chrisRunner7
- Spokane, WA
THANK YOU. This season has been a blast.Man people will always find a reason to complain and moan huh?
Try telling someone who went to the U of I from 2013-2017 and saw 0 tourney berths, a combined 29 B1G wins in 4 seasons that it was somehow "fun" watching those guys develop just because they stayed here 3+ years. That's no shade to Malcolm or those guys but that assuredly was not fun losing to Rutgers on the road to kill any chance of being the "last four in", or Tracy missing a point blank layup in the BTT as time expired against Michigan to seal not making the tourney.
Every guy on this squad chose to come to U of I (Quincy turned us down twice before but still!) and put that jersey on. Whether they were here 4 years like CoHawk, 2 years like TSJ, or just one like Domask....they are putting together one of our winningest seasons ever and will be Illini FOR LIFE. If you feel like that's "less fun"......sorry but you need to get your head checked.
If there's any ambiguity on how some of these transfers feel about their connection to the university....take a look at Alfonso Plummer's twitter page and handle: No mention of his JUCO or Utah (where he spent the majority of his college career) but he chose to put "UIUC Alumni" as the first thing.
Five years from now, maybe players will be transferring less because they'll be having some kind of unionized-multiyear-NIL deals, and then people will complain about that, too.