Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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How does Indiana get anybody in the top 100? No way that boring program is a destination program anymore. 90% of the team wanted, or tried to leave last year. Facilities are older than dirt and they still wear candy stripes.
Guess new HC is helping — even if he seems pretty sleepy. They actually have #5 class currently with two other top 150 guys. And only one of their recruits is from IN ( lowest ranked guy).
 
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We could damn near field a whole team with the kids that are getting to campus this week/weekend.

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Guess new HC is helping — even if he seems pretty sleepy. They actually have #5 class currently with two other top 150 guys. And only one of their recruits is from IN ( lowest ranked guy).
Woodson will wear pretty thin sooner than later. If he had not been a star at hoosierville, they would not have hired him. Probably a small window of time to turn it around. I think they asked Oats, Musselman, Beard, and of course Stevens before they went with him. Maybe Matta. As one said, most of the team was in the portal, but most of those came back. I think that is a good thing for Illinois. They had some talent last year, but didn't know how to play together. Bates is good, never saw TJD play like an all-american, must of watched the wrong games. After 25 years of mediocrity, maybe I just expect more of it. It isn't indiana of the 70's, and I don't see that happening at all. They don't keep their instate stars any better than Illinois. Butler and PU have been better the last decade.
 
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Indiana got commitment from top 30 guard Jalen Hood-Schifino. And Penn St. recently got a verbal from a guy just outside 100 — Jameel Brown. B1G just keeps adding talent. Good thing Illini do too.

We look to have one of our more talented teams in recent years and I don’t believe we have a player on the roster that was top 40 coming out of HS. As long as our staff is getting some of the guys they want, I’m not that worried about our rivals getting all these highly ranked kids. Underwood clearly is good at identifying and developing talent.
 
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Power

Little Wabash River , Southern IL.
We could damn near field a whole team with the kids that are getting to campus this week/weekend.

Jurassic Park Hold Onto Your Butts GIF
whats the who's who list look like?
 
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Woodson will wear pretty thin sooner than later. If he had not been a star at hoosierville, they would not have hired him. Probably a small window of time to turn it around. I think they asked Oats, Musselman, Beard, and of course Stevens before they went with him. Maybe Matta. As one said, most of the team was in the portal, but most of those came back. I think that is a good thing for Illinois. They had some talent last year, but didn't know how to play together. Bates is good, never saw TJD play like an all-american, must of watched the wrong games. After 25 years of mediocrity, maybe I just expect more of it. It isn't indiana of the 70's, and I don't see that happening at all. They don't keep their instate stars any better than Illinois. Butler and PU have been better the last decade.
I doubt very seriously that Musselman will ever accept a Coaching gig in the Big 10. I say this because his father, Bill, was so savagely slandered by Big Ten Coaches when he was the Coach at Minnesota. That goes double for Indiana because Knight was merciless with his hypocritically sanctimonious garbage that he threw at Musselman. Talk about projecting. Booby Knight had no shame.
 
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217sports

Springfield
How does Indiana get anybody in the top 100? No way that boring program is a destination program anymore. 90% of the team wanted, or tried to leave last year. Facilities are older than dirt and they still wear candy stripes.
Hate them all you want but come on you can’t actually think they shouldn’t land anyone
 
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We look to have one of our more talented teams in recent years and I don’t believe we have a player on the roster that was top 40 coming out of HS. As long as our staff is getting some of the guys they want, I’m not that worried about our rivals getting all these highly ranked kids. Underwood clearly is good at identifying and developing talent.

While I agree with this by and large, let's not kid ourselves about the importance of recruiting top guys. His best players have been Ayo (32), Kofi (46), and Curbelo (47), all of whom were highly rated. (247 composite).
 
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While I agree with this by and large, let's not kid ourselves about the importance of recruiting top guys. His best players have been Ayo (32), Kofi (46), and Curbelo (47), all of whom were highly rated. (247 composite).

Of course, I’d love to get 2-3 top 20 guys every year. But we were damn good without that.
 
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AZHOHoops

Scottsdale, AZ
whats the who's who list look like?
I think he's referring to the recruits that are supposed to be at the Football game......Corhen, Whitmore and a few others that are skipping my mind atm. Sorry
 
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After 25 years of mediocrity, maybe I just expect more of it.

I hate indiana too. They are number one on my Illinois basketball rivals list, and number 2 on my most personally hated states list.

but let’s not act like they didn’t play for a national title less than 20 years ago.

now back to our regularly scheduled hate the Hoosiers programming.
 
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I hate indiana too. They are number one on my Illinois basketball rivals list, and number 2 on my most personally hated states list.

but let’s not act like they didn’t play for a national title less than 20 years ago.

now back to our regularly scheduled hate the Hoosiers programming.
I am not going to look it up. But as I remember it, they were not that successful in the Big that year. They started shooting a lot of 3's in the tournament and got hot at the right time, for a few games. You are talking about Mike Davis right? 19-11 regular season in 2002?
 
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Power

Little Wabash River , Southern IL.
I think he's referring to the recruits that are supposed to be at the Football game......Corhen, Whitmore and a few others that are skipping my mind atm. Sorry
ok thanks .... Thats what I wanted to know... Who is coming... Could be a big weekend?
 
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