Thomas will be in attendance as well, according to something I saw from ESPN's Jeremy Crabtree:
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Thomas will be in attendance as well, according to something I saw from ESPN's Jeremy Crabtree:
Here's a better article from Scout.com
http://www.scout.com/college/footba...a-game-no-7-wr-looks-pac-12-big-ten-acc?s=169
http://www.scout.com/college/footba...a-game-no-7-wr-looks-pac-12-big-ten-acc?s=169
Great news over the holidays adding Watkins, Green, Hobbs, Green, and Carney! Anyone know how we stand with Palczewski? Fedd-Jackson? Other O-line options? And are there anymore DT's that we have a chance with? How about TE's? Gotta win the LOS.
Visiting next month.
I think part of it is the signing date is so late. Kids commit in the summer or during their fall football season and then have to wait months to sign. Some kids commit to a smaller school to have a reservation. During that time, the big schools start taking the top kids and then the next level of schools start poaching the smaller schools.
Basketball recruits sign with schools before they even start their senior seasons and long before the college season is over and coaches start getting fired or taking new jobs.
In football, committed kids have the coaches they committed to fired or moving to another job several months before signing day. That causes a lot of kids to rethink their commitments since they aren't signed yet.
Good point. Basketball has two signing periods.
Wow this guy seems pretty hurt that Thomas isn't considering Mizzou. It doesn't help the program to bash a high school kid, especially one in ESTL. I don't see how this article helps them at all.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
I don't know if they actually should have played more, but Odom's (and this article's) defense of playing East STL players more than Thomas remembers is weak.
Strong had a whopping 32 rushes, Simms appeared in only special teams, he admits Nelson is just on the scout team, and Beckner is a world-class defensive tackle that would start for almost every team.
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
That columnist/Miznoz fan needs a whambulance. Hopefully, the hand wringing gets an order of magnitude worse next year.
Yeah, the article also attacks Thomas which is pretty pathetic. Why the hell is a columnist going after a 17 year old kid. This type of stuff will only hurt Mizzou though.
East Saint and Saint Louis combined provide many high level college football players. Not enough for both Mizzou and Illinois to be good at the same time, but enough for whichever wins the border recruiting battles, will win on the field. Recruiting the St. Louis area well is critical to our program's continued success.
I read somewhere that Lovie wants to cover the Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati triangle on the recruiting trail. He knows it. And he's focused on building a pipeline to C-U. Let's hope we can become the preferred program of that region.
I read somewhere that Lovie wants to cover the Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati triangle on the recruiting trail. He knows it. And he's focused on building a pipeline to C-U. Let's hope we can become the preferred program of that region.
Three St. Louis area kids in the top 100 rankings for 2018. Need to strike while the iron is hot and keep hitting St. Louis. Terry Hawthorne is a huge part of the new success in the area. Need to keep him happy and he might not be a bad addition to the coaching staff in the future.
Any time a metro area kid or St. Louis kid picks Illinois the St. Louis media gets all butt hurt. They act like they're on Miznoz payroll. Being from the area it sickens me. They don't think of the kids first they only have their own interests in mind.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
An MU fan in the comment section actually said a degree from MU is viewed the same as one from UI. As someone who didn't go to UIUC but bleeds orange and blue, I find some of our fans' attitudes regarding academics tiring and, more importantly, completely counterproductive to growing our fan base ... but that comment is just ignorant. Part of me wants Mizzou to stop being a dumpsterfire so they can sell more than 10% of their Braggin' Rights allotment, but the other half is loving how much they suck.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Or that there are like 700,000+ people in the area who, ya know, LIVE IN ILLINOIS.
I just wish the Illinois media felt the same loyalty.
I think that's crazy. I actually think any B1G school degree is on a higher pedestal than any SEC degree. Probably just my ridiculous bias and overall dislike for the south as a northerner who lives down here. Obviously they can't touch us in engineering and probabaly most other things. However, from what I've heard, Miznoz is about as good as it gets in journalism. They can have that and we'll take the other 100+ majors.
robertgoulet
IL Board Resident Crooner
- Austin, TX
BananaShampoo
Captain 'Paign
- Phoenix, AZ
Yeah. They are the only exception, though.
Such an exception that I don't even think about them when I think of SEC schools
Illinois will win the border war as long as this !!! clown keeps talking. So glad we have Lovie, he speaks of his strategic plan with clarity and doesn't engage on these one vs one battles but focuses on the long-term plan.
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