Yeah I don’t get the stay in your lane attitude
Edited by snipes824 on December 16, 2025, 11:36:06
You’re historically 15, so be happy staying at 15 in perpetuity. That’s not really human nature. You strive for more. You try to grow and achieve and break through. 15 is amazing as a floor. It’s not as amazing as a ceiling. Which is probably the glass half full/glass half empty paradox of our situation.  Previous Message We are achieving. Not underachieving not overachieving. We are historically about #15 in wins, and that's about where we are in the polls. We are very safely and comfortable in that range without much danger of moving. Besides one very notable game, all of our tournament results have been fairly chalky We are very good... but there are a handful of programs that either catch fire for a year or two or structurally remain above us  Previous Message We’ve reached the stage that happens with college football programs that leads to the prevailing sentiment that all fanbases are miserable, it just manifests itself in different ways. We’re now at the Penn State football stage where a lot of people are only viewing a season as a success if we are as good as the likes of UConn and Duke. So when we make a totally irrelevant move but it happens right after a frustrating loss, people are looking for reasons to be upset. All that being said, I do have a slight fear that going the Euro route even to just get a practice body could start to push this thing a little too far when it comes to the degree to which we are fully making it our program’s entire identity. It’s a great resource to be able to tap into, but we’re trending towards it being the only resource we can tap into for blue chip prospects. We’re mostly operating outside the top 100 for high school recruiting now, and the only transfer portal big fish we’ve reeled in across the last 3 offseasons (Stojakovic) was also due to the Euro connections.  Previous Message and play.  Previous Message NEWS: Croatian forward Toni Bilić has committed to Illinois, his agent Misko Ražnatović told DraftExpress. The 6'9", 20-year-old will arrive at semester break and be eligible to play immediately. pic.twitter.com/jJBtE0GV8z — Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) December 15, 2025 .
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