Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
So would Coleman.
Tacomallini
- Washington State
feels like a day to bust out one of the portal era hits
No way ... Lou Malnati's deep dishOr are we ordering Dominos
Really? I just assume Dee, Felton, May etc. at the top of that class got a bag under the table back then.
I don't really know enough about the system to tell you where all the money goes and I agree with you that the money is going to wrong places(you could say that about Universities in general with their administrative bloat and other non education expenses).
However, the NBA on a per team basis is producing far more revenue and has huge tv contracts and other sources of revenue. Yes, they do have to travel far more and also subsidize the WNBA but I doubt that's proportionally equal to Universities running 19 non revenue sports(Illinois has 21 sports teams) and the expense of doing so(they travel a bunch too).
I'm sure there are other alternatives to funding these other sports but with the how more of our institutions are increasingly influenced by PE or follow a similar thought process I don't know if those alternatives will be deemed viable by Universities.
Also, I would bet that major college facilities are actually nicer than their professional counterparts simply because they don't pay players and had to have the facilities as a recruiting tool.
I laughed more than I should, and I am proud.
Can we get a Coleman version
I was just about to ask for that. I must have watched the Kofi version 30 or 40 times when he was in the portal, would do the same thing with Coleman. In fact, I might watch it a few more with Coleman's highlights...
Yeah let's talk more about Egor.
IlliniTilDeath
- Chicago, IL
Where do we stand with his mom and gf?
We can play hypotheticals all we want with NIL had it come to fruition 20 years ago, but I find this argument particularly infuriatingly nonsensical, because if it were true, then:
1. Why did Dee ever stay when Self left, when Self actively tried recruiting him over to Kansas with him, where he clearly had economic incentive to do so? (and according to many sources at the time he was never on the fence about it or even remotely considered it unlike Deron)
And
2. Wasn't Self basically already playing this game back then and why we had several high end recruits interested? And why we lost those high end recruits when Self left. Had Self had access to NIL at Illinois 20 years ago, would he really have had no shot getting Dee?
I mean this Dee would have never come here or stayed an Illini seems like an incredible strawman argument to me, especially since he had a significant opportunity to no longer play here for more money at Kansas. And it also assumes Self wouldn't have had NIL but other schools would have when recruiting Dee. I just don't get this take.
Dee's an Illini for life because he proved it. It's really that simple.
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
I hope we're kicking the tires on the Lithuanian kid who plays for Barcelona. he good:
I doubt he does too, but all it takes is one bored rich alum from a rival school who likes to stir the pot and decides to offer Coleman double his market NIL rate... just for sh!ts and giggles. Mizzou is awash in stupid levels of NIL money, and one of the Waltons could decide to do just that, pocket change to them, and there's absolutely nothing stopping them.
I have been wondering about this issue too when NIL and Portalization began to take off. Universities have not really been providing scholarship funds so much as as they redirect a fraction of football and men's basketball earnings to provide scholarships for athletes in non-revenue-generating sports. Or is that incorrect?
I guess as long as boosters and donors keep giving cash to the athletic departments for football and basketball NIL (and some sure seem to be willing to fork over a lot right now) there won't be issues with Title IX or with reducing the number of scholars.
This isn't quite how NIL was supposed to work, I think. I'd be interested in reading a summary of the economic rationale for the bizarre stew that NCAA D1 sports is serving up these days. I mean a summary from the point of view of asking whether the present system can be justified as fair, reasonable and a social good. (OK, I realize it is obviously good if our team comes out ahead regardless of fairness or reasonableness. /s)
I guess as long as boosters and donors keep giving cash to the athletic departments for football and basketball NIL (and some sure seem to be willing to fork over a lot right now) there won't be issues with Title IX or with reducing the number of scholars.
This isn't quite how NIL was supposed to work, I think. I'd be interested in reading a summary of the economic rationale for the bizarre stew that NCAA D1 sports is serving up these days. I mean a summary from the point of view of asking whether the present system can be justified as fair, reasonable and a social good. (OK, I realize it is obviously good if our team comes out ahead regardless of fairness or reasonableness. /s)
Where was Pearl quoted saying that? I need a source!
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Am I remembering a mere rumor, or was it indeed the case that mama Brown told Kansas-transferring Dee that he wasn't going to be leaving the Illini? I like that kind of parent 
We are
He would have gotten out of his NLI so fast in today’s world.
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