Illini Basketball 2021-2022

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What a wonderful article. That's a love letter to the campus and took me back there. (EDIT: It's beyond cool that Chester loves the school as he does and is obviously jacked to be "home.")

As for Scott Hall (like Chester, I lived there... it was my home for two years; my room looked out through Memorial Stadium straight over to Assembly Hall), it has its virtues. The most prominent one is wall-to-wall windows that made those rooms on the south side of the building bright and sunny even in the depths of winter. A couple years ago I found this photo in the UI Library archives, taken in Scott Hall in the early '60s not long after those Peabody Drive halls were built. Those slanted desktops and beds were there my freshman year and replaced before my sophomore year ('85-'86). I still remember those chairs, bookcases, radiators, and drapes.

One detail about the photo I like is that it was taken long before IMPE (now the ARC?) was built across the street.

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Scott Hall Top floor west side here. I remember we would open our door and the room across the hall would open theirs and we'd get some extreme wind coming through. It was nice since they had no AC so it helped cool off a bit. The only other option was to go down into the basement since they had already installed AC down by the laundry rooms.
 
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altgeld88

Arlington, Virginia
Scott Hall Top floor west side here. I remember we would open our door and the room across the hall would open theirs and we'd get some extreme wind coming through. It was nice since they had no AC so it helped cool off a bit. The only other option was to go down into the basement since they had already installed AC down by the laundry rooms.
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So you were on short hall. Yeah; that wind could be fierce and did modulate the temp in the rooms in August/Sept when it could get hot. I was an RA when I lived in Scott so my doorway faced directly down short hall and I got a decent draft through my room. I loved looking out over IMPE, the stadium and Assy Hall all four years (lived on the south side of Snyder as a frosh and soph.) That beautiful view through the changing seasons is forever burned into my brain. :love:

In my day ('84-'88), alas, the basement had no A/C (though the library down there, I believe, did.) I recall occasionally studying in the carrels immediately adjacent to the laundry room during my first semester on campus. It was infernal there and I never went back after the semester ended.
 
#104      
What a wonderful article. That's a love letter to the campus and took me back there. (EDIT: It's beyond cool that Chester loves the school as he does and is obviously jacked to be "home.")

As for Scott Hall (like Chester, I lived there... it was my home for two years; my room looked out through Memorial Stadium straight over to Assembly Hall), it has its virtues. The most prominent one is wall-to-wall windows that made those rooms on the south side of the building bright and sunny even in the depths of winter. A couple years ago I found this photo in the UI Library archives, taken in Scott Hall in the early '60s not long after those Peabody Drive halls were built. Those slanted desktops and beds were there my freshman year and replaced before my sophomore year ('85-'86). I still remember those chairs, bookcases, radiators, and drapes.

One detail about the photo I like is that it was taken long before IMPE (now the ARC?) was built across the street.

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This photo is obviously a fake:

Students are studying
Room is tidy
Students are clean cut, well dressed, not showing off their tats
They're not playing on their phones
They appear to be living without the stress that comes from the mountains of debt they signed off on
etc.
 
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altgeld88

Arlington, Virginia
This photo is obviously a fake:

Students are studying
Room is tidy
Students are clean cut, well dressed, not showing off their tats
They're not playing on their phones
They appear to be living without the stress that comes from the mountains of debt they signed off on
etc.
Ah, the mid-'60s. No student debt (educational cost inflation was 20 years away.) Bakelite (lol), landline phones via the AT&T nationwide monopoly.

I'll take the '80s. Was pretty content with that window to be on campus.
 
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illini80

Forgottonia
As an assistant or a head coach? it sounds like you are saying we are not big time. If we were to pay him accordingly you don’t think we could hold on to an alumn on the staff?
I didn’t say that. Chester wants to be a head coach and if he proves once again he can recruit with the best of them, someone is going to give him that opportunity and pay him a lot of money. It doesn’t seem arguable that he will have big time opportunities.
 
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illini80

Forgottonia
Aren’t we getting a little ahead of ourselves? I mean I, too, like what people seem to be saying about our chances with some of these recruits but he’s gotten Epps so far, right? How many times did Groce finish second or third? We haven’t quite closed yet on the others.
We haven’t closed on a lot yet and that’s why my qualifier about continuing was there. I have absolutely no fear about him being another John Groce.
 
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Chester wants to be a head coach

He's flying through the ranks. Tremendous success so far, tons of passion and energy, relates to recruits exceptionally well, and he'll be picking up even more knowledge about running a program from Underwood. I feel like a lot of people don't realize how much churn there is when you hire guys at this level. He's going to make himself more and more valuable, and there will be a program ready to give him the reins soon enough. I hope the admin here makes it difficult in the sense that they give him bumps commensurate with his progression and making it so he's better off holding off for a top tier opportunity.

Thankful he was brought in --I feel like Chester and Underwood are both culture guys, and that Illini recruiting will be as good as it's been during the rebuild and return to the national rankings. Huge part of the program's success.
 
