UncleBob
- San Clemente, CA
Brilliant, Joel. Does BU or JW have your resume???
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mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
This is the seminal reason that losing Chin may be more painful than OA. Losing a national recruiter to a more prestigious program just means you need to target a different recruiter that can open different doors than were provided by OA. Losing Chin means you need to find someone that can open the same doors (Chicago) but also be a better recruiter against someone who's at a more prestigious program. It's going to be a challenge.
What doors did Chin open? Ayo that’s it. If Chins still here Casey doesn’t even sniff us. Trust me he’s no great loss.
Limbo is not good for players. Need to move on people soon.
This alone makes the hire worth it
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
Irvin and Alexander would do exactly what you describe as difficult. So not really hard at all.
Cal reads this forum on the daily. He will now be hiring Nic Irvin....great, thanks for leaking it
Your move Cal...
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
If it wasn't that difficult the program would be swimming in Chicago-related recruits and we wouldn't be discussing the challenges of recruiting inside the city hundreds of times a year on this board.
What am I missing with Alexander? From his bio, it seems like he's really tied into Illinois/Indiana, especially central Illinois. Why has he been sitting in a non-recruiting role for the last four years?
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
I get that we are collectively at a specific point in the grieving stage so this might not be a popular take for some of you but there is a reason that Kentucky hired Chin. He has a connection to a very popular AAU program in a city that is very dependent on having "relationships" with certain programs as a precursor for securing commitments. He also was effective in recruiting in areas outside of Chicago. Let's not all-the-sudden act like he was an anchor on the program.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Should we purposely leak certain names to whet their appetite? I hope we hire Dave Bliss
And everybody wants to be in bed with the Irvin’s. Good luck with that.
Love the air quotes. It's like saying you have a relationship with your hooker or dealer....
Chill man. The context of this was in relation to the replacement of Chin. Not in regards to what you decided to infer
Isn't the reason because they had 2 openings to fill and OA and Chin were to them the best candidates willing to go there?
Illinivek23
- Gurnee
Based on the comments on this Board over the 2 weeks, there is a ton to like about the new staff if it closes out that way.
Count me as excited. Along with what's happening on the football side!!!
I think the only place he’d leave Illinois for is a decent HC job.
His family is local. He and Brad are tight. He, IMHO,is extremely loyal to Brad, his players, Illinois, and his family.
when he was hired his dad was interviewed and made a comment about Geoff wanting a HC job someday. I remember interpreting that as in that’s about all he’d leave here for.
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