Those 4 guys were from Chicago. If oscar Weber is able to recruit Illinois the way he recruited Illinois at Illinois you will NEVER hear me complain about his recruiting.
Recruiting in Chicago is really weird in that oscar himself will be seen as
more palatable now that he's not at Illinois. I know that seems counterintuitive, but there's a screwed up set of expectations that accompany the University of Illinois when it appears in and around the city. Certain coaches believe certain players are entitled to "looks" since they're home state talent, others think Illinois has to do more to "prove" why a kid should stay home, others get bogged down in whether certain high schools are being shown preferable treatment, etc. If there were such a thing as a quadruple-edged sword for us, this would be it.
Things get simpler for oscar now. He's an outsider coming in and (hopefully, for your sake) offering up the chance to come to the Big XII and be the man (this was another problem of his, btw - he would always refuse to blow sunshine on kids while recruiting them and really hold the line on things like "you'll have to earn your spot"; yeah, we get it, oscar, but that goes over like a lead balloon in a living room, ok?). It's a little more cut-and-dried for him, at least in Illinois, I think.