Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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Positive illini fan
The one complaint about the staff I find completely valid is our staff being lazy with offering instate kids early. Like Benjamin Perry, why would that kid not have a offer until March. Another one that makes no sense is Trenton Howland. In state kid with 4 other big ten offers but we can’t offer him!? This is the stuff that frustrates me. Well get in late with him, make his top 7 (for show) and then he’ll go to Nebraska.
 
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Is an epic decommitment season coming?

here is an article y'all might find interesting. This could end up helping us catch back up if this ends up happening. It certainly explains why it feels like we are way farther back in recruiting than usual this early in the recruiting cycle.

For those that don't feel like reading it... The current number of commits for the 2021 recruiting class is more than the last 2 classes combined at this stage. Since there's no camps, campus visits, in home visits, etc. Coaches are just offering a lot of guys sight unseen with the intent to take away the offer to committed players that they don't like once they evaluate them. Players are committing like crazy trying to reserve a spot on their preferred choice with the intent to look at all of their options once recruiting is allowed again.... This article speculates that we could see a ton of decommits once players and coaches get a better feel for each other.
 
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#878      
thunderwear
pvaughn8 said:
So kids are giving out commits like candy and we still only have 2?

JK, I agree this would probably work to our advantage in the long run. Interesting stuff
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I could see this going different ways.

This will open recruits that weren't open before.

Signing day will likely be a clusterfudge, leaving many players spurned.

The way we recruit, from what I gather, is we go all in on certain recruits and we ask them to take their time and make sure they are getting what they want. Once those players choose another program, we are unlikely to reconsider. So much of Lovie's approach involves buy-in, that he doesn't seem to want indecisiveness or lack of communication. The staff is so trusting that they don't have space for distrust or questioning.

I doubt we will reconsider recruits like Travion Ford (but I don't actually know), not like anyone would spurn him. But, I imagine we have kids that we haven't offered that we will pursue and many of those are committed.

Despite the lack of information and the lack of commits, I do not think the staff feels they are behind with who they want. They have some misses, like Travion Ford, but they also got have solid pieces committed and they know what they have in the pipeline with players ready or willing to commit.
 
#880      
Positive illini fan
I have started doing some work for a recruiting service during all this free time and wanted to help people on this board to follow recruiting. So i have been working on this for awhile and compiling everything i have been hearing into one form. The number in parentheses is how many i see us taking. Green= We are the favorite/should land them if we want them, yellow= okay chance, should be involved until the end, orange= some mutual interest and red= no real chance. If you have any questions please let me know. If i have left a player off then we have no chance and didn't want to waste the space.
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#881      
UCantHideYer
thunderwear said:
I could see this going different ways.

This will open recruits that weren't open before.

Signing day will likely be a clusterfudge, leaving many players spurned.

The way we recruit, from what I gather, is we go all in on certain recruits and we ask them to take their time and make sure they are getting what they want. Once those players choose another program, we are unlikely to reconsider. So much of Lovie's approach involves buy-in, that he doesn't seem to want indecisiveness or lack of communication. The staff is so trusting that they don't have space for distrust or questioning.

I doubt we will reconsider recruits like Travion Ford (but I don't actually know), not like anyone would spurn him. But, I imagine we have kids that we haven't offered that we will pursue and many of those are committed.

Despite the lack of information and the lack of commits, I do not think the staff feels they are behind with who they want. They have some misses, like Travion Ford, but they also got have solid pieces committed and they know what they have in the pipeline with players ready or willing to commit.
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I agree with that our approach is that wait for buy-in. Maybe our lean towards transfers is also a similar thought of let them get that first notion out the way.
 
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thunderwear
pvaughn8 said:
Would you ever hear otherwise?
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Good point. But there is a difference in whether the staff needs to scramble because they feel they are behind and need to make up ground and this staff isn't at the point of scrambling. There are plenty of solid players we are in on and will land. The staff would argue that the people they are bringing in have higher ceilings than most of who that brought in with the first class.
 
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thunderwear said:
Good point. But there is a difference in whether the staff needs to scramble because they feel they are behind and need to make up ground and this staff isn't at the point of scrambling. There are plenty of solid players we are in on and will land. The staff would argue that the people they are bringing in have higher ceilings than most of who that brought in with the first class.
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And, I get that many on here will be disappointed with the lack fo 4* on the roster. At the end, if we regress, I will be worried. But I do not see that at this point.
 
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thunderwear said:
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And, I get that many on here will be disappointed with the lack fo 4* on the roster. At the end, if we regress, I will be worried. But I do not see that at this point.
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4* players are obviously the caliber of players that we want to recruit but we had the second most 4* in the west (including more than double Minnesota) last year behind nebraska. Clearly that didn't translate well for either us or Nebraska because the caliber of 3* aren't on par with Wisconsin or iowa. All we can do is wait and see but I hope the caliber of 3* we have recruited recently is higher than it has been in the past. If we can find a bunch of Bobby roundtree type recruits and start winning with them then i don't care if we get 4* players.
 
#885      
Illini_05
Markiese Irving committing today, we’re warm for him on 247, only one crystal ball and it’s undecided
 
#891      
UCantHideYer
I see Ryheem Craig trended way to Louisville on 247. Werner picked Louisville for him yesterday.

I'm gonna guess Willie Shaw and Caden Fordham to us this weekend.
 
#893      
UCantHideYer
My insider status hopes dashed just like that! :confused:

But maybe increases our hopes for Irving. We'll keep watching Werner now.
 
#894      
Positive illini fan
This is very interesting to me. I wonder if the staff doesn’t see RB as a priority. This might say a lot about what they think of chase brown and Reggie love.
 
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