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It's like a human saying "i'm not a fan of breathing but...."
That is if he is coming here to playI think you're forgetting that Demin's natural position is PG also. We'll have plenty of ball handling.
Nope. After 2005, has to be UCONN. Can't stand N.C!
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
I love Coleman. Watching him grow up over 4 years and be a leader of the Elite Eight team. Gave everything. However if he chooses to play college basketball elsewhere he is dead to me. I will remember him as someone who chose to play against the Illini. He will no longer be an Illini all time great. Its an insult to all the other all time Illini greats - Eddie Johson, Bruce Douglas, Dee Brown, Deron Williams, Nick Anderson, Kendall Gill, Kenny Battle, Terrance Shannon. None of them abandoned Illinois to play for another school
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It’s tempting to believe that Demin will be on next year’s team, but having a hard time getting there after RayJ, Storr, and not even getting Jones into the portal.
Hope this time can be different—can’t argue with the talent.
Hope this time can be different—can’t argue with the talent.
The guys at Sleepers caught wind of the Egor talk
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
don’t sugar coat it, how do you really feel ?
I mean, how does he get the massive bag at St. John's of all places? And why isn't our bag way bigger than theirs? Or maybe it already is, but anyway the bottom line is Richmond is going there and he's not going here. That's a miss. I really hope we go all out for Demin. Anything less and we're looking at a 6 to 8 seed caliber team.
Following this rationale, you should be protesting the Antigua hire. He spurned us when he left for Kentucky.
I for one will do nothing but cheer for CH no matter where he goes.
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
CH “abandoned Illinois to play for another school.”
Did he, though
As for those other historic names on your list, I have just one word in rebuttal: Portal.
disagree. 10 is more than enough, and you wouldn't want to dilute the talent of your best guys to save resources for those extra spots.
13 scholarships just kinda doesn't make sense for the direction of where the sport is going.
It's a delicate balance and for me we're one Denzel away (a Russian Denzel, a Manchurian Candidate perhaps?) from striking it pretty perfectly.
In olden times it was probably thought that giving the last three players on the bench a college scholarship was a good investment.....
sacraig
- The desert
Bret? Is that you?
illini92024
Oskee-N-SoCal
- Paradise
I wonder what any of those guys would have done if they had say 500,000 to a cool million of NIL offered to them?
Agreed. Lately our prognostications have more misses than hits. I'll cautiously optimistic.
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
Sadly, I don't ever see the Nike coaches half-zips for sale. It's a shame, because I feel like these would be big sellers. As you said, they look great. They would also sell well since I'm sure people would like to wear the same things the coaching staff are wearing on the sidelines.
But this is something I've said for quite a while and never seen any sort of signal that Nike would change their course on not selling these. I'd absolutely buy the white one, and I'd probably buy one of the blue ones with the script Illinois as well.
ILFaninFL
- Nature Coast in Florida
Kansas might be losing their first commit—possible backup plan for a wing.
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RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
My wife is a very loyal person. She would leave me for that kind of money. I might encourage it and figure out how to split it down the road.
They raise an interesting question, how did Egor end up on our radar or vice versa? Was somebody looking at draft projections and current salaries and pieced together that we might be open to listening? Was this an OA connection that Cal didn’t really need?
biglug58
- Chicago, IL
Nah, football's bag isn't as big
I think every player on the team deserves NIL money.
We are trying to be an elite team and I’d argue that would be one requirement.
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I think Brad should pass on Bird though and go after a more elite wing. He's not athletic enough for the B1G 18. So he’s like a less athletic Larry Bird?
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@sharpshot16 indicated that Geoff has been on it for a while now
any interest here if we miss on demin
Do yourself a favor and don’t buy any personalized jerseys for the next few years. You are adjusting to this new world of college basketball worse than I am.
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