FIFYThey won’t have to deal with Edey. They’ll have to deal with the next 2 iterations of Edey Painter has in the lab.
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Joel Goodson
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nice to be having legit shots at Indiana kids:
our staff has no recruiting boundaries and that's refreshing. so refreshing.
we owe OSU one, big time, for EJ. hope it happens soon. and, no, it isn't Harris. love him, but he isn't a big enough fish
our staff has no recruiting boundaries and that's refreshing. so refreshing.
we owe OSU one, big time, for EJ. hope it happens soon. and, no, it isn't Harris. love him, but he isn't a big enough fish
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Dude must LOVE Orlando from season 1 of The Wire.
sacraig
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Neither did Groce's staff, and everyone complained about it and how they needed to lock down our own borders.
The key difference is that this staff is actually good at recruiting.
there's no choice anymore. The best talent goes to these prep schools and bounces from school to school. If you stick with just Illinois now, you're not left with much. That said, many of the guys they go after are local guys, they're just not playing locally.
Joel Goodson
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true, but wasn't suggesting we should return to IL kids over everyone else. the only thing I was saying is that it's great that we are getting serious consiration from top Indiana kids now.
BTW, Reynolds' sis plays for Purdue. He already has a slew of VG offers (PU, MSU, ND, OSU, ...). But it's great that he's visiting
Joel Goodson
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Guessing Boswell. think he's had his fill of Tommy
Tacomallini
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Does he have an every day guy rep? Guessing yes, since UI recruited him before, but something something Skyy, Epps, Mayer.
More likely pickled fish.
Boswell was arizonas before we were hard on any of those three.
Isn't a big enough fish . . . yet.
Noblesville Illini
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Edey and Kofi are once in a generation players. Dare we forget?They won’t have to deal with Edey. They’ll have to deal with the next 2 iterations of Edey Painter has in the pipeline.
Indy says he is a 'EDG'.
Interested ... But I don't think he winds up here ... Fears was always our guy at guard ...
Joel Goodson
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I'm never sure if this type of game is a good thing or a bad thing with recruits in the house.
The Crush seemed energized tonight so that's a good thing
Saw Batemon and family eating before the game, very nice people.
Noblesville Illini
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Do we legitimately have a good chance with Russell? Haven’t offered yet, correct?
In fairness, Edey wasn’t nationally ranked out of high school and Kofi was a top 50 prospect. Edey also doesn’t move particularly well. For my money, I’d take Clingan over Edey all day. Would take Ballo at Arizona over him too. I’d really rather keep recruiting kids like Coleman and Morez who can move and fit the “positionless” mold more. Makes us so much more dangerous IMO.Edey and Kofi are once in a generation players. Dare we forget?
Will be interesting to see if Painter’s newest one is just as troublesome. Daniel Jacobsen from Brewster Academy.
I think his point was that we picked up all three of those guys when we supposedly were after "everyday" guys. Hopefully we've got things figured out now. Obviously, we won't always call it right, but last year was particularly bad.
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