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ILL expects 18 starters to return.

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CatFanEd said:
I have always felt that schools like Illinois and Indiana could not attract great coaches and players (you need both to win) because of their locations. Champaign and Bloomington are just not great places to live, sort of out of the way in rural areas. NIL has changed all that. Show me the money is what matters and not the schools location.
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Bloomington is less than an hour from Indianapolis and is a pretty nice place to live and a great place to go to school. I wouldn’t compare it to Champaign.
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ILL expects 18 starters to return.

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CatFanEd said:
I have always felt that schools like Illinois and Indiana could not attract great coaches and players (you need both to win) because of their locations. Champaign and Bloomington are just not great places to live, sort of out of the way in rural areas. NIL has changed all that. Show me the money is what matters and not the schools location.
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I don’t believe the resurgence of either Illinois or Indiana is due to NIL. Indiana is Transfer U, but I doubt their war chest is larger than the typical SEC or B1G team.
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ILL expects 18 starters to return.

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Sheffielder said:
Agree. I always considered Illinois to be a sleeping giant and just thought it was funny how they kept misfiring. Let's hope we haven't effectively flipped the script.
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I have always felt that schools like Illinois and Indiana could not attract great coaches and players (you need both to win) because of their locations. Champaign and Bloomington are just not great places to live, sort of out of the way in rural areas. NIL has changed all that. Show me the money is what matters and not the schools location.
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Gronowski to Iowa

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Baz=Heisman said:
Sullivan runs from competition - as we saw with us. I’d be shocked if he doesn’t bail on Iowa.
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His history of injuries and his performance in the bowl game will make him not so popular in Iowa. He will most likely be on the bench unless he gets lucky and Gronowski gets injured. He should probably move on to maybe a MAC or lower division school if he wants to get playing time.
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Props to my son

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Eurocat said:
I never thought I would have an athlete in the family, we are all medical nerds (except for me, I faint at the sight of a drop of blood, so sad too bad). But my 14-year-old had really taken basketball to heart and even though he is only 14 they make him play in the 15–16-year-old league and in last week's tournament he was names MVP for the finals game where he scored 27 points and snagged 24 rebounds.
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Too cool!

A grandson who is close to the same age just became the first of my progeny to make a school basketball team having survived two cuts to play on his 8th grade Middle School team. He has quite a way to go to get close to your son's stats though.

You might have met his Dad at an NU Tailgate back when he was wrestling for NU.

Here he is heading in for his first layup in his first game, having just gotten a steal:

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NU looks to find answers to offensive issues

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ThatkidfromHolland said:
Whether it's right or wrong, the best players usually get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to fouls. They get those favorable whistles. Now, Collins sees Brooks as one of those guys. He believes Brooks is at that level, where he’s deserves that level of respect on the court.

Brooks' style of play, driving hard to the basket, finishing through contact, that’s the kind of game that should get him to the line more often. The dude’s got great balance and strength, great footwork, and he knows how to use that contact to his advantage. With the way he attacks the rim, especially with all the banging he takes inside, you’d expect him to be living at the free-throw line more than he has been. That is the longer and less subtle version of what Collins is saying. He should be shooting more free throws.
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Agreed. Brooks has been playing thru constant, hard contact all season without getting to the line in keeping with that contact. Collins knows it and so do the rest of the coaches, the fans, and the media.
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