Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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PIT_ILL
HensonHall71 said:
We really need to capitalize on KJ’s success this year with other International recruits (e.g.Sarr)

KJ is projected as a lottery pick after one year at Illinois which dramatically improved his draft stock- he’s now projected to go ahead of several players he was well behind in the eyes of the NBA

KJ has now passed:

Demin- who spent a year at BYU
Hugo Gonzales- stayed in Europe
Nolan Traore- stayed in Europe

If that is not the best commercial for going to Illinois I don’t know what is- players have gone to Arizona and UCLA in years past and killed their draft stock, we should be a go to destination for International players after this year
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Traore and Gonz are both better players. Not arguing your point if anything that is the point that he is now above players that are more skilled than he is just from playing on a national stage (20 quad 1 games)
 
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Red77sng
OB positive said:
Unfortunately any player like Conwell who is rated at or near the top of the portal is going to be out of our reach. Illinois has not established itself as a top destination like the blue bloods and won't get any of them unless they specifically want to move closer to home like Boswell or want to come play for Brad. I like Brad and he's the coach for me as long as he wants to stay but let's be realistic. There's not many kids growing up thinking I want to go play for Brad Underwood some day. Our best bet is to keep pulling a player or two from overseas and hope another school with more money or notoriety doesn't scoop them away from us after we put them on everyone's radar. Despite some misses here and there our staff has been proven to recognize talent and potential.
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😂
 
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Brosky
And yet we've never seen it in a game, not even once. How do you square that? Making shots in the driveway is for fun but not for real.
 
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PleaseMakeABowlGame
OB positive said:
Unfortunately any player like Conwell who is rated at or near the top of the portal is going to be out of our reach. Illinois has not established itself as a top destination like the blue bloods and won't get any of them unless they specifically want to move closer to home like Boswell or want to come play for Brad. I like Brad and he's the coach for me as long as he wants to stay but let's be realistic. There's not many kids growing up thinking I want to go play for Brad Underwood some day. Our best bet is to keep pulling a player or two from overseas and hope another school with more money or notoriety doesn't scoop them away from us after we put them on everyone's radar. Despite some misses here and there our staff has been proven to recognize talent and potential.
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this statement is pure asinine
 
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PNWIllini
I never really liked how our fight song references so many other fight songs.

Like aren’t we good enough ourselves.

Just a peeve all these years. When I was a kid I imagined going back in time and writing Michigan’s or Notre Dame’s song for us first. And seeing what that did to the ensuing 100 years of history.
 
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PIT_ILL
Problem is those Ivy schools still have the student in student athlete
 
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RichardKeenesCousin
chudaman said:
Would be good then to recruit a Brazilian to ensure that the team runs smooth.
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Morgan Freeman Applause GIF by The Academy Awards
 
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nyc_illini
OB positive said:
Unfortunately any player like Conwell who is rated at or near the top of the portal is going to be out of our reach. Illinois has not established itself as a top destination like the blue bloods and won't get any of them unless they specifically want to move closer to home like Boswell or want to come play for Brad. I like Brad and he's the coach for me as long as he wants to stay but let's be realistic. There's not many kids growing up thinking I want to go play for Brad Underwood some day. Our best bet is to keep pulling a player or two from overseas and hope another school with more money or notoriety doesn't scoop them away from us after we put them on everyone's radar. Despite some misses here and there our staff has been proven to recognize talent and potential.
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How did we land TSJ then?
 
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Joel Goodson
BashCtIllini said:
I want to see a billionaire from a small school just buy a national title. Like the Ivy League schools have tons of mega rich alum. Have them make the Ivy League become the dominant power for 1 year just to show what a farce this new system is.
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is the new system a bigger farce than the old system?
 
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HailtotheChief
I agree with you but he did say closer to home. TSJ came from Texas Tech and is from Chicago.

Also to your point, while they were not transfers. We did have two "kids" that highly desired and going to likely be one n dones that did pick to play for BU and the Illini. Riley literally could've gone about anywhere and came here.
 
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Birdus
nyc_illini said:
Where did you hear any rumor of Tomi going to Arkansas? If anything, I thought it's more likely Big Z would come and join him here?
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I don't pay attention to the rumor mill. Especially some of these ridiculous podcasts. That would be great if Big Z came here but until everything is wrapped up it's just speculation.
 
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OB positive
Little bit of luck (Mich couldn't get him qualified) and he wasn't actually at the top of the portal the year we got him. After a year with us he definitely would have been near the top of the portal if he had decided to transfer.
 
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