Illini still butthurt...
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This is the laziest reporting I’ve seen in a long time. This guy is so jealous he insinuating that Phinisee and Davis are paid for recruits. Guy must be hurt that his Illini are a dumpster fire of a program.
If he was a real reporter he would have found out Crean cut his own throat with instate coaches. To insinuate that Trayce and his family received money is a flat out lie. Archie is straight up with recruits and their families. Trey Lyles went to Kentucky because his dad held his hand out..
I don't understand how articles like this where the writer does no research and just makes stuff are legal. It's laughable, and what's more laughable is his main source lost his job as a writer. (Bob Krapshits)Irony, I think not.
He insinuates we paid for Rob Phinisee who's from the state and wasn't even ranked top 100, yeah I bet we paid good money to beat out Virginia and Purdue. He Insinuates our best recruiter is Adidas yet I was at TJD's game the other day and everything he was wearing was Nike. I guess he didn't get the memo.
Whole lot of butthurt and jealousy coming out of Illinois these days, sad really. Only a few more days before we go in dry,
IU 85
Illinois 61
He insinuates we paid for Rob Phinisee who's from the state and wasn't even ranked top 100, yeah I bet we paid good money to beat out Virginia and Purdue. He Insinuates our best recruiter is Adidas yet I was at TJD's game the other day and everything he was wearing was Nike. I guess he didn't get the memo.
Whole lot of butthurt and jealousy coming out of Illinois these days, sad really. Only a few more days before we go in dry,
IU 85
Illinois 61
What does reporting look like 3 days before a game where you expect to get your ass handed to you by a program you view as a rival....
If that was why the reporter was going for, he nailed it.
If that was why the reporter was going for, he nailed it.
Loren Tate has to be close to 90 years old. Not sure how sharp he is anymore.
That said, it's interesting I never recall him in the 80's writing what should have been obvious stories on his beloved Illini asst coaches (Tony Yates, then Jimmy Collins') shady relation$hip with Chicago Public League coache$, how Efrem Winters ever got to play there based on his HS academics and their "summer bridge" program that catered specific to football and basketball players.
That said, it's interesting I never recall him in the 80's writing what should have been obvious stories on his beloved Illini asst coaches (Tony Yates, then Jimmy Collins') shady relation$hip with Chicago Public League coache$, how Efrem Winters ever got to play there based on his HS academics and their "summer bridge" program that catered specific to football and basketball players.
This guy obviously has no handle on NCAA rules regarding AAU and amateurism. The laws broken by Colleges and College athletes are not by the sho companies per say. It’s more of individuals in between.(reps, coaches, handlers, managers, agents, talent agency’s etc...) the FBI coruption trials pretty much proved reps from all over the spectrum didn’t exactly have their perspective employers interests at #1. We witnessed that handlers, agents etc. weren’t always steering adidas kids to adidas schools or Nike kids to Nike schools. We saw kids getting pushed to agents who had nothing to do with shoes! He totally simplified the real story. Go Big Red!
That's what is called a preemptive strike op-ed piece. It amounts to a concession that Illinois can't compete with IU, and so the Illini beat writer has to preemptively explain why.
It's just sour grapes before the game has been played yet. It's OK . . . it amounts to a white flag of surrender.
Loren Tate can best be described as the E-Whine-i version of every Wiskyburg fan. Every call, every season, every game is "not fair" unless the NCAA hands them championship trophy without any games being played because... after all... it's only "fair". I especially loved his failed article about Lou getting better results than BK and cheering ESPN's "Neal is the Victim of the Century" hatchet job on the former IU coach. You can hear the sucking sound of his failed sour grapes whine all the way up here in Wisconsin. He needs to retire (like 10 years ago) and spend the rest of his days staring at all the NC banners the E-Whine-i have collected... oh wait... never mind.
That's because it's... it's... "not fair".... and besides, it's all Iowa's fault... and it's... "not fair".
ILL has been even less successful than Purdue, historically. Even with the in-state talent rich Chicago and Peoria areas.
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We have pulled a ton of talent from Illinois historically.
Well if that's the case which it's not, then it can be said they paid for Ayo or what ever their 5 star guard name it is. They were 14-18 last year why would the kid want to go there? Oh wait, maybe Underwood recruited him the best like CAM did with the "Shakesperian" Romeo...what a mind blowing concept. Got to love the haters, but this guy went to a new level of douche.
Once I saw Loren Tate's name on the article, I closed the page.
I thought he had died. Was he their announcer that was in a wheel chair or was that before him?
Can't answer that. I just remember him from as far back as the 70s and he has always been the same.
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Never cared for him myself. Back before satellite TV one of the few stations we could get was out of Champaign. Tate was the sportscaster there, what a homer.
A lot of north shore kids came to Bloomington because of Kelley, few were complimentary of anything associated with UI athletics.
Now Courtsense, most people understand those are kids who find it easier to get into IU than UI due to the stringent in-state admissions standards for Illinois residents. You’ve made this fallacious argument before, and it’s no more valid today than it’s ever been. Your narrow life experiences don't allow you to understand or appreciate anything beyond your narrow IU background.
By the way, it’s “plagiarize”, not “plagerise”. And we enjoy your active participation on the Purdue board, though our mods quickly outed you. Nonetheless, please post as often as you’d like. We understand why you feel the need to be there.
Get out of here troll. Mods can you please clean this place up!
Meanwhile, Illinois' 5-star freshman Ayo Dosunmu, announced his commitment to Illinois, which is a Nike school, at the Jordan Brand Store in Chicago. He committed to Illinois over Wake Forest and USC, both Nike schools. Funny how that was left out of the article.
Lou Hensen accused Bobby Knight of, "raping this great state of it's talent" many years ago. We had a lot of fun with that statement from Lou Do.
Tate will be at the game only if his nursing facility provides transportation to and from the "real" AH. If by chance he does show up, I'd love for CAM to award him a pair of Adidas after the game, with the date, score, and the words "suck on this you loser" signed on them.
Huh?
If a student can gain admission to Kelley, I assure you they can gain admission to UI UC. Kelley is the draw and their parents could afford the OOS tuition. It isn't an "arguemnent", it is simply a fact on campus these days.
I will give your board another try, but frankly the posters there really didn't want to talk sports, just post silly stuff.
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