The Deuce: it's basically our Dr. Who *

Signing day - several already signed including Cam Thomas. - ATL December 3, 2025, 6:45:40

Totally for fun: the On Three recruiting rankings, our top player for the last few years. - osklister Yesterday, 13:13:48
- Seems like Elzy got a lot of pub on signing day, but very little since. Oh well. - osklister Yesterday, 17:25:06
- a list of guys that didn't pan out. looks like beerman will be a contributor though* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 14:27:07
  - Too early to say on Daniel Brown* - JacobRDaugherty Yesterday, 15:18:16
Rest of the B1G teams/awards announced - biclops Yesterday, 12:31:01
- I don’t think they have enough awards, or names attached to awards* - Mrap24 Yesterday, 14:22:35
- Sigh, just too many teams...very disappointed that Altmeyer and Olano not recognized more* - RSMBob Yesterday, 13:04:52
- Only Davis and Beatty recognized, HM for Gesky and Altmyer. 8-4 seems good given the talent level* - Orangeillini Yesterday, 13:00:44
so the punter we signed can kick with either leg. ok * - ECEIllinois December 3, 2025, 17:35:10
- He’s probably so drunk he sees two footballs!* - CoronaTheirAss December 3, 2025, 19:04:05
- Yeah but can he kick with both at the same time* - biclops December 3, 2025, 18:29:40
- Total gamechanger* - Tortillini December 3, 2025, 18:15:05
Spaceballs wedding version: Better, worse, or same than other years of Bielema recruiting?* - voiceofreason December 3, 2025, 17:22:00
All B1G defensive/specialist teams & some individual awards announced - biclops December 3, 2025, 16:30:39
- Jacas the only Illini to get 1st, 2nd, or 3rd team honor on defense. Need better players.* - Orangeillini December 3, 2025, 16:37:58
  - I really think our coaches failed them this year. * - ATL December 3, 2025, 17:02:14
    - maybe, but outside of an injured X, who else was there? - assassin December 3, 2025, 17:29:25
      - Bailey, Scott, Durojaiye, Clarke, and Cox all got HM - snipes824 December 3, 2025, 18:30:17
        
        We end the year with #41 ranked defense, the offense ranked #33. The Offense is - JacobRDaugherty December 3, 2025, 18:44:07
        
        We scored more points on OSU than anyone the entire year* - Blazer December 3, 2025, 19:00:22
        
        Yes, but there were bad TOs. It was mistakes v tOSU rather than poor performance like with - ATL Yesterday, 12:39:38
        
