Zacharie Perrin has left the Illinois program

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BretMyBeachHouse

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illiniballknower said:
Not sure that it's the new normal. But interestingly enough, two of Perrin's French Jr. National teammates signed with Wash. St. last summer and were freshman this year. One of them left the team in early December, went back to France, signed with an agency a couple weeks later, and is now finishing out the season playing for a professional French team, which looks like the exact route that Perrin is taking with him signing with an agency today. Skyy and Perrin's situations were pretty different, so I don't think (at least I hope) the trend of multiple players leaving midseason will continue.
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Well, you Dainja kinda did as well.

That's some kind of miserable to give up a whole season of hoops.
 
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Who cares, those of you who have time for 3 paragraphs of dribble get a life! Stay on topic. Coach Underwood will be here as long as he wants to be here. He's got 2 titles in 3 years. Our players do not get $1 million for wearing a Car dealerships logo on a tee shirt, Aka Alabama. If you knew what some of these schools are actually paying these 18 yr.ur head would explode. Coach and staff are over performing! My 1 paragraph. 😆 goodness go to work some of you people please 🙏
 
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Heisenbobble

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bergd91 said:
Who cares, those of you who have time for 3 paragraphs of dribble get a life! Stay on topic. Coach Underwood will be here as long as he wants to be here. He's got 2 titles in 3 years. Our players do not get $1 million for wearing a Car dealerships logo on a tee shirt, Aka Alabama. If you knew what some of these schools are actually paying these 18 yr.ur head would explode. Coach and staff are over performing! My 1 paragraph. 😆 goodness go to work some of you people please 🙏
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destindog

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Monticello said:
I won't dissect Brad Underwood's coaching style or philosophy in this thread. Every student-athlete will react in their own way to a system. I'm assuming recruits talk to other players (including those who transferred out) and get a pretty good read on what they're walking into. I do tire of the constant re-arranging of the roster and staff. We're on year six with Coach U, and we've replaced the top three coaches (with three very excellent coaches).

Also, Coach Underwood has yet to graduate a single one of HIS recruits (except for his son, I guess, although he transferred in as well). They have all turned pro (Black, Ayo, Kofi, kind of Hutch I think) transferred, or are still on the roster. I loved that Trent and Da'Monte showed a ton of passion and stayed on for so long, but I really don't like the idea of a new starting five year in and year out if we're not making it past the first weekend.

(And before you say every school does this)

Illinois has now had 22 players transfer or turn pro in BU's tenure:
Te'Jon Lucas/Leron Black/Michael Finke/Mark Smith/Greg Eboigod/Matic Vesel/Samba Kane/Georgi Bezshonisvili/Ayo Dosunmu/Tevian Jones/Alan Griffin/Jermaine Hamlin/Kofi Cockburn/Austin Hutcherson/Ben Verdonk/Jacob Grandison/Adam Miller/Andre Curbelo/Omar Payne/Brandon Podzinski/Zach Perrine/Skyy Clark

Purdue has had 3 during this time including a top 5 pick:
Emmanuel Duwuona/Isiah Thompson/Jaden Ivey

Kansas has had 8 plus one player die (six transfers)
Quentin Grimes/Devin Dotson/Garrit Luinsta/Tristin Enaruna/Christian Braun/Isaac McBride/Bryce Thompson/Tyon Foster/

I'm too lazy to look at the rest of the NCAA (I'm sure someone could find a website dedicated to this sort of thing) but there are two teams with a lot of success without losing a lot of players year in and year out.

I enjoy Illini basketball, but I would much rather have consistency in the roster and be building a team rather than working piecemeal year in and year out.
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I beleive Jacob Grandison graduated
 
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Illini in Italy

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What y'all haven't figured out is that Zach just could not deal with the coffee and croissants here in the US. Have you tasted the crap served here? 🤪
 
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FrankNitty30

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Illinirog70 said:
It's no wonder that he left.

Last summer he played semi-pro basketball at Antibes on the Cote d'azur on the gold coast of France. Then he heads to the plains of Kansas (!) for a temporary fall stay and on to U of Ill for WINTER and Coach Underwood yelling, chewing out guys at practice, and hard study in school. All in a foreign language!
I can imagine that if anyone from France contacted him to come back and play basketball he'd be gone in a flash.

Here's the worrisome part. Who is counseling these young "sensitive" guys Like Skyy and Zak when they run into rough patches? I'm surprised that they just "up and left" almost before anyone knew. The pressure and tension they feel must be bled off before it arrives at a separation.

I know college life is HARD with studies and basketball, and Coach is not an easy guy to play for. And then to practice hard and then sit on the bench all game, we might ALL begin to wonder if its worth it and be tempted to bail.

In the big picture, when you bring in 7-8 new guys its hard for them all to meld together. Skyy may have been driven off by the team, but Zak slunk off to fairer shores.
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Then they are not cut out to play high major basketball.
 
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altgeld88

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IlliniCaboose said:
It's only spelled "Champaign" if it's from the East Central region of Illinois. Otherwise it's just sparkling wine.
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Well done there ;)

Not to get all pedantic (oh, who am I kidding?!) but I believe that "champaign" is a corruption of "campagne", which means "plain" (as in "flat land") or "countryside" in French.

I also recall that the settlers of C-U migrated from Champaign County, Ohio, the seat of which is Urbana. FWIW.

(Someone please insert here the Wayne's World GIF of Alice Cooper explaining the Algonquin origins of the name "Milwaukee.")

Carry on.
 
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Bacon Butkus Swanson

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illini0440 said:
Last night was the first time we’ve been out of sorts defensively in the last 12 games. We’re top 25 defensively.
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The problem is this team has looked out of sorts offensively in every game this year. (at times) We all know that's not gonna fly in March. The Boys need to play top 10 type defense to have any chance to go second weekend in the tourney. Sadly, I wouldn't bet Bret's beach house on them.
 
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