Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (April 2017)
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Took a look at some Hardy highlights. Pretty athletic , good driving and finishing ability, looks like he has an outside game. He's a lefty who NEVER goes to the right
PhillyIllini
- Los Angeles
Come on, man.
Stop drinking the Bombay.
He's blown up and gotten offers from all the schools he is really considering all in the last 4-6 months or less. We changed coaching staff. He has the right to go where ever the hell he wants.
But to say you wouldn't support him if he came here? He has given no indication that he was a sure fire Illini commit, no hat tricks(yet) or anything funny. Did he steal your girlfriend or something?
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That can be worked on. It's difficult, but that sounds like an Underwood mantra. You can hear him bark "GREATNESS IS HARD" during a videotaped workout.He's a lefty who NEVER goes to the right
I don't fault Smith at all for how he's going about his recruitment. He has every right to enjoy it and get the celeb treatment at MSU and UK. But if we've got Hardy here itching to sign on the dotted line, then we have got to offer him. Especially since he's got that grudge against our opponents.
He's a lefty who NEVER goes to the right
Eh, that's pretty tough to work on actually. That is concerning, I didn't notice that from his video.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal with Do Not Contact Tag
Hey, my inner sports meatball loves hearing that as much as the next guy, but let's not make that a key part of the case for Amauri Hardy.
I don't think Tilmon is the type of kid (status wise) that makes others follow him persay...he strikes me as more a follower than a leader? Could be wrong on this one, don't think so!
It's not his case to us, it's our case to him.
Illiniwek06
- N of I-80
All I want to see is for an Illini to make sombody else in the Big Ten look like Illinois. Somebody to just randomly go off for 28 points and 8 rebounds after previously averaging 6ppg. Is that too much to ask!?
Well yea...Groce didn't go to another B1G school, he went to Akron, they don't play in this league...
I think you mean those of us who have experienced the events you mentioned will have black and blue nuts for the rest of our lifetimes.
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I don't think Tilmon is the type of kid (status wise) that makes others follow him persay...he strikes me as more a follower than a leader? Could be wrong on this one, don't think so!
I think Jordan Goodwin would agree with you on this.
Cuonzo and Ford are significant upgrades with respect to recruiting from their previous staffs. If you consider their addition "nothing has really changed" and that the previous Mizzou staff (Anderson) was bringing in recruits like Porter Jr. and Tilmon or the SLU previous staff was bringing in Gordon and Goodwin, then I can't help your knowledge of recruiting.
If you are implying that recruits from the ESL and St. Louis area have no impact or will have no impact so the area does not matter (recruiting-wise), I don't know what to say. Hill, Arch, and Keene had an impact at UI, some (i.e., Arch) played on better teams than others (i.e., Hill). And many others who were recruited at UI but ended up elsewhere had an impact at their schools. Should we stop recruiting Chicago because no impact player ended up at Illinois the last 12 years? It's a silly argument.
Of course it matters, it has an impact on UI as far as recruiting. Just intensifies the need to counter and win our fair of recruiting battles against them. Just because I have confidence in how our staff is shaping up, it does not mean that we should downplay what is happening recruiting-wise at Mizzou.
I strongly believe so too, yet, I would not downplay Cuonzo at Mizzou as "nothing has changed."
Depends on who we actually bring in the recruiting class, we are still recruiting and we are not done. But we are not exactly jumping from joy that Tilmon de-committed, neither is it very believable to claim "we did not want him anyway." Today, we are definitely not better off. Tomorrow? Maybe yes, may not, it has not happened yet.
Stevegarbs
- Mokena, IL
I stand corrected. Who is the "sanctioning body" for that competition? Is that BOA? I don't know as much about MB in that part of the country. I do know that there are at least four organizations that claim a Pennsylvania state high school marching band championship, including a couple that have top and second level (I'm not talking band size) championships. Everybody gets a trophy!
No specific sanctioning body though it largely follows BOA scoring and expectations. It is the Illinois state championships, or as some call it, the "Has Marian completed enough of their show to win or not?" competition. Competitive marching band in Illinois is Marian Catholic and then everybody else.
Oh my God, this recruiting thread is brutal to read. Hardly any recruiting news at all. Is this staff going to be much more covert in letting info out than the last one was? Or is there just no news?
BirdDog9048
The Chief Lives
- Chicago, IL
Hahahaha, I couldn't have said it better myself. A perfect analysis of the Illinois marching band situation.
I think you mean those of us who have experienced the events you mentioned will have black and blue nuts for the rest of our lifetimes.
Orange and Blue!
Hmmm, no emoticon for that....probably for the best.
I am still amazed that Marian Catholic made a marching show out of Fire Water Paper, a large-scale full orchestral oratorio about the freaking Vietnam War.
It's an amazing piece, btw
BirdDog9048
The Chief Lives
- Chicago, IL
That show was freaking weird.
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