Illini football?

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Illinois fires Beckman last summer for him berating his players and just being a penis, then Illinois signs interim HC Cubit to a 2 year term, they fire their AD, they hire a new AD and the new AD fires Cubit?

How has this program gone to the cellar dweller with such solid HS football and only one other BCS school in the state in Evanston (NW) and this program can't compete in the upper echelon in the Big10?

Someone help me understand the mindset of this school, please!!

You have over 500 High Schools in Chicago that have some very good athletes, you have another area in E St Louis that produces some very quick a foot WRs and RBs, and the rural programs in Springfield, Champaign/Urbana, Rock Island (Quad Cities) and Rockford occasionally spit out a plum or two, so this school, U of Illini can't find good enough players and coaches to compete?

What is going on? Last time this program had any clue they had a QB named Tony Eason. They also had a decent RB named Mendenhall who did decent for the Steelers and a OLB/DE Simeon Rice did ok in the NFL.

This program should thrive, yet it constantly sucks!!

What gives?

 

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Ron Turner

 

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Lovie Smith set to become the new head coach at Illinois





In firing his head football coach on his first day on the job as the athletic director at Illinois, Josh Whitman put the onus on himself to land a home-run hire. In the end, that appears to be just what he has done.

A source has confirmed to CFT that Smith is set to replace Bill Cubit as the Illini?s head coach. Smith?s hiring is expected to be announced to be formally announced at some point this coming week, after the paperwork clears the university?s human resources department.

If the hiring comes to fruition, Smith?s first Illini coaching staff could have a familiar feel, with Bruce Feldman of FOXSports.com writing that Smith ?could also bring two of his sons who were on his staff in Tampa Bay with him.? It?s believed all of Cubit?s former assistants have been give permission to seek other jobs, ostensibly because they will not be retained by the new head coach.

The move to the Illini would be his first at the college level since working as the defensive backs coach at Ohio State in 1995. He?s also had collegiate coaching stints at Tennessee (1993-94), Kentucky (1992), Arizona State (1988-91) and Wisconsin (1987).

Smith, though, is more known in the coaching profession for his time in the NFL.

The 57-year-old Smith was a head coach in the NFL for the last 11 years, with the Chicago Bears from 2004-2012 and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2014-15.

 

[WildBillPicks7]

Lovie Smith set to become the new head coach at Illinois





In firing his head football coach on his first day on the job as the athletic director at Illinois, Josh Whitman put the onus on himself to land a home-run hire. In the end, that appears to be just what he has done.

A source has confirmed to CFT that Smith is set to replace Bill Cubit as the Illini?s head coach. Smith?s hiring is expected to be announced to be formally announced at some point this coming week, after the paperwork clears the university?s human resources department.

If the hiring comes to fruition, Smith?s first Illini coaching staff could have a familiar feel, with Bruce Feldman of FOXSports.com writing that Smith ?could also bring two of his sons who were on his staff in Tampa Bay with him.? It?s believed all of Cubit?s former assistants have been give permission to seek other jobs, ostensibly because they will not be retained by the new head coach.

The move to the Illini would be his first at the college level since working as the defensive backs coach at Ohio State in 1995. He?s also had collegiate coaching stints at Tennessee (1993-94), Kentucky (1992), Arizona State (1988-91) and Wisconsin (1987).

Smith, though, is more known in the coaching profession for his time in the NFL.

The 57-year-old Smith was a head coach in the NFL for the last 11 years, with the Chicago Bears from 2004-2012 and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2014-15.

Would love to see Lovie @ Illinois. He played DB @ Tulsa and was a very good one. And he had no biz being fired by Tampon Bay!