I wan't jumping down his throat. But hiring Gregg Marshall would be a flat out grand slam. Questioning whether he can recruit big time in Chicago is a question I guess since we have had no head coach here do it, including Self. The 4-5* kids we have gotten out of Chicago are because of recruiting first assistants which I'm sure Marshall would hire. Believe me, Lou Henson wasn't the reason we had a Simeon pipeline. Love Lou, but he was a fish out of water above I-80
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I wan't jumping down his throat. But hiring Gregg Marshall would be a flat out grand slam. Questioning whether he can recruit big time in Chicago is a question I guess since we have had no head coach here do it, including Self. The 4-5* kids we have gotten out of Chicago are because of recruiting first assistants which I'm sure Marshall would hire. Believe me, Lou Henson wasn't the reason we had a Simeon pipeline. Love Lou, but he was a fish out of water above I-80
mattcoldagelli
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Board consensus, March 14 - "Cuonzo just doesn't do it for me - didn't we just have a guy who could recruit but couldn't get results out of the what he reeled in?"
*Mizzou hires Cuonzo March 15*
Board consensus, March 16 - "I just don't know about Gregg Marshall or Tony Bennett. Can those guys recruit Chicago?"
I don't think the heir apparent at UNC is someone who is 54 years old like Marshall.
Virginia fans and alumni are from nowhere near Charlottesville. They're in DC and Atlanta and New York.
MainelyIllini
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Sign me up for Marshall, Bennett or A. Miller. If they all say no, go after Keatts hard.
Just for the record, I'd be happy with Gregg Marshall. What the OP said is a valid point. If you're going to dish out $4-5 million on coach that guy better be able to recruit and coach.
illinipioneer
- Richmond, VA
Precisely
MrOizo
- Chicago
Thanks, Matt. I'm very worried having Cuonzo on our south border. Terrible turn of events. Let's hope the eventual coach is a knockout hire, competition is upping their game.
Well, others can disagree, but I've always thought getting the top guys in-state required one thing: winning. Put together several BIG championships and deep runs in the tourney and those kids actually want to start coming to Illinois. We saw it with Henson, who again was no ace recruiter, that once we had a nice stretch in the 80s the big-time Chicago kids started listening and coming here. We also saw that Self, after success, was about to go crazy in Chicago before he left. Jabari Parker didn't go to Duke because Coach K is a nice guy or a "cultural fit", he went there because there was a good likelihood he would go to the Final 4. Whoever comes here is going to have to win with 3-4* - Bennett and Marshall can do that - and then the floodgates will open
We always could, for the right guy.
$4.8 is a spicy meatball though, that would be top 5.
Gregg Marshall has not "recruited Chicago" and has beat Bill Self who has "recruited Chicago". One game, I know, but he has won consistently enough that it ISN'T AN ISSUE. The guy can coach. Period. If he can take this job and make inroads into Chicago to make it easier for himself there so be it. If he wins here they'll come and play here, jerk or not.
Side note: Jesus as coach would make His successor's mock funerals for Him much, much more difficult - he'd be having one every three days.
Side note: Jesus as coach would make His successor's mock funerals for Him much, much more difficult - he'd be having one every three days.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Okay? The majority of our alumni are from Chicago.
illinipioneer
- Richmond, VA
Speaking as someone who grew up in Virginia, UVA has a rep of being a very elitist school. Couldn't tell you exactly why, but whenever I had to interact with groups from UVA, there is always an added tinge of arrogance. TIFWIW
And how do you think ACC fans thought of is call Groce "JFG?"
or BAM...which was just head-shaking awful
If that's our list then we really can't go wrong
Missouri made a great hire in my opinion. Cuonzo is now set up with Michael Porter Jr who has proven to be a winner everywhere. Can Cuonzo put anyone with him for one year at Missouri? The next year he gets Porter's brother who plays AAU with Gordon (committed to SLU I've heard that's shaky). Then you have Ramey and Ayo as possible PGs in that class. The next year you have Liddell and Hargrove. Not saying he gets all those guys, but he has been put in a position to be successful. It's really great timing for Missouri to hire Cuonzo. It sounds like Illinois has bigger fish to fry though, and I'm pretty excited about who we'll get.
illynifan34
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Well it was founded by Thomas Jefferson.
Yes...sign me up for any of those guys. I would do backflips if it were any of those guys. I think Bennett ends up staying at UVa though.
Lurker here, but long time fan. Wayyy more of a casual fan than most of you here. But a question.
Chicago recruiting has been difficult to say the least for a long time. It seems to me that won't necessarily change any time soon. It also seems that recruiting is becoming more national and less localized. There are only so many resources a program can throw at recruiting no matter who you are. Some buckets are bigger, but still. So would it make sense to basically just quit worrying about Chicago, since we aren't very successful anyway, and utilize those resources in other areas?
They shouldn't think of us as bumpkins either way, right, but nor should we think of them as bumpkins. Their four years in C'Ville was the only time any of them left Silver Spoon City.
Ramey is already committed to Louisville.
There is no doubt that Martin can recruit, and I wish he had stayed at Cal. However, he has had great talent before and not done much with it.
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