Orlando Antigua

Yes.

Uh, Orlando Antigua strikes again.

No, I still think Arizona gets Darius Waddington.

Why do you think he moved it up? Do you think he's trying to grease?

My favorite part, too, that I want to bring up is that, you know, Recently, Illinois was in the Euro market, right? And now there's questions about, you know, are these guys going to be eligible? How are they going to come over and get eligibility? You know, the retrospective rule about if they've played professional ball, they won't be eligible for X amount of years.

Brad Underwood and Orlando Antigua have completely pivoted from that.

We haven't heard about many Euro guys, you know.

in the Illinois basketball recruiting cycles that much ever since we got David Berkovich and, you know, Tommy Visich, Sabanimir Visich.

So it's a really good play, and it shows, hey, this staff has so many different outlets, so many different connections.

Orlando Antigua, you know, just said, okay, cool, I'm going to start recruiting five-star big men again.

And, you know, they got into a top six with Darius Wobbiton, who already announced his top six without Illinois, Now he's getting in.

I think that's really, really impressive and goes to show just how hot Illinois is on the

I didn't, I didn't say the old part, 'cause he probably can see that.

So I said, "Hey," I said, "Illinois replacing Kentucky?" So then he said, "Yeah." And then he instantly mentioned the Illinois assistant associate basketball coach, Orlando Antigua.

And he mentioned to me the re- one of the reasons why Illinois replaced Kentucky was ri- basically, I'm sorry for the people listening to this if you're a Wildcats fan, Illinois is a better basketball program, the way he looked at it, and Illinois is producing players, and they're putting players in the NBA.

And for the Illinois fans out there who are used to bad things happening to them and, you know, the fact that Illinois can beat out kids from Kentucky and actually have a legitimate shot, you guys, is truly amazing.

Yeah, it's amazing when you think about it.

And remember that Darius Waddington was a t- a teammate of Quentin Coleman's on the under 18 Team USA that took silver at the America Cup in Mexico back in early June.

Uh, perhaps Orlando Antigua was there to see Quentin, had a conversation with Darius.

Uh, there was another player, Ked, you reported on earlier this summer, DeMarcus Henry, who was a, a third player on that team that you said has, uh, Illinois's had some contact with.