Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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dainjazoner
im confused whats going on. we need an entire new team again and we arent connected to anyone... Yes its early but waiting around is gonna hurt us (sarr)
 
#557      
nichi
Rap47 said:
You are dead wrong about not needing athletic players. Probably the best athlete on the team was Tre and he couldn't keep up with the teams outside of the big ten
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Athleticism = hops, quickness, speed, strength.

DGL, Ty, Tre, Riley, Bam, Rez in that order. With more strength, Riley would move up.
 
#558      
Turn N’ Burn
Kerr Kiisa in the portal….any interest? Thought I remember his name being floated around last time he transferred.
 
#559      
pruman91
Indy Illini Fan said:
They’re familiar with each other …

Speaking of Storr … If the number I’ve heard he is after is true … I’d consider it …
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#561      
21ChampaignSt
Illwinsagain said:
So it appears that Brad is better than other teams, even with less returning during this 4 year stretch. Since during this timeframe, only Purdue had a better record.
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Maybe? This could be a case where stats don't tell the whole story.

In the two years we hung banners, we returned more than 50% of our minutes.
In our two more middling years, we returned less than 20% of our minutes.

That doesnt really bother me. I would absolutely sign up for a championship season every other year. On average, that's a really really good program.

But we're now about to enter our second consecutive year and third in four years with suboptimal continuity. More often than not, we're not putting ourselves in the best position to be successful.

So, we either don't value continuity or we aren't good at it. Both are problems, IMO. And both are fixable.
 
#563      
dainjazoner
it feels like brad is sleepwalking through the portal rn tbh. we arent getting dix, so there next priority target is pryce sandfort? I dont get why we are plucking off a bad iowa team. tre white is better then sandfort IMO
 
#567      
RockfordIllini
21ChampaignSt said:
Maybe? This could be a case where stats don't tell the whole story.

In the two years we hung banners, we returned more than 50% of our minutes.
In our two more middling years, we returned less than 20% of our minutes.

That doesnt really bother me. I would absolutely sign up for a championship season every other year. On average, that's a really really good program.

But we're now about to enter our second consecutive year and third in four years with suboptimal continuity. More often than not, we're not putting ourselves in the best position to be successful.

So, we either don't value continuity or we aren't good at it. Both are problems, IMO. And both are fixable.
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Agree. I understand the staff are highly paid, but I don’t envy them in this environment. Impossible to know what to do. For instance, we clearly recruited over Ty with Tre, and both had 2 years of eligibility remaining. And while it stinks and is brutal, in a vacuum you probably make that move if you’re trying to put out the best team possible. But how much do you lose from a culture/continuity perspective swapping in a brand new guy for someone who is in year 3 of your system? And of course we now know Tre is out the door after one year and pretty good chance we lose Ty too. But also can’t be shocking a guy who’s on his third school in 3 years decides to portal.

Really tough to thread the needle between talent maximization and continuity. And plus you can’t even bank on continuity anyway. I know this occurred before all of the portal madness, but I wonder if Ace broke/hardened Brad. Built a relationship with that kid since 8th grade probably, clearly there was some kind of promise about starting that was kept despite Ace not always being deserving of a spot, and he leaves after one year anyways. Would probably make me cynical and just go out and accumulate as much talent as possible too.
 
#568      
sharpshot16
djkirkpatrick22 said:
I know this has been the narrative, but can't the staff sell him on playing next to Riley? Especially now when Tre is gone? Sounds really expensive, but KB, Sarr and Riley sounds nice....
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It's a money thing - Will returning means mid 2 mil hit to our line. Sarr is high 1s, borderline 2 with Duke pushing for him. Tomi & Kylan will command 7 figures as well. Just not enough to fill out a roster unfortunately.

We are deep but not Arkansas, IU, Kansas deep.
 
#569      
pruman91
trying to figure out what next years roster will look like on 03/31/25 is like thinking you know how a mystery movie will end up before the movie even starts.................lot's of opinions but few facts this early on in the process.............

ole pru's gonna chill out , get medded up and enjoy my life as best as I can...................I really really am......I'd advise everyone else to do the same.....well , maybe not the medded up part , but whatever floats your boat...........................
 
#570      
…INI!
I hope Brad being “somewhat “checked out” … doesn’t mean he’s contemplating a move.
 
#575      
Illini4Christ
sharpshot16 said:
It's a money thing - Will returning means mid 2 mil hit to our line. Sarr is high 1s, borderline 2 with Duke pushing for him. Tomi & Kylan will command 7 figures as well. Just not enough to fill out a roster unfortunately.

We are deep but not Arkansas, IU, Kansas deep.
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Thank you for sharing
 
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