JFGsCoffeeMug
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Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal
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Is that Snake Juice? We will need to check how you've progressed later this evening.
UCLA should be pretty tough as well.
Yeah they'll be right there. Everyone returning plus Myles Johnson.
Anyone else noticing they have a medically necessary need for pharmacological intervention for OCD - currently resulting in constantly refreshing this thread awaiting “the announcement”?
sacraig
- The desert
At least 25,000 of those are me.
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
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The men's basketball turnaround that BU and JW have helped orchestrate has been magnificent. Zero complaints.
sacraig
- The desert
I'd have preferred a slightly less depressing first two years, ideally. But if that house cleaning was a necessary step to righting the ship as squarely as we have, then it's totally worth it.
Homecoming 2019
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With that level of viewership and ad revenue we should have been able pay Kofi to make his announcement on IllinoisLoyaltyLive.
I am pretty well set to see the end of our off-season of discontent.
Bring back the King!
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
16 days, $31K+ views/day. And still counting.....
altgeld88
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I am pretty well set to see the end of our off-season of discontent.
Bring back the King!
Not cynical. Yet.. But certainly skeptical at all times.uofi7477
- Silver & Gold Vandals
Will be better than last year.
Not raggin on you—I hate the corporate “watermarks” making their way into gifs.
sacraig
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Well it's a clip from an Uber Eats commercial, so...
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No doubt. Just look at who left and who we add.
we should breeze through non conference but b10 will be a meat grinder especially since some mediocre teams got better
I wonder if even Underwood was surprised at the overwhelming lack of talent he was given to work with when he arrived at a Big Ten state school.
I definitely understood the first two terrible years and was patient. Season 3 was huge b/c you could see Brad's moves come to fruition.
I don’t think we can refer to Omar Payne as OP on a message board without causing considerable confusion.
If I had any talent I'd put the block I over Baldwin and an UK over Lemon, and of course have it say "Put that Kofi down"
sacraig
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I wouldn't necessarily say lack of talent. We were probably below average there but not bottom of the barrel. I think a bigger issue was lack of discipline and culture. We weren't a Big Ten Championship caliber roster (nowhere close) but we were better (on paper) than the records we produced. Coaching matters.
I agree with you for the most part. I think that, when the NBA didn't pan out the way he wanted, he, or someone close to him, said he should look at UK. That's where OA is, and it's, arguably, a higher-profile program than Illinois. He, or someone, thought he would get more exposure there, which would help him with the NBA, and he would be around a couple of familiar coaches. If what we've read is true, OA discouraged him from transferring, knowing that he will be an All American here, his NIL money will be much higher than at UK, and that Tim Anderson is the guy to prepare him for the NBA. We'll never know when he actually made the decision to come back (if he does), but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the hype of the past few weeks has been solely for the purpose of amping up his profile locally and nationally to make him a marketing juggernaut. Let's hope he can focus on basketball with everything else going on around him.
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