Recent content by STLini25

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).

Yep. Exactly my point. People example something that’s extremely unlikely to happen to happen again. It’s not going to happen again.

Crazy that people are assuming Vaaks/Coleman going to average over 30 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists combined. Crazy. I’ll wager ANY amount that doesn’t happen.

If the staff doesn’t add a veteran guard, they are taking a huge risk. Talking about a national championship but having a freshman point guard. Literally has only happened once in modern basketball (and that player was a top 5 one and done stud). Add to that the other guard is a sophomore...

Not even close. Boz/Wagler WAY better