Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

[Indy Illini Fan]

I don’t blame the insiders for giving us information that was accurate at the time but my goodness this is getting annoying lol. I feel like I’ve had my hopes up too many times and gotten crushed every time

Nothing is done until the ink is dry ... That's the way it's always been ...

Kids can get out of NLI nowadays as well ... So maybe even the ink being dry doesn't mean anything anymore ...

It's the wild west ... And we're dealing with 16 - 22 year old kids and parents and handlers who live vicariously through these kids ... It's crazy ...

 

[PepeSilvia]

Yeah but what about the history of abhorrent business practices? I'm definitely passing on Monsanto.

Seems like he would be real toxic to the environment that Brad is trying to cultivate.

 

[pruman91]

Nevermind

 

[strobes77]

We went after this kid in HS ... O is super tied in on this one ... If Brad wants him ... He's ours ...

ELITE level shooter ... And when he's hot ... He will give you 20 easy ...

I would take him. I’d have him above Jake Davis, tbh.

 

[Illini8420]

So what type of team are we looking at right now? About a 6 seed or so?

 

[foby]

Nevermind

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

We went after this kid in HS ... O is super tied in on this one ... If Brad wants him ... He's ours ...

ELITE level shooter ... And when he's hot ... He will give you 20 easy ...

I'd take him...but not as our alpha. But I'd take him than not.

But if Brad has made up his mind that he's gonna only take one more...then no. Think we can get someone better if it's just down to 1 spot

 

[Piotyr]

Nothing's settled until the students are on campus practicing, but I remain a little confused how quickly things went from "It's not about money, it's about a visa" to "The money ask is too high a hill to climb, we've moved on".

 

[Illini4Christ]

Nothing is done until the ink is dry ... That's the way it's always been ...

Kids can get out of NLI nowadays as well ... So maybe even the ink being dry doesn't mean anything anymore ...

It's the wild west ... And we're dealing with 16 - 22 year old kids and parents and handlers who live vicariously through these kids ... It's crazy ...

I am surprised how stressful and fluid recruiting truly is. It is different. I’m also surprised that Brad has any hair left on his head.

 

[Illiniam1984]

So what type of team are we looking at right now? About a 6 seed or so?

Come back when the roster is done and than ask that question again….

 

[illinoispeak]

Egor is not even proven, should have paid Maddox.

 

[Illini1985]

Well on to the next I guess. How disappointing.

One thing I've learned from the portal era the past couple of yrs is if we're the favorite for kid but the kid hasn't committed after a week, then it'll probably not happen.

 

[FI_8905]

Told you last week that the price was probably too high for Demin.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Any chance for Chaz Lanier then? Really the only wing left that's really good tbh.

 

[Illini4Christ]

So what type of team are we looking at right now? About a 6 seed or so?

Right now with without any adds, we are 9 strong and deep.

There are at least five NBA future players.

Compare position to position from last year‘s team and we look to be better and that was the sixth ranked team in the country. TSJ is the outlier.

Demin was going to replace TSJ but I guarantee someone else will.

Go ILLINI

 

[Illiniam1984]

Told you last week that the price was probably too high for Demin.

He’s good but not at the 2mil he’s asking….BU made the right decision here….

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

From the outside looking in, Don't think it's unrealistic at all to believe he got a $ offer during us working on him.

 

[FI_8905]

He’s good but not at the 2mil he’s asking….BU made the right decision here….

Not really Underwood's decision in this case. He wanted Egor.

 

[Bryce Hopkins]

Told you last week that the price was probably too high for Demin.

 

[Illini8420]

Right now with without any adds, we are 9 strong and deep.

There are at least five NBA future players.

Compare position to position from last year‘s team and we look to be better and that was the sixth ranked team in the country. TSJ is the outlier.

Demin was going to replace TSJ but I guarantee someone else will.

Go ILLINI

Hard to also replace Domask and Hawkins though. Their skillsets were super valuable too

 

[WeWillWhen]

We didn’t want Egor anyway. Not an EDG.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

All of the top tier players have had high asking prices. This isn't a surprise.

Our camp either severely mismanaged what the going rate was for some of these guys or our NIL funds aren't what we thought compared to the market value of the elite players.

In either case it's a bummer because any "elite" player bowing out of the draft is going to get a big payday at numbers that we can't get to.

If this is going to be the case going forward, we have to be WAY better at developing our prep recruits.

 

[My2Cents]

Just never know how things are gonna work out when dealing with ED !

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

Egor is not even proven, should have paid Maddox.

Maddox wanted to play for Sean ... Had more to do with that than anything else ...

His Dad wanted him here ... Money was virtually the same ...

 

[Trueblue777]

Another thought…. We have already signed a 21 year old European big who has been holding his own against grown men( Kaminsky, Paul, and many other good European prospects in the Adriatic league. While Demin is playing for the Real Madrid 2 in the under 18 league. Looking at his stats they are solid but nothing extraordinary . My thought is how much more is he worth than Ivisic? We have somewhat of a gauge to go by here. Is he worth 25% more? That would be generous in my mind as he is still more of a unproven commodity despite his potential. Lot of players with potential who fell on their face. Look at the NBA.