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He's flying through the ranks. Tremendous success so far, tons of passion and energy, relates to recruits exceptionally well, and he'll be picking up even more knowledge about running a program from Underwood. I feel like a lot of people don't realize how much churn there is when you hire guys at this level. He's going to make himself more and more valuable, and there will be a program ready to give him the reins soon enough. I hope the admin here makes it difficult in the sense that they give him bumps commensurate with his progression and making it so he's better off holding off for a top tier opportunity.

Thankful he was brought in --I feel like Chester and Underwood are both culture guys, and that Illini recruiting will be as good as it's been during the rebuild and return to the national rankings. Huge part of the program's success.
I would give Chester 3-5 years. He is very much an up an comer but he is also in a very good spot now. It's obvious how much he loves the school in that recent interview. I see him as a guy that won't leave for a UIC or Chicago St. just to say he is a HC. He is going to wait for either a P5 or high level mid major to come calling. He is going to pick his spot so that his trajectory keeps pointing up and quite possibly back to UofI when Brad hangs it up
 
#113      
I would give Chester 3-5 years. He is very much an up an comer but he is also in a very good spot now. It's obvious how much he loves the school in that recent interview. I see him as a guy that won't leave for a UIC or Chicago St. just to say he is a HC. He is going to wait for either a P5 or high level mid major to come calling. He is going to pick his spot so that his trajectory keeps pointing up and quite possibly back to UofI when Brad hangs it up
Love this idea, but what if.... when Brad moves on? Kansas, Kentucky.....

/s, well.... kinda
 
#114      

skyIdub

Winged Warrior
Love this idea, but what if.... when Brad moves on? Kansas, Kentucky.....

/s, well.... kinda
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#115      
Love this idea, but what if.... when Brad moves on? Kansas, Kentucky.....

/s, well.... kinda
I don't think Brad goes anywhere. He is far enough in his career that I think this is his last stop unless things go south. He has the AD's support (both through talk and getting the $$). He has a really good situation which isn't always easy to come by and like others have said he has 10-15 years left. He would have to leave pretty soon to leave much of a legacy at another school. Blue bloods don't look for coaches that will only give them 5 years.
 
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altgeld88

Arlington, Virginia
I don't think Brad goes anywhere. He is far enough in his career that I think this is his last stop unless things go south. He has the AD's support (both through talk and getting the $$). He has a really good situation which isn't always easy to come by and like others have said he has 10-15 years left. He would have to leave pretty soon to leave much of a legacy at another school. Blue bloods don't look for coaches that will only give them 5 years.
He impresses me as a guy who wants to be in Champaign, has sweated blood to restore this program, and intends to reap the dividends well into his 60s. As a line from an old Hal Hartley film goes: "Just be good to her, and she'll be good to you." (EDIT: Yeah; I know it doesn't always work that way :cry:)
 
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Retro62

North Bethesda, Maryland
I do not know where to put this…so, Dan, help me out. Is the new forfeit rule regarding COVID yet another Illinois rule? We had the home court NCAA rule, and the official review under two rule, is this rule partly in response to Fichigan’s championship in Bball?

If so, we are the most progressive through punishment program I know of.
 
#118      
I do not know where to put this…so, Dan, help me out. Is the new forfeit rule regarding COVID yet another Illinois rule? We had the home court NCAA rule, and the official review under two rule, is this rule partly in response to Fichigan’s championship in Bball?

If so, we are the most progressive through punishment program I know of.
Well considering B1G is last Power 5 conference to do this and there were also issues with cancelled games last year in football, I’m confident this had nothing to do with Michigan’s championship in basketball.
 
#119      
I do not know where to put this…so, Dan, help me out. Is the new forfeit rule regarding COVID yet another Illinois rule? We had the home court NCAA rule, and the official review under two rule, is this rule partly in response to Fichigan’s championship in Bball?

If so, we are the most progressive through punishment program I know of.
From our point of view as fans, It can feel like the Big Ten revolves around Illinois, but it doesn't.
 
#121      
I do not know where to put this…so, Dan, help me out. Is the new forfeit rule regarding COVID yet another Illinois rule? We had the home court NCAA rule, and the official review under two rule, is this rule partly in response to Fichigan’s championship in Bball?

If so, we are the most progressive through punishment program I know of.
There’s now a vaccine readily available, there wasn’t last year. I think it’s as simple as that
 
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Retro62

North Bethesda, Maryland
There’s now a vaccine readily available, there wasn’t last year. I think it’s as simple as that
I was being somewhat sarcastic with my comment…I guess I should have remembered the /s
 
#125      
Man I used to love playing in those games in the summer time at CRCE. Idk if ive ever played with anybody more athletic than Calvin Brock. Rebound the ball, 2-3 dribbles, take off to dunk.

Chester used to come in too, with Jeff Jordan, Rodney Alexander, Bill Cole etc. 5 regular dudes who could go in the gym vs the 5 from the team, best games I ever played in.
 
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