Interesting. The entire article was about attendance at games so from reading it you would have no idea whether they were taking advantage of that "technology or device". My take is that they probably have been but putting that in the article would have dulled the hatchet.
Let's assume some patching actually needs doing (it's not actually clear to me this is factual rather than speculation). What, other than time, would help that situation?
Lol they want Illinois to put in all the work but will never help Illinois land the big fish.
The Sun-Times being such a bastion of great journalism and all.
To be fair, why would most Chicago area coaches want to do this with their "big fish"? History and reputation is huge. A coach is going to look a lot better if he gets a kid to Duke, Kentucky, KU, etc... as opposed to Illinois. Like we all keep saying, if/when we start to become relevant again, then it may become a little more "cool" to send players to a winning program that has a history of getting players to the NBA. Not saying it can't be done, or hasn't been done at Illinois. But we obviously have to fix the current product before too many coaches will really want to push their stud players to us. The time is coming. We are still just digging out of the basement at the moment.
Occams razor says if we hadn't called that fact would have been in the article.Occam's Razor suggests that the primary reason for half of the CPL publicly venting to the Sun-Times about IL not keeping in touch with them and their players is that we haven't done a good enough job of keeping in touch with them and their players.
You think we actually bent over backwards to communicate the challenges of our schedule to all of these coaches and then all of them, to a man, decided to omit that hugely pertinent fact when talking to O'Brien? You do you, I guess.
Let's assume some patching actually needs doing (it's not actually clear to me this is factual rather than speculation). What, other than time, would help that situation?
Also, I'm on the boat of when exactly BU was supposed to visit CPS games in the past few weeks. Between Hawaii and such, his schedules gotta be tight. Sure he probably could've/should've seen some games, but seriously when?
Occams razor says if we hadn't called that fact would have been in the article.
People act like screw Chicago because they don’t give us their best players (current 5* from Chicago on our roster notwithstanding), but then we whiffed recently on every non-Chicago star from Illinois (KBD, Okoro, Liddell) also. So should we stop recruiting Illinois? Is that the plan?
Further than that, I can't imagine there could be anyone still out there, after this year's headlines on NCAA recruiting, who doesn't understand exactly how the process of 'steering' big fish works.
Schrodinger’s cat says our Chicago recruiting isn’t dead if we don’t click on the link to that article.
That is a damn good question.Yeah...where is the article chastising the kids, their coaches, and parents for snubbing their state school
Yeah...where is the article chastising the kids, their coaches, and parents for snubbing their state school