The Deuce: The season is over 3 months away. Let’s all chill*

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The season is over 3 months away. Let’s all chill*

Posted by bjl63

on August 5, 2026, 12:23:15, in reply to "You’re not helping, Sam."

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@Sam_Vecenie
FWIW David Mirkovic would have been my pick for NPOY this coming year. Had been told pretty clearly by Illinois that he looked absolutely elite this summer and is going to take a massive leap.

Bummer on his foot surgery. Hopefully recovers quickly and it doesn't impact his year

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August College Sports thread - assassin August 3, 2026, 11:34:22

Andre Curbelo. Professional wrestler. He and Luke Ford would be a great tag team… - LeatherneckIllini Yesterday, 11:35:19
- Seems to be a lot of skepticism that it is Curbelo * - jdl Yesterday, 12:48:24
- Maybe the most fun ILL basketball season ever before the Loyola debacle. This is sad.* - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 12:34:00
  - I think you may be romanticizing that season too much. - OB25 Yesterday, 15:46:02
    - 1 seed after being irrelevant for so long. Legit BBMDL. I said what I said!* - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:57:05
  - That Michigan game was absolute porn* - ATL Yesterday, 15:33:25
- Interesting response about his time at Illinois - Jersey Yesterday, 12:27:53
  - Reads like someone who should be under the care of a licensed professional * - biclops Yesterday, 14:56:43
    - Kinda reads like someone who should be in prison* - illinilosch Yesterday, 16:13:16
  - shoulda never agreed to meet Brad in the Pizza Hut parking lot* - ATL Yesterday, 12:30:28
- I wish I could say this is a surprising career move. - DocWalk20 Yesterday, 11:49:44
- That should certainly help the head injury situation* - ATL Yesterday, 11:49:34
Trivia. Name the three active college basketball coaches with 500 wins, 20 years and a natty… - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:19:05
- Please tell me you’re not counting Billy Donovan * - TarheelIllini August 6, 2026, 21:58:10
  - Probably not division 1* - TarheelIllini August 6, 2026, 21:58:54
- Scott drew?* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:28:34
  - nope. all have to be at their current school.* - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:29:29
    - apparently he will be on the list next year (assuming they win 17 games)* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:42:19
- self* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:27:06
  - Yup. Hint on the third. As a freshman at Iowa State Johnny Orr benched him for hitting a 3… - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:29:01
    - This was rigged - Matt Margenthaler * - Jersey August 6, 2026, 19:38:30
      - Yup!* - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:43:47
      - dumb * - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:41:39
    - Is it D-II or D-III?* - bjl63 August 6, 2026, 19:33:58
- izzo, painter * - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:21:24
  - Izzo is correct.* - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:22:13
    - I answered before your edit. What do you mean “500 wins, 20 wins”?* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:23:00
      - oops 20 years. - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:25:22
Golf schedule has dropped - jdl August 6, 2026, 19:15:37
Mirkovic in a boot - biclops August 6, 2026, 14:59:24
- Guy standing at the top left of that "H" in the pic: obviously about a 15th-year senior.... * - osklister August 6, 2026, 17:49:06
  - Can't get anything past a superfan like you.* - Chuck Woodaby August 6, 2026, 18:52:32
    - Ah, that little farce you played with the hoops team: you think that could fool an Illini? - osklister Yesterday, 13:40:59
- QC, do you even lift bro? * - jdl August 6, 2026, 15:10:57
- Better than one of those knee scooters or crutches. - tvillini August 6, 2026, 15:01:43
  - Uhhh, he's sitting on his 'scooter'. * - illinijohn August 6, 2026, 15:10:30
new Purdue AD is fired up - assassin August 6, 2026, 12:30:18
- Can you imagine Whitman doing this?* - opossum jenkins August 6, 2026, 19:44:13
