Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
Dan should pin this. Spot on, IMO.I don't know. I think many of them (if not most) are actually connected, but we have to think about how they are connected. They probably aren't getting info direct from players, their families, or the coaching staff. In all likelihood, our insiders' connections are some combination of DIA staff members, folks plugged into high school and AAU ball, or other similar folks who have some degree of separation from the principals.
In short, the issue isn't with those types of insiders sharing their information that turns out to be imperfect. The issue is with so many posters here who treat everything said insiders say as gospel without considering the likely sources and the path it took to reach this message board. The information we get may often be completely legitimate based on what the insider(s) have been told, but has probably already gone through one or more layers of playing telephone before it reaches us. It also likely comes overwhelmingly from pro-Illini sources and so will naturally tend to be somewhat biased in our favor.
At the end of the day, just don't get so hung up on whether these alleged insiders are 100% accurate. That's an impossible standard.