Buehrle>Wood

He's redshirting

Legit the worst B1G conference game I've ever watched. Oh and we get 5 more minutes of it!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 3, 2016 -> 06:00 PM) Pretty sure Flair has CTE, first he talked about calling a dead guy, then he considers a 3rd place team "the man." Cte? You mean he hasn't been sober in 40 years.

So Mick Foley is at the rutgers/illinois game. Your move, Michigan?

Would not do that

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 2, 2016 -> 04:57 PM) If it's not Tiley, Tiley wasn't interested. There isn't a better choice. What worries me is I think his current gig might be better than our job. But if he's flying 24 hours to interview he's got to be interested(not sure if it is in person). The timing too makes sense. The Austrailian Open just wrapped up and now we finally have some news on this whole search.

I'd prefer Tiley to George so I'm glad he seemingly passed. But I agree I think it's weird he's still being brought up in some way. If he was the hire I certainly would not complain either. Both guys head and shoulders above the rest of the candidates.

The seven interviewees are Northern Illinois AD Sean Frazier, Eastern Illinois AD Tom Michael, Division III Washington University AD Josh Whitman, Central Michigan AD Dave Heeke, Florida Atlantic AD Patrick Chun, Maryland deputy AD Kelly Mehrtens and Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley. Per Shannon Ryan and the Tribune. Have to believe they're all in on Tiley. As I've been saying in the other threads it's the whole reason they've delayed this hire. He'd be well worth the wait though. An A+ hire so I'm waiting to see how we screw this up. The other candidates are almost all a joke.

I'd pull a greg and go bet the farm on trump then. He's way way ahead in the next three primaries and I'd fully expect him to win there. Not like iowa where polling was always close. Iowa is just weird for the GOP vote.

All true.

Pretty good day for Illini recruiting (relatively). Just landed LB Dele Harding who may be the best player in the class and could start from day 1. The news was that he was going to Rutgers so that's a nice surprise to get him. Also got Eddy Fish to flip his commit from Boston College to Illinois. I guess if there's a silver lining to this bad class, it's that Illinois has an oppurtunity to sign a decent offensive line class for the second year in a row. That seemed like a rarity even when they were recruiting well.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 06:51 AM) Well, this didn't happen. Why did we trust Levine? He excused it away this AM. He said instead the surprise was Thomas being back on the business side of things...lol Guessing he heard a former star was gonna be brought back so he went and reported about Buehrle.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 30, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) Drake Spears decommits because he doesn't have the grades. This class just keeps getting better and better. Even if they close "strong" by adding a couple ok players this class is f***ing awful. This class is even worse than Zook's last couple of classes which were both awful. You have to go back to when Ron Turner just stopped even trying to recruit to find a class this bad. It's the worst class of our lifetime. They had a nice visit list lined up but everyone canceled out of it. It's worse than turners classes and I don't see that changing by signing day.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 06:47 PM) Soooo no follow up to this? Doesn't seem so. If there was it would have been during the opening ceremonies. Blame Levine.

Well he's not anymore. That's 4 guys who cancelled this weekend at least. So much for that.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 06:05 PM) I'm at the Hahn/Ventura Q&A and there is NO ONE HERE. LOL! They have killed the enthusiasm for this club. Could not believe it. They scheduled it there for a reason. Only open to hotel package buyers and the earliest seminar so some may be stuck at work. Is Hahn going to be doing any more qandas throughout the weekend?

Wonder what Kiermaier would cost. Probably way too much.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:56 AM) http://thefreethoughtproject.com/activist-...cted-cops-kill/ Tangentially related, this man predicted his own death and said multiple times it would be at the hands of the Fresno police I've read a few cases like this before and it's almost always a mental breakdown that leads to acting irrationality and a death or just a flat out suicide (Michael Hastings was a popular one). Not saying that happened here. Would love to read more about it.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:31 AM) HF OL/DL Desmond Bland is going to an Arizona JUCO because he can't get in literally anywhere. He'll be in a Power 5 in 2 years. He's a stud. Illinois can hopefully go the JUCO route some. Jihad Ward looked downright lost at times at Illinois. He got coached at the Senior Bowl this week and is probably a top 75 selection now. Not that any of them are potential 2nd rounders like Ward, but sounds like Illinois had a bunch of players impress in the different senior all star game practices. Coaching and all that.

QUOTE (103 mph screwball @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) I hope Buehrle comes back to play for a year. Not sure if he has anything left. Just one of my all time favorite players. As far as Soxfest, I hope Sox fans can keep the occasion festive and be classy. I don't see the point of b****ing. It is not a town hall meeting. They literally call it a town hall meeting, or at least they did.

I think the q and a will definitely be tense. Pre-2005 levels maybe. Those were the days.

Levine mentioned a soxfest surprise with him. Sounds like it'll be him retiring thought not anything to do with the active roster.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 08:56 PM) Didn't land Carmouche today and Reese is no longer visiting. Lol, of course. Not sure how they lost out on Carmouche with all the need at LB. Have 4-5 Scholes left. Let's save it from complete disaster. Shane Richards- juco OL, ok state verbal. I thonk hell end up in champaign though. Just visited Sadarius Hutcherson- So Carolina verbal would probably be our best commit if they can get him. He's visiting this weekend. Dele Harding- He's pretty much a must. And he should commit to Illinois. Last decent LB prospect were in on since Carmouche chose elsewhere. Was a UT verbal now down to Rutgers and Illinois. Visiting this weekend. Tadarryl Marshall- lot of decent offers and for some reason is visiting illinois this weekend. David Montgomery- Iowa State commit, visiting this weekend. Only rb were in on. Not a position of need but he's a good prospect to see what up anyways. Trevour Simms- Mizzou commit or something, I don't know. He's flipped like 10 times. Land 2-3 of those kids and I'll maybe be okay with the class. Doubt we even do that. Lot of people visiting this weekend, they better get some committs.

Thank god Groce is just a brutal coach. Thought we might actually win for a second.

Is there Friday single day passes?