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john1952

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pruman91 said:
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I dont know much of anything.

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Fighter of the Nightman

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GrayGhost77 said:
Regardless of ones views on The Chief, it's pretty universally known that the chief logo might have been, and still is, the coolest in all of sports.
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On a similar note, my friends who HATE the Illini (mainly Iowa fans) always thought the Chief was super cool, and I have heard them say on multiple occasions that the War Chant was easily the coolest marching band song in all of college sports ... really don't understand why we had to let the latter go, lol. Rename the damn song!
 
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Birdus said:
The opinion is not an opinion. Eventually they will both go if healthy. Whether or not it is now or later remains to be seen. I hope they come back just like you do. I have been a fan much longer than you have and DO have a right to my own opinion.
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No, you actually do not. Carry on.
 
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GrayGhost77

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Fighter of the Nightman said:
On a similar note, my friends who HATE the Illini (mainly Iowa fans) always thought the Chief was super cool, and I have heard them say on multiple occasions that the War Chant was easily the coolest marching band song in all of college sports ... really don't understand why we had to let the latter go, lol. Rename the damn song!
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Truth.
 
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jjv0004 said:
I officially hate the transfer portal and what it has made college athletics. I realize it doesn't matter because it is here to stay (as is NIL). But, I hate them both.
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Conceptually, I like NIL, but it was handled not too differently than Yeltsin handled the transformation to a market economy...with very little thought and with a similar aftermath.
 
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The Dying Illini

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IlliniCub 16 said:
I think the extra COVID year has just added to the transfer portal craziness because there are now more college basketball players with extra eligibility than ever before.

Players who are in Coleman Hawkins' class were freshman when the extra year was awarded, so there are two years left of extra COVID year eligible athletes. After that it will hopefully slow down a little, including for reasons like you mentioned about the grass not always being greener.
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Agreed, that accompanied with the timing of the transfer portal/NIL seems to have skewed our perception.

Everything has learning curves/adjustment periods. The extra COVID year adds an extra variable that we may not be able to evaluate yet.

Time will tell what shakes out and to your point maybe enlightens your point about continuity and NIL.
 
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Roundball Sage

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sacraig said:
Here's a nice feature on Coleman Hawkins: https://storied.illinois.edu/coleman-hawkins/
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“The story of Rodney Hawkins, Coleman’s father, also has deep roots in basketball. After graduating high school in the 1980s, he traded the noise of the South Side of Chicago... for the quiet of small-town America...”

Yes, the South Side is noisy and can be perilous. But it is also fertile ground for some of the best basketball talent that this Game has produced. The place where dreams are born of transcending the mean streets of a big and challenged city and be someone whose name the Sports World will all know one day.

“I feel like this is it for me,” he said of Illinois. “I don’t feel like this at any other school I visited.” Once Coleman decided, Rodney shared that he crossed paths with Coach Brad Underwood in Kansas when they both played ball in the late 1980s. Now with Coleman joining the Illini roster, their paths have crossed again.”

There is your blood family. There is your team family. And then there is the World’s Big Basketball Family where everyone is a brother and sister within a World Game mutually loved by all family members and where your opponent today might be your teammate tomorrow. Not to mention the Coaching Brotherhood where there is a shared fraternity of profession and purpose.

“When Coleman came to Illinois, players like Giorgi Bezhanishvili, Trent Frazier, and Ayo Dosunmu led the team and held him accountable as a first-year Illini.”

This – right here – is something that seems missing a bit lately. A good practice to fully embrace in the future of the Program.

“It’s a long way from the hoop in a California driveway to the boards in a big arena, but Coleman will always retain his passion for the game wherever he plays.”

Many a player begins a roundball journey as a little kid clumsily trying to bounce a ball in the back alley or at the local park. Then you eventually meet up with guys from down the block and you all take turns hoisting the ball toward a basket even though it seems a mile high when you’re little. You keep doing that and you start to spend much of your free time out there. And your ball-handling gets better and your shot hits the middle of the twin with much greater frequency.

And sometimes, you end up playing for a great University and with a bright future in the pros waiting ahead. And for some, it all began trying to bounce a ball in the back alley. Or was it the dream first...
 
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GoodePodzMelendez said:
May be he is looking to see who Brad brings in before committing anything. If Brad brings in a similar guy, them he could move on, but if Brad brings in a solid PG and in their meetings explain what his role is next year, he might stay.
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maybe RJ is waiting to see if BU yells at him in their player/coach post season meeting.... 🤣 /s
 
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