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  1. gflore34
    It's already not looking too good for Arkansas vs. Kansas, few rushed 3 pointers, not getting any offensive rebounds. It'll be interesting to see how much that Walsh gets to hand and body check in this game. Although he did get called for four fouls, he easily committed eight the other night.
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    Hell, at least they managed to win one game in the NIT, I'm fairly certain this Illini would have found a way to lose in the first round of the NIT as well.
  3. gflore34
    The Illini can take page out of SDSU' book find a PG in the portal, a PG who's had success at a non-power 5, no more Skyy Clarks. I was really excited for the Illini when they landed Clark, had no idea of the baggage he brings with him. Underwood took a chance and got burned, wonder if he'll take such a chance again. Thus far Harris has already tweeted he's staying, sounds like Goode, Melendez and Rogers are as well, there's also a chance one of Shannon or Hawkins is back after testing NBA waters. Add a PG who can play to that mix and you've got a decent team.
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    Edey scored 21 points doing that. Essentially, they double and triple teamed Edey and allowed everybody else to shoot wide open shots. Not-Edey shot 29% (19% from three) and turned the ball over 16 times, so they lost. We knew Purdue was vulnerable to teams willing to press, I thought it might show up at some point just not the first round.
  5. gflore34
    I’ll give him a pass on this year. Between all the transfers out and back in this team never jelled and was a mishmash of parts that didn’t fit together. I feel like Goode missing half the season really affected their ability to build a successful offense. Add in Clark leaving and he did a pretty decent job of making chicken salad out of chicken horsefeathers. I’ll be a lot more skeptical if there are a bunch of transfers this offseason. This is my take as well. Some of the post game comments from Hawkins, Shannon and RJ were telling. I think a lot were directed towards Mayer. Without a doubt, if Underwood was given another chance, I'm fairly certain he'd pass on both Clark and Mayer.
  6. gflore34
    Also read something to extent of Clark waiting until he collected all NIL monies before announcing his transfer. If true that's pretty slimy but, as I understand it, this kid is surrounded by whole entourage of people. If I had to guess, not all of whom have Clark' best interests in mind.
  7. gflore34
    I’ve thought that too. They’ll also have 2 first round picks with at least one of them hopefully being top 10. But I don’t think Poles is a splashy FA guy in general. Not sure if he’ll ever make the splash you think he makes. I think he is carefully building this thing up and doesn’t necessarily have a timeline in his mind. He absolutely should be trying to win ASAP with Fields on his rookie deal though “At least one hopefully top 10?” It better not be 2. It's possible even an obviously improved Bears team could still draft in the top 10. They may only win 6-8 games, I think that's OK, believe many of us know the rebuild is going to take at least this year's FA and draft along with next year's. Poles should be able to put a markedly improved team on the field this season I think that's all the fans can demand of him.
  8. gflore34
    Underwood has the Illini making the tournament with some consistency but, at some point they've got to do more than lose in the first or second round. With signing an extension don't know if his seat going to start getting warm. However, if things don't get better in the post season within the next few years, I don't think it unreasonable for Illinois to start looking for another coach.
  9. gflore34
    Please extrapolate. Turnover prone, don't take care of the ball - Illini had 7 steals - at times, too much hero ball.
  10. gflore34
    They can jettison Mayer to the Moon right now, if I were Underwood I'd bury him on the bench. I'll bet if you asked Underwood if he's done with this team, you'd get a horsefeathers yeah! He didn’t play the last 12 minutes or so. And they played fairly well without him, should have been sent packing at the half.
  11. gflore34
    Really don't believe Arkansas has much of a chance vs. Kansas while not as low IQ as the Illini. They're not exactly a smart basketball team.
  12. gflore34
    They’re also the only 1 seed to ever lose to a 16. Happened 5 years ago today. Think that was UVA losing to UMBC, interesting side note that same year UMBC lacrosse took down the #1 Albany.
  13. gflore34
    Goodbye and good riddance to this Illini team, we'll see who stays but, really, don't think it matters much who walks.
  14. gflore34
    On script so far. I hate them. They can jettison Mayer to the Moon right now, if I were Underwood I'd bury him on the bench. I'll bet if you asked Underwood if he's done with this team, you'd get a horsefeathers yeah!
