Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

[CoachHooleyHoo]

One of the best examples is on a whim deciding to rename/rebrand the platform from Twitter to X without any true sense of market testing. It was such a bad rebrand that people are still calling the platform Twitter and the posts tweets. The bird logo was without a doubt one of the most well-known logos in existence to now a bleak, black "X". I think that a rebrand was needed at some point, but those need to be well thought out. This clearly wasn't.

Or maybe he wanted so badly to get separation from the company that was blatantly biased and censoring certain points of view that he didn't care about market testing. Elon is wildly unconventional and, while that doesn't always work out, he's done pretty well for himself. I have a feeling it is doing and will do better than the hand-wringers are claiming.

 

[Bigtex]

At the time, I didn't think Storr was a good value. His price seemed to much based on hype/potential rather than actual performance (low efficiency even adjusted for usage).

It's possible that, in hindsight, he will end up being a good value (either from improvement or NIL inflation), but I can't fault the staff (or donors) for dropping out of that bidding war based on presumed market prices at that time.

I think there are other targets since then that I'm more disappointed we missed, but I don't know how real of a chance we had with any of them. And we still don't know who we will get.

2nd team all big 10 is more than hype / potential

 

[FightinIllini30]

Well put it this way, Elon has not increased the market value of Twitter as a business. He overpaid for it and it has been bleeding value from Day 1.

Musk himself seems to have sort of quasi-charitable aims for the platform though, so who knows whether he's even trying to grow the business.

He'd be doing the world a favor if he just pulled the plug, frankly.

He is admittedly willing to lose money and has said he doesn’t care. This is because the platform was plagued by fact checkers with a particular bias and censoring by the platform itself. He fired half the workers and has been losing money at twitter but he’s doing just fine financially. He did it as a power move

 

[Battle89]

Oh for the old days

 

[chrisRunner7]

Can we please not turn this thread into a conservative vs liberal debate over Twitter and Elon Musk please? Thanks.

 

[Loyalillini10]

He is admittedly willing to lose money and has said he doesn’t care. This is because the platform was plagued by fact checkers with a particular bias and censoring by the platform itself. He fired half the workers and has been losing money at twitter but he’s doing just fine financially. He did it as a power move

Oh no...people fact checking...what has this world come to? I should be able to spread whatever misinformation I wish without being "censored" and the people who owned the private company shouldn't care. Give me an effing break...

 

[theNewGuy]

Oh it still does all that. Just for the other side. It was never about stopping censorship. It's always been about censoring different people.

Would love to see your basis for this claim as I'm sure you wouldn't make this up because of your bias from your previous and current interactions on the platform.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Underwood says he only wants one more. He said in a recent interview, "You can have too many."

For the entirety of the last few days the expectation on this board has been to add 2 more.

Like his game, but if we're preferring only Kasparas over Monsanto & Lathon...

that's just not the right idea imo. He's not even the best of those 3 - that would be Lathon.

 

[Illini2010-11]

He is admittedly willing to lose money and has said he doesn’t care. This is because the platform was plagued by fact checkers with a particular bias and censoring by the platform itself. He fired half the workers and has been losing money at twitter but he’s doing just fine financially. He did it as a power move

It is highly ironic that those defending Musk's actions with relation to X/Twitter would likely never buy a vehicle from the company that makes up roughly half of Musk's net worth.

 

[Loyalillini10]

It is highly ironic that those defending Musk's actions with relation to X/Twitter would likely never buy a vehicle from the company that makes up roughly half of Musk's net worth.

Genius. Simply put and very accurate.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Can we please not turn this thread into a conservative vs liberal debate over Twitter and Elon Musk please? Thanks.

 

[FI_8905]

How about we make him an offer that he can’t refuse?……

 

[FI_8905]

Watkins was asking for around 1mil too. I'd rather give it to him without a doubt.

What exactly drew us away from him? Did he bump up his price tag?...Or did they get wind he was staying in the draft?

I don't think Watkins is all that interested in Illinois.

 

[FI_8905]

I'm guessing some people don't like Elon Musk and call him names because he now allows opinions that they don't like.

In terms of the usefulness of the platform, it has more activity than ever, so....

 

[jjv0004]

Glad I came by for useless arguments about X on the basketball recruiting thread. If you are doing it, please, please, please stop. Nobody cares what you think on this thread.

 

[WhiteHorseWings]

So less idiots? Less censoring? Less people spending all their time and taking it way too seriously? If Elon Musk is an idiot then I wanna be one too

Your wish has been granted

 

[Chiieeff]

I don't think Watkins is all that interested in Illinois.

*dislike button*

 

[More3s]

Glad I came by for useless arguments about X on the basketball recruiting thread. If you are doing it, please, please, please stop. Nobody cares what you think on this thread.

Awwww. We were so close to seeing some minds changed, I'm sure of it.

 

[Loyalillini10]

I'm guessing some people don't like Elon Musk and call him names because he now allows opinions that they don't like.

There is a big difference between opinions and deliberately spreading misinformation.

 

[Mapman]

I’m all for fact checking for both sides. The problem, in my opinion, is even if fact checked correctly, some people don’t want to believe it if it doesn’t align with their beliefs. Just one example….I’m still trying to figure out how to charge the microchips in my Covid vaccine.

 

[Govoner Vaugn Fan]

Can we please not turn this thread into a conservative vs liberal debate over Twitter and Elon Musk please? Thanks.

I was starting to wonder how many years of eligibility this Musk kid has.?

 

[Loyalillini10]

Glad I came by for useless arguments about X on the basketball recruiting thread. If you are doing it, please, please, please stop. Nobody cares what you think on this thread.

Sure, okay, but there is absolutely nothing happening in Illinois Basketball recruiting right now, so this is what happens. We've had sandwiches, number contests, and many other off-topic rabbit hole excursions. I promise you, as soon as Illinois gets some recruiting news, this board will be focused on it...for a day or so.

 

[RichardKeenesCousin]

The best condiment is Chick-fil-A sauce. The most overrated condiment is Catsup. The most underrated condiment is Mustard.

 

[FI_8905]

There is a big difference between opinions and deliberately spreading misinformation.

Misinformation = "Things I don't agree with or want other people to hear."

Eye of the beholder. Slippery slope to wielding censorship as a political weapon.

Who gets to decide what's real and what isn't? You? Me? "Experts" who are human and can be wrong and / or dishonest like everyone else?

It's best to put it all out there and let people sort it out for themselves.

 

[toomuchtuna]

I was going to stop with the tuna talk, but this is a disgusting helping of tuna today.