- It's always fun to see other schools stepping on their own (insert plural phallus here) - uofi1998 August 6, 2026, 13:36:26
- What's the opposite of saying something with your whole chest?* - Warrin'_Illini August 6, 2026, 13:11:59
- Not a great time for that message - Sammich August 6, 2026, 13:10:51
  - horse school - RVA August 6, 2026, 14:01:20
  - Even if he is only talking about basketball...at least IU has some banners* - Desert August 6, 2026, 13:48:42
- That’s a Beckman level “you have to be out on this guy solely based on the intro presser” - OB25 August 6, 2026, 12:43:03
Does anyone still listen to The Drive on 93.5 in CU? - biclops August 5, 2026, 16:20:44
- they did...it's now kurtis and evan. it's....not very good, imo* - lcubed August 6, 2026, 08:21:19
  - so Kurtis....Blows? * - Jersey August 6, 2026, 13:30:21
    - You're giving him a bad rap.* - MojoJojo August 6, 2026, 13:33:08
  - That I knew about, but when I listened the other day there was no Kurtis - biclops August 6, 2026, 08:50:14
    - gotcha. i think i heard both kurtis and evan when i tried listening sometime this week* - lcubed August 6, 2026, 09:01:22
- You mean in Philo. :) * - Philo August 6, 2026, 07:21:50
Reports that WKU has been added to our BB non-con schedule - biclops August 5, 2026, 12:21:23
Izzo sticking to his guns, says he recruited guys to fill his roster and won’t take Kohler back now* - OB25 August 4, 2026, 21:06:24
- Typically Izzo’s holier than thou shit is exhausting but I respect this stance* - CWR10 August 6, 2026, 13:07:13
- Would Kohler sign a 6 week contract? - Blazer August 5, 2026, 13:06:33
- *Will Wade pops out of dumpster** - assassin August 4, 2026, 21:52:57
mirk had surgery for a foot injury - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 14:52:57
- You’re not helping, Sam. - OB25 August 4, 2026, 20:25:33
  - meh* - ATL August 5, 2026, 13:08:29
  - The season is over 3 months away. Let’s all chill* - bjl63 August 5, 2026, 12:23:15
- What'd you name the dog, Effin?* - RVA August 4, 2026, 19:33:54
- Rando on Reddit saying they heard “Jones fracture”… - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 17:30:33
  - If that's what it its, I had the same break in a bone in my foot. Took about 12 weeks to heal - IlliniRunner August 6, 2026, 13:21:25
    - And you don't say whether you had surgery or not. - illinijohn August 6, 2026, 13:58:32
      - No surgery. The bone was not displaced that much. A Jones fracture is in the metatarsal at the end - IlliniRunner August 6, 2026, 16:59:59
  - I got a basketball jones* - biclops August 4, 2026, 17:32:31
- Goodman sources say 6-8 weeks - jdl August 4, 2026, 17:03:50
  - He'll almost be ready for UAB. We're fine.* - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 17:30:18
  - Yes please* - Blazer August 4, 2026, 17:26:06
  - As good a guess as any at this point.* - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 17:10:23
- I doubt we’d do it, but do we have a scholarship open for these new 5th year guys? - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:50:43
  - We have 1 open scholarship* - illini222 August 4, 2026, 16:54:25
- So the plan was to design the offense to run through him and now he’s going to be unable to - biclops August 4, 2026, 16:28:57
  - Yup. Not great, Bob.* - JFG August 4, 2026, 17:05:30
- Every offseason some main player gets injured* - snipes824 August 4, 2026, 16:12:50
- Be back by mid January please * - MC August 4, 2026, 16:07:13
  - That seems pretty far out to be the “please” scenario. - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:12:36
    - Yes that would be a bad timeline but idc I just want a healthy team for FEB/MAR and a title - MC August 4, 2026, 16:36:03
    - Yeah, Werner is saying a few months - Blazer August 4, 2026, 16:18:58
      - ~3 months (90 days) from today is the first game of the season* - CanHartlebHireSnider August 4, 2026, 16:32:27
        
        Yep, but Werner is just guessing based on what he's heard - Blazer August 4, 2026, 16:48:24
        
        My wife broke her 5th Metatarsal 10 weeks before her first full Ironman. - tvillini August 4, 2026, 17:20:35
        
        Re: "We didn’t think it would speed up or impact her recovery than just normal immobilization." - illinijohn August 6, 2026, 15:20:11
        
