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QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 12:24 AM) that's probably not BP then but rather some type of eye disorder

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 01:18 AM) Jamarcus Ellis is a borderline/mediocre 3-star? Scout has him listed as a top 25 player this year (they include junior college players in their rankings) and another Juco site has him the #1 Juco in the land. I'm sure if Illinois had grabbed McGee, he wouldn't be classified as a mediocre 3-star by you. Holman should be a "very good" Big 10 player as well. I'd say the Crawford may be the only fringe guy in the group and even Scout has him as No. 100 and he's their "worst" recruit. Also, they already have two 4-stars committed for 2008. And one of them, Bud Mackey, could be a top 30 player (currently 48 on rivals after being unranked) after this summer. Also as far as Sampson's history for recruiting lower tier players, he had the No. 1 class coming to Oklahoma last year before it broke apart when he left. Class had Damien James and Scottie Reynolds among others, I believe. He might have had to settle for lower tier recruits at Oklahoma, but he picked it up towards the end and he won't have to settle for mediocre recruits at IU. Now in no way is this an attack on Illinois, I clearly didn't say a word about them in this post, but you need to give credit as far as recruiting goes, where credit is due. i hear a lot of what you're saying here and on many points i agree with you. but i really don't think that what 101 said was that far off base. his opinion is that outside of gordon illinois and indiana's classes are very, very similar. i'd agree with that. indiana's class illinois's class now this is based entirely on star rankings, which is really the only objective way we can look at players we've mostly never seen play before. as an illinois fan i think their recruits can be great, just as you feel the same way about indiana's. but at the end of the day, we don't know. this could be the class that gets erases the "weber can't recruit" belief, or it could be the one that gets him fired. time will tell on that, but for now the only way we have to judge these kids is by their star rankings. and in that vein, the rankings of the team's recruits are similar.

surprised illinois got in, but happy they are. va. tech will be a tough test. they weren't great down the stretch this year but greenberg always has his teams well-prepared.

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QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 06:13 PM) http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology You guys see the latest Bracketology? A #6 seed and a second round matchup against SIU for my Eagles. Yuck, but at this point, I'm expecting MU to be underdogs in any second round matchup. That is, unless they're able to pull out two Ws in the BE tourney. It's nice... their first round game against Saint John's (in the BE Tourney) counts as a road game for MU, so that could be a nice, final bump for the ol' resume. interesting. illinois in as a 12 seed according to lunardi. i tend to disagree. right now i don't think the illini are in.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 12:36 AM) One would have them looking good but it is no guarantee. i think if illinois beat penn state and iowa beat purdue, illinois would get into the tournament. otherwise, i think illinois will need to beat penn state and indiana to get in.

i have a few: -the movie "grease": olivia newton-john was the first crush i had. -those little shorts that used to play on abc on saturday mornings: "i'm just a bill, yes i'm only a bill" -swedish fish: mmmmmm. -big wheels: one of the scars of my life is i never owned a "green machine."

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 05:05 PM) The 2007 class turned out to be a lot better than I thought i agree, but this will be overlooked. hell, even the nbc report i linked above felt the need to mention the gordon situation, which was entirely unnecessary. eric gordon is going to indiana. his dealing with illinois are largely irrelevant as the relate to the 2007 class and some future recruits. but yeah, i'm comfortable with this group and could be even more if we add another nice player. baines and freeman top my list, but those are the only two guys i'm really familiar with. there could be others i'm not aware of.

a few items of note regarding illinois recruiting. -first, here's a youtube of nbc's report on 2010 (yup, 2010) illinois commit jereme richmond: richmond is rumored to be transferring to loyola academy to play with marcus jordan. he averaged 30 points and double digit rebounds this year, albeit while playing crummy competition. -2007 commit mike tisdale (a 7-1 center) finished his season with 41 points in a class a playoff loss to meridian the other night. either tisdale or fellow 07 commit bill cole will probably redshirt. either way, weber has said he expects to play a 2-3 zone next year because the team will be pretty big. -2007 commit demetri mccamey will play in the roundball classic this year on the east team along with players like evan turner (his high school teammate), kevin love, herb pope, james harden, and mac koshwal. oj mayo and cole aldrich headline the other team. -weber plans to visit los angeles two more times to see 2007 commit quinton watkins. apparently there are rumblings that arizona is stepping up interest in watkins in preparation for losing some current players to the draft. -weber was in chicago twice this week scouting first deandre liggins of washington and then michael dunigan of farragut. both are longshots. -2008 recruit lewis jackson has put illinois in his top-five with indiana in the lead. jackson's early leader iowa has been eliminated from his list.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 01:40 PM) If you hate Dukie V, and I know most of you do, then you might want to check out the audio links on this site of Vitale on a radio show: http://loserwithsocks.wordpress.com/2007/0...ps-and-oh-s***/ Apparantly Vitale was coming on a radio show called The Sports Animal and when the hosts came to him, he had a different phone in the other ear and he was talking smack about Florida and Joakim Noah because he didnt know that the show hosts were talking to him yet. The first audio link has the slip-up. i dislike vitale as much as the next guys, but i don't think those radio guys should have let that go on.

although it may sound stupid i usually put more stock in what vegas's odds are than what various publications put out.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 06:14 PM) We were flying in from Long Beach, CA and our path took us near the Kansas storm that spit out the tornados. We went over one edge of the storm and while doing that I could see lightening from the top side of the clouds so I was watching lightening and stars at the same time. At one point I was able to see the lightening from the cloud side as well as hitting the ground. Oh, and being able to watch TV while flying home rocked (Jet blue has 36 channels of direct tv). that sounds pretty sweet. the coolest thing i've seen on a plane was on a flight from new york to madrid. you were flying into the daytime, so at a point if you looked out the window behind you it was night but ahead it was day.

i liked the episode. it didn't really advance the plot much (although the rousseu stuff at the end was nice) but it was just nice to see the island folk again and start getting that aspect of the story re-started. that and sawyer had some lol moments last night. his english lessons to jin were strong. and hell, how can anyone not like an episode where THEY FIND BEER!

