide them with good data to convince them otherwise.

To play devil's advocate, I see both sides of the argument and don't believe Athletics benefitting the entire university is as cut and dry as some make it out to be. Yes, Wisconsin and Michigan are very strongly academically, but has the athletic program meaningfully contributed to this? Or are...