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Battle89
the juiceman cometh said:
He'll be #37. At some point three others must have been added retroactively, but I'm not exactly sure when, and I didn't take the time to go through lists to figure out who.
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I don't know the three later additions either (might be when they announced the All-Century Team? - just a guess), but I found this tidbit interesting:

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the juiceman cometh
Battle89 said:
I don't know the three later additions either (might be when they announced the All-Century Team? - just a guess), but I found this tidbit interesting:

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I subsequently figured it out. See post #156 above.

Also yeah, that's interesting. Keeping track of fouls must have been a PITA, unless they just didn't have fouling out back then?
 
#178      
TheDukeUIUC
WeLoveNoOther said:
In an alternate universe, Keaton comes back for his sophomore year and raises his own jersey to the rafters, becoming the first Illinois player to be active and raftered simultaneously.

As a bonus, he drops a triple double of 30/10/15 on Izzo's thugs that night.

One can dream....
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Couldn't Kofi had done that after being a consensus 2nd team as a sophomore and coming back for his junior season?
 
#179      
the juiceman cometh
TheDukeUIUC said:
Couldn't Kofi had done that after being a consensus 2nd team as a sophomore and coming back for his junior season?
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Yeah it just doesn't work that way. For one, the banner lists the years they played. How do you do that for someone still playing? Just guess and swap out the banner later if you're wrong?

It's kinda like the HOF. There's a reason most leagues have rules requiring you be retired for a certain amount of time before you're eligible.

An interesting question this raises for me is, what if a player qualifies and then subsequently transfers elsewhere? Like what if Kofi had transferred to Kentucky after his sophomore year? Would we honor him?

I'm guessing it'd be very case specific with the answer being either "no" or "yes, but after a long amount of time has passed."
 
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#191      
Big Jack
Wooden Award Finalists
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That list to me is a load of crap.. some weight has to be taken for getting you team to the championship. Aj is a very good individual player but not the best, Boozer is probably the best player this year overall, but his did not get Duke to the promised land. Yaxel is a great team player but should be eliminated just by the number of years he was allowed to play, even a blind dog finds a bone. Keaton should be in the final 5 but alas people had their heads up their arses. If we win it all there is no way he is not the best college player this year.
 
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RabidDawgClassic
the juiceman cometh said:
Confused, in my case, as much as I love Always Sunny.

My name is entirely a product of my brain making connections between four specific memories/events/facts:

1. Being a senior in Champaign the year that Juice led us to a win over OSU and a Rose Bowl berth;
2. That shortly thereafter, sometime in 2008, the rapper OJ da Juiceman came out with his hit single "Make the Trap Say Eh";
3. That a play exists called The Iceman Cometh, which I have never seen, but am at least aware of enough to know it is a serious and well-regarded dramatic piece;
4. The reason the name of that play has always stuck with me is that I always thought it was funny to think of Val Kilmer's character from Top Gun Tom "Iceman" Kazansky being a character in a serious high brow stage drama doing this:

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