Why is Illinois so bad at recruiting the Chicagoland area?

[AtomicUse]

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

UI-UC had ones that were down for whatever too, I wouldn't think Iowa would be that much different. What stories you have?

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

This is my take on it too. We aren't really thought of as being a premier market.

 

[beenz]

Makes no damn sense

Chicago public schools might be up there as the best amateur sports league in the country

From the basketball stars, to the football stars, there is no reason the Fighting Illini shouldn't be in the Final Four/CFP or elite bowl game every year. There is no reason D. Rose & AD shouldn't have been in blue & orange.

They got Lovie Smith at the helm of the football team & they still ass

cuz illinois has NEVER been known as a football powerhouse.

it's been well over 10 years since illinois pulled any of the high recruits from this state. maybe their bball program has no luster. plus compared to powerhouse teams, why would u pick illinois?

 

[Yogi]

Illinois should have never fired Ron Zook. He wasn’t a good X’s and O’s coach, but he greatly elevated the program’s talent level. He had a unique ability to connect to black athletes. I remember reading an article about a visit he made to a public school in Chicago that had a top football prospect, and they said he spent a lot of time just talking to regular students that he had met on an earlier visit. They said he even remembered all of the kids names, and these were students that he wasn’t even recruiting.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

DePaul 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.

Breh Chicago is crackin you know this. Maybe just not where you're at. Denver nightlife ain't ship compared to Chi town

 

[mr. smoke weed]

I'm staying in the Midwest for life, bucko

After I left i was like "holy shyt Smoke, you stayed here toooooooooooooo long"

 

[Buckeye Fever]

After I left i was like "holy shyt Smoke, you stayed here toooooooooooooo long"

I can only leave to visit other places.

I love it here

 

[mr. smoke weed]

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 Connecticut

fukkin ridiculous

Illinois has multiple cities with populations over 100,000 not within 100 miles of Chicago
So does New York State as Im sure does PA

 

[Sugar]

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[Spade]

Very similar to UMD for basketball. The DMV is one of the most talented areas for basketball yet Maryland struggles to get top kids from the area to play there. I still am amazed that Marland couldn’t pull Kevin Durant and he went to Texas. A program that is definitely not a basketball powerhouse. Yet they took this caliber of player from PG county.

Always wonder d why at least DePaul couldn’t field a better team as well for Chicago.

 

[hashmander]

Very similar to UMD for basketball. The DMV is one of the most talented areas for basketball yet Maryland struggles to get top kids from the area to play there. I still am amazed that Marland couldn’t pull Kevin Durant and he went to Texas. A program that is definitely not a basketball powerhouse. Yet they took this caliber of player from PG county.

Always wonder d why at least DePaul couldn’t field a better team as well for Chicago.

with schools like maryland and illinois that don't have programs where the local kids dream of going to, the SCHOOL (not just the athletic dept) needs to be active in those communities and show care for the kids. when the young kid grows up to be an elite prospect they're going to look at the local school like "so now you care about me?" and unless it's a top priority that they go to a school nearby you lose any advantage you're suppose to have and they'll just go to the school with the better overall offer.

 

[reserved_one]

UI-UC had ones that were down for whatever too, I wouldn't think Iowa would be that much different. What stories you have?

Its probably not that big of a difference but

Lets just say that me and my nikkas was treated like kings outhere


I went outhere some years ago...me, my brother, 2 cousins one that had a childhood friend on the Iowa football team. We was outhere for a couple weeks

nikka had all the white bytches going for us...coming in getting smashed, trying to stick around, we Kicking em out and trying to fukk more bytches. It was like this almost every day. Tinder was also poppin

Even a 40 year old mother got smutted out....bytch enjoyed it way too much

This was like at the height of the drill era so my brother lied about being from Chicago and was pulling bytches like that. They love Chicago nikkas apparently.

White hoe -" You know Cheef Keef"?

Bro - "Yeah I know him. We kicked it a few times"

Me -" "

But they was beleiving it.

Long story short...my brother ended up leaving because he was missing his girl and wanted to get back with the bytch and I was tired of white girls at the point so i left with him. One cousin knocked a bytch up and is now engaged. The other met a white chick that was the plug to some deep shyt and she ended up getting busted and caught up in murder with her baby daddy allegedly.

Plus the area was lowkey getting hot with too much fukkery going on so he was the last one to dip.

 

[UserNameless]

I just thought about it. If you took Chicago out of Illinois, the state would basically be Iowa

No love for Peoria ?

 

[Buckeye Fever]

No love for Peoria ?

Oh, I actually love a lot of cities in Illinois. It's just what outsiders would think.


When I lived in Ohio, I still had my Illinois plates on my Caprice. A lot of ppl would ask me "You from Chicago? I got family there" and I'd tell them that I'm from Decatur.

 

[Astroslik]

Didn’t know there was so many Illini alumnist here..

Coach underwood is turning things around in the basketball end. We got a kid from Morgan park high school coming in next year who is nice

 

[UserNameless]

Oh, I actually love a lot of cities in Illinois. It's just what outsiders would think.


When I lived in Ohio, I still had my Illinois plates on my Caprice. A lot of ppl would ask me "You from Chicago? I got family there" and I'd tell them that I'm from Decatur.

Word ... you know outsiders’ perspectives can be skewed as fukk.