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ChiefGritty

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Chicago, IL
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2qtslow said:
It is hard to know how to read this. On a basic level, Skyy said caring for his father was more important than playing basketball. Admirable.

But. Minutes after the Illini are eliminated, Skyy declares for Louisville, which says Dad got better and no longer needs care from his son. So why does say he needs to change schools? These pieces do not all fit together for me.
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Sounds to me like both situations played into one another.

Skyy admirably felt a pull to step up for his family in a time of need, but that connects with his feeling then and now that he wasn't advancing his goals as a basketball player (something he and his family have worked and sacrificed a lot for) at Illinois.

It wasn't ever going to be a fit here, in retrospect.
 
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bleedsorangenblue

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The article talks about him putting in time to be a better basketball player and, more importantly, a leader for his new team. Not sure why he could not do that at Illinois. What was keeping him from stepping up for Illinois in Nov. and Dec. before he found how sick his dad was? Agree that things don't really add up here.
 
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RealWorld52

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bleedsorangenblue said:
The article talks about him putting in time to be a better basketball player and, more importantly, a leader for his new team. Not sure why he could not do that at Illinois. What was keeping him from stepping up for Illinois in Nov. and Dec. before he found how sick his dad was? Agree that things don't really add up here.
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In this new world we gotta say "Easy Come, Easy Go" for these recruits. Good luck to Skyy!
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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2qtslow said:
It is hard to know how to read this. On a basic level, Skyy said caring for his father was more important than playing basketball. Admirable.

But. Minutes after the Illini are eliminated, Skyy declares for Louisville, which says Dad got better and no longer needs care from his son. So why does say he needs to change schools? These pieces do not all fit together for me.
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I concur.....something doesn't add up ......I applaud him for being there for his dad and all , but I stopped reading the article when it started talking about skyy arranging a group chat at L-ville , etc etc.......

The info about a fracas with MM ?? and other stuff that was said by cohawk after the loss to the razorbacks tells me we aren't getting the full story....And it was implied somewhere that he continued getting NIL $$$ from us till we were eliminated and then he transferred right after the horn sounded in our tourney loss......

Strange things happening now in this wild wild west platform of the transfer portal.......For me , it's time to move on to who WANTS to be an Illini..............jmho
 
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BretMyBeachHouse

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"We didn't want anybody feeling bad for me," Kenny Clark said. "We handled our stuff in house; we do it privately. That's why we never felt the need to explain anything to anybody."

Except now you do.

Kudos to the Louisville sports info folks for crafting this spin. Skyy couldn't do it in two months and it took them a whole month.
 
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NarrowJ

NarrowJ
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pruman91 said:
I concur.....something doesn't add up ......I applaud him for being there for his dad and all , but I stopped reading the article when it started talking about skyy arranging a group chat at L-ville , etc etc.......

The info about a fracas with MM ?? and other stuff that was said by cohawk after the loss to the razorbacks tells me we aren't getting the full story....And it was implied somewhere that he continued getting NIL $$$ from us till we were eliminated and then he transferred right after the horn sounded in our tourney loss......

Strange things happening now in this wild wild west platform of the transfer portal.......For me , it's time to move on to who WANTS to be an Illini..............jmho
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CHI 1086

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grue2 said:
No kidding. I looked at it. Looked at the general course list, and couldn't understand why anyone would get that degree. It looked so much less rigorous that anything else in engineering. Just a series of intro to topics that sounded more appropriate for a business degree. Many years later, my guess is it was a path to be a technical project coordinator or engineering manager. I'm still not sure.
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So in the General Engineering program, there were 12 credit hours to select what was essentially a minor. I had a 4 year AFROTC scholarship. I knew I was going to fly in some form after graduation. I also knew that if I got into Engineering in the AF, it would be in a project management capacity. That's why it appealed to me.
 
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WhiteHorseWings

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bleedsorangenblue said:
Not sure where to put this. Explains the situation with Skyy Clark stepping away from basketball in January.

www.courier-journal.com

How time away from hoops prepared guard Skyy Clark for key role with Louisville basketball

Transfer portal addition Skyy Clark looks to be a leader for Louisville basketball in 2023-24. Here's how time away from the game prepared the guard.
www.courier-journal.com
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If only my team understood that to be a leader you have to learn to set up a group chat. I’ll add to their 23 goals.
 
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Big Jack

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Decatur
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RabidDawgClassic

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sacraig

sacraig
The desert
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PIT_ILL said:
I thought everyone that went GE moved to a more specific engineering after soph year. Guess that wasn't the case. Always thought of it as general studies when kids didn't know what branch they wanted yet.
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The college of engineering had an entirely separate program for that: undecided engineering. But students and even some employers didn't know the difference, which was a huge problem. So they renamed it to systems engineering and design in 2016 or something like that.
 
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WyattEarp

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2qtslow said:
It is hard to know how to read this. On a basic level, Skyy said caring for his father was more important than playing basketball. Admirable.

But. Minutes after the Illini are eliminated, Skyy declares for Louisville, which says Dad got better and no longer needs care from his son. So why does say he needs to change schools? These pieces do not all fit together for me.
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I read it has he/they are more full of crap than the proverbial Christmas goose.
 
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Illini in Italy

Illini in Italy
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CHI 1086 said:
So in the General Engineering program, there were 12 credit hours to select what was essentially a minor. I had a 4 year AFROTC scholarship. I knew I was going to fly in some form after graduation. I also knew that if I got into Engineering in the AF, it would be in a project management capacity. That's why it appealed to me.
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If I'd known about that program, I wouldn't have gone into the Bioscience program (Also an AFROTC grad). 😎
 
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WeWillWhen

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