Ty Rodgers

Boise State.

I mean, the Ty Rogers injury is tough.

You know, obviously he gets hurt.

You don't even know if he's going to be back at all this year.

Just real quick on this.

Boise State has Ty Rogers, former Illinois player who's hurt.

So they're knocked as a result of this.

I think he's going to return later this season, but he's not going to start.

done it.

And The one thing that sticks out to me about this roster is the Ty Rogers

thing,

because he's been out of college basketball.

And so it's looking like I'm not sure if he has a date for a return, but.

He was a beloved guy at Illinois, was kind of a big get in terms of a mid-major down transfer and just has not been able to get back on the floor.

So we'll see if he can because that was kind of the upside guy, in my mind, looking at their roster before dutifully Googling everybody's name and being like, oh, yeah, Ty Rogers actually hurt again.

That sucks.

I

was going to say Boise State had a chance for me until seeing Ty Rogers get hurt for them in the offseason.

I don't know if I would plant my flag on their stock up with him being hurt.

How long are we expecting him to be out, by the way?

So Colorado State's definitely the pick, though.

The way they finished the year, bringing back those guys for Rukminich, year two, let's go.

I'm kind of with Jalapeno Zags here saying, I think Ty Rogers will be back by conference play for Boise.

So I factored him into the regular season predictions in the standings here.

Bill Self will pay you.

Mason says Illinois hasn't had athletes like Quentin Coleman and Andre since Terrence Shannon and Ty Rogers.

Mixed that with positional size and skill should make this team the best one yet.

Do you think this will be Illinois's best team yet?

So I'm really interested in seeing Stephen Fox.

I'm wondering, do they use him as the primary ball handler versus Cincinnati? Because if you think about it, a couple years ago, who's the true point guard on that 23-24 team, right, Austin? You talk about Marcus Damask, that didn't come until later in the season, but you need someone that brings the ball up and initiates offense, right? Do they go with Merck? Do they go with Vox, Quinton? Who do they kind of go with? Because initially they thought it was going to be Ty Rogers, and then they switched it up.

So there's a lot of things that are going to be said, and Um, and, and to be seen, but Austin, if there's one thing that you could know, following Brad Underwood for the past, you know, eight, eight, nine seasons is that his teams at the beginning of the season are not going to look the same after the new year, right? He's going to make adjustments.

They're going to get punched in the mouth at some point and say, and Brad's going to say, Hey, let's switch this up.

But, but I think in the role he was in last year, where they bring him off the bench, they needed him to stretch the floor a little bit, chip in with some hustle plays here or there, it was perfect, you know? So they got the balance right after the year before they had to rely on him much more than was wise.

And then we come to the f- I guess we'll just say the sad case of Ty Rogers, 6'6" wing, who three years ago, was it four years ago now, that was the, the point guard, played base of the point for Illinois, and-

Three years

... did a decent job.

Yeah.

Go through the timeline.

We'll go through the story of Ty Rogers.

So Ty Rogers ended up at Illinois because his AAU coach, Tim Anderson, got hired on the staff as an assistant.