I need to lay eyes on this invite list. I'm gonna contact my favorite news anchor and Illini grad Ryan Baker to ask him what's more important to him the Cubs game 5(if they make it to Thursday) or Ayo at the Nike store?When it's invite only and illinois guys are getting the invite it should tell you something.
If he was worried about doing it away from Illinois fans he could just announce on twitter or release a video or something along those lines. The defeatist attitudes on this board are truly remarkable.
I hope they don't have the Edwardsville AD do the introductory speech.
If he was worried about doing it away from Illinois fans he could just announce on twitter or release a video or something along those lines. The defeatist attitudes on this board are truly remarkable.
That was the worst announcement speech I've seen... As bad as your typical maid of honor speeches.
After going through our Giles recruitment we also know exactly where you are right now as we were there last year. Who knows how this one turns out, but we realize ya'll 'need' Ayo a lot more than we do right.
It's been that way for the better part of 10 years. Given the history, is it truly remarkable?
The last recruits announcement they went to was Mark Smith's...
Has there been another local recruit that actually had an announcement not on Twitter where Illinois was one of the final selections since Mark Smith?
Now I didn't know it was invite only, and if it's only Illinois media guys who are getting the invite, then that's something.
But we don't know that's the case yet.
It definitely sounds like everyone is pretty confident that he's gonna choose Illinois, so I am optimistic. But Illinois media guys who report on basketball recruits going to report on a local basketball recruitment is not a big driver of that optimism.
Is Wake Forest also a Nike school like Illinois?
Is Wake Forest also a Nike school like Illinois?
Is Wake Forest also a Nike school like Illinois?
So Manning is clearly selling him "great recruiting class, I was in NBA and I can get you there"
we have "home school, legit 2017 class, don't be a traitor, Chin Coleman"
I think its 50/50 and we will just lose out because that's what we do and this is the Fall of Whiff.
“i'm glad illinois was able to hire an assistant coach solely to land a good recruit. if they can just hire a new assistant coach every offseason with ties to a highly ranked player, they might have 2 or 3 good players in a few years, assuming no early departures of course.”
We are now Missouri lol
As if Chin doesn’t have a huge connection to MIF
Right now, the teams are pretty much completely even. If Illinois didn't !!!! the bed against Rutgers last season, there's literally no difference.
So, they're a year ahead in their rebuild, and they're not even that far ahead, if at all.
Why does everyone care so much about what random posters on another school's site say?