Because he is a bucket getter? Trent was a defensive liabilty as a freshman but he could score. He worked hard and became an outstanding defender. Maybe the staff saw that potential in Epps. I honestly don’t the know the. answer. Just a guess on my end.
I honestly say that recruiting in my past career was the most difficult part of my job........Someone can ooze potential , but it's really hard to define effort.....The effort needed to overcome rejection ......The ability to not get dragged down by other factors such as family worries , etc.........We all hope that BU and staff can recognize a recruit who checks all the boxes as far as what the staff is looking for as getting production with little minimal risk of not blending in with the current roster.......
it's a risk adding to a staff or roster and seeing if the reward is worth the risk.........BU heaped much praise on Mr. Epps , sometimes to a point of hyperbole , but that is in the past now.........First I can remember of Mrs. Epps hating BU was in the past week or so......
As we all know from past disappointments that mother's greatly determine what a recruit will do as far as to the recruit's path in college......
Like the portal or not , it's here to stay in one form or another , and we need to be able to play at the highest level to succeed in today's environment...........I am happy to hear that we are at a very nice position as far as NIL compared to other programs.....here's hoping we can look to bring in every off season additions to the squad that the previous year showed of needing upgrading ........
it's all a crapshoot and sometimes you win and sometimes you crap out .................We are knee deep into the off season drama that gets more difficult to navigate................Just think , it hasn't been a minute since everything was done incognito , with bagmen and shoe $$ and such .....now it's mostly out in the open.........All I want is for the Illini to have as much of a chance to land top talent as anyone else does...............................jmho