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 03:19 PM) haha i was having a moment as long as you keep your hands visible we're good.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 08:00 PM) That is a falsehood. The writers have plans for this show for seven seasons worth of episodes according to what I have read. This show is way too complex to just throw together week to week, or even season to season. The frame of these episodes has been figured out for years in advance. very true. i remember on the season 1 dvd's abrams said that very early on he and lindelof sat down and wrote out the entire story arc. at the time he said they put together a rough draft for i think seven seasons, but that could be expanded or retracted based on how they decided to get to the end. now, i will agree that the story has been slow moving. but that's just a function of this type of show. there are so many disparate story lines that it kind of has to be that way. i'd rather they take their time and tell a good story than cheapen everything by rushing to satisy people who need answers. edit: just found a good story about lost promos here

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 07:24 PM) Syracuse's resume in 2003 wasn't all that either. I could make the same case for Marquette that year. Special players have a way of getting things done in tournament time. I agree Texas' defense is very sub-par, however teams that face them will soley be focused in on how to stop Durant, and often get backed out of their normal gameplans and tempo. well, if texas wins the title or makes the final four i'll come back and say i was wrong. if not i'll probably still think they were way overhyped and potentially overseeded (we'll see in a week or so).

very true. texas's resume sucks. if it wasn't for the publicity generated by durant they would not be sniffing the tournament, imo.

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QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 06:40 AM) there were 2 really bad episodes in season 2 but i thought it was a lot better than people gave credit for in some of my friend circles. I was encouraged by the first 2 episodes after break but pissed off after the third. Am ready for sayid to just kick ass. Why can't sayid just kick ass every episode!??!!? no doubt. sayid is my favorite character and it's been months since he's even been a part of a story line.

i feel weird saying it but pat summitt's got some nice legs.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 11:04 PM) They just lost Jamal Crawford for the season, hope is not lost yet really. that's too bad. (yay!)

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 09:28 PM) Interesting thoughts on JuJu Wright from Bill Simmons..... he seems to think he'd go as the 4th pick this year in the draft. Still don't see how everyone thinks Noah is a can't miss NBA player. He sucks and had a good run last year. period. During the Kansas-Oklahoma game, Julian Wright submitted the single best half I've seen from a college player this year -- the first half, when Kansas rolled to a 33-19 lead on the road because Wright was destroying the Sooners in every possible way. If you haven't seen him yet, he's a 6'8" forward who plays the way we always wanted Tim Thomas and Billy Owens to play -- in other words, he's a truly gifted passer, breaks a sweat on defense, makes 18-footers, crashes the boards, busts his butt filling the wing on fastbreaks and actually seems to give a crap. His passing separates him from everyone else -- during one play last night, he was isolated on the right side, waved one of his post players (I forget which one) over to the same side, then threw him a perfect entry bounce pass that enabled the guy to immediately spin around for an easy layup. I'm putting this sentence in caps to emphasize the significance here: COLLEGE PLAYERS DO NOT NORMALLY MAKE PLAYS LIKE THIS. Assuming he enters the NBA next season (nobody knows if he's coming out), he'd join Boris Diaw, LeBron and Tim Duncan as one of the best passing forwards in the league. He has a real chance to become a significant pro. Anyway, if the Celtics finish last and guarantee themselves a top-four pick, obviously it would be catastrophic to lose out on Oden or Durant … but Joakim Noah and Julian Wright are clearly 3A and 3B in this draft, which means the Celtics would be getting a blue-chipper at any of the top four spots. Small consolation, but still. (As for Brandan Wright, he bricked the game-tying free throws at Maryland in the final three seconds and looked terrified the entire time … these are the things I will remember when I'm ranking my top 10 draft prospects in four months. And yes, I have him ranked a distant fifth right now behind Durant, Oden, Noah and Wright.) this year's draft is going to be ridiculous. the knicks need to start losing.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 09:06 PM) dont show soxbadger that comment. well, i think wisconsin obviously is better, but the loss of butch combined with a few other factors (playing their first game, the game at the uc) could give illinois more of a chance than you'd expect.

if the season ended today, they are in, imo. the sun-times called them a "lock" today. but a loss at iowa puts it in question. however, if illinois loses to iowa they open big ten tournament play with northwestern, which puts them at 22 wins and gets them in, imo. then they'd likely play wisconsin and i think they'd have a chance in that game.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 08:14 PM) I understand, his mom wants his to graduate with a degree. Julian Wright is going to stay his 3rd year, which he already announced. he is going to work on his shooting skills so he can play the 3 in the pros. i hope he does stay. it's good for college basketball for its best players to say. as for whether or not he does stay, i'd guess that hinges more on how the season pans out than anything else. if kansas goes to the final four or wins an nc, i'd have a hard time seeing any of these guys staying despite what they're saying now. i think that will be the case with a lot of the top prospects who are playing for teams with national title hopes.