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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: Dominic on March 26, 2022, 08:35:56 AM
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https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/community-events/annual-kiwanis-illini-basketball-banquet-canceled/article_0015a813-5f4a-5a8e-9801-f230036e4568.html
So the Big 10 Champs are cancelling their annual end of season basketball banquet because they couldn’t be sure players would show up?
😂😂😂…
You could go at this from a few angles. One, with NIL the players won’t show up unless they are paid so they have to cancel it. Or two, there is such bad chemistry and mass transfers coming that it wouldn’t make sense to have one.
Both look bad. So Illinois.
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Really bad optics for the university and the program either way, regardless of explanation.
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Really bad optics for the university and the program either way, regardless of explanation.
Yeah, but everything is fine and the squad is on the right trajectory. Based on what I hear.
Though I wonder if this will become a thing in the NIL world.
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Yeah, but everything is fine and the squad is on the right trajectory. Based on what I hear.
Though I wonder if this will become a thing in the NIL world.
Someone said Kofi won’t make public appearances unless paid 75,000.
This is a charity event, and most pro athletes don’t even charge for charity events when going to them or giving away memorabilia to be auctioned off.
It’s not a good look when any sports team pisses on the booster club. Especially with NIL where presumably these people are the biggest donors and thus will directly/indirectly pay these guys.
They had 98 straight annual banquets till Covid hit
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Someone said Kofi won’t make public appearances unless paid 75,000.
This is a charity event, and most pro athletes don’t even charge for charity events when going to them or giving away memorabilia to be auctioned off.
It’s not a good look when any sports team pisses on the booster club. Especially with NIL where presumably these people are the biggest donors and thus will directly/indirectly pay these guys.
They had 98 straight annual banquets till Covid hit
They stated they will make up the event before the beginning of next season. They just don’t know who all will be on the roster. Makes sense.
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I'm sure all the blue hairs and ECI big wigs will get over it
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Someone said Kofi won’t make public appearances unless paid 75,000.
This is a charity event, and most pro athletes don’t even charge for charity events when going to them or giving away memorabilia to be auctioned off.
It’s not a good look when any sports team pisses on the booster club. Especially with NIL where presumably these people are the biggest donors and thus will directly/indirectly pay these guys.
They had 98 straight annual banquets till Covid hit
These are not "pro" athletes who, one would think, still get all their personal expenses paid for charity events.
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I'm sure all the blue hairs and ECI big wigs will get over it
Not Dominic.
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It can't be that hard to get the players to show up.
Hey, guys. April 11th.
Save the date.
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They stated they will make up the event before the beginning of next season. They just don’t know who all will be on the roster. Makes sense.
They doesn’t make any sense. The banquet is to celebrate the prior season. It doesn’t matter who is on the roster next year.
They aren’t going to make up anything .
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They doesn’t make any sense. The banquet is to celebrate the prior season. It doesn’t matter who is on the roster next year.
They aren’t going to make up anything .
Did you even read the article?! 😂🙄
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Did you even read the article?! 😂🙄
Yeah. It was a piss poor attempt to save face when this is an embarrassment for all involved.
Tickets already sold to an event that had taken place 98 years in a row…cancelled due to players not showing up.
Not even that pissant homer Sparky could defend this
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Yeah. It was a piss poor attempt to save face when this is an embarrassment for all involved.
Tickets already sold to an event that had taken place 98 years in a row…cancelled due to players not showing up.
Not even that pissant homer Sparky could defend this
Dude, it is JudgeJerkoff. He is an actual imbecile.
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Dude, it is JudgeJerkoff. He is an actual imbecile.
Some more trolling from our resident troll.
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There is no I in team, but there is an I in Kofi.