Wasn’t Marcus Liberty number one at some point?
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Good luck Ty and Brandon... I truly wish them the best!!! ILL
Very nice landing spot for Ty. It's a good league and he should get some solid playing time. Hopefully, he remains healthy and in a league that doesn't have the same caliber of athletes as the Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big 12 or Big East.....he should be able to progress comfortably.
The fact that Boise is willing to take a shot on a great kid, who has just had some tough luck.....mark me down as a fan unless they play us.
I really wanted to see a Soph Brandon Lee... and whatever year Ty was getting to. dammit
It sounds like we've got as good a chance as anyone. But follow UI basketball recruiting long enough, and there's one thing you learn. Never set your mind on someone being Illini until they commit.
Sorry, but unions are great for employees when they need leverage they can't obtain as individuals. It's the definition. Dybantsa doesn't have that problem.
Coaches have had a free market since they were playing in peach baskets. Saying that an unproven freshman is only halfway to the top of the coaching income market after 4 years of an open market pretends that today is the ceiling or that those numbers haven't accelerated (also Cooper Flagg allegedly made 28M https://www.foxsports.com/stories/c...ooper-flagg-make-nil-during-his-one-year-duke).
Using real numbers. The NCAA grossed 1.4B in 2024. NBA gets 50% BRI, given the growth in roster costs we saw this year you really don't think spending won't exceed 700M? https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...financial-report-revenue-surplus/80733616007/
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Believe he was a 2L at UofI law...
"Back in the day" also didn't include as good of results as we've seen recently.
Great thing is we have a bunch of dudes that we retained up the roster that we could see pretty decent leaps from.
Dunno, his next best offer was Miss St and then Duquesne out of highschool.. he gets the top 100 kid label because of 247 (99th) but was the 127th ranked composite player.
JMU dominates the sun belt, seems like a great pathway to put up numbers and be on a high-major roster next year...
JMU didn't exactly dominate last year. They were 8th. They changed coaches 2 years ago, picking up the guy who was repeatedly winning THE Ohio Valley Conference (regular season) with Morehead State.
exactly. Ty, Boise is a heck of a program. I can't recall if they are moving to Big12 this season or whatever PAC10 is doing.That's not the relevant number. The NCAA doesn't collect all, or even most, of the revenue generated by college sports. To that number add in the approximately $3.6 billion generated by the Big 10, SEC, ACC, and Big 12 and now you're at $5 billion without touching the smaller conferences or revenue generated by individual schools (from things like ticket sales, sponsorships/naming rights, etc.) Do you think players are getting $2.5 billion a year in NIL?
Just look at the individual school level. We generated $148 million in revenue in 2023. Did we have a $74 million NIL budget? OSU generated $280 million in revenue. Did their players get $140 million in NIL? I mean, the next season, 2024 we were talking about a $20 million OSU football roster like it was a mind blowing idea. Let's say they also spent $5 million on basketball. That puts OSU's NIL outlay at about 9% of revenue.
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I think the Illini might regret letting Ty Rogers walk. He is not a great offensive player, but he is strong, rebounds well and plays defense which in every game you need a player who can play lock down defense which is something this team lacked in the losses this year when 1 stop in regulation time would have turned the game into a win instead of a loss in OT
I agree with your point on unions, but the example is not apples to apples. You’d have to add the revenue of the conferences to the NCAAs numbers.
Unions make sense when labor is a commodity—like on a factory floor. When it is not, the worst workers get propped up and the best ones are held down with little incentive to excel.
Ty is gonna love the weather out there. Near perfection.
ok - a union would clearly be FOR the best interests of the majority of college athletes. If they had a union in any time during the past 50 years, they would have been paid like they are now. The FAILURE TO HAVE A UNION led to tens of thousands of athletes being taken advantage of and not being paid.
"Have been very successful". They had a 70+% win percentage in conference the 3 years prior
Man, we have really slammed on the brakes this off season....
I guess the excitement could only last for so long.
I guess the excitement could only last for so long.
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