Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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mhuml32 said:
With this perpetual need at LB, I'm surprised the staff only has two offers out on 2020 LBs. One of those offers is a pipe dream: 3rd overall recruit in the country in an area that Illinois has not excelled (CA). The other is right in the staff's target area: Antonio Doyle, LB from Lutheran North in STL. He's on a similar rank as Cooper and already has quite a few good offers (Texas A&M, Nebraska, Kentucky, Mizzou). Would be a great recruiting win. But again, why only two offers? I know it's early, but it's already one of the positions with the least amount of offers.
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Just some guesses:

-We're probably waiting for a new DC/LB coach before extending offers to 2020 LBs. It would be hard to recruit LBs when you don't have an LB coach. Just going by the recent offers to 2021 kids, a lot of them are thanking the position coaches for the offers.
-If we are sticking with the 4-2-5 base then we really don't need to allocate that many scholarships to LB.
-There don't appear to be a lot of great in-state or St. Louis area LB targets right now. Maybe some will emerge during the Spring evaluation period or they identify some more targets in Texas and Florida. I would guess/hope that these new position coaches have already established a few targets of their own assuming they aren't coming from the NFL.
-Maybe they are happy with Hollins and Tolson? It's hard to get a grip on how they feel about the younger LBs. All we can go by is playing time and neither guy got much playing time at LB last year. Most of their snaps were on Special Teams. To your point, this seems less likely as the reason since these guys will be upperclassmen by 2020 anyways and a number of our LBs will be gone after 2020.
 
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We made the Top 12 for Kevon Billingsley:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1086288531364958213

That's quite a list. I'd imagine CP and Clark need to work their magic for this one.
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Long shot, but 5-7 years ago the staffs we had in place don’t even recruit this kid. CP helps obviously based on where this kid is coming from, but this staff is not afraid to go after the best players in the MW.
 
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FT35 said:
Anytime a player takes a visit it's worrisome. I mean, Verdis Brown almost committed to Missouri late in the recruiting process. You never know what these schools are going to tell these kids on these visits.

That being said, FSU already has 3LBs committed in this class and is going to have 10+ recruits on campus when Shammond visits. I'd be more worried if he was visiting Oklahoma as it's clear to an outsider like myself that that's where he'd prefer to be. They don't have a scholarship for him at this time, however.

If Shammond really wants early playing time then this is the place to get it.
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I will also add that FSU is currently falling apart. Their HC is getting sued from players at Oregon and their best young talent are transferring out.
 
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FT35 said:
We made the Top 12 for Kevon Billingsley:

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That's quite a list. I'd imagine CP and Clark need to work their magic for this one.
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Yeah, it is. Indicative that his rating, while very good, is significantly underestimated.
 
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deucemu said:
Long shot, but 5-7 years ago the staffs we had in place don’t even recruit this kid. CP helps obviously based on where this kid is coming from, but this staff is not afraid to go after the best players in the MW.
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It would be nice to land a Lutheran North kid. Coach Reed seems to like us but all of our targets there have gone elsewhere. Buford especially hurt given his ties to Illinois.
 
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Dude said:
Exhibit C about how much FSU is currently falling. FSU doesn't belong in that list of schools
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They are desperate for OL from what I can tell on their fan sites. They need immediate impact players though and will try to land some graduate transfers.

They lost out on a lot of HS OL targets but look like they are going to pick up Henry so I wonder if Claiborne is no longer a take? He no longer shows up on the OV list for next weekend. If he didn't make it here this weekend it would be nice to get him on campus next weekend when Marquez is here.

Cooper is still visiting but there's another LB on that list and they have 3 LB commits already.
 
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FT35 said:
They are desperate for OL from what I can tell on their fan sites. They need immediate impact players though and will try to land some graduate transfers.

They lost out on a lot of HS OL targets but look like they are going to pick up Henry so I wonder if Claiborne is no longer a take? He no longer shows up on the OV list for next weekend. If he didn't make it here this weekend it would be nice to get him on campus next weekend when Marquez is here.

Cooper is still visiting but there's another LB on that list and they have 3 LB commits already.
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FSU is also in real danger of losing their high 4* safety recruit -- Nick Cross from Maryland -- to Penn State. So even though they have several LBs committed, they may see Shammond as a potential prospect to switch to safety.
 
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FT35 said:
They are desperate for OL from what I can tell on their fan sites. They need immediate impact players though and will try to land some graduate transfers.

They lost out on a lot of HS OL targets but look like they are going to pick up Henry so I wonder if Claiborne is no longer a take? He no longer shows up on the OV list for next weekend. If he didn't make it here this weekend it would be nice to get him on campus next weekend when Marquez is here.

Cooper is still visiting but there's another LB on that list and they have 3 LB commits already.
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What about William Rogers? He's visited back in October. It does seem like the ILLINI is the best offer.

https://247sports.com/player/william-rogers-46053487/

Or the Butkus and Lovie going after a transfer?
 
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There's quite a few 2020 OL/DL instate prospects mentioned in this article:

https://247sports.com/Article/Recap-EdgyTimEFT-Showcase-Top-OLDL-Performers-128123855/

Sounds like Spraggins of East St. Louis had a very good day. Could be a P5 prospect as an interior lineman so it will be interesting to see if we offer him or not.

Also, Title mentioned him before but 8th grader Miles Mcvay of East St. Louis participated in this showcase and held his own against older participants. He's already 6'5 310 lbs. It'll be interesting to see how much he grows in the next couple of years.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1087423195400019968
 
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Too lazy to scroll back - how many scholarships do we have left for this class?
 
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