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  1. XZero771679666304
    Oooh, a Morrisey piece. I'm sure Rosenbloom will be next. Yeah, that'll show all the Weber haterz who was really in the wrong. Come off it.
  2. XZero771679666304
    On a semi-related note, there are some real rocket scientists over at the Illini Scout board. Jebus.
  3. XZero771679666304
    IIRC, there are rumblings that Miller has been at odds with the AD and his family wants to return to the midwest. I could be wrong and even if it isn't, it's a fool's hope, really.
  4. XZero771679666304
    Sean Miller would be better than Shaka. Buzz would be great as well. Theus wouldn't be bad. But you left out Chris Collins, who is awfully "meh", but who I think is a distinct possibility.
  5. XZero771679666304
    Because he's not going to be coaching another 15 years? (or even 10). I think the M.O. in Champaign is to build something lasting, not to set up another transition.
  6. XZero771679666304
    if it's a pc at vcu, then it's over. he's staying. Yep that's the feeling get too. I can't believe he turned our job down. This is all on Mike Thomas. This is ridiculous. What more could he have done? Kidnapped and brainwashed him? Blackmail? The reported offer was probably too much as it was. If what Shaka was offered wasn't enough to pry him away, nothing within reason was going to be. Oh wait, it was because MT terrorized and victimized BAM, isn't it? Hell, Sumlin probably didn't take the football job because he had a precognitive vision of MT's upcoming tyranny, amirite? And this isn't the Illinois football program. If MT sets his sights on a top tier BB coaching candidate, he'll get one.
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    Starting? That'd be awesome. Let's make that happen.
  8. XZero771679666304
    That's going to be hard to turn down.
  9. XZero771679666304
    To say he failed at the football hire when it's 3 months into the hire and not a single recruit has played nor a game has been played yet is a clear indication that your expectations are significantly out of whack. They offered good money to their #1 football candidate and he turned it down. If they offer good money to Smart and he turns it down, how is that the AD's fault again? It is his job to sell top tier candidates on Illinois. There's more to this than money. No one wants to work for a boss that hangs them out to dry for a month. He did Weber dirty, and the entire coaching community saw it. Like I said earlier any idiot could have fired Zook, Weber and Law, but it takes a good leader, manager, and recruiter to bring in talent. I don't see how Weber was "done dirty". Thomas declined to give him a empty, false endorsement when he didn't deserve one. Frankly, hearing "Bruce is our guy" and then being fired would be worse, imo. Is every coach/manager who is on the hot seat and not given a lame endorsement being done dirty? I liked BAM as a person, but he wasn't wronged.
  10. XZero771679666304
    There is some of that going around, but I'm not buying it yet. I think there is probably some negotiating going on here. Reportedly Shaka has some reservations about being able to recruit Chicago, but he's got a ready-made remedy to that problem (Jerrance Howard) waiting in Champaign. Shaka is appealing to me, but I'm not invested in him being hired, either. If these rumors are true, I'd be just as happy with Grant or Williams.
  11. XZero771679666304
    Why in god's name would they detail that sort of thing publicly? What good would possibly come of it? From the post you are quoting. You had to have snipped this part directly to leave the rest in the quote box. You said you wouldn't expect them to "lay out their every thought", which is a painfully obvious thing to say. Going on about how you're annoyed that we're not being clued into their ranking of the back of the rotation candidates seems to indicate you don't think it should be top secret information. I'd like it if we had a mic in Theo and Jed's offices, but I'm not "annoyed" that we don't. It should be implicit that we all want to know what's going on behind the scenes. Whining about it is inane.
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    Why in god's name would they detail that sort of thing publicly? What good would possibly come of it?
  13. XZero771679666304
    Dolis was all over the place. If the Rangers had taken any pitches, he'd have been in trouble. Most of his offerings missed very low and few were near the zone.
  14. XZero771679666304
    Volstad looked pretty good again, though he got away with a few hanging breaking balls.
  15. XZero771679666304
    abuck is generally insufferable, but ISU has been treated like the red-headed stepchild in Iowa for a long time. I totally get the angst, and also enjoy that ISU is better than Iowa since I know that it needles Hawkeye fans. ISU is also my sleeper final four pick (in one of my brackets, anyway).
  16. XZero771679666304
    UConn is being exposed.
  17. XZero771679666304
    Predicting the Cards is difficult. Beltran is no slouch, but he's a huge injury risk. Berkman is an injury risk. Both have had inconsistent performance when healthy in recent years. Wainwright is returning from injury. Carpenter is another huge injury risk. The STL pen looked good in the second half last year, but it's far from proven. There are many more variables with the Cardinals than most other teams, and they're a high risk, high reward team right now. They could easily win 95, but they could easily be right at or under .500 as well. Predicting them at 87-88 is a safe range, imo.
  18. XZero771679666304
    I really hope Spring Training performance has virtually nothing to do with their decisions. Well that's a faint hope. Ideally you'd like that, but with this many arms competing for 1-2 spots, I'm not sure how you could expect ST performance wouldn't have some bearing. Maybe not the numbers, but how they're throwing for sure. My hope would be that they already have their five in mind, and the other couple of guys are only there in case someone gets hurt or comes out throwing completely different stuff than they have in the past (gained/lost velocity or something). I'm not sure how easy it would be to make 1-2 clear cut picks out of Shark/Volstad/Wells/Wood at this point, though I'm sure they have their preferences. Guys like Sonnanstine and Lopez are obvious injury depth, but how ST plays out for the previously mentioned four has to be weighed to some degree, imo.
  19. XZero771679666304
    I really hope Spring Training performance has virtually nothing to do with their decisions. Well that's a faint hope. Ideally you'd like that, but with this many arms competing for 1-2 spots, I'm not sure how you could expect ST performance wouldn't have some bearing. Maybe not the numbers, but how they're throwing for sure.
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    It's too early to make an accurate prediction about what the back end is going to look like. ST performance is going to sort a lot of this out. There's a lot of smoke with Shark, but it's still early.
  21. XZero771679666304
    It's okay if you want to watch the Cubs play before you come back to reality. Well we can't all be disciplined realists, B2B.
  22. XZero771679666304
    I've known how to pronounce Szczur's name since the day he was drafted and half of the draft reports I read told me it was pronounced "Caesar".
  23. XZero771679666304
    I don't hope Carp is hurt because I think it means anything to the Cubs, I want him to be hurt because he's a [expletive] dick and he deserves it.
  24. XZero771679666304
    Not surprising. Outside of Leonard (probably) we won't see any attrition, imo. Keeping Snacks is the key, and he appears inclined to stay.
  25. XZero771679666304
    WSR is way too busy posting 100+ times a day to read things that others post WSR is purge only. I'm pretty sure he is incapable of processing input.
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