As an alum who has never contemplated giving a dime to the athletic program, I no longer care. I thought that bringing Lovie in was a novel idea, and that the Tampa 2 and the Peanut Punch would be enough to be a consistent 7-5 against the non-conference games and the Marylands and Nebraskas, and get them to an ESPN-owned bowl game each year, preferably on a day when I was off of work. That's all I asked for from him.

Focus on basketball, don't spend much on football until the NCAA implodes. Covid has shown that they should just make college football U22 football and allow colleges to have teams with non students if they want.

Lovie Smith has been fired in a surprise move.

Potential candidates to replace Smith include Buffalo's Lance Leipold, Army's Jeff Monken, Kent State's Sean Lewis, New York Giants assistant Bret Bielema (a former head coach at Wisconsin and Arkansas), Nevada's Jay Norvell, Toledo's Jason Candle, Tulane's Willie Fritz and several coordinators, including Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea and Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard.[/i]

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

That's all he needed to do and he failed miserably at it.

I thought Lovie would open a pipeline of recruiting in Texas. It seemed like he spent his entire Bear career scouting Abilene Christian but apparently couldn't be bothered to travel at Illinois.

Lovie treated this as a retirement. I'm honestly surprised to see he is only 62. He seemed older.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Those are some great names. Norvell is a great coach. I think Leonard would be a program builder. I really wouldn't mind the Bears looking into him if they fire Nagy. Leipold will be a hot name.

I wonder if they could pry Luke Fickell away from Cincinnati since OSU has a guy in place for probably the next decade.

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Let’s slow it down a little bit here.

You guys really think coaching the Illini football team is a better gig than Cincinnati?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Let’s slow it down a little bit here.

You guys really think coaching the Illini football team is a better gig than Cincinnati?

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Let’s slow it down a little bit here.

You guys really think coaching the Illini football team is a better gig than Cincinnati?

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

It’s not.

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Illinois is a step down from Cincinnati because coaching careers die there.

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Illinois is a step down from Cincinnati because coaching careers die there.

More of the coaches' fault on that one, though what you say is pretty damn interesting. It worked out for Mackovic, but he was six coaches ago or something.

But as Brick said, many bad hires.

I can only name two Cincy coaches. Kelly and whomever they have know.

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No it’s not.

Don’t move goal posts by bringing up a real football conference like the SEC.

The Big Ten is much closer to the AAC than the SEC.

Don’t fool yourself.

My mind won’t be changed, but you’re welcome to reply.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I'd question the intelligence of any coach that took the Illinois job and didn't see it as a stepping stone.

Every conference has coaches fired after a few years. Which one do you want me to choose? Since Carr left in 2007, Michigan has fired a coach after 3 years, 4 years, and really wants Harbaugh to fire himself after 5 years.

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Are you once again changing the argument?

Weird.

No it’s not more sought after.

Don’t move goal posts by bringing up a real football conference like the SEC.

The Big Ten is much closer to the AAC than the SEC.

Don’t fool yourself.

My mind won’t be changed, but you’re welcome to reply.

I think it depends on the type of coach they look to hire. If you hire a younger guy who has high aspirations they are going to look at Illinois as a stepping stone.

With that said there is no way they are getting the Cincy coach.

I'm not changing the argument. It may seem that way since you aren't actually making an argument though.

If Illinois hired a Dantonio or Ferentz type of coach do you think they would be looking to jump ship or be happy to make $5 million a year for 15 or so years and win 60%+ of their games?

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole