on December 16, 2025, 13:15:51, in reply to "It's also always worth pointing out in these conversations that social media isn't real"
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Our Twitter fanbase is particularly unhinged, and while there are certainly a handful of very vocal personalities driving the engagement who are definitely real people, I'm not sure how much of the subsequent discourse is actual people, given what we know about bots and Twitter activity these days.
(As a sidenote, I've been trying to impress this upon roughy lately, who tends to let the mood of the Twitter-sphere drive his approach to the fanbase. None of it is real.)
Rather, I like to use the "Mom" rule in these situations--if my Mom, who watches all Illini games but gets her news from the radio shows and News-Gazoo--hasn't registered something, then things are just fine for about 99% of the fanbase. Previous Message
I get it...but at least he's open to exploring other avenues while maintaining some level of success. Previous Message
Huge supporter of Brad.
It’s about wanting him to learn and adapt again after trying euro only, all offense no defense for a couple years. Maybe it breaks through, but the results so far seem capped. Previous Message
to go back to the Weber/Groce eras. I'd rather go with BU and stay above that level with a chance to progress than go backward.
And I don't really care where the talent comes from as long as the staff does a good job of evaluating and bringing it in - whether that be from overseas or Shawnee, KS. Previous Message
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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- osklister December 17, 2025, 9:04:21