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QUOTE (Boogua @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 10:26 PM) You never heard that McCants, Felton, and May picked UNC specifically to play for Doherty? If they had more years of eligibility I'm sure they would have considered transferring to FAU or SMU to play for him Since you brought up SMU they are landing plenty of kids they otherwise wouldn't because of the coach. Kids commit to coaches all the time I'd say

Yeah I think Kansas would fall on very hard times with one bad hire. I kind of agree with Dick Allen. Nothing to do with Illinois but Lawrence and the state of Kansas seen miserable.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 09:42 PM) There is no reason not to give him a raise in that situation. That is a collosal screw up if that is how it went down. Well our former AD was an idiot. That said I think Self did just get an extension something like only a few weeks before iIRC so I guess he sort of had a right to be pissed.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 09:31 PM) Yeah, but he was the king in Champaign. Had he stayed, you add Charlie Villenueva to that title game team, and maybe they win it all. Many fans turned on him when he left. I don't think Kansas is an easier place to recruit for Self, maybe for others, than Champaign. I think if he coached Loyola they would be top 25. IMO, there had to be more. Maybe they had better toupee guys in KS. There was more. Basically he talked to KU about the opening. He then came back to our AD and more or less told him he talked to Kansas (in other words his hand was out looking for a raise). The AD got upset that he would even talk about another job so he told him to F off. The rest is history. That said I don't think Illinois 05 would have been as good under Self as they were under Weber

QUOTE (dayan024 @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 06:07 PM) Dan Hayes ‏@DanHayesCSN 14m Per @BovadaLV, odds are 3/2 in favor of Yankees to sign Masahiro Tanaka. The Cubs are 7/1 & #WhiteSox are 18/1. LA, Sea also ahead of Cubs. Thanks. Put 5.50 down to win 100. Free cheese. They are also taking action on whether he will sign by the Jan 24th deadline. -175 for yes. Plus 125 for no.

Groces coaching was a disaster tonight.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 03:51 AM) A 6'11" center shooting 28% over his last 7 games on 54 shots. What a f***ing joke. Lol it's that bad? Good lord.

The Bulls won in 3OT.

I don't get how Egwu has regressed so much. Not that he was great to begin with which makes regression so much worse. And why is the coaching staff still green lighting his 3s?

Did anyone watch The Assets? CIA drama based on true events during the 80s. Bit Homelandish except more PG since it's on ABC. I thought it was great. Anyways apparently the second episode was the lowest rated prime time tv show ever and it was cancelled. How lame.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 12:40 AM) B&B mentioned we are backing off? I'm kind of disappointed by this. But I am not surprised. I think everyone in baseball knows that he will be a Dodger or Yankee. It's Bernstein and his infamous sources.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 10:18 PM) Ah, yes.... that year's version of Edwin Jackson for Dunn or Jermaine Dye for Homer Bailey. I remember people thinking that thing was done. And John Garland to Houston. Astros had the press conference ready to make the announcement and...it never happened. Forget who we were getting.

Oh yeah that deal was crazy too

Oh yeah and if you're looking for a FA it's the Johnny Damon thread and not close.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 10:01 PM) How many pages were in the thread? It was spread out across the board so impossible to tell. This summers Peavy thread was really long, so was when we first traded for him and he spurned us. Manny Ramirez also broke the board a few times think so did Adrian Gonzalez and we never even got him. Hundred of pages of threads were dedicated to acquiring Edwin Jackson on ten different occasions. These are all the names everyone became obsessed with and I'm sure Im missing a bunch.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 09:57 PM) Wait, what? This site became Chaveztalk.com for awhile. You're number one stop for all things Eric Chavez. We had a couple other guys like that too.

So that will more than likely be over 1 million dollars per start 7 years times 35 starts per year equals 245 starts. He more than likely won't make that many though, obviously.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 06:36 PM) And it's also funny saying teams are overrated when they lose in conference. News flash, nobody is getting through the Big Ten undefeated. Illinois was overrated when they were ranked and lost to Northwestern. f*** that s***.

27 guests and 1 user are reading this thread. Someone give the press their story because I'm bored too.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 04:38 PM) No, totally the worst, because we didn't rush the floor. Just wasn't fun enough. That sucks then. I think you need to stop thinking like that though. Sounds pretty boring. I didn't rush the court last year vs Indiana but for those who did though it looked like they had fun. I personally had fun celebrating in the stands. Them rushing certainly did not affect my fun. To each their own though, just let them do what they want to do.

That sounds like a terrible best moment. To me the best moment was winning all those basketball games.

Looking for sanctity from a bunch of 20 year old crazed mostly male college students is still hilarious to me. Who cares? You won. As for the Krush good Lord, using the word suck is a capital offense. So yeah their holier than thou attitude doesn't surprise me on anything.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 05:07 PM) Haha, whatever you say. They need more guys like you SO EVERYONE RUSHES THE COURT EVERY GAME. You are giving a reason, you're saying because it's fun. I don't like the idea of it for multiple reasons. If there was never another floor rush, I'd be ok with it. They do do it because it's fun I imagine. If they have some other reason to, I certainly don't give a s***. I'm not looking for one. Im not going to sit and pretend to be all high and mighty about the legality or safety of it. Then I'd just be an old man yelling at clouds. But I give you that it is a better reason then some stupid made up standard that you should only rush the court given some circumstances. Looking for sanctity from a bunch of 20 year old crazed mostly male college students is hilarious to me.

LeBron would get 40 million per on an open market. But that's fine. NBAs salary system is just horrible and oddly enough destroys the small market teams it tries to help out.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 15, 2014 -> 03:18 PM) Is Flowers participating in this hitting camp? I haven't seen his name mentioned. Pretty ominous if Nieto and Phegley are participating. I think Tyler may be getting dealt. Who knows, maybe Flowers eventually gets sent to WAS to let the Sox keep Nieto. I think it's more for the rookies so they aren't making him go. When we've ran this camp before though some of the non invited would show up anyways so hopefully he did.