TrippieRedd
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You must be mistaken. Basilly-o apparently gets the scoop from any and everyone on the hill. He knows before Barnes does.I don't think the staff has put all their eggs in one basket.
Carr didn't enroll until July 12th.
Awaka didn't commit until May 17th and wasn't enrolled until July 1st.
DJ Jefferson didn't commit until May 20th, and wasn't enrolled until July 1st.
BJ Edwards didn't enroll until July 1st.
Julian Phillips didn't commit until May 12th, and wasn't enrolled until July 1st.
ZZ commits August 27th and enrolls August 31st, didn't miss a game in year 1 either.
Lanier isn't the last addition this class, the staff is just doing a very good job of keeping things from leaking.
So does everyone think we land Chaz?
I will say this, if someone had me on a 2.5 hour zoom call there is zero chance I’d even consider them. That sounds like torture.
Yes. One of the best teachers as coach, who also seems like an outstanding man and trustworthy. Barnes will teach you, he will be direct and honest with you, and he is proven to put a winning team together. If what some of the posters here have said about Lanier is true, then everything points to him being on this team next season.So does everyone think we land Chaz?
It is for these very reasons that Igor is now a VolYes. One of the best teachers as coach, who also seems like an outstanding man and trustworthy. Barnes will teach you, he will be direct and honest with you, and he is proven to put a winning team together. If what some of the posters here have said about Lanier is true, then everything points to him being on this team next season.
Most of the Illinois fans think he is a traditional PG that lacks athleticism and strength. Says he’s a good shooter, decent handle, and plays with nice pace and creativity.
Most of them think he should transfer down to a lower conference.
From what I read, he seems like a Vescovi
We are all well aware of your affinity for the good 'ol days where no players (or their parents, coaches, etc...) were ever corrupted with money and the players were held captive as indentured servants with very few rights as University Presidents and sports media clutched at their pearls about the sanctity of the "student athlete" all while enriching themselves hundreds of times over to what the players ever rec'd.Makes sense. The sport has got crazy and stupid and corrupt. Everybody buying four new players every year, sometimes more. NIL
is to blame. Original concept of NIL was fine, but that's not what we've got. The irony is that no decent player stays at a program long
enough for legit NIL to kick in. Who's going to buy merch for one-and-done's? Maybe a small number of crazy fans---but NIL is now
just a cover to buy players, as we see. And it's making a mockery of high-school recruiting. You go to all the trouble to recruit a kid
and, as Cal says, develop a kid--and he's going to leave after a year, two at most, either because he's not playing enough or because
he can get money elsewhere. The pros don't operate in this idiotic manner.
That has long been my concern. But then I go back to watch his game highlights, and he makes just enough facilitating plays that give you hope that he could maybe do it if he focused solely on being a facilitator rather than the primary option. He is definitely a combo guard rather than a pure PG though.I’m just not sure Boswell is really a PG.
If Barnes thinks he can be his PG in 25-26, I’ll trust Barnes. The man knows PGs. But I don’t know that Barnes thinks that.That has long been my concern. But then I go back to watch his game highlights, and he makes just enough facilitating plays that give you hope that he could maybe do it if he focused solely on being a facilitator rather than the primary option. He is definitely a combo guard rather than a pure PG though.
We are all well aware of your affinity for the good 'ol days where no players (or their parents, coaches, etc...) were ever corrupted with money and the players were held captive as indentured servants with very few rights as University Presidents and sports media clutched at their pearls about the sanctity of the "student athlete" all while enriching themselves hundreds of times over to what the players ever rec'd.
LMAO
You can stop gaslighting us now.
I'm no talent scout, but in the videos I've seen, I don't see the handle or the quickness for the point. Square peg, round hole to my eyeThat has long been my concern. But then I go back to watch his game highlights, and he makes just enough facilitating plays that give you hope that he could maybe do it if he focused solely on being a facilitator rather than the primary option. He is definitely a combo guard rather than a pure PG though.