Maryland has been a complete disgrace in that regard. When I was growing up everyone's dream school was Penn State. Like damn how you let Pennsylvania come in and bully your territory. shyt ironically Illinois at the time had a strong recruiting holding in the DMV too
Why is Illinois so bad at recruiting the Chicagoland area?
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Derekjackson2
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The chicago public league swore off Illinois when they didn’t hire Jimmy Collins as coach after Lou Hensen. The ties have never been repaired. Illinois got a few lower ttier Simeon players but never worked out.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
I'm surprised that Josh Pastner isn't recruiting well a Georgia Tech. He kept a Top 5 recruiting class at Memphis.
Tech is a difficult school for a student athlete. You go to Tech you're gonna earn that degree, there's no BS degrees at the Institute @Rekkapryde @The_Sheff @Mr Hate Coffee @iamstr8fire
Bigblackted4
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Was thinking the same
McGee'sDePaul isn't cracking at all like that. I'm eating quarter wings at one of the pubs on Lincoln & Webster right now. Deadzone.
Id rather go downstate or one of our neighboring states to crack some pizzawgs open.
I don’t know why either. I could’ve sworn up and down Khalil Whitney was headed to Illinois. Shyt, Brian Bowen took 100,000 dollars less NOT to go to DePaul.
nikka have you been to urbana champagne?
That can be said about Duke, Michigan, UCLA, and all of the Big East schools.
And most 5 star basketball players are there no longer than 2 years.
Damn near every state with a major city is like that tho. Take NYC out of NY and NY is basically Nebraska. Take Philly out of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania is basically ConnecticutI just thought about it. If you took Chicago out of Illinois, the state would basically be Iowa
reserved_one
#Ambivertgang
Champaign isn't the most attractive or exciting place to live in and as a party town it pales to comparison to a school like Iowa. Man Iowa has some of the most down for anything white bytches I came across....from experience.
And if a chicago football recruit had a option between Illinois or Northwestern...9/10 they would pick Northwestern. We sure as hell dont have a chance against Ohio St in recruiting, Iowa, Wisconsin, Penn State, Michigan...schools that have more prestige.
The day Eric Gordon chose Indiana or Illinois after he decommited was the end of our basketball chapter.
We missed out on D Rose and all the insane raw Chicago talent over the last decade.
Then came Cliff Alexander
Quentin Snider burned us too by going to L Ville.
Videos like that makes the entire University look like a bunch of lame ass losers.
Our football program used to be so cold man...during the Juice Williams days, now we suck. Its been 7 years since we won a Bowl game, 10 years since we made it to a major bowl game
I like Lovie Smith but I dont think he can turn things around for us. Its a uphill climb
And if a chicago football recruit had a option between Illinois or Northwestern...9/10 they would pick Northwestern. We sure as hell dont have a chance against Ohio St in recruiting, Iowa, Wisconsin, Penn State, Michigan...schools that have more prestige.
The day Eric Gordon chose Indiana or Illinois after he decommited was the end of our basketball chapter.
We missed out on D Rose and all the insane raw Chicago talent over the last decade.
Then came Cliff Alexander
Quentin Snider burned us too by going to L Ville.
Videos like that makes the entire University look like a bunch of lame ass losers.
Our football program used to be so cold man...during the Juice Williams days, now we suck. Its been 7 years since we won a Bowl game, 10 years since we made it to a major bowl game
I like Lovie Smith but I dont think he can turn things around for us. Its a uphill climb
Verbal Kint
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I went to DePaul myself. My theory: it has nothing to do with the cold. Nothing to do with kids dying to leave the city. Nothing to do with Champaign being boring. Kids leave Chicago for cold schools, schools in the middle of nowhere, and schools like Notre Dame that are 90 mns away. I think its because Chicago treats its HS ball like college and doesnt care at all about Chicago sports. These kids dont grow up wanting to play for Illinois nor do the people around them care about Illinois. Theyd rather see a kid play for Kansas or Duke than IU
Barry Sanders
Barry>>>
I remember when DePaul got Bobby Simmons,Q-Rich and Lance Williams to sign.
606onit
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Lion'sheadMcGee's
I love my school, but they been 
at recruiting for the longest. The problem is they don't recruit the top players early enough. Coach K and Coach Cal got the AAU connect and a proven track record.
By the time they're high school freshmen, they're already getting free nike/ Adidas clothes and kicks from the AAU teams. It's nothing personal; they take the best route to the NBA/NFL.
at recruiting for the longest. The problem is they don't recruit the top players early enough. Coach K and Coach Cal got the AAU connect and a proven track record.By the time they're high school freshmen, they're already getting free nike/ Adidas clothes and kicks from the AAU teams. It's nothing personal; they take the best route to the NBA/NFL.
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That can be said about Duke, Michigan, UCLA, and all of the Big East schools.
And most 5 star basketball players are there no longer than 2 years.
No it can't.
Even at the schools you mentioned there are majors you can hide athletes in to shield them. At GT right off the bat you have to take Calculus. Anything below that is a remedial course. While I was there even the management majors had to take chemistry and physics, and those two courses are weed out courses for everyone. At other schools they had grade replacement where if you took a course again and received a higher grade it replaced the former grade, not so at GT, they would just average the grades together with everything else, keeping your GPA low. Even though I went to the school I would never send my kid there unless they actually wanted to be an engineer and I would not recommend an athlete go there if all they care about is sports.