Tilmon officially requests release from Illinois
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Got any proof? You know fans of most other teams accuse us of being cheaters too.
What if he goes to Mizzou? A school that didnt recruit him at all. Do you think nothing shady is going on if he picks them? after a week or two of them recruiting him?
Not a good fit for UNC. Word from somebody I trust.
Cuonzo Martin js an East St. Louis kid and played on 3 state championship teams with LaPhonso Ellis. I expect that has some attraction to him and his family.
Please. Cuonzo hired Porter's dad so he can get both of his kids and he is now targeting all available 5 star recruits because he now has an SEC level booster bank account.
Why wasn't Knox interested before? Why wasn't Porter in his ear then?
Why didn't Tilmon care about this East St. Louis legend before today?
This is shady crap.
I posted this on the recruiting board but IMO if Knox is seriously considering Mizzou then I'd be pretty PO'd if I was a member of one of the staffs at UK, UNC, Duke, FSU after all the work they've put in recruiting him, hosting him for visits, etc... it's kind of a slap in their faces. I know he's only going to go to 1 school and the other 3 wasted their time no matter what, that's the recruiting game, but for Knox to spurn those schools at the last minute for SEC cellar dweller Missouri... that'd make me angry. Of course if he doesn't go to Duke I'd rather him be at Mizzou than the other 3 schools.
I don't really want to spend any time defending Martin , but Porter was going to Dub with his dad and Tilmon was going to the Illini well both head coaches get fired and now Martin possibly sees an opportunity and hires Porter Sr.(not unheard of) and to connect with Tilmon using his EStL roots. Porter Jr. then gets in Knox's ear. It's not really going to do us any good to disparage Mizzou and Martin , plus I rather see Knox at Mizzou than dook or UK.
poor Roy has been slapped in the face a lot in the last 3 years then.
They just got a new coach, one who has a history of being appealing to top recruits. They also got the commitment of Michael Porter, which fairly substantially changes their situation. Tilmon has also indicated he'd prefer to stay close to home and that was a major factor in his Illinois commitment, and Columbia is much, much closer to St. Louis than Chapel Hill (120 vs 800 miles). In fact, it's even closer than Urbana-Champaign (180 miles). Illinois also just lost the coach he was interested in playing for in the first place.
Could it be shady? Sure. But isn't it just possible that Tilmon wants to play at Mizzou? I guess I find it funny that every fanbase finds it so easy to declare all of the other schools cheaters, without any kind of source. There are 20 other fanbases screaming that we pay off the refs, recruits, everybody. No links necessary for them. I don't really care for either side doing it.
It's hard to believe Cal and Mizzou have big check books , well at least for basketball.
We make as much money as either school. And you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of the surely well-renowned Mizzou booster club buying the kid when he was happily committed to another school before they fired his coach. Did the Illini buy him too?
The part about knox is really what interests me here. I mean, has Missouri even been on any of his lists for the last say-wo years? Then Martin goes there and all the sudden he's visiting after he and his family were supposedly following a detailed "four step plan" which only included unc,dook,fsu, and U.K. For the last 9 months. So yeah, it feels a bit shady to me.
To this point all he has done is scheduled a visit, and we know he wanted to use his last official visit (and why not?). It may be that nothing else comes of it. If he commits there then yeah I'd agree with you, although the situation still has dramatically changed with Martin and Porter, so I think you can't totally arrive at judgement.
