Honestly, it’s on you all for thinking that it’s a done deal and getting so emotionally involved with any one recruit. You know the drill. It’s not done until the papers are signed. Nobody owes you anything to protect your feelings. It’s business and we need to accept that. I hope the people complaining about this never go into sales. You will be sorely disappointed in life if you do.
Quick, somebody enhance the text Cal is reading. Based on the size of the text, he’s either getting reamed out by his wife or it’s OA’s master plan to bring Kofi to Lexington.
Please continue doing what you do.....You must do it b/c you want to , and I respect that.....it's an Illini family attitude that again, I respect....
Wait, are you saying I should not obsessively check the board for positive recruiting rumors, latch onto whatever comes up, and then have an epic personal meltdown when things don't turn out like I was hoping? I might have to reevaluate things.
Anderson? One can hope....
Disagree. Happens in consulting all the time. If promises aren't achieved, then it's always because of the client for any number of reasons that are very easy to say were the cause. This situation is so new and unknown any school could easily get out of making any sort of ridiculous claims without worry. That also means there's carte blanche to be bold, aggressive, and make as optimistic pitch as possible. Which is what we should be doing, but sounds like we're not and others are.
That's a hyperlink. Not sure to what, but I'd bet that's a link.
Probably to IllinoisLoyalty.com
This. Illinois is using Opendorse. Everything is above board and fully disclosed with realistic numbers. That should be a solid long term strategy.
...not to mention that each upcoming high-level recruit believes that he's going to be the next NBA superstar, and it's easy - natural, even - for him to think that just because things didn't work out for some dud at the end of his college career, there's no reason to think that the same thing could happen to him.
hard not to spot him
Sure, but whiffing on the numbers for one recruit/transfer is recoverable. If they fly by the seats of their pants continually and repeatedly overpromise, they will develop a reputation among recruits. Wild promises are probably going to be successful right now whether they pan out or not, but long term they need more of these to pan out than not to avoid getting a bad reputation.
Respectfully disagree. If it’s costing us a big that we took from 40th in his recruiting class to second team all American, who appears to have genuinely loved the school, his teammates, and coaches, but will go elsewhere because a widget spit out a lowball projection (which can hardly be considered realistic due to the lack of fans last year), then we suck at this. This is simply one you can’t lose. Garcia—fine, he never played here. Brad, Josh, etc. need to get this done.This. Illinois is using Opendorse. Everything is above board and fully disclosed with realistic numbers. That should be a solid long term strategy.
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Since it's unc, there's probably a lot of empty space in their head..................and small creatures rummaging about.........
We have no idea what that widget spit out or if it is lowball. On the contrary, it's just as likely or more so that others are overpromising. Overpromising and underdelivering is not something you can do for too long without a serious reputation hit among your clientele.
You may well have better information, but it’s been said that endorsement fees have to be “reasonable”. TIFWIW The specific example I heard was a guy can’t earn $100,000 for getting a picture taken with a booster/donor/sponsor. Right now it seems that is happening. Legal or not. My opinion is whatever limits are set, if any, will be broken by the usual suspects.
