Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Thank you, Coleman!! The voice of the people! Lol, it would be one thing if our current (default/regular) jerseys were at all good, either...
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JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
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Yeah, it's clear some kind of narrative is being crafted here. But the intended purpose behind it remains unclear.
I'd say it's pretty hard to define what the new norm is after only 1 year.I just did the obvious Top 2. But maybe today I'll break down more of the Top 15 to show that what we are doing is NOT the new norm in CBK.
I feel like he fits in thereWhat I’m hearing on Davis …
Well that seems like a relatively easy fix. At least compared to something like, I don't know, getting a girlfriend on the women's team maybe..?
Please don't tell me Ty will hit the portal. How do you keep culture if it's a completely new team???
His high school offered a good number of courses for college credit. He probably enrolled in many of those.
I don't think anyone is blaming the players, but more lamenting the system that enables the free-for-all complete turnover of rosters every season.
If everyone in the business world was on a 1 year contract that just so happened to line up with the contract period for every other company, that would be complete chaos as well.
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
Tell that to covid.
To be honest, you can't compare this to any coaches in the past. This overlaps with the new portal age. There's roster turnover like crazy everywhere right now. All you can do is compare ours to other schools in the current landscape
I fully support handing Coleman the reins and letting him go nuts on designing some new unis
Luke did seem to have a steady head and made clutch shots in the tourney. Whether deserved or not, his history at Illinois in my mind is associated with getting a foul within 30 sec of entering the game. Didn't that seem to happen over and over and over again? Do we have stats for that?
I have wondered for weeks whether Ty will be back, because as he enters his Junior season he will in my opinion be very unlikely to be a starter. It's the shooting issue (have to be able to make SOME 3s as a 4-man, these days).
If he transferred, he might find a school where he would start. But if he wants to develop his game for the future, playing won't be what he needs. Somehow, he absolutely must become a good enough shooter to draw some defensive attention when he's on the three-point line. Illinois might be the best place to do that, with a sports psychologist and a coaching staff that is already invested in him.
Perhaps Ty should redshirt this coming season, work on the psychology, mechanics and footwork issues associated with his shooting. He could put this all together by leading the practice unit during daily team practices so that he gets a LOT of game-speeds shots against serious competition (the starters) while helping the team by leading the practice/scout squad so that it provide stiff resistance to the starters.
After a year like that, he might be ready for game-pressure shooting in filled arenas. I have never heard of this sort of thing before, but maybe it has been done. I wouldn't think many guys would go for it.
If he transferred, he might find a school where he would start. But if he wants to develop his game for the future, playing won't be what he needs. Somehow, he absolutely must become a good enough shooter to draw some defensive attention when he's on the three-point line. Illinois might be the best place to do that, with a sports psychologist and a coaching staff that is already invested in him.
Perhaps Ty should redshirt this coming season, work on the psychology, mechanics and footwork issues associated with his shooting. He could put this all together by leading the practice unit during daily team practices so that he gets a LOT of game-speeds shots against serious competition (the starters) while helping the team by leading the practice/scout squad so that it provide stiff resistance to the starters.
After a year like that, he might be ready for game-pressure shooting in filled arenas. I have never heard of this sort of thing before, but maybe it has been done. I wouldn't think many guys would go for it.
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We should all be thanking Luke for four years of loyalty, hard work and grit, while earning his ILLINOIS degree. He’s a class act and I wish him luck as a graduate transfer and his life beyond. #Illini4Life
They were not Underwood commits
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Only because they are members of a union that has collectively bargained with the league to establish the right to enforce those contracts as between the teams and US labor law makes such collectively bargained agreements exempt from antitrust law.
But even then a player can leave a long term contract any time they want, it’s just that another NBA team can’t sign them.
And the head of accounting or whatever for the Warriors is free to take the same job with the Lakers whenever they like, because any contractual restriction preventing that is unenforceable in California.
This is the reason people see a union as a probable solution here. All the legal recourse against the NCAA goes out the window the moment a CBA is signed.
(The other thing is whether conferences can regulate (especially if they join forces) where the NCAA can’t. Exactly how courts might look at that is pretty opaque to me, not my area of law.)
splitter
- and not Nebraska
Subtle hint or does he want new blue jerseys?
Bigtex
- DFW
Coach will be judged based on the results of 24-25 team. Results more like 22-23? or more like 23-24?
Orlando joining staff will be the biggest off season acquisition.
A good chance 25-26 will be special or elite, but it assumes that these multi year players (both portal and HS recruited) remain with the program.
I am excited for the future.
Orlando joining staff will be the biggest off season acquisition.
A good chance 25-26 will be special or elite, but it assumes that these multi year players (both portal and HS recruited) remain with the program.
I am excited for the future.
Not super difficult to do for normal students when you can come in with 40 credits from AP and dual credit classes.
Very impressive when you factor in that he was playing basketball however. And I don't know how common it is but I'd recommend any college athlete actually attempting to get a degree take an online class or two in the summer to keep the workload down during the season(especially spring semester for basketball players).
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