        The snow game inflated/deflated both sides of that a couple spots I’d imagine - snipes824 December 3, 2025, 18:53:40
    - Agreed* - reggiedunlop December 3, 2025, 17:07:49
- Offensive teams to be announced tomorrow* - ATL December 3, 2025, 16:37:07
  - thank you. will chump* - biclops December 3, 2025, 16:46:53
  - Oh, I got a few offensive people right here in mind for awards.... - osklister December 3, 2025, 16:44:25
Those Were The Days - I went to a signing day “party” at Memorial Stadium for this class. - OB25 December 3, 2025, 15:25:29
- Yeah, I think only like 6 of those guys panned out at all* - opossum jenkins December 3, 2025, 18:23:34
- Pretty sure I was there as well - IlliniSax05 December 3, 2025, 16:40:12
- Haha, I was there as well! 16-year-old me was a believer in Kisan Flakes* - illini21 December 3, 2025, 15:35:57
  - Garza and Stroud were the guys I remember talking myself into based on the tape. - OB25 December 3, 2025, 16:20:28
  - Billy Garza won the Heisman for me in NCAA Football '07* - Blazer December 3, 2025, 15:50:40
  - I preferred the frosted* - Phytynlini December 3, 2025, 15:39:21
- Russ Weil was a fuckin legend tho * - assassin December 3, 2025, 15:33:15
OK we have both a Hankins and a Rankin, both 4*. I've been thinking they were the same guy* - ECEIllinois December 3, 2025, 15:09:13
- if the van is Hankins, don't come a-Rankin* - Sammich December 3, 2025, 15:23:04
Kinda blows my mind that this is (currently) our best recruiting class of the 247/Scout era - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 14:57:30
- Seems like everyone in the conference are getting historically great classes - ECEIllinois December 3, 2025, 15:10:45
  - Part of this is that there are only 2 conferences in tier one * - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 15:14:07
Saw that Smith would be our highest rated recruit since the Benn/Martez class in 2007* - Blazer December 3, 2025, 14:47:00
- where? on Rivals? He's not even our highest recruit this year. * - assassin December 3, 2025, 14:49:54
  - ESPN has him #81 nationally * - jdl December 3, 2025, 14:52:29
    - Here’s hoping that’s the most accurate number!* - assassin December 3, 2025, 14:58:47
      - His list of offers is pretty sexy* - illini21 December 3, 2025, 15:06:12
West Virginia listed with 43 commits lol* - assassin December 3, 2025, 13:36:41
6th in the conference, 21st overall. not bad* - ECEIllinois December 3, 2025, 13:09:03
- These days, the transfers are even more important than the "potentially" 4-year players. - osklister December 3, 2025, 13:36:33
Micah Smith announcement - jdl December 3, 2025, 13:06:41
- Suck it, Liberty* - bbonb December 3, 2025, 17:14:24
- Maxed out on viewers......please to let the rest of us know what he says. - Illiniphil December 3, 2025, 13:19:05
  - Boom. Holy cow. What a class* - UofIL6 December 3, 2025, 13:30:26
  - done. UI* - OWWDig December 3, 2025, 13:24:23
  - ooo - IlliniSax05 December 3, 2025, 13:24:00
  - So Bret's presser just picked up the live stream, that says it all * - jdl December 3, 2025, 13:23:51
  - Holy cow...Champ has his Associates degree already in addition to HS degree? - OWWDig December 3, 2025, 13:22:21
  - We have an Edwardsville AD situation - jdl December 3, 2025, 13:21:52
All but 5 will enroll in January * - jdl December 3, 2025, 12:37:57
- That's really awesome* - UofIL6 December 3, 2025, 13:00:19
I am still at the point where I’m stoked when our guys have multiple P4 offers - biclops December 3, 2025, 11:27:18
how does our class rank in the B1G? * - MC December 3, 2025, 10:57:16
- Way ahead of this - jdl December 3, 2025, 12:47:27
  - Highlight of the class: Peyton Falzone. From a long line of kids named Peyton in that family. - osklister December 3, 2025, 13:00:31
    - more like Failzone, amirite? * - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 13:01:51
- 6th.. partially on volume * - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:58:44
  - that's good though. recruiting is both a quality and quantity game - illiniranger December 3, 2025, 11:06:21
    - looking at the numbers we should anticipate a robust number of portal exits this year - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 11:48:49
      - i agree - illiniranger December 3, 2025, 11:50:31
        
        I need to refine my list, but I got us at around 118 guys next year - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 11:54:28
        
        the hardest guy to replace on the 2025 defense is... - illiniranger December 3, 2025, 11:58:59
Penn State's class currently ranked 144. lol* - gvibes December 3, 2025, 10:19:19
- they probably won't be as bad as their sanction years but geez* - ECEIllinois December 3, 2025, 11:18:31
- hope is the end of them as relevant. it won't be, but I hope so * - MC December 3, 2025, 10:54:16
  - I don't know if anyone at the top end of College football attendance has ever really fallen out - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:57:47
    - Nebraska has been giving it a run, too - IlliniOllie December 3, 2025, 11:19:05
      - they keep hiring the wrong coach - illiniranger December 3, 2025, 11:46:05
        
        Alternative explanation: everyone else is cheating like all hello these days too. - osklister December 3, 2025, 13:02:04
    - maybe they didn't "fall out", but pre-Saban was Alabama really anything? - IlliniSax05 December 3, 2025, 11:04:47
      - they were pretty tough from the 80s - 2000s pre Saban - illiniranger December 3, 2025, 11:43:10
        
