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i totally got that racist thread locked.
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That or it was a fake conference to hunt out a leak within the AD's office. Either way, I imagine this is official by Thursday at the latest. this is what i've heard, too
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the earth is going to open up and swallow you very soon. or maybe the children of the corn will shoot you up into the sky.
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it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.
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but, he's young, he seems to be a recruiter, he's pulled out a highly-rated (for a mid-major) chicago kid before. he may have agreed to allow jerrance to remain on and robert smith to come in as an assistant. i'm not a huge believer in the "cabal-of-recruiters" approach, but if it will help us keep james and hill, add parker and schilling, and keep the guys who are there now, he could do at illinois what matta did at ohio state. that will be a strtech, though.
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i'm just going to pretend that he's chris mack
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and would make a lot of sense.
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check that, it looks like the new women's coach. EDIT: nope, men's coach
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press conference for 3 pm today. looks like groce.
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they would absolutely pack the y
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yeah, especially when bruce weber own you
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sad times, i was hoping for it. maybe weber will get the ksu job. that would make sense.
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Have there been any rumors that Smith would be an assistant (outside of fan speculation)? I would love it if it happened. I just thought that he put his name into the ring for the HC job. a guy on the scout board claims knowledge of the situation. take that fwiw
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so what's the prognosis? is marshall going to get suspended or is this going to fade away?
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if robert smith comes and groce is ok with him being named as the first assistant, i'm cool with that and will likely change my stance on groce.
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duh
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why would anyone from anywhere? the advantage illinois has is that it has access to illinois recruits that schools that aren't the blue-bloods don't. the question that you really want to ask is why would a top illinois recruit go out of state to a school that isn't a blue-blood? furthermore, illinois was (is?) in on jabari parker because the coaches have been in on him since the beginning. the advantage here is that the coaches can build relationships with potential recruits at a younger age. that's an advantage that not even duke has. hearing parker talk, the kid has some loyalty to the state, as well. why do you need to be the coach at the in-state school to be able to build relationships with those kids at an early age? Couldn't any coach do that just as easily? they could, but not just as easily. bill self isn't going to waste his time recruiting some kid in 8th grade when he can swoop in and get another kid, just as talented, from another state in 12th grade. he's got a dump truck and a wizard, why would he need to have dinner with some family in joliet if he's not even sure that kid will be playing at a high level in 4 years? the illini can do these things.
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why would anyone from anywhere? the advantage illinois has is that it has access to illinois recruits that schools that aren't the blue-bloods don't. the question that you really want to ask is why would a top illinois recruit go out of state to a school that isn't a blue-blood? furthermore, illinois was (is?) in on jabari parker because the coaches have been in on him since the beginning. the advantage here is that the coaches can build relationships with potential recruits at a younger age. that's an advantage that not even duke has. hearing parker talk, the kid has some loyalty to the state, as well.
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i prefer this moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieVH0s9shQ
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wisconsin is propped up by bo's system. it's a solid job, but will never recruit on the elite level necessary to compete for national titles. msu gets the same-type kids, but again, they are a school that is largely contingent upon their current coach. they aren't dangerous as a national recruiter, either, which keeps them in the second-tier nationally, with illinois.
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those guys are all at 50 or pushing 50. groce is 40, which gives him a huge advantage.
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we're a better job than wisconsin or michigan. the team isn't exactly in a better place than either of those programs. but the potential for success is much greater. however true the idea that coaches are scared away by chicago hoops, if you forge an alliance with the cpl coaches, the sky is the limit. also, kruger didn't recruit chicago at all and was successful at illinois. the illinois job is the equal of osu and msu, it's a 3-team battle for second, which the other two teams are winning right now and over the last 6-7 years. that can change very quickly and likely would have changed immediately if we were getting one of our top choices. wisconsin doesn't recruit well-enough and thusly limits themselves, their ceiling is low and floor is high. michigan has detroit and ohio to recruit but must share that ground with 2 superior programs. they are also a football school and basketball will always be second. Kruger really got lucky though with the Manuel three being in his era. We need Peoria to start producing high end talent again. when the big 3 committed, that was the beginning of the rise of illini basketball. kruger was a key part of that.
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looking on the bright side, however, when weber first started this whole big goof off this year, i was looking into former matta assistants. i didn't see see groce's name, but it looks like he's the best of them.
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we're a better job than wisconsin or michigan. the team isn't exactly in a better place than either of those programs. but the potential for success is much greater. however true the idea that coaches are scared away by chicago hoops, if you forge an alliance with the cpl coaches, the sky is the limit. also, kruger didn't recruit chicago at all and was successful at illinois. the illinois job is the equal of osu and msu, it's a 3-team battle for second, which the other two teams are winning right now and over the last 6-7 years. that can change very quickly and likely would have changed immediately if we were getting one of our top choices. wisconsin doesn't recruit well-enough and thusly limits themselves, their ceiling is low and floor is high. michigan has detroit and ohio to recruit but must share that ground with 2 superior programs. they are also a football school and basketball will always be second.
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he even sounds like bruce weber, what the [expletive]