Recent content by SescIllini

Who is Ty Robinson?

See less Roger Powell, see a hybrid between Malcolm Hill and Quintin Richardson. Saw Roger Powell practice skills when he first arrived at Champaign. He was very mechanical was surprised to see how fluid he became by junior and senior year.

All those top programs can drop a large bag. Seems like Illinois/BU have a good relationship. BU also sending guards to NBA also a big plus IMHO. But other schools have strong factors as well.

Beilema likely gave Eberhart the facts, situation and context. Then let's the player make the decision. Beilema may have saw immediate playing time was at WR and not defense this year. Will have option to go back to defense if player/coaches want imho. Illinois has been pretty good at putting...

Key is going to be development and retention, they all seem really good players. Have this group as a solid base and sprinkle 1-2 5 star talents and we are cooking. Look what Iowa and Wisconsin did this past year by developing players while adding 1-2 transfers. Just our stars and base/role...

Luther hops...taller version of Luther Head :)

Have seen enough Illini teams to know that the #1 guy in August doesn't mean he is the #1 guy in January-April. But we may have several 1a,1b,1c, 1d guys on the team. Think we will have a loaded team in which multiple guys will have big games, it might be David/Tomi or Dre/Stephan...

Not much said on Andrej, hopefully we see end of year/NCAA Dre from the get go. His 3pt shoot be much improved, his form is good.

Haven't seen or heard much of Morillo in the highlight videos. Was impressed by him in the US vs International game.

Believe Q starts game 1 for multiple reasons, most because of his ability but also optics for top tier recruits. Q gives us speed we dearly lack, he will be in starting line up.

Good idea but I like the idea of teams blowing picks or finding gems. Not sure Caleb Wilson stays at 4 post summer league. I personally would take him at #2 after summer league.

What I'm hearing from watching Fifa 26 is that there are talented players who aren't starting or playing because they are not in form due to layoffs from injuries. Mihalo probably was never in form while at Illinois, don't believe we saw his best. That being said he seemed too small and not...

Hoping Bulls could get Steinbach, major drop off to Swain IMHO.

Dusty May had influence on who they chose. Could have gone with Mara, Morez or Yaxell. May chose Morez, he saw them closely over the last 9 months. Regarding trading down, not always worth the squeeze and you need to find a taker and be certain your pick isn't taken by someone else.

Olano was selected to US Army game....so probably a top 3-5 kicker coming out. Olano exceeded expectations, hit all the tough kicks under pressure. One os several reasons we won the last two bowls because Olano was the better kicker. Morales is rated7th best kicker, still pretty high. Big shoes...