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Also: Nothing unranked Big Ten team beats #11 SEC as he’s saying this

Because we are heading towards a 4-8 season and if we don’t increase NIL then are cemented in the back half of BT moving forward.

That’s a Big Ten rule not NCAA rule/agreement.

They all are perfectly willing to give us a chance. You want them to take a 50% discount to come here. That’s not going to happen.

I agree with your point but that lack of depth probably caused us a national championship. We win the game with a capable back up center.

That’s against the law

Enacting it for incoming players and not current players will result in a class action lawsuit. They will apply it to all student athletes.

1) the rule change would be a significant negative for the 2026-27 Illinois team. Move us from a consensus top 5 team to top 10. 2) I think Boswell being added would be far from certain. I think the staff is committed to QC. If QC is who the staff thinks QC is then Boswell’s role is maybe 15...

All fair points. I’ve seen QC play 5 times in person. I’m very interested to see how he develops/performs over the next year.

I’m not sure if you were actually responding to me but if so the OP was talking about Boswell/QC not Wagler.

You think QC will be better than 12 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and All Big Ten Defense?

It’s true that QC providing 75% of Wagler is more than enough but it is very unlikely QC provides 75% of Wagler. Thats 13 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Half of Wagler would be a good season for a freshman. 9 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.

Principia is a private high school in a small college like setting. They made a commitment a few years ago to go all out in sports especially basketball. Their facilities are as nice as most small colleges. They basically want to be the number 1 basketball school in the country. QC will not be...

It’s a weird argument since literally every college basketball player is a pro athlete getting paid to play basketball. How is Mirk a professional basketball player and the thousands of paid basketball players in the portal aren’t?

And I agree with you. Not adding a veteran point guard is extremely high risk (and foreseeably high risk).