        I wonder how much the fallout from the Albert Means recruiting scandal factored into their decline.* - Memphian December 3, 2025, 14:54:01
        
        Saban turning around LSU was harder than his Bama turnaround - illiniranger December 3, 2025, 11:55:48
        
        absolutely. I'm just sayin I don't remember hearing much at all about Alabama - IlliniSax05 December 3, 2025, 12:42:00
- Short of my teams winning championships, there's no bigger sports wish I have than for them to fail - Desert December 3, 2025, 10:48:49
- a lot of things can be fixed in the portal.. but my god. - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:26:24
- three commits. incredible* - OrangeSox December 3, 2025, 10:24:18
How are we doing so far?* - reggiedunlop December 3, 2025, 9:39:25
- Will be the best class since Zook* - UofIL6 December 3, 2025, 11:29:07
- Looks like 26 signed, 3 verbal commits waiting on signing (Matelau, Bennett, Washington)* - ibdoc December 3, 2025, 9:51:58
  - Werner's last 3 tweets were profiles on those three... so gotta be official. - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:05:59
    - and now 247 shows all signed. * - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:13:45
    - Micah Smith announcing at 1pm today. Sounds like we're the favorite* - illini21 December 3, 2025, 10:09:46
      - *does gorilla dance** - ATL December 3, 2025, 10:11:25
        
        Still Dawson out and the mystery Pat Ryan recruit. Probably in February - JacobRDaugherty December 3, 2025, 10:40:13
- pretty much everyone signed, nobody lost, possibly another flip or two coming - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 9:48:59
  - Pretty incredible class* - Carl Spackler December 3, 2025, 10:05:58
    - we have removed most drama from our athletic department - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:06:32
      - That can be attributed to a single person* - ilinni11 December 3, 2025, 17:15:27
  - sounds promising* - reggiedunlop December 3, 2025, 9:56:51
Flipped an edge from Okie State - ATL December 3, 2025, 9:13:25
- flipped him in June FWIW* - bulldogmba December 3, 2025, 11:10:43
- Love it. We need front 7 so badly* - Mrap24 December 3, 2025, 10:07:02
- Any going the other way? Hope not, but it happens* - ibdoc December 3, 2025, 9:30:34
We flipped Javari Barnett from Bama - illini21 December 3, 2025, 8:55:39
- I'm fine with taking the players Bama dropped* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes December 3, 2025, 10:17:55
- Oh wow this the guy that decommitted from us originally, very nice* - OB25 December 3, 2025, 10:11:09
- Bama signed a 5star RB. I think they dropped him* - JacobRDaugherty December 3, 2025, 9:41:15
- nm* - illini21 December 3, 2025, 8:56:07
We flipped the RB back from Alabama - Javari Barnett * - Jersey December 3, 2025, 8:55:26
I assume there is a brother/commitment tied to this... - UofIL6 December 3, 2025, 8:18:18
- Yes. His brother is a target - Micah Smith - decommitted from UCLA* - ATL December 3, 2025, 8:22:21
Another Isaiah Williams?* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes December 3, 2025, 8:08:44
- All the Isaiah Williamses* - ATL December 3, 2025, 8:13:47
  - yo dawg, I heard you like Isaiah Williamses.. - IlliniSax05 December 3, 2025, 8:22:38
    - it's basically our Dr. Who * - ijustkrushalot December 3, 2025, 10:14:12
    - you can never have too many Isaiah Williamses on your team* - bbonb December 3, 2025, 8:27:15
Really hoping we flip Lance Dawson today - illini21 December 3, 2025, 7:47:45
- *pours one out for Private William Santiago* - bbonb December 3, 2025, 7:53:55
Hankins in * - ATL December 3, 2025, 7:25:58
- oh good* - biclops December 3, 2025, 7:26:47
- Rankin in* - ATL December 3, 2025, 7:26:34
  - Bass also. - osklister December 3, 2025, 12:58:15

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