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I don't see how a team can go with any more than 10-11 players on scholarship - you can realistically only give 9 guys any sort of PT and you may be able to convince a freshman it's in his best interest to sit on the bench and learn for a year, but good luck doing that with a sophomore or older

If George had been eligible in '87, we probably would have won the Big 10 title. We tied MSU on the road and lost to OSU and UM by a combined 7 points. The defense that year was outstanding, as good or better than the '83 team, but we had no QB

Lovie Smith would like a word with you on the latter point. As bad as Zook was (and Tepper and Beckman for that matter), when it came to player development, game prep and game day coaching, nobody was as bad as Lovie

Heck of a band

Looking at the schedule, I'm going with 7-5 for next year. We go 2-1 in non conference games and are 3-5 going into the home stretch, with the seat starting to get warm for BB. We turn on the jets in November, winning our last 4 and creating a lot of momentum going into 2025

Professor Scanlon was the GOAT....fantastic teacher, even better person and family

Sounds like us vs UConn

Great weekend for our Winter/Spring sports (Men's anyway) - Baseball sweeps, Tennis sweeps, Golf wins the Illini invite, track team has a successful west coast trip, Gymnastics makes the final 6.

His track record of program building is pretty solid, so not sure we can or should expect him to mess this up

He's not as bad as Zook and Tepper but he does resemble them - GREAT recruiter and widely regarded as a stand up guy. Also regarded as someone who just doesn't have the skill to properly manage a P5 football program.

Completely agree. I've been a fan since the early 70's so I've seen a lot of good and bad football. I've also seen a lot of really bad programs become good programs due to finally getting good leadership - Oregon, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas State, TCU, Cincinnati, Louisville among others. It may...

Calipari has gotten lazy. He used to actually be a decent coach, but he got to the point at which he rolled out the ball and thought that's all he needed to do. I will be shocked if he has any level of success at Arkansas - it's the equivalent of when Kansas hired Les Miles

Izzo was great, but shouldn't be this high today; I'd put him just below BU. Altman should be ahead of BU. If you take into consideration what he is working with, Collins should be in the top 5. We will probably look back at this list 2 years from now and wonder why Sprinkle was rated so low

Competition in league is going to be a lot tougher going forward. Traditional bottom feeders like NW, Nebby and PSU have very good coaches. At minimum, UM and OSU are going to pull a lot of talent and both May and Diebler have shown they can coach. Altman, Cronin, Sprinkle and Muss are darn...

The same Dusty May that turned around a s***hole of a program and coached a mid-major to the Final Four? Not sure why people are so quick to discount him.