Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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GrayGhost77
Joel Goodson said:
a fair amount of our incoming class received upward bumps recently by 247. our recruiting momentum is pretty good and picking up steam. hopefully, we can parlay that to a next level '26 class. gotta keep winning.
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The biggest difference between our classes lately and BB (Before Bielema) is that we are finally starting to get kids that lots of other teams want. Multiple BCS team offers. That rarely happened under the previous regimes in the post-Zook era.
 
#177      
mhuml32
Get ready for negativity, or let's wait-and-see, town here!

Joel Goodson said:
VG (and free) article:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1856314019562336723
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Bielema could absolutely feel like the recruiting vibes are very different than any other point since he's been here at Illinois. I can't and won't dispute that, in fact I agree based on the visit history this season. Werner showcasing the proof because Illinois has flipped commitments from UNC (good)......and Western Michigan, USF, and Illinois State, is not the necessary evidence for such a statement. There's a lot of wish casting in this article, if Illinois gets Beerman and/or Graham, if the Clayton commit snowballs into something more for '26. Let's wait and see the sprouts grow a little more before claiming this is a bumper crop.

Joel Goodson said:
a fair amount of our incoming class received upward bumps recently by 247. our recruiting momentum is pretty good and picking up steam. hopefully, we can parlay that to a next level '26 class. gotta keep winning.
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There were a handful of guys who got recruiting bumps but their effective ranking is the same as it was a month ago. This is the issue with 247 and their ratings creep. They get late signees to P4 programs that were unranked (Hirdes) or jump to bigger programs (Bama got another UNC TE signee the same weekend as Illinois but he went from ~750 to ~225 when he switched to Bama). But as a bunch of these players get jumped based on this right-or-wrong decisions, they are just falling behind and then jumping right back up as 247 continues to give players higher and higher ratings.
 
#178      
mhuml32
Going back to my Hirdes comment about how the services were varying wildly on his ranking

247 has him ranked around 700, ESPN around 750 (updated, was previously unranked), On3 around 1400, and Rivals at 2000+
 
#179      
mhuml32
For those wanting to see composite comparisons - Top 1000 Commitments Under Bielema (red if they are already graduated/transferred)

2021 (Lovie fired, mostly his class): 1
Wisecarver - 480


2022: 8
Laughery - 651
Badie - 664
Mc-Cantos - 691
Miller - 710
Pugh - 767
Crisler - ~800
Moller - 966
Adams - ~1000


2023: 11
Elzy - 227
Karriem - 345
Feagin - 379
Wilcher - 717
Jenkins - ~800
Dixon - 823
Swanson - 855
Patterson - ~900
Henderson - 944
Smith - 944
Tobe - 988


2024: 10
Dennis - 271
Valentine - 397
Griffin - 508
Tuerk - 543
Brown - 621
Knight - 722
Petty - 762
John - 822
Orr - 829
Sanders - 994


2025: 11
Trimble - 463
Newton - 698
Farrell - 704
Wyche - 725
Boyd - 758
Straughton - 792
Cox - 801
McDonough - 843
Lovett - 855
Gayle - 895
White - 948
 
#182      
Illini4Christ
Virtue4 said:
Hello all,

Just wanted to thank you all again for voting for my nephew Brendan in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel player of the year poll. He came up short but he was one of only a few juniors on the list.

Happy to report he was named Defensive Conference Player of the Year for the Classic 8 Conference!


https://twitter.com/x/status/1856374404994748734
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No problem, we are famILLy.
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
#191      
Fly Illini Fly!
Simeon Rice said:
There's nil and there's NIL. This is crazy NIL

https://twitter.com/x/status/1857083681690513476
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Super League Money GIF by Anderson .Paak
 
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