Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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At least he’s consistent.
Beware of a drowning man he will drag you down to the bottom
in a bad way apparently. Hopefully he has not jinxed us
Interesting
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
FightinIllini30
Future insider
I like you
what's the word on watkins? louisville and ky were said to be two schools, both their rosters seem set at this point (louisville just got pryor back). florida? us possibly if we miss on stoj?
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
This sits above my desk at work, as it captures the nature of my work. Entirely coincidental, I'm sure, that the main color is orange
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I mean that staff was habitually receiving wrong information, or misinterpreting the information they were receiving. The staff being certain they had the player sewn up was objectively not that conclusive of information. (We hadn't learned that quite yet when DJax happened of course)
BU and staff getting similarly deceived is not totally unprecedented (and clearly has happened here to some degree, even if it has a happy ending), but it's way, way less common.
And even all of THAT said, real over-the-table money, professional agents, and these kids being transfers who have gone through this process before just makes it apples to oranges to compare it to HS recruitments of the old world. It produces similar feelings because we're still Illini fans on this same message board, but the mechanics of it are just not similar.
And they probably won't get both Claude and Watkins I'd imagine. Wonder how much the door is open there, but don't know how much we're involved.
Without having seen or heard specifically what he said I'd guess the House settlement, which provides for revenue sharing. Revenue sharing doesn't replace NIL, so even with the caps implemented in the revenue sharing system, schools will still be able to work with boosters to get players NIL beyond what the "salary cap" provides.
The House settlement may increase the amount of money players get, or it may keep it the same (and just change the allocation). The one thing it's definitely not going to do is decrease the amount of money players get.
Steelyunk
- Tobacco Road
Camus can do but Sartre is smartra.
I don't like Stanford on that list, they've gone too under the radar compared to us and North Carolina.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
Wasn't he originally committed to Stanford before switching to California?
Maybe we should add someone to the staff who has a background in sales. Pretty much standard way of thinking is that if you don't close down the deal and let them walk out you've lost out and your not going to see them again. Maybe we made the best pitch and Andrej commits here but I sure as hell would feel a lot better about it if he wasn't delaying his announcement.
He went to Stanford his freshman year.
So we've got that going for us.
At no time had I heard nor posted that AS was a lock. I repeated that all that was needed after his very enjoyable visit was agreeing to a deal that satisfy all involved. I also stated as the coaches and everyone else involved knew, he would take his other visits and understandably so. I said my gut feeling from all I’ve gathered is that I feel we will have this young man in an ILLINI uniform.
We just got a kicker from North Carolina!!! So ya we got that going for us!!! ILL Dumb, dumb Tar Heels
He PLAYED at Stanford before playing at Cal.
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