Eighteen days ago, Ibby Djimde, Mike Shaw, and Devin Langford all announced that they were transferring out of the program in search of playing time, leaving us with three open scholarships for the 2013/14 season. Eighteen days later, we’re down to one open scholarship. Friday night, Seton Hall sophomore Aaron Cosby picked Illinois as his [...]
I touched on this a little bit on Friday, but college basketball in 2013 presents a few options that maybe didn’t exist five years ago. Well, the options existed, but nobody used (took advantage of?) them. Now, it’s the age of the fifth year transfer. We’ve had two so far, and they’ve both been named [...]
Nothing to do but twiddle our thumbs waiting for Thursday to get here? Well, how ’bout some rambling thoughts on both football and basketball recruiting. Football The first two recruits in the 2014 class are on board. And I like them both. You know what – first let’s go through our needs. I feel like [...]
So Michael Finke is on board. The 6′-9″ big man from Champaign is looking forward to being known as the 6′-9″ big man from Champaign for an additional four years. And I use “big man” loosely here – Finke will be shooting threes like Tyler Griffey, not backing players down like Marcus Griffin. I’m excited [...]
A friend sent me a text when offensive lineman Ethan Pocic committed to LSU. “Pocic to LSU. His (freaking) brother plays here! When are we going to start keeping these kids at home?” Um, never? Until Illinois Football has 6-8 years of fighting-for-division-title success, top-50 football players such as Ethan Pocic will never, ever stay [...]
