Coaching Carousel (Basketball)
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I don't see any reason why we can't be relevant in football and compete at the level of Iowa or Wisconsin. If we can do that, basketball and other sports will be better off as well
Big Jack
- Decatur
The best part was when Jalen Rose said that Howard was going to come in and "fix the culture" which made no sense at the time and is objectively hilarious now.
If I had Elon Musk money I would just ask our coaches how much NIL they need and we would just buy the best players. (Just like the SEC and the blue bloods do now.)
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Unfortunately I see this as more of a moment of being DePaul to a level of relevancy. IMO recruiting Chicago just got harder. Great move by DePaul.
sacraig
- The desert
Imagine all the good I could do with $65M. I could wallpaper my house with OLED TVs.
Larry Gies is the Founder and CEO of a Chicago private equity firm, Madison Industries, which is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world (www.madison.net). He and his wife Beth are both U of I graduates and in 2017 they donated $150 MILLION (Illinois' largest single gift ever!) to the U of I's Business School at which time it was renamed the Gies College of Business. He gave a radio interview to Brian Barnhart/Deon Thomas at halftime of the recent Purdue Senior night game in which he specifically lauded Luke Goode for graduating from the Gies College of Business as a student-athlete in only 3 YEARS(!) and went on to mention that Luke had just won a significant award as a result of some student competition that was held by Gies. I know that Luke has not contributed as much as we all expected him to on the court this season, but I couldn't help thinking while listening to the radio that Luke might be the last true student-athlete that we see on an ILLINI basketball team, given NIL money, transfer rules etc. Hope not.
But how is Michigan going to cope next year without Jace Howard's 3 points and 2 rebounds a game?
And then use the rest on your power bills!
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
he wont be the last, but the days of student athletes playing and graduating in 3-4 years and doing well at both are going away .
it is sad , really
Thank you!
They should name a sports facility on campus after her.
Captain 14
- The Last Best Place
No need to beat around the bush Pru...just tell us how you really feel
Pru rarely beats around the bush...
texillwek
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One might say he does...?
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Perhaps my favorite student-athlete at the U of I was Jack Ingram from the memorable 2004-2005 ILLINI basketball team. Jack was an electrical engineering student and the first big man off the bench who played his best basketball for the ILLINI during the NCAA Tournament, posting his three highest scoring games as an Illini during the team's run to the title game. He had a career-high 12 points in the second round win over Nevada, nine points in the Final Four win over Louisville, and then poured in 11 points and pulled down a season-high seven rebounds while playing a career-high 30 minutes in the National Championship game against North Carolina due to James Augustine's foul trouble.
Ingram chose to come to Illinois not only for basketball, but for the top-rated electrical engineering program that the University offered. He was an Academic All-Big Ten selection while at Illinois and was awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor in 2005, an award given to the one student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had "attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work."
Playing in the National Championship game in basketball while graduating in 4 years with honors from the #1 ranked electrical engineering program in the country??? The epitome of a student-athlete at a time when you really could be both!
Have you seen the movie “Seven”?I feel like we should send flowers or something, to say thank you for all Juwan did for the beloved.
What would be an appropriate gift?
I kid! I kid!
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