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<blockquote data-quote="I-L-L" data-source="post: 1974855" data-attributes="member: 747718"><p>Can't worry about that these days. Put together your best "team" and build and sustain the culture. Every team will have a 6th man, 7th man, 8th man, etc. If they don't want to play the roll, then unfortunately we'll say goodbye. </p><p>That being said, I was encouraged that despite not seeing the floor in the second half Dain was jumping up and down on the sidelines down the stretch and totally pumped in the locker room. I want Dain here. As long as Brad and his staff don't make promises such as "you'll be our go-to guy" or "I can promise you'll start" or "I'll make sure you get X amount of minutes" then it depends on if the kid wants to buy into Brad's awesome culture, which is defense, work your butt off, and be there for your teammates. I have a feeling his pitch to these incoming freshmen and portal players is something like..."We really like you. We think you're a very good player with great potential. It's going to be a lot of hard work, but if you commit to the the hard work, we're building something special in Champaign that we want you to be a part of. You have my word that if you commit to us, we'll commit to you to get you in great shape/condition and improve your skills. Again, it's going to be a lot of hard work and there are certain things we can't promise, but we want a guy like you on this team b/c we think you can help us win."</p><p>Now, I have no idea if that's what is really said, but I could see something like that from Brad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I-L-L, post: 1974855, member: 747718"] Can't worry about that these days. Put together your best "team" and build and sustain the culture. Every team will have a 6th man, 7th man, 8th man, etc. If they don't want to play the roll, then unfortunately we'll say goodbye. That being said, I was encouraged that despite not seeing the floor in the second half Dain was jumping up and down on the sidelines down the stretch and totally pumped in the locker room. I want Dain here. As long as Brad and his staff don't make promises such as "you'll be our go-to guy" or "I can promise you'll start" or "I'll make sure you get X amount of minutes" then it depends on if the kid wants to buy into Brad's awesome culture, which is defense, work your butt off, and be there for your teammates. I have a feeling his pitch to these incoming freshmen and portal players is something like..."We really like you. We think you're a very good player with great potential. It's going to be a lot of hard work, but if you commit to the the hard work, we're building something special in Champaign that we want you to be a part of. You have my word that if you commit to us, we'll commit to you to get you in great shape/condition and improve your skills. Again, it's going to be a lot of hard work and there are certain things we can't promise, but we want a guy like you on this team b/c we think you can help us win." Now, I have no idea if that's what is really said, but I could see something like that from Brad. [/QUOTE]
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