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Former USC Guard Bronny James Transfers To Penn State Hoops | Onward State
Former USC Guard Bronny James Transfers To Penn State Hoops
The prodigal son's son will join Mike Rhoades' roster for the 2024-25 season.onwardstate.com
Unless you decide that you don't want to.
Really, the corollary to your rule is that the better standing your program is the less drama you're willing to take on.
We're standing pretty good right now. We don't need drama. We need culture. Skyy was drama. Domask was culture. It seems like we know the formula that works and the one that leaves us looking like Wile E Coyote.
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Gotcha. Misread your previous post hence the confusion. Appreciate the clarification and yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me based on what I've heard. More often than not, if someone doesn't want to be somewhere, you're better off just showing them the door. Saves a lot of time, money, and headaches, and everyone winds up happier.
Where did I say any of that? I never said anything about not making the second weekend ever. I also didn't say we aren't winning in my preferred way. I said that while the portal can be great we cannot lose our identity. Certain players fit that identity, and have contributed to winning(you need both of those). There are plenty of negative posters on this board and you can feel free to reply to them, but nothing I said is off the wall. If we want to have a consistent program then we need to cultivate and retain personalities/players that fit.
Pretty much already been clarified. Main issue last year is he would not have been our main guy, maybe not in the top two. His mom wanted guarantees that we weren't giving. A lot of parents are something to deal with when their boys get to this level and they think they are going to the NBA, but go ahead and keep beating that drum.
Can you enlighten the rest of us? I don't do twitter.
Buck wants to play,he will wait to see what guards are brought in and make a decision.Sure he would stay in the right situation.ceiling very low offensively though.
I sure wouldn't hope so. That's two guys opponents wouldn't have to guard.
Okay, I give up. Who is Buck?
Okay. Not even disagreeing with you. Just struck me funny because if you say it out loud in a Sgt. Shultz voice it sounds like a slogan.
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Sincere Harris
Looks like you need to talk with Illini_1105's guy so you two can get the correct story! /s
Hopefully the staff learned from the Matthew Mayer experience. To see him chuckling about playing video games and drinking red bulls into caffeine poisoning was embarrassing. I get the everyday guy mantra. To me though Brad and staff can be like we want you but you are going to have to compete for playing time and rotational minutes. If an everyday culture guy isn't down with that they should leave. Playing time is not guaranteed based on seniority it is based on production.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I want to make something clear here: that's not parity.
Parity would mean Minnesota and Penn State and Northwestern get equal resources to compete with us. They do not. We are the big dog. We take what we want and leave the scraps for everybody else.
We were always a big dog relative to most, and bad coaching staffs failed to take proper advantage. But in NIL world it goes up an even further notch.
College basketball is a game of haves and have nots now more than ever. Illinois is a have, and should act like one and have the expectations of one, and its fanbase should recognize that and be proud and unapologetic for being one.
Parity is what schools who don't have our history, fanbase and resources want. Tough luck.
On Goode, I hope he wants to return, and that Brad is thrilled about that. I'd like to see him one more year. I think he does a lot of things well, things a team needs to win.
Illinois Basketball Historic Standards
I like the original system from @21ChampaignSt for assessing actual health of the program / coach performance / etc. (i.e., how Whitman should be grading a coach) and the alternate from @Navy_illini for how the bulk of the fanbase probably perceives/remembers the success of a season. Nice work...
www.illinoisloyalty.com
says it's not our most successful season. nsjs. the criticism is founded in legitimate concerns backed by facts.
Uhh, that would probably get someone perma-banned. She has a rather high dislike of Prudue.
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
Which, overall, BU and Co. have done a good job at this so I don't know why you are bringing it up.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I don't do Twitter either. Her posts are all through this forum though, embedded into different threads. That's how I saw them.
She basically went off anytime she thought DGL didn't get the playing time he deserved. She went at it with Purdue fans who were pissed he decommitted from them to come here. She's a mama bear on steroids who wants to defend her son (totally understandable!) but does it in the worst, most public way possible (Twitter). DGL had to come out during the season and tell people that unless it comes from him, we shouldn't believe anything about him and his relationship at Illinois.
She wants good things for her son. I can't blame the woman for that. But she makes headlines when she shouldn't.
call them scabs call them mercenaries. because that's what they are and don't forget how the 2023 experiment turned out (Mayer)
If you heard this before December 10, I wish you woulda DMd me so I wouldn’t have bought my son an Epps jersey!
Don't like that attitude either, but based on his post-Illinois body of work he was not far off.
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