What a pair of f****-heads.
Let's just agree to disagree on whether Reid was at all disrespectful to the University of Minnesota, accept that my post was a joke, and move on, shall we?
I think a majority of those kids are from Chicago. Champaign is nothing like Chicago. It's a couple hours away and has a very rural feel for a big time campus. I personally think Illinois' campus is one of the worst in the B1G. Their basketball arena is kind of ****ty too. So I'm not surprised they have trouble keeping all the big time Chicago talent.
C'mon Jay Wiiliams-style broken leg.
Him and his family are either lying or they're not very smart (or maybe both?). You don't say how much you like and respect Groce and Illinois, then do that. People just don't think things through anymore.
Yeah they do. The kids have been given too much power and the process goes on so long. I could not imagine being a coach today. Hopping on planes all over the world hat in hand begging a16 or 17 year old to play for me. I guess that is why they get the big bucks.
I'm sorry but I don't feel bad for a guy that's making millions of dollars off of these kids.
Yeah they do. The kids have been given too much power and the process goes on so long. I could not imagine being a coach today. Hopping on planes all over the world hat in hand begging a16 or 17 year old to play for me. I guess that is why they get the big bucks.
You're right. I'm sure no one begged Magic Johnson or Patrick Ewing back in the '80s. Those were surely the good old days, where no one had an ego and the power was totally in the coach's hands.
If you believe that, I have a plot of land in Afghanistan that you may be interested in investing in.
So if what Cliff did was rude, how about Quentin Snider committing to Illinois and then signing with Louisville instead? Wouldn't that make Snider an even worse person?
You're right. I'm sure no one begged Magic Johnson or Patrick Ewing back in the '80s. Those were surely the good old days, where no one had an ego and the power was totally in the coach's hands.
So if what Cliff did was rude, how about Quentin Snider committing to Illinois and then signing with Louisville instead? Wouldn't that make Snider an even worse person?
So if what Cliff did was rude, how about Quentin Snider committing to Illinois and then signing with Louisville instead? Wouldn't that make Snider an even worse person?
So if what Cliff did was rude, how about Quentin Snider committing to Illinois and then signing with Louisville instead? Wouldn't that make Snider an even worse person?
i felt the same when Josh Perkins said the university of Gonzaga, its GU, not U of G, and that video was hilarious, but the local illinois fans constantly get screwed over with Derrick Rose, Anthony Davis, Jabari Parker, Jahlil Okafor and now Cliff Alexander all seeing greener grass elsewhere, they would be a top 5 program if they got there talent to stay home
Honestly, I see the Quentin Snider signing switch to be more hurtful to Illinois. Out of the blue seemingly he signs with Louisville when Illinois was expecting him to sign with them instead. And surely Illinois had spent weeks if not months planning on Snider being their PG in this class and recruiting like it. Now, the rug is pulled out from under Illinois by Snider. Alexander never committed to Illinois and they knew all along they were in a battle and had no assurances of getting him, and surely they were more prepared to move on from him going elsewhere than Snider.
I think what hurt Illinois the most and what was the biggest dick move are two different arguments.
Ditto.
What Alexander accomplished with the sophomoric hat escapade was to simply extend an utterly unnecessary and completely uncalled for slap in the face to a coach and program and fan-base which had treated him with nothing but kindness, so in that regard it was just a plain sh*tty and mean-spirited move indicative of a person fundamentally lacking in common decency as well as character, while Snider on the other hand simply made a life and basketball decision for himself. He changed his mind, as young men of that age are often prone to do, but he did so without feeling the need to rub it in the face of the team he ultimately spurned, and therein lies the difference.
I don't care whether that happened to a rival and opponent of my team or not, as it is not whom it happened to, but rather that display of cavalier behavior and casual cruelty which lies so deeply offensive to me and many others, and to see his father there yukking it up beside him and acting as if this were the greatest and most original hijink in all of history, it made me feel vaguely nauseated at just how fricken lame and crappy humanity can be, and how as the wheel spins, such disrespect eventually and surely will be 'rewarded' exactly as it deserves to be, or so I can only hope.
You only do this if you pick the hometown school and spurn the blue blood. Pretty classless IMO