Gets a 2-year extension.

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Not a mult.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I wonder if this is real extension or one with a low buyout that helps him with recruiting this winter?

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Could be a fake extension. Does it really hurt the program to give him more time?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Maybe he'll pull a Ryan Pace...be absolutely atrocious your first few years, get an undeserved extension, and then pull a rabbit out of your hat.

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Must be nice to know your coach isn't going anywhere.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Maybe Illinois is just going to drop football? Where do most of the better recruits in the Illinois and Indiana high school programs go anyway? Notre Dame? Northwestern? Purdue?

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Look at that beard. Lovie sure has aged hard since going downstate. He's like Moses at Sinai, except instead of being ravaged by the wisdom of the one true God, he just got yelled at about recruiting by some dope at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Savoy.

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That’s funny, because it’s true.

Why not extend him? They had no other option. No young up and coming coach is going to take over this disaster of a program. Even though I’m an alumnus, I’m glad I never really gave a shit about Illini athletics. How fitting the state school is such a shitshow in a such shitshow state.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Love Smith is a cockroach when it comes to coaching. Unkillable.

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Terrible thought.

Pace was hired in 2015. He was not "absolutely atrocious" in his first few years. In 3 year he has overhauled the roster and has a team that is competing at a very high level.

In that time period Lovie has grown a beard.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Lovie’s beard is wierd and his stauche is trash.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

http://wayne.cbslocal.com/soundboard-bb ... ombone.mp3

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By cracky

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

It's the best move the program could make. Almost the entire roster is Fresh/Soph and he's got some good kids coming in.

There is no sense in bringing someone else and losing half the kids you already have to a new program. We've been down that route.

It amazes me that you hire a guy like Lovie and everyone says it will take him 5 years to turn the program and after 3 years everybody forgets that. You bought in on Lovie, let him put the team together.

They should have never fired Zook. I said it at the time. He kept the program competitive with the occasional very good season. He was the perfect coach for UofI. A guy like Mackovic had too many options. Zook was in the Goldilocks zone for Illini coaches.

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You know me like that.

Whitman better make him hire a real DC.

Zook was a boob.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I’m shocked to learn there is a BWW in Savoy.

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-- source

But he was our boob.

And that's worth something.

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You know me like that.

Yep, just south of the Savoy 27 theatre or whatever it is now.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Now that Renteria and Lovie have been locked in long term I am waiting on word for a Fred Hoiberg extension

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

...which is why he was the perfect coach for the U of I.

My all-time favorite Illini boob is still this guy, though:

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Is anyone going to mention the fact that Lovie's beard makes him look like Uncle Remus?

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Definitely two black guys with grey beards.

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Serious question: Do you think Lou Tepper was a better coach than Lovie?

I was asked that this past weekend, and my response was that I would love to have each as a defensive coordinator.

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

Give a failure coach with a toxic contract an extension to give the impression of stability, for recruitment, and future assistant hiring. Also, let's extend him so his buyout is less too? Hardly a template for success. In other words, don't keep your fingers crossed for a quality Illinois football team to watch Saturday afternoons.

Illinois has one of the worst Defenses in the country, 63 points three times this year. His recruiting class for 19is second to last in the big 10 ahead 9f only Rutgers.

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He needs to hire Peanut Tillman as his assistant - get that Peanut Punch going!

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

Wrong. MANY people wanted Pace gone prior to his extension. Some people cut him some slack for hiring Fox (as if it was out of his control), but he was mostly a disaster until hiring Nagy.

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Harry Teinowitz: Hire Loyola Academy's coach.

Not the worst idea...