Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
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Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Hopefully not, let’s seal the deal before he sees what the horseshoe looks like!
Seriously, it’s become even more jarring to me as I’ve gotten older, but the SEZ really is a black stain on an otherwise perfect stadium … our stadium is like 75% great with one aesthetic and practical nightmare thrown onto one end.
I have to respectfully disagree, but the last three QBs were questionable and 2 of them panned out depending on how you see Art. Our OL will make the offense perform better. Our receivers are the best we have had in many years. Granted, we are taking a step back in the run game but our line will help with that. We may have one of the best lines on both sides of the ball in the West. We could use another TE who is more of a blocker to help with the run game. I am thinking maybe a JUCO to fill that spot. A RB in the portal would help with depth as we did not have depth in the RB stable. Since we have three spots open from what Illini0440 says, a TE, RB and DL to replace starters from this years team.
Henning is almost like a gadget player. The only way he works well is to find a way to get the ball in his hands and he doesn't have good hands. Not a fit and glad he went elsewhere.
I'd add Center and possibly a DB; although it'd be nice to have a proven transfer RB, I'm guessing 3 open spots will be filled with the best fits from a pool of OL, DL, TE, and DB. Just a guess.
Of course if a crazy talent at another position like WR or RB wants to join, you take him and figure the rest out later.
So this is him as a 10 year old? This video has 20k views!?!? I never thought I’d spend any time watching a 10 year old football player’s highlights let alone actually being entertained by them.
TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
Seems like a good fit at SS with Bailey at FS, like the core we are building there. Obviously there will be a drop-off from last year, but I don't think they will be bad.
Joel Goodson
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mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Miss. State and TAMU offered this week.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Caleb Pyfrom, Missouri Tigers, Offensive Tackle
Also plays basketball and competed in track and field as a freshman and sophomore.247sports.com
OL now scheduled for an OV.
Apropos to nothing, but I couldn't even tell you the last time Illinois made an offer to a Nebraska prep.
He got caught from behind.
I have to say, it's pretty wild how many offers Bret has been sending out. Seems like it has been far far more than in previous regimes. His phone must be permanently overheating at this point. Exciting times to be a fan for sure.
Joel Goodson
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6' 7" 220 TE, 2025:
I felt some of those fields just watching that.
Football going positionless. We'll be starting 22 TEs
Gotta fill the hole Luke Ford left...
If a stud receiver or RB wants to come, by all means sign him. But BB seems to have a plan.
BillyBob1
- Champaign
Offer the guy that caught him!
That’s how Devon Witherspoon caught our attention freshman year
So if this is true — and I’m not saying it isn’t — why did posters want him so bad when coming out of HS? Was it in large part because he’s a state kid. WR with bad hands doesn’t seem like much of a get no matter where he is from.
Illini92and96
- Austin, TX
He was ranked 137th in the country. It’s reasonable to assume that he would be talented to be ranked so high, no? One has to wonder how someone ranked so high could have bad hands, but it show recruiting is not an exact science.
Just speculating, but it may be he is more of a known commodity now with practice and (I’m guessing very few) game reps against college competition.
Thus its’s easier to project what he can/can’t do.
Or maybe some of it is a case of the “we didn’t want him anyways” when he didn’t come here.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why would we add seats when we can't fill the ones that we currently have?
To be fair, "renovation" and "adding seats" are not mutually inclusive.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Uh, as the other poster alluded to, you don’t need to add seats. The Horseshoe is hideous and a comical distance from the end zone. It’d look infinitely better to have ZERO seats there and just a structure. As for capacity, there shouldn’t be any seats underneath the balcony overhang … no new stadium does that. All that capacity should be shifted to the SEZ whenever this badly needed renovation takes place.
I’ve taken multiple friends to Memorial Stadium who aren’t looking at it through O&B glasses, and their reactions are literally all exactly the same. They think it’s beautiful as we walk up, and that shifts to “meh” once we’re inside, specifically calling out the Horseshoe as an eyesore.
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