Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
Are things a bit more cleared up with White and Trimble?
Not done in 2025 ...
Ehhhh ... Long way till signing day ...
Them SEC schools wanna see how the season go for Trimble ...
White has Washington in his ear and now he's got IU and PSU talking to him as well ...
Tough to say ... Working on a couple of flips ...
Ke'Breion Winston, Lancaster , Linebacker
2023: As a junior, helped Lancaster to a Texas 5A D-I regional final appearance (fourth round).
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Tarvos Alford, Vero Beach , Linebacker
Has ran track at the prep level. Member of a 4x100 team that qualified for regionals at a 10th grader. Owns personal bests of 11.67 (2.1) in the 100-meter...
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Terry Shelton, Ranchview , Wide Receiver
Also plays basketball and runs track. Competes for Triumph Basketball on the Under Armour club circuit as well. Ran junior 200-meter times of 23.00 and 23.10,...
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lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
For your viewing pleasure. A full Illini rebuild in CFB14:Don't know about you guys but I'm sure ready for recruiting to pick up here in a couple of weeks! I'll be crootin all day n night on College Football 25!
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Now that was entertaining!
During the award ceremony at the end of season 5, it looks like Bielema must have been fired at some point during the rebuild. (That, or he finally lost some weight!)
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
For some reason, i feel very confident about Trimble.
Ranchview right behind me so...Shelton would mean something for sure. TJ Alford...I mean...goodness...Tough to say ... Working on a couple of flips ...
Ke'Breion Winston, Lancaster , Linebacker
2023: As a junior, helped Lancaster to a Texas 5A D-I regional final appearance (fourth round).
Tarvos Alford, Vero Beach , Linebacker
Has ran track at the prep level. Member of a 4x100 team that qualified for regionals at a 10th grader. Owns personal bests of 11.67 (2.1) in the 100-meter...
Terry Shelton, Ranchview , Wide Receiver
Also plays basketball and runs track. Competes for Triumph Basketball on the Under Armour club circuit as well. Ran junior 200-meter times of 23.00 and 23.10,...
I get being "in" doesn't really mean much unless you get the commitment, but staff's been able to get "in" on some pretty good prospects here.
Gotta imagine if the wins go up, the gap would certainly open up in recruiting.
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Tough to say ... Working on a couple of flips ...
Ke'Breion Winston, Lancaster , Linebacker
2023: As a junior, helped Lancaster to a Texas 5A D-I regional final appearance (fourth round).
Tarvos Alford, Vero Beach , Linebacker
Has ran track at the prep level. Member of a 4x100 team that qualified for regionals at a 10th grader. Owns personal bests of 11.67 (2.1) in the 100-meter...
Terry Shelton, Ranchview , Wide Receiver
Also plays basketball and runs track. Competes for Triumph Basketball on the Under Armour club circuit as well. Ran junior 200-meter times of 23.00 and 23.10,...
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Never watched this series, but I know Not The Expert does great work, UGF Pandas and RCU Moon Men forever!
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Amateur recruiting "expert" take form me-Tough to say ... Working on a couple of flips ...
Ke'Breion Winston, Lancaster , Linebacker
2023: As a junior, helped Lancaster to a Texas 5A D-I regional final appearance (fourth round).
Tarvos Alford, Vero Beach , Linebacker
Has ran track at the prep level. Member of a 4x100 team that qualified for regionals at a 10th grader. Owns personal bests of 11.67 (2.1) in the 100-meter...
Terry Shelton, Ranchview , Wide Receiver
Also plays basketball and runs track. Competes for Triumph Basketball on the Under Armour club circuit as well. Ran junior 200-meter times of 23.00 and 23.10,...
Winston- most likely to flip, Cal is not strong competition. However, if his local schools get involved (the Big 12 schools still have NIL war chests better than ours) or if Arkansas has a good season, things get tougher.
Shelton- his final decision will be very results oriented. If Arizona regresses with the new staff, his commitment will open with the Kansas/Illinois winner being a main contender. Whoever of Illinois, Kansas, TCU, and Arizona has the most wins him with Kansas having to play two of his other suitors with TCU being the other.
Alford- Biggest upset, best chance is Ohio State revoking the offer,slacking off in recruiting him, or Ryan Day, being the clown that he is, starts losing games. Even then Florida State is still lurking.
Exhibit #263 to cancel the Mizzou series. They just got their 2nd four-star WR commit this week and now have 7 in this class (from MO, PA, FL, OH, and TN). This last one was a Chicago native who transferred to IMG. For comparison, I think BB has 4 total composite prep four-stars in his UI tenure
And, Purdue/Walters just got a four-star CB out of Ohio. Barring a bunch of wins this year and surge in NIL, this staff will have quite the talent deficit
They'll also be getting a commitment Charles Bass soon.
People on here have said they would rather schedule a top team for non conference than make a low level bowl. As things are right now we arenāt on a level playing field with Mizzou. Maybe if our NIL budget triples we can
Does Purdue have the money to keep the talent? That will be bigger issue going forward as the Covid seniors are gone.
For how concerned people are with rankings, Purdue is still dead last.
A little misleading. They have a better avg star ranking than we do and they also had a 4-star commit reclassify and sign so that he is on the team this year. By most measures, Walters has outrecruited BB since taking over at PU
And we have a better avg star ranking than 4-5 teams ahead of us. 4-star commits don't mean anything until they actually hit the field (case in point--our highest rated recruit being on campus for a month before leaving). I'll wait and see on BB's 4th year when he has given us the best 3 year stretch we have had since 2000-2002.
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
And they just landed another top 100 player Nationally , an OG.
