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Dominic

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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1575 on: May 04, 2023, 05:33:17 PM »
Losing a kid from Bloomington,who Illinois was among his first offers, is quite pathetic.

Although the homers will say he’s just being a good Catholic

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« Reply #1576 on: May 04, 2023, 06:11:09 PM »
Zero doubt in my mind that if he'd picked us you'd be trashing him right this second.

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« Reply #1577 on: May 04, 2023, 06:18:44 PM »
Insiders were not high on Certa at all. I have no idea how hard Illinois recruited him. I suppose they would have accepted a commitment. It sounds like they advised him to take his time and make an informed decision.

Alexander was the lead recruiter. They need to promote him to one of those new practice coach jobs and hire another recruiter.
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« Reply #1578 on: May 04, 2023, 06:22:50 PM »
ND is a good fit with Shrewsberry.
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« Reply #1579 on: May 04, 2023, 07:06:27 PM »
13.1.1.3 Four-Year College Prospective Student-Athletes. An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution's athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written permission of the first institution's athletics director (or an athletics administrator designated by the athletics director) to do so, regardless of who makes the initial contact. If permission is not granted, the second institution shall not encourage the transfer and the institution shall not provide athletically related financial assistance to the student-athlete until the student-athlete has attended the second institution for one academic year. If permission is granted to contact the student-athlete, all applicable NCAA recruiting rules apply. If an institution receives a written request from a student-athlete to permit another institution to contact the student-athlete about transferring, the institution shall grant or deny the request within seven business days (see Bylaw 13.02.1) of receipt of the request. If the institution fails to respond to the student-athlete's written request within seven business days, permission shall be granted by default and the institution shall provide written permission to the student-athlete. [D] (Revised: 1/10/91, 1/16/93, 1/11/94, 4/26/01, 4/29/04 effective 8/1/04, 4/29/10 effective 8/1/10, 10/30/14)
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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1580 on: May 04, 2023, 09:25:13 PM »
Zero doubt in my mind that if he'd picked us you'd be trashing him right this second.

On one hand, if you are left recruiting 3 stars that’s sad. And if the 3 stars don’t even want to play for you, it’s even worse

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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1581 on: May 04, 2023, 09:26:45 PM »
Insiders were not high on Certa at all. I have no idea how hard Illinois recruited him. I suppose they would have accepted a commitment. It sounds like they advised him to take his time and make an informed decision.

Alexander was the lead recruiter. They need to promote him to one of those new practice coach jobs and hire another recruiter.

“every player that goes elsewhere Illinois doesn’t really want.”

Shut the fuck up. All we heard is Underwood is prioritizing shooting.  Bc this team couldn’t hit water if it fell out of a boat.

Stop listening to “insiders”.  They know Jack shit. Nothing.  They are just apologists for every program.

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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1582 on: May 04, 2023, 10:08:09 PM »
“every player that goes elsewhere Illinois doesn’t really want.”

Shut the fuck up. All we heard is Underwood is prioritizing shooting.  Bc this team couldn’t hit water if it fell out of a boat.

Stop listening to “insiders”.  They know Jack shit. Nothing.  They are just apologists for every program.

What dumpster did you get dinner from tonight?

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« Reply #1583 on: May 04, 2023, 10:11:51 PM »
If Cole Certa were coming to Illinois; legend in his own mind would be calling him a reach and saying Underwood is desperate.

I have no idea if he had a committable offer from Underwood or not.

I do know  those who saw him play in person were skeptical, especially about his defense.

Having seen only a few video clips, I have no opinion. He sounds  kind of like a shorter, less athletic version of Goode.

If all he can do is catch and shoot deep threes, he could be a good fit for Micha Shrewsberry
 
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« Reply #1584 on: May 05, 2023, 07:28:35 AM »
On one hand, if you are left recruiting 3 stars that’s sad. And if the 3 stars don’t even want to play for you, it’s even worse

While I appreciate that you’re willing to acknowledge how stupid your “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” mindset is, I’d appreciate it even more if you just shut the fuck up.

There have been reports for months that we weren’t recruiting him very hard, which I’m sure you’ll pretend is false so you can keep acting like a dipshit.

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spark mandrill

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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1585 on: May 05, 2023, 07:31:23 AM »
“every player that goes elsewhere Illinois doesn’t really want.”

Shut the fuck up. All we heard is Underwood is prioritizing shooting.  Bc this team couldn’t hit water if it fell out of a boat.

Stop listening to “insiders”.  They know Jack shit. Nothing.  They are just apologists for every program.

Literally zero people care about your opinion of Cole Certa or your blind guess as to how hard we were recruiting him.  Zero people in the world.

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« Reply #1586 on: May 05, 2023, 09:11:13 AM »
Literally zero people care about your opinion of Cole Certa or your blind guess as to how hard we were recruiting him.  Zero people in the world.

You got 25 days left.  Then your ass is gone.

See ya!

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« Reply #1587 on: May 05, 2023, 09:12:47 AM »
I'm excited for the day Shannon announces his return and you pretend you won the bet.  Those are always funny.

I'm a grown up so yeah, I'll leave if Shannon leaves.  It's just pathetic that you've been doing all this shit talking about a bet you never in a million years would honor, because you're a huge pussy.

I suppose when nobody in the entire world gives one single shit about you at all, you gotta latch onto whatever sad hope you have.

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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1588 on: May 05, 2023, 09:23:37 AM »
I'm excited for the day Shannon announces his return and you pretend you won the bet.  Those are always funny.

I'm a grown up so yeah, I'll leave if Shannon leaves.  It's just pathetic that you've been doing all this shit talking about a bet you never in a million years would honor, because you're a huge pussy.

I suppose when nobody in the entire world gives one single shit about you at all, you gotta latch onto whatever sad hope you have.

You’ll just go back to the Scout board and claim Underwood is doing a great job after he starts 4 one year Grad Transfers on a bottom of the Big 10 conference team. 

I’m sure you’ll be super hyped to watch this random team of scrubs:

PG- Dennis
SG- Harmon
SF- Domask
PF- Guerrier
C- Dainja

😂

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Re: Recruiting
« Reply #1589 on: May 05, 2023, 09:50:33 AM »
Hey NIT Pedophile.

STFU.

Go clean out the puke and piss in your Ubermobile from last night's drunk pickups.

Getting nice and warm down in hillbilly fcktard central. I bet that 1989 Ford Taurus you drive smells great.

And I hope you don't lose too much sleep about ending up chopped up and in a garbage bag from the wrong fare.

Have a nice day asshole.