        How is your wife on the boards? - biclops August 4, 2026, 17:31:40
    - Would be nice to follow the Tomi timeline from last year - jdl August 4, 2026, 16:18:57
- God dammit* - Blazer August 4, 2026, 16:00:55
- Gotta wear that protective foot gear man - jdl August 4, 2026, 15:59:19
  - Yup, there is definitely a much greater than 0 chance he did this doing something dumb* - OrangeSox August 4, 2026, 16:04:41
    - Maybe this injury will prevent him from doing something stupid in the near future which - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 16:12:03
    - ooo? - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 16:10:58
      - You're implying he fell whilst trying to climb this tree? Definitely plausible* - OrangeSox August 4, 2026, 16:14:40
- cool, cool, coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool, coolcool, cool, cool - IlliniSax05 August 4, 2026, 15:40:24
- Will he still be able to participate in the autograph session before famILLy movie night at Gies - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 15:39:49
- t's August and not October. Not worried one bit* - bjl63 August 4, 2026, 15:23:02
- Werner saying "probably a few months."* - illini21 August 4, 2026, 15:22:04
  - Seems alright then, we have good depth. Take your time and come back healthy.* - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 15:27:49
    - He said this is what they’re hoping for, so I wouldn’t be too confident in it. - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:02:54
    - I’m ultimately most worried about his conditioning. All indications were he’d amped up the fitness - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 15:42:26
- Quick surgery, “full recovery” and minimal detail portend badness. * - uofi1998 August 4, 2026, 15:19:49
  - My initial read of 247 is that this could be bad bad* - ijustkrushalot August 4, 2026, 15:22:34
- Bears and Illini's pets having some head-attachment-to-body problems.* - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 15:15:06
  - LMFCO* - Jackie August 4, 2026, 15:43:07
- I hate everyone and everything. All at once.* - Chuck Woodaby August 4, 2026, 15:11:12
  - ^^^^^^This^^^^^^^* - ilinni11 August 4, 2026, 15:20:10
- God dammit, every fucking year. 90/10 rule rumor out there that he’ll miss all of non-conference* - OB25 August 4, 2026, 15:10:46
  - i mean we were pretty healthy last year really* - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 15:20:23
    - Except for Ty, Tomi, Dre and Kylan * - jdl August 4, 2026, 16:19:52
      - That’s relatively good. No season enders (Ty i guess but whatever). No even half season miss - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 20:12:09
      - Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?* - Blazer August 4, 2026, 17:00:05
      - I’m not convinced Wagler was ever fully the same after the UCLA shoulder injury either* - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:49:34
  - Jesus. A 16 week recovery would be fucking brutal* - Mrap24 August 4, 2026, 15:19:29
- full recovery when? * - ijustkrushalot August 4, 2026, 14:53:44
  - Exactly. Kind of a key piece of info they left out there* - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 15:11:48
  - indeed* - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 14:56:02
- uh oh? * - aimlessillini August 4, 2026, 14:53:20
Bielema says Davon Grant is gawn - jfinsocal August 3, 2026, 21:01:35
- Medical issue that will keep him from playing, but BB thinks he will still enroll. - Illiniphil August 3, 2026, 21:16:02
Unless there’s more to this story, terrible look for both Luke Murray and the BC AD - OB25 August 3, 2026, 20:37:38
- Yeah, that's a priority. How bad does your program have to be for THAT spit to fly? - osklister August 4, 2026, 17:31:45
- Imagine the level of scab that takes the job - assassin August 3, 2026, 21:35:40
- Hadn't realized Bill Murray's kid got that job. Sounds like a real prick.* - Carl Spackler August 3, 2026, 21:19:21
  - Just like his daddy* - bjl63 August 3, 2026, 23:15:23
Looks like Ayo got engaged. - tvillini August 3, 2026, 18:35:05
OL concerns me more than the DL at this point... - uofi1998 August 3, 2026, 11:50:00
- One good thing: Houser was #1 or 2 in time to release last year. So maybe that’ll help the situation - ATL August 4, 2026, 01:54:05

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