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Good luck, Wichita St. 2nd and 3rd games vs Kentucky and then Louisville.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 15, 2014 -> 09:26 AM) Why has everyone turned on Crean so suddenly? Hell, if available, I'd fire Groce in a heartbeat and hire him. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 14, 2014 -> 03:12 PM) 1) Too many guards is not a problem, but when you're trying to project "when we add player A and B we'll be X much better!" it doesn't really work like that. Someone is going to be losing minutes. My guess is that Groce sticks with Abrams because of his "bulldog toughness" and all that, just like he stuck with Bertrand. I doubt anyone will be better than Rice, and Nunn is your future star. So adding Starks and Crosby is going to be nice, and we won't have to deal with Tate anymore, but I'm not sure that's such a huge jump in guard play simply based on available minutes. If they're all shooting 40% from three, maybe you got 4 guards and Egwu. Otherwise your 10 and 12 ppg projections don't mean much. 2) See, this is where the blind optimism comes in. Expecting ANYTHING out of Paul or Black next year is a complete crap shoot. We have no idea how they'll fair against Big Ten competition. None. It took Nunn/Hill 3/4 of the season to make big impacts. That may or may not happen with those guys. 3) We'll see what happens at PG next year. Does Groce take the tough defensive guy, or the offensive guy that can get the offense going (an assumption that Crosby can/will do this). MSU was a great win, but this was such a goofy Big Ten season. MSU lost weird games at home, Wisconsin lost weird games at home. Not much of this season really made sense. You take it as a good win and you move on. They also lost to NW. They lost to Purdue. They lost to Penn State. You can say the roster changed up, and that's true, but again, 3 of your starting 5 still lost to those crappy teams. Christ Jenks, you're ruining any sort of hope around here. Get on the f***ing JFG bandwagon already! Discounting tough BT road wins after we had a complete collapse? Cmon, you didn't expect them to win either of those 3 games, no one did. Those were big wins. Stop poo pooing here, sir. Also, (see red) I'm drawing the line at you making up losses, hater. Good conversation all around. I'm with Illinilaw on almost everything, so I don't regurgitate everything. I do think we're about a 7-8 seed next year. Call it a lock or whatever, but I'd say we're 90% sure to make the tournament without major injuries with this roster next year. Now, go figure out the rest of the 2015 class.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 10:24 PM) I'll stick with Iowa. Good luck with that.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 10:14 PM) that went into the s***ter a while ago. Still better then Illinois though. f***ing pathetic. Iowa finally makes me think its going to be a good year and then they s*** themselves. Please somehow totally redeem yourself in the real dance. Lose to Northwestern, lose to Illinois at home...still better than Illinois, LOL. Hey, whatever makes you feel better about the collapse. You'll make the tournament this year, but I'm sure as hell not trading programs moving forward.

Remember the "they could have/should have won every game this year" thing? That was fun.

LOL Iowa. Ekey hangover.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 07:42 PM) Illinois is proudly a tennis and golf school now. I'd toss in volleyball too.

Tough call man. I'm going to assume you'll never get sick of going to school, and will stick through it the whole time and follow your plan. If that's the case, since that's not a risk of dropping out, it's: Stable job/good(?) pay/consistent money/better lifestyle now/little debt/OK satisfaction with work vs Poor for number of years/lot of debt to repay/better(?) salary later/more interesting work (and putting in a lot more school work) I think a lot of it comes down to money vs work you are doing. How safe/secure will you feel if you have a ton of loans and are poor? How safe/secure do you feel now, when you have savings I presume, and make decent money? Does having better work outweigh money to you, at least in the short to medium term? If you're staring down thousands upon thousands of dollars of debt, how does that make you feel? Do you think this decision could alter your life plan as far as marrying, kids, house? If so, are you OK with that? Are you with anyone right now? I'm not panning for one side or the other, just the questions I'd be asking anyone. It's a real tough decision. Definitely take some time with it.

Tom, they are going to double Vonleh down low, what are you going to do? Play Vonleh outside the 3 point line in the 2nd half, of course.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 01:16 PM) ? What did he do? There was a BT camera on the court low to the ground, out of the way, just filming the handshakes, Sheehey walks by and puts his hand on the camera and pushes it away.

LOL Sheehy, clown

ILL Nothing to lose tomorrow

Lol on the no double dribble call on Yogi

Groce enough Bertrand

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 11:58 AM) Abrams is much for fitting of that description. Abrams makes some bad decisions but most of his issues as a basketball player are as simple as he just can't shoot. And plays out of control. Head down, I will get to the rim and pray I'm fouled because this isn't going in. You can always see it coming.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 11:39 AM) Like I said before, he makes a great move, looks really athletic, but then the ball leaves his hand. That's Abrams even more than Bertrand at times.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 12, 2014 -> 01:49 PM) Move to Denver. Its 300 days of sun, the city has become very habitable and progressive and the burbs are great. I fully recommend it. Isn't the cost of living there pretty high now too?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 12, 2014 -> 08:55 AM) My wife and I talked about moving to Hawaii after our honeymoon. It's always been dream talk, like "yeah that'd be nice." This winter and the extended commutes have accelerated the talking to actually looking for jobs online. It'd be tough to leave, but I'd go in a heartbeat. I think I'd get bored of Hawaii after a while. You'd also barely see friend and family, so I don't know how easy that would be. It's like starting an entirely new life.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 11, 2014 -> 11:31 PM) Has the horrific winter in Chicago made any of you make any life decisions? By that I mean ... a.) you have now decided that "someday" in the future you will retire somewhere outside of frigid/snowy Chicago or b.) you've decided to immediately, at this stage of your life, look for work in a warm weather climate (Cali, Texas, Nevada)? It just seems you've gotten snow after snow; arctic blast after arctic blast. Our winter sucked here as well. I do hate the cold and ice. I don't ever see myself leaving Chicago as being my home, but I could easily see a situation where I have a retirement home somewhere warm, and spend December, January, February, etc. there. Who would continually put up with this stuff when they're old and retired?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 11, 2014 -> 04:55 PM) Weatherman this morning "1-9 inches of snow tonight". Really? thats really putting your neck out. NBC had 2 forecast models going. Biggest difference was Rockford. One said .8 inches, the other said 8.8. Little bit of a difference.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 02:50 PM) Hate Michigan's draw for a 1 seed. Probably Indiana than Neb or OSU. Blew out Neb earlier but OSU likes winning in this. Not sure how "probably" Seems 50/50 to me.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 9, 2014 -> 06:25 PM) We shoulda beat them at MSU if not for a no call. They can complain all they want. I didn't see the end, but it appears MSU didn't score any points the last 4:30 of the game? Not sure what excuses you can make after that. I mean, OSU scored 2 points in that time frame after tying it, and still won.

EKEY SPLASH What a way to recover in the big ten for the second year in a row.