He’s a halfway decent back. Clearly not a long-term answer though. He’d be a solid backup. A bit surprised Herbert, Foreman, Homer would be the RB room. All worthy of a roster spot but I’d hope for a bigger hitter in the group. I wouldn’t rule out Herbert getting traded.

Temp0 is a big Homer fan.

lol and yet you were saying how much better Mayer was than Grandison.  Just shut up

At one point during the game, the guy Nichi likes -- primarily because he was a 5-star recruit, and Nichi is one of the many who are too dumb to look beyond that -- threw a pass right to Illinois in transition. Then he tried to drive the lane and was rejected.

Not long after that, he threw a pass that would have gone out of bounds, but his teammates -- likely used to his poor passing, despite what dimwit Nichi believes -- anticipated this and bailed him out.

Again, pretty much whatever Nichi concludes about the game is wrong.

Barkley thought TAM was going to run away with this.

He was being a good corporate shill. He claimed the SEC didn't get the respect it should have.

We're in the tournament for the 3rd straight year. De facto 4th straight year. That's a level of regular success we haven't had since Bill Self's last recruits left campus. So let's be real, right now he's not on the hot seat and shouldn't be.

The tournament record is abysmal and the personnel management is suspect. This year's B1G play without Ayo or Kofi was a Groce-plus. I think it's going to take two years to get him on a hot seat with Bro Guenther as the AD, and I don't think Brad takes another job in the meantime with K-State in a good poition, Texas having a better candidate, etc. At this point I think the most likely scenario is that he retires from Illinois to a calmer life. He's roughly the same age as Jay Wright, and he's coming across as an advertisement to happy post-coaching life. Gets closer to 65 I could see him saying no more of this as most guys in their 60s do.

This is the path to Rutgers/Nebraska-level program performance.

If the Big Ten teams lose to more of these shitty SEC teams, and we have to listen to the same stupid crap as during football ...

Very optimistic way to look at it. If not for our seniors and transfers having the bulk of production.

The transfers were morons. The alleged star freshman point guard is a head case. Coleman Hawkins is worse than last year.

"ILL -- Foul on Coleman Hawkins."