Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (April 2017)

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JudsonFTS

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Illini4life75 said:
So we don't offer guys like bruninga because he has no other major offers.wait til he has a major offer them jump in.no one on here knows how good or not this kid will or will not be.i do know he has a good shot,dribble,and he's now 6'9.strength coach in college will only make him better.all I'm saying.
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We don't offer him because we think we have better options that we are going to get.
 
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dmac279

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Adnarel said:
No, I get the point, S&C. It appears as though high-major programs have the same reservations that others have pointed out here: mainly the lack of data against stiff competition. I find it somewhat unfair to hold that against a kid who made the appalling choice to grow up in a small community that plays other small communities.

I'd just feel awfully silly if we let this guy who grew up in our back yard go and then watch him develop for a year or two and turn out to be a rock star. He most definitely needs work, but isn't that what Underwood and Fletcher are supposed to be good at?

I guess where I'm at is that if he turns out to be the bird in hand, then so be it. I'm definitely higher on some other bigs, like Ernst, just as an example.
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Hmmm, did I mention Happ at Wisconsin, huge score for the badgers
 
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Second and Chalmers said:
No, it's mainly that he's not good enough.

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Seems like getting him on campus and playing in open gym with the current players, young Finke, etc and running him through some drills would be a pretty simple way to find out if he's good enough or not. Or has the potential to be good enough.
 
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Illiniwek06

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Second and Chalmers said:
Today on Loyalty I learned that we should be recruiting Taylor Bruninga over Charlie Moore.
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Haha for real.

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CoalCity said:
Seems like getting him on campus and playing in open gym with the current players, young Finke, etc and running him through some drills would be a pretty simple way to find out if he's good enough or not. Or has the potential to be good enough.
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that's why they want him to take an unofficial I hope he does soon, then we see if he gets an offer or not
 
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BMo79

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Second and Chalmers said:
Today on Loyalty I learned that we should be recruiting Taylor Bruninga over Charlie Moore.
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Just because you do not think the kid is good enough does not mean others can't think he is. I for one would rather have him over Moore, just never been a fan of Moore's game
 
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foby

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BMo79 said:
Just because you do not think the kid is good enough does not mean others can't think he is. I for one would rather have him over Moore, just never been a fan of Moore's game
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I'm with him. Moore is a proven P5 player. Bruninga is a huge project at best, and what is his vertical? He seems challenged in that area.
 
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BMo79 said:
Just because you do not think the kid is good enough does not mean others can't think he is. I for one would rather have him over Moore, just never been a fan of Moore's game
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No problem with thinking he's good enough (I don't but am willing to be shown wrong) but saying you'd rather have him over Charlie Moore is .... idk. Moore was a star in one of the best high school conferences in the nation, Mr. Basketball and scored 12 points a game as a freshman in a slow down offense in college.
 
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sacraig

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Illini4life75 said:
So we don't offer guys like bruninga because he has no other major offers.wait til he has a major offer them jump in.no one on here knows how good or not this kid will or will not be.i do know he has a good shot,dribble,and he's now 6'9.strength coach in college will only make him better.all I'm saying.
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You should probably get into coaching.
 
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wettsten

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Illini4life75 said:
So we don't offer guys like bruninga because he has no other major offers.wait til he has a major offer them jump in.no one on here knows how good or not this kid will or will not be.i do know he has a good shot,dribble,and he's now 6'9.strength coach in college will only make him better.all I'm saying.
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i'm fairly certain that our staff (and every other p5 staff) does not recruit players based on the other offers they have. as outside fans with no real inside sources, it's all we have. we have to trust that the staff is doing their due diligence. this late in the recruiting stage for 2017 kids, if there are no high major offers for the kid yet, it's not looking good.

sure, the kid could turn out way better than his ranking and offer list, but the odds of that are pretty low. sometimes they turn out to be diamonds in the rough but it doesn't happen often. it's a high risk-medium reward kind of situation.
 
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TheGMan

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I'm not saying how good he is or isn't, or whether we should or shouldn't be recruiting. I am the last person who can say anything about that. My only talent evaluation skills are to look the player up on a rating site and see what they rate the player as. All I'm saying is that by some people saying that they see him as a "Wisconsin type of player," it is not required that he have an offer from Wisconsin or any other high major offer.
 
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TownieMatt

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I wonder if the staff would offer Bruninga a preferred walk-on spot? Let Bruninga play his way onto scholarship. I'm in the camp that doesn't think he's good enough to contribute at the B1G level, but this would give him a chance to prove me wrong.
 
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Second and Chalmers

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TheGMan said:
All I'm saying is that by some people saying that they see him as a "Wisconsin type of player," it is not required that he have an offer from Wisconsin or any other high major offer.
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I appreciate that. I also am not blind to precisely what it is about Bruninga that makes people refer to him as a "Wisconsin type of player".
 
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PhillyIllini

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BMo79 said:
Just because you do not think the kid is good enough does not mean others can't think he is. I for one would rather have him over Moore, just never been a fan of Moore's game
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That's why I'm glad Coach Brad Underwood is the one handing out schollies :thumb:
 
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