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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 27, 2014 -> 10:04 AM) To be fair, his claim is that ownership lied to him about not trading him. To be fair, taking the word of Jeffrey Loria is laughably stupid and he should have gotten it in writing if he didn't want to be traded.

Well this season is over. Time to start cheering for a draft choice.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 24, 2014 -> 10:33 AM) B&B shouldn't be listened to with regarding U of I sports, particularly with how bad they botched the last coaching search. The trustees who complained the last time aren't around for the most part and the one who is doesn't seem to actually care and was just following along. Doubt it will be much of a factor. Mike Thomas should be more worried about his job if he fails to find a winning coach. I actually do think that if things are equal or close to equal Illinois needs to hire a minority coach just to get rid of the perception some people have. The problem is that outside of Babers there aren't a ton of good minority candidates for Illinois. And agree on Thomas. I like Groce and his hiring record and Cincy was stellar but if he fails on a second football coach at Illinois he is gone. And it really sucks but I hope Illinois loses every football game until Beckman is fired. I just don't want there to be any chance he is brought back. If he is brought back Thomas should be fired this offseason as well.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Oct 23, 2014 -> 06:25 PM) Yeah, I wasn't a huge believer in his initially because I don't think he's all that athletic. He works his ass off though (as you can see by all the videos his dad posts on loyalty) and I think,at worst, he's a 3 and d guy. He shoots too well and works too hard not to be successful I think. Downside is a DJ Richardson type I think (Jordan is much bigger though). I think Jordan is a better shooter than DJ as well. I don't think he will be as ready to play as DJ was his freshman year because DJ played against such great competition his last year in high school but I think Jordan has better upside (despite being lower ranked) based on his size and the fact he appears to actually be able to dribble a basketball.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2014 -> 01:23 PM) When your coach/administration "suggests" a class and they have the power to drop you from the team and cost you your scholarship at any moment, it's not just a "suggestion" Depends on the player. Rashad McCants was definitely involved in this and there is not a f***ing chance Roy Williams would have kicked him off the team if McCants said he wouldn't take one of these classes. Of course based no his purported transcript floating around McCants may not have been able to stay eligible without these classes.

That trailer was awesome. I'm already excited for that one.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 21, 2014 -> 11:22 AM) Defense is much more about attitude then skill. If you want to play D, with his athleticism, he should be a great player. Yes, you need some athleticism but a lot of being a good defender has to do with focusing on it and bringing the energy and intensity necessary on the other end of the court. Lebron is going to bring the best out of the Cavs defense. Plus he's just an insanely talented defensive player. A generational defender (let alone his offensive game). Dude is just incredible and to be frank, I can't help but root for him despite my immediate disdain after the decision. Defense at the PG position is also pretty overrated as long as you don't have a guy who is a complete trainwreck defensively which Kyrie shouldn't be. Scheme, rebounding and rim protection are the keys to being a really good defensive team for the most part (obviously it helps if you have guys like Pippen, Payton, etc. who are fantastic on ball defenders though).

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2014 -> 09:30 AM) I must be naïve. I think like 5% of the time there's cheating going on. Maybe a higher percent on fringe-violations/shaddy stuff, like giving an AAU coach or uncle a job in a program. But straight up cash and gifts? No way. Too much social media coverage and the penalties are too stiff. If I were a coach there's no way in hell I'm chancing losing millions in salary on an 18 year old keeping something like money secret. You are naive when it comes to top prospects. It is way higher than that.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 21, 2014 -> 04:48 PM) How many 5 stars does Donovan get? I don't feel like he nails a ton but his 4 stars become seniors and then destroy the 5 star freshman. Pretty many. He isn't Calipari or Coach K when it comes to landing that level of recruit but it seems like he gets a 5* recruit just about every year these days and has for a while.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 02:08 PM) Between that game & the Clemson & NC State games, it's pretty obvious this FSU team is nowhere near as good as last years. They will likely still make the final 4, but I sure as hell wouldn't pick them to win it all. (Plus, it's probably a 50/50 chance Winston is ineligible by January.) Oklahoma State had a decent shot against them as well.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 01:49 PM) TWD with another good episode. Potential spoiler from comic book:

Horrible performance by the 49ers WRs and TEs so far. Bunch of drops on really easy plays.

So Brandon Marshall apparently called out Cutler today and Kyle Long ripped the fans after the game today. This season could go off the rails if they lose next week.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 12:20 PM) Yes. They are starting a 3rd string true freshman QB. Indiana shockingly leading MSU pretty late in the 2nd quarter. MSU's run defense has been abysmal.

