If you look at message board off-season chatter as pure entertainment, you’re gonna have a blast the next few month.
If you take off-season chatter as gospel, you’re likely gonna struggle.
Most off-seasons you’re gonna have players that are expected to come here that go somewhere else (like RayJ).
You’re gonna pencil a guy in as a starter, but the lightbulb doesn’t click or the chemistry isn’t there and he comes off the bench instead (like Dainja, who I expected to start last year).
On the flip side, you’re also gonna get the Domasks who far exceed expectations. After watching his tape last year, I wondered how well his game would translate to the B1G. I saw a role player for sure, but wasn’t expecting anything close to 1st team all B1G.
The insiders are just passing along info as they hear it. They aren’t always right because predicting the future is impossible. But that’s not the point. The point is chop it up with a few hundred Illini crazies all day instead of working on spreadsheets at your boring job.