bcvegaspt2 said:

I’d say he’s a dime a dozen but he’s not even that. He’s a defensive back (as someone called before, maybe @Couev ???) trying to play basketball.

He wasn’t good.

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Buffel said:

DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HICKS IS GETTING MUCH INTEREST

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Buffel said:

DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HICKS IS GETTING MUCH INTEREST

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

They got all the big fights most of those above was Caesar's. I remember the closed circuit was the MGM. MGM got a number of big fights too but they were later like the late 80s on. So were you there when Poncho Gonzales was the tennis pro? Evel Knievel. They had all the big names.

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RebelScrub said:

You worked with Colin Cowherd. What was THAT like?

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

I think if Alabama, Ohio St, or some other big school gets Sluka'd except it happens right before a playoff game you would magically see contracts. I very well expect to see another Sluka some day just hopefully not at UNLV.

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UNLVINMD said:

He's making 2.4, wants 4 million. Crazy crazy

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

I think if Alabama, Ohio St, or some other big school gets Sluka'd except it happens right before a playoff game you would magically see contracts. I very well expect to see another Sluka some day just hopefully not at UNLV.

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dcut03 said:

I don't think we can really look at many of our players over the past few years to see what they really are. When you run the most inefficient "offense" I may have ever seen in college basketball, numbers will undoubtedly suffer.
Again with any coach, I want him to land/keep the guys that he wants. He did mention that everyone was essentially going to the portal when he arrived. Who knows how many players he actually wanted to keep vs keeping.
As for taking risks, I have no problem with that. I just don't want more than a few players being that risky, because risky players are risky for good reasons. We don't want too many dudes that are knuckleheads off the court, or not great team players, etc etc. Becuase that is a recipe for disaster regardless of "talent".

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combes said:

DGL is a great kid. Not a point guard, though. 6-1 off guard. Hustles. Great athlete. Inconsistent with his shot. Much better shooter than his stats. Maybe consistent playing time will bring that out. He wanted more playing time than he would get at Illinois.

His mom is cray-cray, but DGL knows it and tries to keep her under control with little success. He is an Indiana kid who originally committed to Purdue. His mom went scorched earth on Purdue after he decommitted.

He’s a really good teammate. Best of luck to him.

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn enters transfer portal - The Daily Illini

After two seasons at Illinois, sophomore guard Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn has entered the transfer portal following an anticlimactic season end.

dailyillini.com

Mom sounds like a handful.

Gibbs-Lawhorn’s mother did not help the situation in the eyes of many fans, as she was known to go after the coaching staff and fans on X throughout the season. That continued to the end. She mocked her son getting pulled out of the team’s final game after committing a foul, writing, “Is DGL REALLY aloud to remain in game after a foul??’nn WWAAATTTT the hell os staff doing??! PULL HIM THE F**K OUT.”

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InZoneU said:

Yeah I experienced sort of the same thing when I was with KVBC (back then Ch.3) and launched the website around 2000. The TV side thought the internet was a joke. They routinely refused to do things like promote the website on air, refused to do things that are normal today like extra story footage available online etc. There was also the fact that I was doing web sponsor deals with local advertisers, and they viewed it as taking away from their TV ad revenue. They laughed when I setup an online chat with Cuzzy to discuss UNLV football. The internet was the enemy. Now look at things lol.

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