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QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 12:41 PM) https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/...ined_force_user I had heard about this but hadn't read it yet, just craziness and the guy makes it really believable.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 12:57 PM) LOL at all the ass clowns protesting in front of CBOT right now....Get a f***ing clue and get a f***ing life.... You want your pensions paid for....ooops there is no money left over to pay for all the welfare... I wouldn't call pensions welfare...

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 1, 2015 -> 12:54 PM) It's sad that I almost miss Trestman. At least they moved the ball. 4-5 WR screens already, probably -2 yards gained. So let's keep trying it! Fox is pathetic. Breathe man, we all knew this season was going to be s***, just let it be s***.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 31, 2015 -> 04:05 PM) They're beating a ranked Western Illinois team right now so I doubt that would drop them out of the rankings. I'm an idiot, read the schedule as this week. I think he's a decent option just not my favorite.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 31, 2015 -> 03:53 PM) Youngstown State is nationally ranked under him and I'm 100% convinced of the latter. I was mostly convinced of that before the year started (seriously, who the hell wants to go to Nebraska?) but I don't think it could be more clear than now. He's 3-4 at YSU, they won't be ranked next week after losing to SIU. They've played some decent teams but nothing screams impressive to me there.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 31, 2015 -> 01:51 PM) The Pelinis please Not sold on that, he isn't exactly doing well at YSU (granted it's year 1) and I'm not exactly sold that his success at NU was because of him and not just being Nebraska.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 31, 2015 -> 11:45 AM) I hope we can stop discussing Cubit getting the Illinois job full time now. As much as I wanted us to believe in the Fighting Cubits this year I never understood the fascination in sticking with him longterm. Bring on the Babers.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 02:48 PM) I just read about Grantland being shut down by ESPN...pretty disappointing. I very much enjoyed their articles. I'm guessing it didn't bring in enough revenue for ESPN's liking? Use this thread: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;#entry3254341 Lots of conversation on it right now.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) I think Hillary will be so bad she revolutionizes the position of President and we in the future change the duties of president to do-nothing figurehead. Can you imagine her in a crisis? Bill Clinton? Yes. Hillary? Please America, don't reward someone for being an alleged liar and alleged mean, rude person. ... Give me Ben Carson for four years, then vote him out for Michelle Obama. At least she is allegedly very kind. This is a new low.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 29, 2015 -> 03:01 AM) Too bad there's not a scientific way to figure out most loved poster; most hated poster; etc. I would say the 10 year posters are true Sox fans. If the Sox didn't mean a lot to us/them we would move on. There is the option to give a star rating to posters on their profiles.

You gotta keep my boy Zach.

That was way better than expected.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 01:29 PM) Groce needs to go period if we miss the tournament this year. We fire Weber for missing the tournament 3 times in 9 years (right move) then we have to fire Groce for missing 3 straight years too. You can recruit a top 25 class to Illinois with your eyes closed. If he's landing a top 10 class in 2017 then I'm keeping him. Of course, he may not get to that stage if the team crashes and burns this year. The injuries to start the year are definitely not encouraging as this was already a bubble team.

If Groce can't land a good 2017 class and/or can't make the tourney this year then he's officially on the hotseat and absolutely needs to do something in the 2016-17 season. He has to keep the needle pointing up for Illinois basketball. He knows that, he knows he's lost momentum, he's made mistakes, but there's plenty of opportunity out there to right the boat (namely the uber talented 2017 Illinois HS class). We'll wrap up this class with either a transfer or someone like Nicholls, then full on pressure on the 2017 class. Get someone like Goodwin to jump early and start recruiting others.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 11:27 AM) Fox and Fangio did in preseason. So we are no different than any other franchise, we hold onto bats*** crazy players because they are good at football. It's disappointing, especially since we're not in a competitive year I'd rather make the right choice and not the football choice. Ratliff most likely wasn't in the long term picture anyways.

