I love X but for positional value alone it’s the order you just put them in. Need to win in the trenches first and foremost
Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
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Tight!
IAAL - Federal authorities have said that Title IX is applicable here back in July but have given no regulations that I’m aware of to dictate what that should look like. I’d argue they don’t apply as a non-federal source of funds, but that’s probably a losing argument.
My favorite quote from a press release about it in the summer: “Administrators will have to choose between paying a higher portion to men, risking potential lawsuits, or equally sharing revenue with men and women, risking falling behind competitors in football recruiting.”
Tell me that’s not a true-blue American dilemma lol
In my head, the safest route here would be to take the prior-year revenue for each sport and then prorate the revenue share to each sport based on their percentage of revenue for the school. Women would likely get much less in that situation, but they’d have the free ability to attain more as the social acceptance of women’s sport continues to rise.
If we get 11 of 12 back including the big 3, are we set for our highest preseason ranking since the Mackovic era? I think we were 11th preseason in ‘91 and we would be top 15 certainly for 2025, I would think
illinidarrin
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I would think so, and then you add in the all the new transfers on top of that, in which we are not done yet. It looks like a few more will come before it's all over.
Classic poaching grounds for either Iowa or Wisconsin over the recent years.
It'll be interesting to see how that recruitment progresses.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
$ article, but tweet has value:
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
yep. hopefully the worm is turning. we should be able to take a step or three
Yes- the transfers will be critical to our success next year although none of them are big enough splashes to get a lot of national media attention
Next year will be a critical year to take advantage of one of the few advantages we have over the $20-30M a year NIL programs - they will always lose a lot year over year- if we can keep guys around and have that experience advantage with really good college players it’s a huge year to do that. This year was a stepping stone toward that, next year it’s CFP or bust
We’ve been really good at producing NFL talent under BB, so if we combine that with making the CFP our recruiting will uptick as well
Thought this was an interesting video, not sure if it’ll let me share a link. Couple takeaways is only about 50% of 5 star recruits even get drafted, and about 60% of All-Pro players were 3 stars or less. Also colleges call the publications to try and get their classes ranked higher because it looks good to fans.
1. Eh, I think even if you get everyone back you’re probably looking at a ceiling of #15. We beat #15 South Carolina but we’re not gonna have a straight replacement of their spot. Our recruiting class really isn’t all that great either. I think there would be a few that leap us.
2. If we only get 2/3 back I’d say 20-25 rate is probably about right.
3. You only get one, low twenties to UR unless it’s JC Davis that stays.
- I’m guessing all of them stay and we come in at #17
i want all thre back of X, Jacas and JC, but if i had to rank them X is
perhaps of a lineage of NFL DB's and JC gives us a huge step to a
solid O line next year. plus, we've already started to fill the DE/OLB
spots with transfers. he needs a year of development that illinois
could give him but if its not to be...
perhaps of a lineage of NFL DB's and JC gives us a huge step to a
solid O line next year. plus, we've already started to fill the DE/OLB
spots with transfers. he needs a year of development that illinois
could give him but if its not to be...
The preseason poll doesn't "continue" from the previous year. (but I agree that around 17-25 is probably a likely spot)
My guess would be 15-20
We should pump the brakes on this CFP or bust talk. There's certainly a path if we bring everyone back but this team had almost everything go our way. We would need to get our fair share of breaks again to make it to the CFP. Personally I'd be ecstatic with at least 8 wins. It's pretty cool that it's even a possibility though.
For sure. That’s kinda what I was alluding to with recruiting but you’re absolutely right
DJ Wingfield?
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
+1
we won by the skin of our teeth more than a few times. next season is looking good, but assuming we're gonna win all the nail biters again is a wee bit optimistic
I hear you- we won 5 games we weren’t favored in this year (Kansas, Neb, Michigan, Rutgers and SC), and weren’t favored in 8 of our games in total, so we definitely we definitely punched above our expectations
But next year we will likely be favored in 10 of our games (I’m expecting Indiana to take a step back) so maybe just at Duke and OSU. so a 10 win season is not as unexpected as this year
Plus, the schedule is not nearly as much of a guantlet IMO. The backend (after OSU) is fairly doable.
I think if you can be 4-1 the first five, that sets you up really well. Basically win 2/3 of Puke, USC, IU.
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Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
for sure. but let's face it, the stars were aligned for us this season, in the tight ones, anyway
Put Brandon Hansen in touch with this kid
DeonThomas
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Top 15. I agree.
Predicting we'll end this season at #17 or #18 in the AP Poll. Some ahead of us will lose a ton of starters. None below us will bring back more of their talent.
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