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Lon Kruger to Nat'l College Basketball HOF
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<blockquote data-quote="BretMyBeachHouse" data-source="post: 1779038" data-attributes="member: 747827"><p>Plenty of problems with this post.</p><p></p><p>First, having us ranked midseason to me is pretty much irrelevant. I care about whether we finished the season ranked. So I'd change those numbers.</p><p></p><p>Kruger had a nice sprint with us, but I highly doubt he'd have kept us going in the direction that Self pointed us. He got the Peoria guys and Cook from Lincoln, but really outside of that his recruiting was pretty mediocre. I don't want to totally dismiss downstate recruiting, but in my mind if you're going to be considered a top recruiter at Illinois you need to demonstrate that you can grab guys from outside of downstate. Kruger never did that.</p><p></p><p>Kruger also blew one of the best opportunities we had in the tournament when we lost the UT-Chattanooga game.</p><p></p><p>Henson certainly had his disappointments, but to place Kruger, Weber, and Self ahead of him is to fail to recognize where he started from as well as the extraordinary forces trying to stop him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BretMyBeachHouse, post: 1779038, member: 747827"] Plenty of problems with this post. First, having us ranked midseason to me is pretty much irrelevant. I care about whether we finished the season ranked. So I'd change those numbers. Kruger had a nice sprint with us, but I highly doubt he'd have kept us going in the direction that Self pointed us. He got the Peoria guys and Cook from Lincoln, but really outside of that his recruiting was pretty mediocre. I don't want to totally dismiss downstate recruiting, but in my mind if you're going to be considered a top recruiter at Illinois you need to demonstrate that you can grab guys from outside of downstate. Kruger never did that. Kruger also blew one of the best opportunities we had in the tournament when we lost the UT-Chattanooga game. Henson certainly had his disappointments, but to place Kruger, Weber, and Self ahead of him is to fail to recognize where he started from as well as the extraordinary forces trying to stop him. [/QUOTE]
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