drsmitty74
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Can't say I blame him for picking that school. Just sayin'.
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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You’re thinking of ‘27 recruit Jaylan Mitchell. Constanza is not from Illinois.
Sorry, it's just a silly comparison based on the dudes both playing in IL and being athletic.
Iggy was a highly regarded top 70 player from his Soph year on, playing AAU with Quentin Richardson, Jimmy Butler & Jon Scheyer while winning a AAU national championship and committing to Arkansas his Jr year...then Zona once Richardson was fired. Ranking wise he went from 70ish to 25ish his Jr summer.
Otherwise they're 170 spots in the rankings, 25 years, 160 miles and multiple NBA championships apart.
I'm tickled by fans who literally think sports are about the fans.
It is. Without the fans funding the sport given the entertainment value....all of the ancillary stuff is moot. Without the fans, there's no NIL, no TV money, no jersey sales, no concessions....nada.
The players benefit from the entertainment they provide. No more, no less.
Maybe minor in Architecture.
Latex sales?
It's more than nearby. Kankakee, Bradley, and Bourbonnais are one contiguous tricity.
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But we're on a Illinois basketball forum, so 'we' is much narrower; where the current state of college affairs has contributed to the best run of success in decades for Illinois basketball.
Also, do you really think Michigan is less satisfied with their championship because it was fueled by transfers? Florida the year before?
I don't think the whole sport is better off and most importantly 'we' are better off in the current environment.
Another kid who’s just completely fallen from where he once was … Bounced around 3 different prep schools …
I’m not even sure what HMs are recruiting him anymore … He’s not a top end HM prospect in my eyes …
Hasn’t he been injured awhile.
114 in the composite.
Was #4 at one point. (one some other services as high as #2)
I know it's just one guy, but I'm surprised we didn't even get to a single game removed from a Final Four run before getting posts unfavorably comparing BU to a coach with an objectively worse track record. Don't get me wrong, I knew it was going to happen...I just expected some basketball to happen first.
I may not have read all the comments, but I took it just as giving Musselman (and some others) the benefit of the doubt for now. I didn't see anything negative about BU
Jimmy Butler was on their AAU team while living down in Houston?
Hey kids, maybe stop bouncing around from school to school, learn a system you can excel in. Maybe have a life outside of basketball.
You're right my bad.
Jaylan Mitchell is the guy from Olney.
Costanza was connected to Antigua or something.
I think you're right. If Williams, and the people he trusts for advice, believe he can get serious minutes with 5 new guards/wings committed already, then he could turn out to be something special. So now we have 6 new guards/wings who have length and can shoot, you can't really ask for more. And they've all got freshman status except Vaaks. Everyone seems to think Vaaks is a given for the SL, but maybe it's time to put him in the wait and see category. Of course I hope he's as good as advertised. Let's start basketball season right now!
Musselman has twice as many 2nd weekend appearances in less years, a better winning percentage, never had any of his seasons vacated, and at his 3rd school has started out better in his first two years at a football school than Underwood did at a basketball school. Don't get me wrong, I'll take Underwood as my coach, but Underwood is not objectively better. That's your opinion and maybe your as guilty of being prisoner of the moment as the people who insist on being critical.
Lets see what he actually has since you didn't even bother to look any of this up, apparently:
Underwood: 2 E8, 1 F4
Musselman: 2 E8, 2 S16
Underwood F4 in 2026, Musselman hasn't even made the tournament the last 3 seasons
Underwood: .688
Musselman: .672
Again, something that's trending in opposite directions
Oh, now we suddenly care about stuff like this, since Chris Beard and Will Wade apparently are no longer available...
Yes, he's really setting the world on fire at USC
I see @bavanga3 is no stranger to these types of discussions, though:
Search results for query: beard
www.illinoisloyalty.com
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Correction: Brad 1 E8... maybe he was right about the 2nd weekends... wherever we need to set the goal posts to disparage BU, I guess
Underwood has elevated the Illinois program to a higher competitive tier. I hardly think placing value on recency is being "prisoner of the moment", unless you actually think Brad's a poor D1 basketball coach (only way a comment like that makes any sense).
Would you still take Beard over Underwood?
Underwood has elevated the Illinois program to a higher competitive tier. I hardly think placing value on recency is being "prisoner of the moment", unless you actually think Brad's a poor D1 basketball coach (only way a comment like that makes any sense).
Would you still take Beard over Underwood?
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The vast majority of sports played on earth at any given time are played in front of zero fans. So, the premise that sports only exist for fans or that athletes are just like these implements toiling around on display solely for the enjoyment of strangers is silly.
Would this particular version of this particular sport exist without fans? No. Would there still be college basketball without fans? Yes.
Why? Because sports don't exist because of fans. Fans exist because of sport.
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