Not easy for players in the portal to make decision when the teams they might be interested in are in a state or flux
Illinois without Epps. RJ Shannon and Hawkins is a very different team than Illinois with at least two of these players
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Illinois without Epps. RJ Shannon and Hawkins is a very different team than Illinois with at least two of these players
He has another year of eligibility, but he doesn't say anything about entering the portal in the post. He's not a legit NBA draft prospect, so maybe he is just done with school. Or maybe he'll enter the portal later.www.instagram.com
Is he a candidate to withdraw from the draft and enter the portal?
His name has been mentioned by insiders and Illinois is his home state so it would make sense if he does go into the portal after going through the pre-draft process.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
if you are Underwood, you have to assume they are gone so you are not caught flat footed
deal with the consequences if they decide to come back and you have someone else already
just like when dating, you cant be afraid to ask out plan B to the dance , if plan A needs more "time" and cant give you an answer.
Ask it to put together the program/fan reaction too and we're all set.
He said "Not easy for the players..."
There was no mention of Underwood or how he is planning to recruit the portal.
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Chat GPT seems to go to a dark place all too quickly. Not sure you want to feed that into the algorithm.
Now that the VCU coach left, is there any shot at Ace Baldwin?
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Maybe not with RJ if he truly doesn’t know what he wants to do, but I’m sure Shannon and Hawkins will keep both the staff informed through the process and the likelihood of whether they’ll be back or not. It is a balancing act, but one that is taking place with them having a lot more information than we do — as in actually having real, first hand knowledge. Not too worried about BU being caught by surprise and unprepared.
Is it me, or is every mid/low major player that averaged more than 10 ppg in the portal? I feel like I'd be happy with about 50 different individuals and that's probably low.
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Bigtex
- DFW
No mention of commitment. How about a story of in house visit, PG player a has Illinois in top 3, assistant coach x has a long relationship with player y etc…
So much better than current player hits the portal.
I wonder about our chances landing Wheeler from UK?
Illin618
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- Southern IL
Very, very low
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
On Tuesday WDWS sportsline, Tate made an offhand comment about a transfer point guard the staff is confident is coming to Illinois but staff can't comment until the player goes through the portal process. anyone heard anything about this, or know who it might be?
Yes-I have not heard a direct name, but I think I have an idea (2 guys in mind)
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Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
That will remain nameless until official?
HmmThat will remain nameless until official?
The 2 PGs I randomly said hey it would be great to have that guy were Adrian Baldwin Jr and Yuri Collins. If Tyger Campbell is now a legit option, then you really can't go wrong with any of those 3. None have put their names in the portal though.
With Baldwin you would hope Chester could work the Baltimore connection. With Yuri you would hope to convince a St Louis guy to cross the river to the good side, and with Tyger you have the Tim Anderson connection. Crossing my fingers one of those 3 guys comes, and quite frankly my top choice might be Ace for the simple reason you could get 2 years of him.
It's probably RayJ.
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