BananaShampoo
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Love seeing that kind of excitement about our coach and program from a really really good player - even if we might be a longshot. :thumb:
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Love seeing that kind of excitement about our coach and program from a really really good player - even if we might be a longshot. :thumb:
We are not a longshot. I would put us as the favorite. By no means the odds-on favorite, but I think we have a better shot than anyone. Top competition is probably Arkansas
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...and Devin O'Rouke just committed to Northwestern per his twitter
Ouch!! This is the type of instate talent that Lovie and his staff need to make a big statement. Landing Ronnie Perkins is now that much more important.
Greg Newsome just visited Illinois today. But I don't like our chances there
Why not? He's visited twice in three weeks
FT35
- Naperville
All of the CBs for him changed from Illinois to Northwestern. Ramos and Wiltfong are fairly accurate and they don't randomly make these predictions:
http://247sports.com/PlayerInstitut...lenbard-North-181445/CurrentExpertPredictions
Crystal Balls mean very very little. I believe nothing from Gus Ramos unless he read it off a premium info from Scout and Rivals. They are great for clicks though
FT35
- Naperville
I disagree mainly because it depends on who they are from, what their track record is and why they are making that prediction.
Two Northwestern CBs showed up for Devin O'Rourke yesterday morning and he committed the same day.
All the CBs for Micah Jones pointed towards ND and guess where he ended up? Same goes for Quincy Patterson with VT.
I won't dispute that Ramos has been off in the past but Steve Wiltfong changing his prediction for Newsome is meaningful. He's the whole reason there were CBs for Newsome to Illinois since he wrote an article in which Newsome was quoted as saying that Illinois is/was the leader:
http://247sports.com/Bolt/Illini-lead-for-in-state-standout-51657030
Other people piggy back off this information and then make CB predictions.
Wiltfong has changed his prediction in a matter of days and he didn't do it randomly. This isn't good for Illinois.
Here's some good news for all of "the sky is falling" fans refusing to believe Illinois can land blue chip talent.
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BananaShampoo
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Here's some good news for all of "the sky is falling" fans refusing to believe Illinois can land blue chip talent.
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Awesome. I like guys who's neck is as big as their head.
FT35
- Naperville
Here's some good news for all of "the sky is falling" fans refusing to believe Illinois can land blue chip talent.
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This is great news!
We are getting blue chip talent on campus. Kids aren't buying in yet but the staff has shown that they can close the deal by using the full court press with certain kids who are taking Illinois into serious consideration but may be leaning elsewhere (i.e. Kendrick Green, Roundtree, etc.).
Illiini
- In the land of the Nittany Lion
It's a little big but I got this from Twitter:
I understand the 314 to 217 area code thing, but "Littyville" I've seen elsewhere, Litty is a nickname for Thaddeus Ward?
OldGreg I'm impressed with your fluency in young slang. Lit evolved to litty. Littyville is where it's lit(ty).
Gee...I don't know...Maybe they liked it and they will be back? Not eveything is codes lmao
Per twitter I saw TE TJ Ivy is visiting tomorrow. 6'5 215. Plenty of room to grow. Moves well.
I've always been a big fan of the TE position. Kinda of a jack of many traits. Pass catching, blocking, ST player. Kinda of a do it all guy.
Teams like Stanford who use multi TE packages I've always loved to watch.
Getting more guys who have the potential to be a 6'4- 6'5 240-260lb athlete moving around doing multiple things is fun to watch.
I've always been a big fan of the TE position. Kinda of a jack of many traits. Pass catching, blocking, ST player. Kinda of a do it all guy.
Teams like Stanford who use multi TE packages I've always loved to watch.
Getting more guys who have the potential to be a 6'4- 6'5 240-260lb athlete moving around doing multiple things is fun to watch.
Agree with you, Big Stan. I would use the TE a lot more than the average coach.
There's a pro team near where I live that does this. Seems to work. Maybe Illinois needs some good ole fashioned football. Tight ends, fullbacks, blocking linemen............
So true. Big athletic HS QBs also often end up as TEs. ĐTs who are too slow end up on the OL.etc. etc.
BananaShampoo
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Very true about the big QB's thing. The starting QB at my high school was a big, tall kid who ended up going to Purdue and starred there as a TE. His name was Tim Stratton and he did pretty well there winning the inaugural John Mackey award in 2000.
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