  15. gflore34
    Pretty down on this Illini team, such a talented under achieving team, had high hopes this was going to be the one that would finally break the second weekend seal for Underwood. I fully expect them to following script today - get down big early, mount a furious second half comeback and lose by a respectable margin.
  16. gflore34
    We said this last offseason at the same point, then be went DB-DB-KR early in the draft. The way he has absolutely torched the lines on both sides of the ball is concerning He kind of did the same horsefeathers in FA, has a horsefeathers-ton of money to spend, there's fairly good OL and DL options available and what does he do? LB-LB right out of the gate, where are the linemen going to come from, out of thin air, Amazon Prime?
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    With lack of movement by Poles on OL free agents, I have to think, assuming both are available, we're looking at Paris Johnson or Peter Skoronski at #9. Given what I've read, its 80% Johnson, 20% Skoronski maybe, someone here who knows OL play can suggest who'd be a better fit. I was really hoping for JSN at #9, load up on the offensive weapons, but it appears the Bears are pretty much pigeon-holed into OL at #9. Of course, being constrained to the OL means the Bears will be unable to address the DL on day 1, DL/Edge was thought to be the strength of this draft and here we have Poles unable to tap into this resource.
  18. gflore34
    I don't know, I wouldn't trust Rodgers to follow through, he loves the spotlight but, he's also a [expletive], should he struggle, the New York media will not pull any punches. Wonder if that's on his mind.
  19. gflore34
    I'm getting the same vibes, almost every offensive player he's signed or traded for appears, for their position, to be a good run blocker. I loathe the meathead run the ball, defense approach it's woefully outdated, it will not work in today's NFL and its boring as hell. I agree running is important, most especially having a mobile QB - a Mahomes scramble was key to the Chiefs B win - but you've got to throw the ball to win games. It's puzzling to me that Poles, coming from the Chiefs, is going along such a route. weird thing to say when the shanahan stuff (which is essentially what getsy is running) is all the rage. the extreme run-heavy approach to play-calling last year had more to do with a lack of personnel (WRs, OL) on a tank roster than anything (maybe fields learning the offense too). but yes, they need actual dudes on the OL. I meant the MO of using defense to generate TO's, control TOP by running the ball and not scoring much.
  20. gflore34
    I'm getting the same vibes, almost every offensive player he's signed or traded for appears, for their position, to be a good run blocker. I loathe the meathead run the ball, defense approach it's woefully outdated, it will not work in today's NFL and its boring as hell. I agree running is important, most especially having a mobile QB - a Mahomes scramble was key to the Chiefs B win - but you've got to throw the ball to win games. It's puzzling to me that Poles, coming from the Chiefs, is going along such a route.
  21. gflore34
    Say Poles goes with one more big signing in Orlando Brown and a middle tier/value at DL, he could load up on offense at #9 (JSN or Johnston). And look to DL, C and CB with the day 2 picks.
  22. gflore34
    If he's that concerned with value, it will be a multi-year tank. There's not going to be good value in free agency. Yeah that's a problem. I don't mind the strategy to build through the draft and to try to find good value in FA, but he is also making win now moves to some degree, he has a massive amount of money to spend, and he just traded away multiple impact defensive players. He is not going to cobble together an adequate defense or OL on value FA signings and midround draft picks. If I were him I'd suck it up and break the bank for an impact player at a huge position of need and then focus on value signings. He has to, didn't he say something about winning teams having 8-10 impact players? Well, here's his chance to sign one or two.
  23. gflore34
    Thinking this as well but, would really like if they took JSN at 9.
  24. gflore34
    Yea, Idk if I'd pit McGlinchy against Brown, I'd love to see them sign both They kind of have to sign multiple OL's, don't know if it'll be McGlinchy and Brown but, I look for Poles to sign 2 possibly 3.
  25. gflore34
    They will not have to worry about Kansas, Arkansas wins comfortably. Something has got to change, I'd really like to see Underwood replace Mayer in the starting lineup with Epps, Mayer has been terrible lately. In fact, I'd go with a bench rotation of Harris, Goode, Rodgers and Mayer.
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