Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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mhuml32

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Lots of game theory related to NW's smart move of pushing their recruiting earlier than other, similar programs. What's the best counter (beyond winning more games than them)? You could push up the timeline for recruits when you're directly competing with them but that also assumes both programs are prioritizing the same recruit and coaches like building narratives/relationships on their chosen timeline. If you stick to your schedule, you let Northwestern dictate the pace and their early recruiting season success rate is impressive over the past five years.
 
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Simeon Rice

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superfan said:
I know nothing of this situation, but I noticed that all of those schools are academically inferior to Illinois. Is that possibly a factor?
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Not sure that's the case. This in-state 4* just got an offer today

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1529896180871831552

And, he'd been offered by a ton of great programs including Michigan before we got around to it. His '23 4* HS teammate Walters just got CBs to NW/Fitz (also one we offered late)

If you want to start the movement that says we are going to keep kids in-state, then it is fairly inexcusable not to offer no-brainer in-staters that blue-bloods are coming after.
 
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superfan

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Simeon Rice said:
Not sure that's the case. This in-state 4* just got an offer today

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1529896180871831552

And, he'd been offered by a ton of great programs including Michigan before we got around to it. His '23 4* HS teammate Walters just got CBs to NW/Fitz (also one we offered late)

If you want to start the movement that says we are going to keep kids in-state, then it is fairly inexcusable not to offer no-brainer in-staters that blue-bloods are coming after.
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Great response. Glad to see the beloved are at least now on the board. I agree that we should be the first ones out of the blocks for top talent at in-state blue blood programs.
 
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EyeoftheIllini

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Simeon Rice said:
How does this kid not have a UI offer? Those schools shouldn't be offering local 4* kids before we do

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1529478827600224258
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I get we want the Illini to recruit Illinois well, but I don’t think that means the coaches need to just automatically blanket the top 20 or 10 or 5 kids in state with offers. There is likely some kind of reason they haven’t offered yet given they’ve offered the number 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10 as well as an unranked kid from E . St Louis. This does not appear to be something like the Lovie days when he routinely didn’t offer good IL players. BB has and he has already proven he is prioritizing in-state kids. I think he’s already earned enough of the benefit of the doubt to assume there is a reason he hasn’t offered and not incompetence.
 
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Point-Illinois

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suburbanILLINI said:
Kind of surprising how strong their class is after such a bad year last season
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Other than the COVID year where they out performed their expected/2nd order win total (basically won games they shouldn’t have) and made it to the B1G Championship game, they’ve actually been pretty bad for several years.

So yeah, they are either really leveraging that B1G Championship appearance, or are just good at recruiting but the performance hasn’t kept up with it.
 
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Other than the COVID year where they out performed their expected/2nd order win total (basically won games they shouldn’t have) and made it to the B1G Championship game, they’ve actually been pretty bad for several years.

So yeah, they are either really leveraging that B1G Championship appearance, or are just good at recruiting but the performance hasn’t kept up with it.
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In the last 5 years they've been:
2021: 3-9
2020: 7-2
2019: 3-9
2018: 9-5
2017: 10-3

Wouldn't call that pretty bad
 
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