Except for the times when you know, we did have an advantage with kids. Say Ayo, Nick Anderson, Lowell Hamilton. And too many others to list. Or did manage to lure the hot coach. Bill Self. Or Lon Kruger who had coached a football school to a Final Four.
Oh, so do we have some advantages in certain cases?
Damn, I definitely should've mentioned that in my post.
You're confusing me saying "it's not some obvious given thing that because We're Illinois that an Illinois kid wants to come here, or the top coaching target (or in this case a dude who isn't even really a coaching target because he's a HOFer at a blue blood with a lifetime contract) is interested" with me saying "we have no chance at getting a good recruit or a good coach". I've never said or even implied the thing you're trying to hold me to, but if it weren't for just making something up that you think I believe and arguing against that instead of the words I actually type you wouldn't have anything to add.
I
will say, we have zero chance of Self coming back to coach at Illinois and any "just send a text" thought from Whitman is the most grasping-at-straws wishful thinking I've ever heard of. Anyone who posted "Illinois should text Bill Self, see if he's interested in coming back" anywhere other than an Illini fan board is going to get laughed at way more than you were.
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