I also don’t really think Aaron Henry is going to be the difference in our recruiting.
Portal season proved we are definitely at least somewhat limited in financial resources, but that still doesn’t explain having no real traction at all in high school recruiting. It’s definitely odd that starting from the moment we started losing all our returning defensive lineman, we seemingly just stopped adding players at all - first in the portal and now in HS recruiting. Is there like a specific date in the academic calendar where a new annual round of rev share money comes through? No idea how any of this works so just throwing shit against the wall here, it feels like there has to be some strategy for waiting to sign HS guys right now? Then again I assumed there was a strategy behind our whole DL transferring out too.  Previous Message from how embarrassing the Washington and Wisconsin games were. Wisconsin going up and down the field on Henry's defense shouldn't be forgotten because our 2027 recruiting looks poor.
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Football recruiting is looking pretty bleak right now - illini21 April 30, 2026, 8:35:29
- new JUCO commit: 3* DL - ATL May 15, 2026, 15:07:34
- new commit: 3 star LB from St. Laurence - assassin May 15, 2026, 13:23:17
- Indiana keeps rolling. - EffinIllini May 15, 2026, 13:10:06
- The new JUCO TE we brought in was just rated the #1 JUCO TE in the country - JacobRDaugherty May 14, 2026, 21:57:53
- Apparently we offered Dez Bryant’s kid.* - bjl63 May 14, 2026, 18:44:59
- Got another pretty solid OL - OB25 May 14, 2026, 9:03:59
- Signed a Juco TE - jdl May 13, 2026, 18:03:22
- I’m officially starting to get nervous - snipes824 May 12, 2026, 10:51:28
- SJO lineman Cameron Wagner to Oregon* - illini21 May 11, 2026, 12:14:25
- We actually got a commitment and it looks like a pretty good one. - OB25 May 9, 2026, 11:49:44
- Bert’s long time chief of staff heading to Oklahoma. - uofi1998 May 4, 2026, 21:52:17
- Bert on recruiting - illini21 May 1, 2026, 15:41:07
- On the flip side, I was just thinking this week about how we've gone 19-7 with two bowl wins - Blazer April 30, 2026, 16:44:32
- real quick roster glace... I have 92 players who could be back next year (with a 5 in 5 rule) - ijustkrushalot April 30, 2026, 14:25:54
- Let's see how it goes this year. I was a much bigger Aaron Henry defender - JacobRDaugherty April 30, 2026, 8:44:12
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