Illinois Football Recruiting Thread (February-April 2021)

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N T A C F said:
~50 year old examples?
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Ya and I don't understand why we are not getting kids left and right. I mean Red Grange was the first ever superstar in the NFL (according to Papa Bear Hallas).......
 
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altenberger22
N T A C F said:
~50 year old examples?
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If all we did was focus on the past 10 years of our 154 year history as an educational institution, our two major Illini sports programs would be the laughing stock of the country.

Embrace our Heritage.
Grange, Boudreau, Butkus, Nitschke, Weatherspoon, Downey, Scholz, A. Matthews, Cobb, Harper, (the good) M. Smith, E. Johnson, Winters, Douglas, Norman, Battle, Anderson, Gill, Bardo, D. Wilson, Eason, Trudeau, George, S. Rice, Frankie, B. Cook, Deron, Dee, Luther, Meyers Leonard and Brandon Paul.
 
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altenberger22 said:
If all we did was focus on the past 10 years of our 154 year history as an educational institution, our two major Illini sports programs would be the laughing stock of the country.

Embrace our Heritage.
Grange, Boudreau, Butkus, Nitschke, Weatherspoon, Downey, Scholz, A. Matthews, Cobb, Harper, (the good) M. Smith, E. Johnson, Winters, Douglas, Norman, Battle, Anderson, Gill, Bardo, D. Wilson, Eason, Trudeau, George, S. Rice, Frankie, B. Cook, Deron, Dee, Luther, Meyers Leonard and Brandon Paul.
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George Halas
 
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Deleted member 4333
altenberger22 said:
If all we did was focus on the past 10 years of our 154 year history as an educational institution, our two major Illini sports programs would be the laughing stock of the country.

Embrace our Heritage.
Grange, Boudreau, Butkus, Nitschke, Weatherspoon, Downey, Scholz, A. Matthews, Cobb, Harper, (the good) M. Smith, E. Johnson, Winters, Douglas, Norman, Battle, Anderson, Gill, Bardo, D. Wilson, Eason, Trudeau, George, S. Rice, Frankie, B. Cook, Deron, Dee, Luther, Meyers Leonard and Brandon Paul.
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Avery Brundage
 
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pvaughn8
KevinC said:
For those that don't like memory lane, please stop using definitive words like "never", "no" (no one. nobody, etc) has ever done, and statements that are of that nature. The universe did not just begin when a person became interested.
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Many things trigger memory lane episodes here. I'm just poking fun
 
#115      
dbeaverfg
altenberger22 said:
If all we did was focus on the past 10 years of our 154 year history as an educational institution, our two major Illini sports programs would be the laughing stock of the country.

Embrace our Heritage.
Grange, Boudreau, Butkus, Nitschke, Weatherspoon, Downey, Scholz, A. Matthews, Cobb, Harper, (the REAL) M. Smith, E. Johnson, Winters, Douglas, Norman, Battle, Anderson, Gill, Bardo, D. Wilson, Eason, Trudeau, George, S. Rice, Frankie, B. Cook, Deron, Dee, Luther, Meyers Leonard and Brandon Paul.
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FIFY. It's like the Assembly Hall, the second one is a poor imitation of the first.
 
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GloryDays
KevinC said:
For those that don't like memory lane, please stop using definitive words like "never", "no" (no one. nobody, etc) has ever done, and statements that are of that nature. The universe did not just begin when a person became interested.
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For 18 year old kids, players that played 20+ years ago never existed. They don't know them and don't care.

Unless the player was an NFL star, it's irrelevant to a kid, and those kids are the one you want to win over.
 
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KevinC
GloryDays said:
For 18 year old kids, players that played 20+ years ago never existed. They don't know them and don't care.

Unless the player was an NFL star, it's irrelevant to a kid, and those kids are the one you want to win over.
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There was zero talk of recruiting in the statement. It was a response to the "no one has ever done this as an Illini" or "a Bama qb" statements. And yes, I am aware of the site heading.
 
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OffseasonFanatic
WINTer said:
I keep seeing all the posts about Illinois offers to players all over the midwest and wonder why no Illinois players yet. Then I remembered they haven't had a season yet. I feel bad for those players. I really hope they can get in a spring season, but man that has to be tough, especially on the seniors.
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They have offered kids from Illinois. This was one of the first things Bielema did during his 1st 2 weeks on the job. He re-offered many of the top Illinois prospects for the '22 class. Another thing to factor in is the academic requirements in order for these HS kids to actually be accepted into Illinois.

Of the Top 15 (on Rivals.com), 6 have been re-offered by new staff and some of the others have a very small offer sheet (possibly due to lack of tape or restricted football in Illinois due to Covid-19).

I do believe that Coach Bielema will honor his statement in recruiting Illinois kids to the Fighting Illini program, however there are obviously guidelines he has to follow in order to fulfil university standards and academics.
 
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