Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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NarrowJ
ChiefGritty said:
Are you guys not all Boomer Peoria Dads anymore?
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RichardKeenesCousin
Second place is 1st loser said:
Ok, are we talking about the vast majority of sports or the mega revenue generating ones? Yes, if I'm watching my kid play, it's not about me whatsoever.

The second I put money down to watch a professional athlete play, the same money that pays their salary/NIL, yes.....I'm paying for entertainment. When the commercials are purely based on viewership, our time watching, and this money goes into lining billionaires pockets....I have a vested interest. We all do.

Furthermore, the entities running the events are entertaining us as part of getting us through the door, whether that be shooting t-shirts into the crowd, putting up kiss cams, playing music during intermissions , etc.....the whole thing is part of a show for the fan experience.

Now, if you're saying that it's free, I don't have to buy tickets, the concessions are free, I have absolutely no skin in the game and it's 100% outcome based... where the fans showing up have absolutely no impact on NIL, multiple million dollar salaries, etc and it is limited to players playing the sport for sport....it's not about us anymore. At that point us, as fans, are of no relevance. It's a glorified YMCA game at that point. At that point, it's not about any of us.

How many times have our insiders referred to ROI based on paying our players based on wins and losses? Is that just about the sport? No, the current product doesn't exist without us. Our entertainment and money is mandatory to the products current existence.

If the players don't want to be paid, we're just showing up for support and our existence is meaningless....it's all about the game. In all other instances, the entertainment value and our players deciding to play where they want to play based on our participation....I want my money's worth.

Can't move the goalposts and lump high D1/professional sports in the same category as a High School gym on a random Tuesday night.
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#581      
EmeraldCityIllini
To the extent of being matchup proof, I feel like our halfcourt offense is about as good as it gets.

If a bigger “combo guard” is what keeps our edge on the glass elite, I’ll happily sacrifice some ball handling. Even though I really don’t think it was an issue anyway
 
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pruman91
NarrowJ said:
I don't remember needing a heart monitor while watching him dish out 6 assists with 0 turnovers at Breslin:

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But yeah, I get it... dude be crazy (no more underhand, full court softball pitches, please)
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Nitty gritty truth triumphs over hyperbole once again.....well done J................
 
#583      
pruman91
nichi said:
Sure. "They" enhance and monetize the intrinsic entertainment value. To an extent, it's done with recreational sports too.
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lol............kudos mr. nichi........well put , as always......

listen . if anyone has not figured out by now that life is a transactional experience where the give element by one party satisfies the take element by the other party, then I feel sorry for your lack of understanding how human nature works regarding emotional , financial and various other states of what motivates us to live in our own confines of what makes each and every one of us tick and live our life in a certain way...........

I do certain things to bring certain enjoyment to me and trade seconds , minutes and hours of my precious lifetime experiment to experience those enjoyments.......I really really do..........JMHO and ramblings of a fleeting soul speeding across my O & B landscape at such a high speed of light now...............enjoy the journey and stop trying to redefine every aspect of life........

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hangdog
lol............kudos mr. nichi........well put , as always......

listen . if anyone has not figured out by now that life is a transactional experience where the give element by one party satisfies the take element by the other party, then I feel sorry for your lack of understanding how human nature works regarding emotional , financial and various other states of what motivates us to live in our own confines of what makes each and every one of us tick and live our life in a certain way...........

I do certain things to bring certain enjoyment to me and trade seconds , minutes and hours of my precious lifetime experiment to experience those enjoyments.......I really really do..........JMHO and ramblings of a fleeting soul speeding across my O & B landscape at such a high speed of light now...............enjoy the journey and stop trying to redefine every aspect of life........

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Tripendular!!!

But who exactly are you talking about?
 
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wncillini
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Gotta say… I’ve never been so uninterested in ongoing discussions on this site as I have been with these two. So in order to get things on a better track, here’s a picture of a pizza I made at home. #homemadepizza

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I have been doing chicago tavern style more recently
 

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#592      
wncillini
You make your own dough or do you acquire from somewhere? I making a pizza tomorrow. Typically get my dough from Frankie’s Deli near me.

This years team is shaking up to be one for the ages in my opinion. Relax, barring injury, this team should be a wagon.
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Make my own
 
#597      
thefalcon5
ChiefGritty said:
Tangent: when did it get so sabermetric in here?

Are you guys not all Boomer Peoria Dads anymore?
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Advanced analytics have been around for a while now.

Millennial Peoria Dads think it’s the new hotness. Gotta get with the times. There’s still some Boomer Peoria Grandpas in here who don’t know what TS% or eFG% are.
 
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RollChief
NarrowJ said:
Gunars Grinvalds (G/F, Latvia) commits to UCLA

Also updated with final 2026 RSCI

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B1G Roster Tracker

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It's super encouraging that we're leading B1G in roster Power Conference Minutes, and Box Plus/Minus, and 3rd in Win Share...

That said, scrolling over to your "Other" tab, Florida is an absolute wagon in those categories. Yeesh!
 
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NarrowJ
RollChief said:
It's super encouraging that we're leading B1G in roster Power Conference Minutes, and Box Plus/Minus, and 3rd in Win Share...

That said, scrolling over to your "Other" tab, Florida is an absolute wagon in those categories. Yeesh!
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Forgot I even had that tab in there! I have Aberdeen on their roster but most now seem to say he will not be eligible.

Also I messed up on the BPM & WS... those should be weighted per minute and I've just used a simple sum for those. For example, Coopers Josefsberg has the highest BPM on the whole spreadsheet at 16.1 but has played a total of 9 minutes his entire career. Should have fixed, but thought "oh well" at this point.

Interesting thing about Illinois & Florida: they each have only 3 total RSCI top 100 players

Aside (Duke-related): Was looking at some Torvik things this morning and noted that Duke is 332nd in "Projected Effective Experience" and 302nd nationally in "Projected Production from Transfers"
 
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