Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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joeybcrazy13
So come on family...... Let's get this kid !!! I just want to watch him become great!! A brief reprieve to my wasted existence.... ILL... maybe a little less self reflection
 
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illinifan1987
Steelyunk said:
Can’t say. Can say that I haven’t watched the Simpsons in more than 20 years because it got unwatchable in the ‘90s - but those old episodes hold up very well. Conversely, South Park newer seasons keep getting better. And that’s all I have to say about that.
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Season 27 is going to be epic! I can't wait for the Diddy/Starvin Marvin episode...
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fulton steamer
BashCtIllini said:
This response proves my point far more than refutes it. You pull a couple random names from decades of college sports and say, just because it is common place now, doesn't mean it has never happened before.

With every passing day, we get further and further from college athletics. This is now semi-pro athletics where the athletes pretend to go to school.
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You are correct, Sir.
 
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OrangeKrush1981
I have wondered for some time: what were the degree-granting programs -- majors, in the vernacular -- that our student-atheletes pursued this past season? And was there a B1G All-Academic Team selected? There must have been.
 
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altgeld88
Calvin said:
Off topic, but I went down that rabbit hole once. There's actually some interesting videos out there about the original writing style and how successful it was. The writers were committed to having consistent personalities in the characters, and getting humor in situations where they interacted with wildly different views. I think that lasted for 7 seasons (IIRC) before those successful writers largely turned over and it went downhill. The golden age was awesome, but a lot of people think it headed toward mediocrity after a while. Haven't seen an episode in forever, but it's still going.
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I'm so old I was in grad school living at First & John in Dec. '89 and remember watching the first Simpsons episode on a portable, early-'80s Magnavox B&W TV in my house before driving home for Christmas a couple days later. I still have my mid-'80s copies of Matt Groening's Life in Hell and Love is Hell somewhere. Or my 21-year-old daughter does.

I also remember making a late dinner one evening a couple months earlier, having switched on that TV in the kitchen to watch the beginning of the A's v. Giants World Series game, and seeing the Loma Prieta earthquake strike. We also still had Jeff George that season, and while enjoying a mug at Willie's I watched him lead us to a ridiculous comeback victory over USC in the Coliseum on Labor Day evening (the rescheduled Glasnost Bowl in Moscow). I watched the Berlin Wall fall in early November on that old TV, too. Then two days later I sat in the east balcony while JG fell short v. Michigan at home in early November, and we lost our shot at a BT title. Then the Romanians dragged psychopath dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife into a courtyard on Christmas Day and shot them.

That was one hell of a fall semester.
 
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BoiseBaller
Steelyunk said:
Can’t say. Can say that I haven’t watched the Simpsons in more than 20 years because it got unwatchable in the ‘90s - but those old episodes hold up very well. Conversely, South Park newer seasons keep getting better. And that’s all I have to say about that.
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100%. South Park is the one show my teenage kids will watch with me. The social commentary is always on point.
 
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JKR
OrangeKrush1981 said:
I have wondered for some time: what were the degree-granting programs -- majors, in the vernacular -- that our student-atheletes pursued this past season? And was there a B1G All-Academic Team selected? There must have been.
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I assume that you are talking about basketball. Redd made the team this year with a finance major:

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Winter Academic All-Big Ten Released - University of Illinois Athletics

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Big Ten Conference recognized winter sport student-athletes who have been named to the Academic All-Big Ten team today.
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As you can see, there were a number of athletes across campus who qualified. Some with more credible majors than others.

You can find the majors for most of the basketball players in their bios here:

2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster - University of Illinois Athletics

The official 2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini
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the juiceman cometh
BashCtIllini said:
This response proves my point far more than refutes it. You pull a couple random names from decades of college sports and say, just because it is common place now, doesn't mean it has never happened before.

With every passing day, we get further and further from college athletics. This is now semi-pro athletics where the athletes pretend to go to school.
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The Covid rule was a one time thing. We're seeing the last guys with that extra eligibility. There is no other reason for older players that didn't exist 20, 30, 50 years ago. 23 year olds in college sports have always been a thing (a redshirt and then 4 years gets you to 23 very easily). There's plenty to be upset about without having to make up new things to be upset about.
 
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sacraig
Poe's Law said:
Must be a lot of lurkers not signed in. Far as I can tell Dan’s business model seems to be

Phase 1. Block ads for people signed in
Phase 2.
Phase 3. Make money


Here’s hoping my many thanks helps keep the lights on :)
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I'm actually not convinced @Dan makes money off this site given the lack of ads. I think he just does this out of some combination of his own kindness and fandom.

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