If the UI warrants the credits are legit then it should be okay. When they accept the credits they are claiming that they measure up to the UI standards.
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So where do they draw the line? When I was college and grad school they only did that up to 60 Hours.At least half the degree had to be earned from were you attended. You should not be able to come in and transfer and take 15 or 30 hour or 12.5 or 25 percent of your course work at U of I or anywhere and claim that you earned your degree from the U of I. It should be from where you did most of the work or only allow more than 60 which is what most do. I don't think that has changed nor should it. I love sports and athletics but some things are more important. If they can get in fine but the number of hours they can transfer in should not be more than half toward the degree they want the degree to be from.
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Tevo
- Wilmette, IL
Extremely dumb. In the days of NIL, where a NCAA player can potentially make more staying in college than being drafted into the NBA, it's a very antiquated way of thinking about a one-year transfer.
Payne in portal
JJE
- Bethalto, IL
I had moderate expectations for him when he came in, just didn't work out. Seemed like he had more fouls than points here. Hope he has more success wherever he ends up.
Good luck Omar. Quality minutes played for the Illini and more than a couple statement rejects. Thanks for your work at Illinois last season.
TheFameProtector
- Champaign
Seems like a really good guy -- feel bad for him that his college career has not gone as he likely expected (given his HS ranking). Hope he finds a better fit and wish him the best wherever he ends up*.
*with a few obvious exceptions
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So if my math is correct:
Curbelo -
Trent -
DMW -
Plummer -
Payne -
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Curbelo -
Trent -
DMW -
Plummer -
Payne -
? -
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Big Jack
- Decatur
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
(No specific Illini news... just reacting here...)
As many observers of Life have long noted... one thing we have lost along the way is the whole notion of Innocence. Not just for our youngest but for everybody.
There is good Innocence and bad Innocence. Bad innocence is when you refuse to grow up and become an adult in meaningful ways. Being clueless. Doing wrong and knowing you are. Or worse, not knowing.
Good Innocence is not just for kids but for people of all ages and stages of Life. Pure. Simple. Joyful. Not complicated.
Good Innocence is never taking the ‘little’ things of Life for granted. Good Innocence is not letting the dark side of Life bring you down or poison your attitude about Life.
Life is not supposed to be just an endurance test. Life is not meant to be just doing routine things and wasting your life away on things that don’t bring you joy.
That’s one reason we like to find a sports team to ‘love’. This is our connection to our own Innocence. Our youth. Our fun place. Our connection to our feeling about the first good friends we ever made. Something ‘simple’ that we can share together in our pursuit of sports joy. Pursuit of wins. Achievement of successes.
Together not apart.
Kids are becoming adults very fast. Too fast. And in this process, an important stage of Life is being lost for them. Too quickly does the joy and innocence of Life give way to peer pressure, competition, conflict, attitudes-shaping from social media, and things that were meant to be faced later in their lives that are now being force-fed before anyone is ready for them.
It’s wonderful that you – IllinoisssssssVarsity – have had this realization. Maybe later than you wanted to, but it’s never a bad time.
Innocence goes by in a flash. Just like college careers of these young people who put on these uniforms and who also have grown up much faster than those who came before.
Look at some old photographs of college players in the 1950s. Look at the uniforms. Look at the small gyms. Look at the body types and size of the players. It’s like a whole different world.
Good college teams today would have no trouble at all competing and succeeding against the pro players from that era. And the pro players would stand there astonished at how big and how good these college guys from today are. Doing things they never even imagined doing back then.
We need to all stay Innocent. In the Good way.
sacraig
- The desert
Nappy I_L_L
- Northern Indiana
I pray to God he beats his luck and finds a situation at a power five where he can flourish.
TheFameProtector
- Champaign
Or that, no matter what happens with Kofi, it's become clear that Dainja is also firmly ahead of him on the depth chart for next year. It's possible he'd be the third big even without Kofi.
Unrelated: anybody know if there is somebody in the AD or affiliated with the team somehow that helps with these social media posts? Noticed that both Curbelo's and Payne's "Thank You" photo associated with their Twitter posts were very stylistically similar.
If I’m thinking correctly
For sures = Rodgers, Harris, Epps, Dainja, Podz, Melendez, Goode, and Hawkins (8)
Probably = BBV and Kofi (10)
No clue = Lieb, Hutch, Grandy
That leaves 2/3 spots for = Clark, Shannon, Murray Williams, Miller, and Bates
Would think the staff wants Clark, Shannon, Murray, and Bates. So they have might force BBV out.
For sures = Rodgers, Harris, Epps, Dainja, Podz, Melendez, Goode, and Hawkins (8)
Probably = BBV and Kofi (10)
No clue = Lieb, Hutch, Grandy
That leaves 2/3 spots for = Clark, Shannon, Murray Williams, Miller, and Bates
Would think the staff wants Clark, Shannon, Murray, and Bates. So they have might force BBV out.
Newmark4thFloor
- Houstown
Rather force Lieb and Hutch out imo.
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