This is a really interesting nugget. Could be a tease about Illinois becoming more involved in the portal this offseason (and going forward). Could also mean they have had some players take their temperature if they consider leaving their current institution.
I watched the press conference. He basically said they want all the Illinois, Midwest and Florida kids in traditional recruiting. Then they can grab the Illinois guys out of the portal who they might have missed on, and the guys they hadn’t identified out of high school because they weren’t in those 3 main areas, like Nicario Harper from Atlanta.
Personally I’d like to see us get more into Texas, but that doesn’t seem to be a focus. Being down here for over a decade now
, I’ve flipped my opinion to that the best athletes in the country are actually here, and not in Florida. Houston, Dallas, and the small country towns in East Texas just have different types of dudes in ridiculously large quantities. So much so that it really doesn’t make sense.