Maybe take it up a notch and just piss all over it.

Kids are into the subtlety thing.

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I don't care what it says on the hat. Switch a hat and you should get your leg broke. In fact, everyone involved televising any college signing should get their collective legs broke. I hate college sports so often.

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Villanova and Illinois are almost polar opposites. It is a completely schizophrenic reduction unless money is involved.

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I'll never understand how these local kids don't get that they could own Chicago if they had an excellent season. The Dee Brown/Deron Williams team was all over the front page of the sports section (back when people still kind of read newspapers).

There's a huge Illinois alumni contingent in the Chicagoland area and an equally huge sleeper fan base that only pays attention when they are good.

But, they'd rather go try to own Philadelphia or Lawrence, KS. Don't understand.

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Well instead of bitching on a message board why don't you start creating synergies through the backchannels by opening your damn wallet.

Hey, man, I have a passion for sports but I'm not defined by them.

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A lot of kids in Illinois are raised to dislike UofI or come to dislike UofI for various reasons. It's like the opposite of Indiana where seemingly everyone is raised from birth to love the Hoosiers unless your parents went to Purdue or you live within a 10 block radius of the campus.

It's just a very strange dynamic. I went from not caring about the Illini to actively disliking them by my senior year of high school. It wasn't from my parents either because they really didn't care about college sports.

I'm reformed now that I've left the area and I have a healthy dislike of Indiana to replace them.

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love that

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My insider source tells me that its 50-50 on where he goes

Uh, eh, eh, yeah, that sounds about right. That's what my guy told me a few weeks ago.

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Local writers there are discussing how it's a win that the Illini are even on the table these days for these kids to pick somebody else.

I thought I was a glass half-full Illini guy.

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Twitter says Nova.

Groce fails again.

Well, that was highly predictable.

They might still be getting a 2-fer package from Texas, though.

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Probably not. Groce can't close.

Jeremy Werner ‏@WernerESPNCU 30s
Brunson: On unveiling with a shirt. I wanted to be classy with it. I didn't accidentally want to pick up the wrong hat.

Too bad. I like this kid.

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Groce messed this one up when he stopped recruiting him last fall then got back in after that Quinten Snider kid changed his mind and signed with Louisville.

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Seems unfair that they would allow Coach K to ref high school games.

I was hoping he would have thrown everyone a curve and unveiled a Georgetown Patrick Ewing jersey.

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Bruce Weber 2.0.

Noisewater is in heaven.

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I dislike Indiana basketball, but not football. The football program is an interesting exercise in inept major college sports. Like a harmless experiment.

You never know, though -- for decades Duke was a perennial football doormat, for example. I'd love to see IU trip up MSU, UM, OSU, PSU, Wisky, or Neb. -- especially on the road.

On the bb side, Crean is okay, but the fans of IU basketball are an annoying bunch overall.

Crean is NOT ok. He is a pile of shit and should be treated as such.

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