Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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skyIdub
theNewGuy said:
I'm 5'8" and was running 5:30 miles in high school, and I wasn't close to being the best in my school. Give me another foot in height, an elite facility to work out in 24/7, and personal trainer, I could shave a minute off easy.
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Right, a personal trainer for….spoiler alert…running.

Not full court sprints and lateral moves.
I guess there was a treadmill in the corner though? 😂
 
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the juiceman cometh
skyIdub said:
Lol, the world record is 3:43....so Ben is a 6'9" 230lb basketball player...not a track star....only 36 seconds off of a world record mile?

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I mean, that "only 36 seconds" took the entire human race about 117 years to shave off from when 4:19 was the WR in 1882 to when the current WR was set in 1999.

As stated by others, 4:19 is very good, but there are high schoolers who can run that, so it's hardly impossible.
 
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Second place is 1st loser
skyIdub said:
Lol, the world record is 3:43....so Ben is a 6'9" 230lb basketball player...not a track star....only 36 seconds off of a world record mile?

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It seems extremely unlikely, but a couple of things....

When running a mile that fast, 36 seconds is a LOT of time. It's kind of like a pitcher's fastball increasing. If a guy goes from 85 MPH to 94MPH, that's the difference between playing with Schaumburg Boomers and Chicago Cubs. A guy who increases his heat from 96/97MPH to 99/100MPH is the difference between a potentially really good closer to and unhittable one. Heck, the difference in a gold medal and 5th place in the 100 meters is what....0.7 seconds? When you get to an elite level in speed events, a little is a lot.

The other thing would be that if he does indeed have an elite level of endurance, the difference in the stride of someone 6'9" and a guy 5'10" is what....three feet? It's tugging 230 around vs 170 that makes it seem relatively unreasonable.
 
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wc_illini
Second place is 1st loser said:
It seems extremely unlikely, but a couple of things....

When running a mile that fast, 36 seconds is a LOT of time. It's kind of like a pitcher's fastball increasing. If a guy goes from 85 MPH to 94MPH, that's the difference between playing with Schaumburg Boomers and Chicago Cubs. A guy who increases his heat from 96/97MPH to 99/100MPH is the difference between a potentially really good closer to and unhittable one. Heck, the difference in a gold medal and 5th place in the 100 meters is what....0.7 seconds? When you get to an elite level in speed events, a little is a lot.

The other thing would be that if he does indeed have an elite level of endurance, the difference in the stride of someone 6'9" and a guy 5'10" is what....three feet? It's tugging 230 around vs 170 that makes it seem relatively unreasonable.
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We absolutely need some insiders to settle this for us
 
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Second place is 1st loser
We absolutely need some insiders to settle this for us
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Yes, winning allows the board to focus on critical issues such as:

Who's going to be our ninth man?
The board's feelings of cottage cheese.
What's Ben's mile time?

I'm certain that I'm missing at least 5 other "heated" talking points that have been bounced around since the end of April.
 
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grue2
the juiceman cometh said:
I mean, that "only 36 seconds" took the entire human race about 117 years to shave off from when 4:19 was the WR in 1882 to when the current WR was set in 1999.

As stated by others, 4:19 is very good, but there are high schoolers who can run that, so it's hardly impossible.
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A quick search shows that 4:10 is currently the minimum bar for 1mi in D1 track.

In my experience being the fastest mile runner just meant that I could play basketball badly for extended periods without getting winded. The (non-existant) sprint speed is what mattered.
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
Second place is 1st loser said:
The team I can't figure out why their getting all the love is Michigan. They lost three 1st rounders from a frontcourt (including the conference POY) that was everything to them....and they get slotted in the top 5? Talk about question marks in being able to put the pieces back together.
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This. I really struggle to see who their 1A scorer is. McCoy is a phenomenal defender, but his scout is more D than O.

Maybe they'll just be unbelievable defensively again... but that's also hard to replace losing a generational frontcourt and 3 lotto picks.
 
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Grandpa
Second place is 1st loser said:
It seems extremely unlikely, but a couple of things....

When running a mile that fast, 36 seconds is a LOT of time. It's kind of like a pitcher's fastball increasing. If a guy goes from 85 MPH to 94MPH, that's the difference between playing with Schaumburg Boomers and Chicago Cubs. A guy who increases his heat from 96/97MPH to 99/100MPH is the difference between a potentially really good closer to and unhittable one. Heck, the difference in a gold medal and 5th place in the 100 meters is what....0.7 seconds? When you get to an elite level in speed events, a little is a lot.

The other thing would be that if he does indeed have an elite level of endurance, the difference in the stride of someone 6'9" and a guy 5'10" is what....three feet? It's tugging 230 around vs 170 that makes it seem relatively unreasonable.
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How much of it is neck length? That doesn't help the stride at all. Makes you top heavy and slows you down. Important to remember.
 
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ChiefGritty
fuggles said:
I'll wade into the Ben mile time. At 45 years old I was running 5:30s in training for a marathon. And I wasn't in athlete level shape. So I don't know what Ben ran, but 5:19 is not it. I'm sure it a good way under that time.
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This is what gets me though. You achieve this kind of performance through dedicated distance running training which is VERY different than basketball training.

Is Ben Humrichous' body capable of working towards a mile time like that? Seems very ambitious, but let's say maybe. But why on earth would he have been training that way to achieve it?

I'm Team Not Real.
 
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zentrails
Fly Illini Fly! said:
Scheyer's like the perfect example of a coach who I'd love, love, love to see get fired at a blueblood... since there's a 0.1% chance they'll be as successful with the next guy lol.
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And it would be fun to watch Scheyer squirm at a lesser school who can't afford Duke quality players
 
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