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Jeff Thomas officially to Illinois via his Instagram

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Tad Footeball said:
Likewise and agree. It just seems like sooooo much of his story was based on getting out of East St Louis. Now he's like a 2 hr car ride away. Here's to the kid maturing but sadly and more often than not these stories usually don't end up like Gerald Willis'.
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Really hope he makes it. He's one of the more physically gifted players I've seen in quite a while. It would be a shame to waste his God given talents.
 
Heart of The Playmaker said:
Have you ever been to Liberty city? Pork n beans? East st. Louis is bad as well but dont downplay how bad some areas are down here.
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Ohhhh, the hoods of Miami ain't nuthin' to downplay but one major difference in older cities up north and in parts of the midwest is their hoods go on for miles and miles whereas down here a hood can be a bike ride from a nice or even "rich" neighborhood. There are hoods in places like Baltimore that look like legit warzones.
 
mirvin88 said:
Really hope he makes it. He's one of the more physically gifted players I've seen in quite a while. It would be a shame to waste his God given talents.
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Agree. Kid has every physical gift. Could be an absolute gem if he can get his head screwed on right. I'll always be irked by how he ditched us, but i hope he finds a new path that leads to success at Illinois.
 
orange&green84 said:
He could cite family issues and needing to be closer to home. Worked for Grimes, could probably work for JT.
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Grimes situation seemed to be some shady business. He cited his mom had cancer or something but dad didnt think so...and then u had the whole wr coach and him getting into it thing. His situation was fishy as ****
 
gogeta4 said:
Grimes situation seemed to be some shady business. He cited his mom had cancer or something but dad didnt think so...and then u had the whole wr coach and him getting into it thing. His situation was fishy as ****
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Yeah, I know. They did a follow up interview (McMurphy I believe) on the Grimes' situation and the dad detailed a lot of info, UF was hush about the situation, and the mom said that the dad wasn't involved for a while. Even though it showed that Grimes had recently talked to his pops. In this case, I was just citing an excuse that could be given for a hardship waiver as I think Grimes did the same thing.
 
Dude can ball. Does it really matter? Not like we are winning the natty next year and he was gone after that. He would have been like duke his final year. Lone bright spot in a mediocre season.
 
I let him have it on twitter...And he had that little dramatic a$$ video up like he's had some type of legendary career at UM.
 
I really don’t know how I feel about this I want to wish him well because he balled out for us but I mean the dude quit on us. I’m just parroting what others said right now, I see no way in **** he sits out a year and Illinois is trash. I know he has a kid but why not stay in Miami one more year and declare early like every Miami player does lol.
I hope me makes it though just for the sake of his child, east St. Louis is not a good area
 
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