IlliniInOK
- no longer in OK! Centralia, IL
it disgusts me that I will have to root for the kid to pick KU
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (October 2016)
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Wait until they realize he can't coach.
Like the Zook of basketball. But probably not that bad, lol.
sacraig
- The desert
In any normal situation, I'd be all aboard the SLU train on this (in terms of where I'd like him to pick out of those three), but this is a really tough call with Travis Ford's recent history with us in recruiting battles. I'd probably still rather he pick SLU than the other two, though. I can't totally wipe my casual SLU fandom away from when I was a kid and would go watch Spoonball.
Joel Goodson
- ties will be resolved
Flat out disgusting. Could he have a worse list? haha
Gordon doesn't have a lot of positional flexibility: he's a 4. Evidently, he's abundantly roster aware. Kid wants to play early. At 2 of his 3 leaders, he will play a ton.
How many pages back was it that someone was questioning taking a Tim Finke commit because of bigger fish like Gordon?
RedRocksIllini
- Morrison, CO
That's just cruel (I love it!) What's the equivalent of the swinging gate in hoops?
The Worm
- CHICAGO, IL
Yeah, he's such a bad coach that he's employed by one of the best organizations in the NFL. They must just have home on staff to recruit..
Ok, back to hoops recruiting!
head coaching and assistant coaching are two different skill sets
Probably the fact that they've been a vastly better program than us the last 10 years.
Trevion Williams?
If you're from St. Louis, it's super close to home. Living downtown of a city and going to school has always been appealing to me. SLU is pretty damn good academically. Their stadium is still pretty brand spankin' new and very nice. Also, it's fresher in these millennials minds SLU being a a real player in the Tourney with Majerus than what we did in 2005 when they were 4/5 years old.
True. I wasn't necessarily saying why would you go there over UI, because obviously we have been bad for several years. But it's just interesting to see some of these big time recruits going there over the other typical places
Any play Travis Ford draws up.
St. Louis was in the tourney one time under Majerus. They won a first round game. That's it.
When I was about 10 or so I saw Charlie at a cards game sitting a section over. I've got his "Spoon" autograph somewhere on an old Busch stadium ticket stub
Just saw a note that October SAT scores are going to be available this week which led me to thinking about our 2017 recruits - do we know if they have all qualified yet?
I don't want to open a can of worms here, but I am trying to remember if we usually find out about qualifiers/non-qualifiers before signing day, after signing day or just at some random time. Really want to see the 2017 Verbals in O&B especially given the passion that they all seem to have for UI.
So while we technically still have a chance at Wilkes & Kiir, I guess the next things to look at for 2017s are qualifying, signing day, and 5th year options. Lookin for any insight on these moving forward.
I don't want to open a can of worms here, but I am trying to remember if we usually find out about qualifiers/non-qualifiers before signing day, after signing day or just at some random time. Really want to see the 2017 Verbals in O&B especially given the passion that they all seem to have for UI.
So while we technically still have a chance at Wilkes & Kiir, I guess the next things to look at for 2017s are qualifying, signing day, and 5th year options. Lookin for any insight on these moving forward.
Well, you never know for sure until the Clearing House approves them and sometimes that's not until after practice starts in the fall (poor Fess!).
And yeah, signing day is just 2 weeks from today!
Fair enough.
Illinifanatic4ever
- Orange & Blue Blood in my Veins
Sounds like Gordon is picking SLU today.
https://twitter.com/EvanDaniels/status/791301417558482944
https://twitter.com/EvanDaniels/status/791301417558482944
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