Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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FT35
You're right that I'm wasting my time. You obviously aren't getting something that really isn't that complex.
 
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StateFarmCenter
Jeff thomas didn't make it to Louisville. They're trying to blame the ice storm but considering he's canceled a bunch of visits in the past, I think he just didn't want to go.

He says he will committ when he gets to 10k followers.

WR Mike Harley seems like he's about to flip to Miami. Don't think that changes much.
 
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FT35
Apparently Jason Harris (far right) made the trip with his brother Jalen this weekend:

https://twitter.com/Cha33Cha/status/820408601504161792

http://www.scout.com/college/arizon...-jason-harris-looms-large-in-local-2020-class

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FT35
Jason is listed at 6'6 (Class of 2020) and Jalen is 6'4. Jason is also a basketball prospect and I can't imagine him sticking with football if he gets much taller. It looks like Jason might be around 6'7 now and apparently their mother played basketball at Arizona.

Jason already has offers from Oregon State, Illinois and Arizona for football.

Jalen is also taking official visits to Washington and Notre Dame so I'm not sure what chance we have of flipping him from AZ:

http://247sports.com/player/jalen-harris-89046
 
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illinidarrin
So, is it almost a done deal now for Thomas to Miami. I saw Robert say this on another board. This sucks if he does go there because i was really forward to him being a recruiting tool to ESL. Now, it seems like both sides seem a little bitter towards each other after some recent tweets. I don't know if we will ever get in good at ESL.
 
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Title
illinidarrin said:
So, is it almost a done deal now for Thomas to Miami. I saw Robert say this on another board. This sucks if he does go there because i was really forward to him being a recruiting tool to ESL. Now, it seems like both sides seem a little bitter towards each other after some recent tweets. I don't know if we will ever get in good at ESL.
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There was an if/then statement made by a coach that rubbed everyone the wrong way. In the end, I believe Illinois will do the right thing.
 
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illinidarrin
A couple of late offers from Illinois to California CB Bennett Williams and Florida DE Torri Singletary. Makes you wonder if they feel like they won't get a couple of their targets?
 
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LurkLongandProsper
illinidarrin said:
A couple of late offers from Illinois to California CB Bennett Williams and Florida DE Torri Singletary. Makes you wonder if they feel like they won't get a couple of their targets?
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We still have 11 rides to fill, right? I think we'd have to land every single target on our board right now to fill that, so these are the Plan C guys that we've had on the board that were likely always intended to fill the latter slots in the class.

Palczewski, Roberson, Dorsey, Debose, Harris, Roundtree, Maxwell, Creamer, Bagner are all the top targets left on the board, right? Bagner, Knight, Thomas as well, maybe Woods/Pate? By that count, not including those two you mentioned, there's 14 names there for likely 11 total slots max, and Thomas doesn't seem to be coming this way and there's a few other that are unlikely, so it makes sense that we would start offering a few guys further down the board as we approach NSD.

Not necessarily an indicator of bad news to come, I just hope we don't take guys who aren't likely to contribute just to fill slots. JMO
 
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FT35
LurkLongandProsper said:
We still have 11 rides to fill, right? I think we'd have to land every single target on our board right now to fill that, so these are the Plan C guys that we've had on the board that were likely always intended to fill the latter slots in the class.

Palczewski, Roberson, Dorsey, Debose, Harris, Roundtree, Maxwell, Creamer, Bagner are all the top targets left on the board, right? Bagner, Knight, Thomas as well, maybe Woods/Pate? By that count, not including those two you mentioned, there's 14 names there for likely 11 total slots max, and Thomas doesn't seem to be coming this way and there's a few other that are unlikely, so it makes sense that we would start offering a few guys further down the board as we approach NSD.

Not necessarily an indicator of bad news to come, I just hope we don't take guys who aren't likely to contribute just to fill slots. JMO
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Great breakdown of who is left in terms of targets.

Now that Callendar is off the board that leaves Debose, Harris, Roundtree, Bagner, Woods and Singletary as possible DEs in this class?

How many more DEs are we going to take? I'm guessing we want at least two out of this group.

Is Singletary visiting the same weekend as Woods?

I agree that I don't like the idea of taking guys just to get to 25-28 players in this class but we desperately need guys at DE. I think the idea for a couple of these guys is to red shirt them this fall, have then sit out 2018 and then be ready to crack the depth chart as RS Sophomores in 2019. Carney and Oladipo are going to have to play this fall.

Mcgrew and Adesanya are going to be RS Juniors in the fall so I would guess they are on the depth chart at DE for the next two years, although Adesanya has yet to play a single down. Jones is also a possibility for this fall or next year so we can take on a couple of projects.
 
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coltjames03
Would love to hear from Title on what all happened here really glad Knight is on board though. Thomas don't see even close to happening but Knight is a welcome addition
 
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