Kill retiring from Minny, too bad always respected his ability. Add another Big Ten school looking for a new football coach as well.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 12:03 AM) The thing is, Illinois is not winning. Groce's main thing was supposed to be recruiting. His coaching was always just ok. He's done about as well as everyone expected coaching wise, but he couldn't hold up his end in recruiting. If they wanted recruiting classes like they have now, they were better off with Weber because he's a better X's and O's coach. Weber's "top" recruiting classes also stunk, like really stunk. His best recruiting was the underrated guys that fit his system, but when he went after rankings he got guys that were either terrible or didn't fit in. Let's look at his 2010 and 2011 classes, some of his best ranked ones: 2011 - 17th Abrams, Egwu, Henry, Shaw, Ibby, Langford. He got 2 good players out of that. Henry was good but unfortunately left the program to play the 3 at Depaul (only to end up playing the 4 and 5 there as well). Shaw, Ibby and Langford were all non-D1 major program caliber players. Shaw just announced he's hanging it up at Bradley, Ibby parely plays at SIU, Langford went to a DII school I believe. 2010 - 11th Jereme Richmond, Meyers Leonard, Crandall Head. Only Leonard was good and even then he left before he could be a stud. Weber was not coaching well and was not identifying good talent for the program when he got canned. He got fired for good reason, wanting to go back to him is meatheadness. Groce has not been spectacular, I don't think anyone here has said that in about a year or two now.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 09:10 PM) This is so important, and not just in this situation. You should never learn anything new in a review. Otherwise, that's poor management. 100% agreed.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 09:58 PM) I assume most fans expect higher quality classes. Fans want the big hits, because they are sexy. Honestly, our rankings have been good enough to win with, but we aren't winning. If we are winning more then we won't care as much when we miss out on the 5 stars going to Duke/KU/UK, that's just the game today. Plus, we win more we'll eventually get a few of those guys.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 10:11 PM) I do. But I guess some people are happy beating out USC on recruits. Keep trolling.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 04:29 PM) Has Illinois had a top ten class in the last 5 years or so? From 247: 2015 - 17th (right ahead of MSU, but this also includes Paul and he's gone already) 2014 - 47th (only 2 players, Finke was not ranked high at all) 2013 - 21st (Groce's first year) 2012 - N/A (no players) 2011 - 17th (almost all busts, Abrams and Egwu were the only contributors) 2010 - 11th (Jereme Richmond, Meyers Leonard, Crandall Head. Only Leonard was good and even then he left before he could be a stud) So nope, no top 10 according to 247 though 2010 was close.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 09:34 PM) Yeah I do. Or please cite to me how they beat out Kansas for Cliff Alexander. Or how they beat out other teams for Jalen Brunson, Xavier Simpson, Carlton Bragg, Elijah Thomas and Jawun Evans. Don't worry, I'll wait. LOL, you fail at following the recruiting game. EVERY school misses out on recruits, and they'll miss more than they hit. Illinois has gone after some big names for sure, and they have missed on most of them (just like how many other big schools missed on them). But at the same time, they landed the following in the past few years and I've listed some of their best offers: Thorne - Offers from Kentucky and Kansas JCL - Offers from UM, MSU, Arizona, OSU Jordan - Offers from IU and Wisky DJW - Offers from Florida, Georgetown Black - Baylor, UCONN, IU, Kansas, UCLA Yup, Illinois doesn't land anyone who has big offers. Illinois/Groce have been doing a good job recruiting minus the black hole at the PG position (and now have a kid who had offers from USC, Purdue, Memphis and should move up the rankings) in the fold for 2016. They have been far from perfect but no one is, not even Calipari (though he's gotten damn close). If you want to hate on the performance of the team then go ahead, plenty to hate about, but Illinois has been recruiting pretty damn well considering their season performances.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 12:26 PM) Psh, O365 has some of the same issues, Cloud Services when architected poorly are worse than on-prem apps. I see it every day. Yea I'm not necessarily fighting for on prem vs cloud. And yes, the architect we had on this apparently is an idiot. But, the business doesn't understand the difference and they still believe that our IT would be able to fix the vendor's problems. That's the con of going to the cloud, you lose that control. The only control you will have is whatever agreements you have for SLAs in the contract. That's what frustrates me, that they don't understand this still.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 25, 2015 -> 11:43 PM) They probably have a realistic shot at him, but anytime Illinois goes after a recruit another big school wants, they lose plain and simple. This is so false, do you even follow recruiting?

Loving this situation at work: business brought in a cloud app to handle email orders, they of course went with the cheapest option (to be fair it was WAY cheaper). They ask IT to expedite the integration, which according to the vendor is typically 18 weeks, we did it in 6. So of course it wasn't architected well or tested much, which lead to the inevitable complete breakage after like 2 weeks of being in production. The business then runs to us saying we need to fix it, but it's a cloud app so we have 0 control over it. On top of all of that, we turned out to be their biggest customer and are in unchartered territory, and since we are the largest they aren't hosting the service themselves, they are using a 3rd party provider for the hosted servers (and a s***ty cheap one from what we can tell). You get what you pay for that's for sure.