Not a good day for Oklahoma's kicker.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) True. But Spidermans role in Civil war is pretty big, it would be a shame to replace him I'd love to see it and hopefully Marvel gets the right back to Spiderman since Sony is doing a s*** job with the character.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 10:02 AM) One thing to keep in mind about it, Spiderman is an absolutely pivotal character. If they plan on doing it without him....well lets just say they shouldnt do that. I doubt the Civil War in the MCU will be the same as the Civil War in the comics. Especially since we don't have any characters in the MCU yet whose identities aren't already known.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 09:40 AM) I actually have confidence in Josh Trank to get a good Fantastic 4 off the ground. Fox seems to have plans for their own shared universe with X Men and FF I don't think the quality of the movie is what will matter to Fox but whether it is profitable. If it is good but still does poorly financially I'm guessing Fox might give up on those characters making them a lot of money since neither of the first two Fantastic 4 movies (obviously they were both awful which hurt) were huge at the box office. I also am not sure Marvel cares all that much about getting the Fantastic 4 back other than to get their cosmic characters like Silver Surfer and Galactus.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 07:37 AM) They might be, im not sure. i was just reading the wiki of the core members of the group, not saying who was going to star in the movie or show They are with Marvel but Feige said this back in July: "It’s slightly more complicated than that. Let’s put it this way – there are entanglements that make it less easy. There are older contracts that still involve other parties that mean we need to work things out before we move forward on it. As opposed to an Iron Man or any of the Avengers or any of the other Marvel characters where we could just put them in." I'd guess that Universal might still have distribution rights (similar to Paramount distributing the first few Marvel movies after Disney's acquisition) and that with all of Marvel's other properties they just won't use Namor until that is cleaned up. I'm also pretty sure that at this point everything is back at Marvel other than Spiderman and his universe of characters (at Sony), X-Men and Fantastic Four and their universe of characters (at Fox). X-Men will be with Fox for a long long time unless Disney/Marvel just pays Fox a crazy amount of money. I could see Spiderman returning to Marvel for a decent amount of money fairly soon as Sony isn't that stable financially and they have a limited amount of characters and are starting to see significant diminishing returns on the Spiderman movies (and how many Spiderman movies can you really make with such a limited character base). Fantastic Four rights include Silver Surfer and Galactus and whether those stay with Fox or not long term will probably depend on the success of Fantastic Four next year. If that movie bombs I wouldn't be surprised if Fox gave up on those characters and decided to just focus on X-Men and let the rights to Fantastic Four revert back to Marvel and just

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 03:39 PM) Im curious if Silver Surfer is Fantastic Four exclusive or if he is a character like Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch that is interchangeable between franchises. The former.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 02:51 PM) One thing i did like when I read up on Defenders was after that first three core members, the next long time member is Silver Surfer. I would love to get him into the Marvel universe after the travesty that was Fantastic Four 2. And...Galactus I don't see Marvel getting any of the Fantastic Four related characters back unless next years Fantastic Four movie bombs. I hate to root against if it is good but I hope regardless of the quality that movie does terribly at the box office so Fox stops caring about those characters and the rights revert back to Marvel like has happened with basically all non-Spiderman/X-Men characters. Fox has picked it up the quality of their X-Men movies but I'd like Marvel to have as many of their characters available to them as possible because they have done such a great job with their shared universe. And if the next couple Spider-Man universe movies continue to decline at the box office I think Marvel gets those rights back in the not to distant future as well which would be fantastic.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 12:02 PM) Hulk was somewhat surprising to me. They really have been holding off on it because the Ed Norton Jr version didnt really go over that well. Defenders, i just didnt know about. Everything else has been talked about, so I am not surprised. I figured Avengers 3 wasnt there because it is always the conclusion to Phases. And who knows, maybe they are trying to rope in Spiderman before they announce it Yeah, I don't know anything about the Defenders but they are clearly trying to introduce some fairly unknown characters or teams if they think they have a good story. With how popular Hulk was in the Avengers I'm not surprised they would try another solo movie. Of course the issue in those movies is always balancing the amount of screen time for Banner vs. the Hulk. In the Avengers Banner isn't carrying the movie so that wasn't an issue and people loved the Hulk. But will people love a movie that is almost all Hulk or in which Banner is the main character? That remains to be seen.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 11:38 AM) Twitter, it is the rumored leak of phase 3. Whoever leaked this one, also leaked the phase 2 picture which turned out 100 percent correct. Interesting. Nothing on there would shock me although Avengers 3 should be on there.

Kyyle where are you seeing that? Most of those movies (or something similar) will happen but I've seen a lot of similar mockups before and they usually end up being wrong.

Julio Jones playing an awful game so far today. Two huge drops so far.