Because this is Illinois Loyalty, where we dream of famous or even sort of famous former players with little to no college coaching experience to come in and be our saviors. These players are ace recruiters who are going to come in as position coaches and coach that position like it has never been coached before. When Lovie retires after winning our first National Championship in the last 50 years, then this position coach will be promoted to be our head coach, where he will take us to even greater heights and win 20 straight championships.
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Because this is Illinois Loyalty, where we dream of famous or even sort of famous former players with little to no college coaching experience to come in and be our saviors. These players are ace recruiters who are going to come in as position coaches and coach that position like it has never been coached before. When Lovie retires after winning our first National Championship in the last 50 years, then this position coach will be promoted to be our head coach, where he will take us to even greater heights and win 20 straight championships.
If Studwell wants to avoid the road I'm not sure an assistant's job in Div. I football is the answer.
I was with the team when Studwell was there. I am now on Medicare.....
Looks like Nathan Scheelhaase is heading to Iowa St as a RB coach
Sad to see him go. Guy bleeds O&B as much as anyone. Hope he can make his way back someday.
Good for him.
There's still a spot open on the Illini staff. I understand trying to keep offense and defense split evenly but with Phair, Nickerson, Abraham, and Lovie on defense, would it have really been that bad to keep Nate as an offensive or ST assistant?
Wow. Huge loss.
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Crap.
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I will say this...It totally sucks the position we are currently in. HOWEVER, if we can become a stepping stone "pipeline" for coaches to make it to the NFL due to the experience with working with Lovie, this will make us way more appealing to FA coaches AND recruits. Just saying, big picture outlook here
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Agreed. However considering the timeline of the NFL year. This will be the norm....if we become that pipeline...
Yeah, but they could done it at a more opportune time, at least for us.
This is the opportune time, when coaching changes are happening.
Ransom Stoddard
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- Bloomington, IL
I don't know, but Lovie had better control the doggoned narrative.
Well, gratz to Phair and Scheelhaase. I hope they both do well with their new teams.
With that said, lets get a solid veteran and maybe pick up a great HS school coach on the D side and get better. Kinda can't wait to see who we get (but I suspect I will be waiting for a couple weeks).
Who is our narration coordinator?
With that said, lets get a solid veteran and maybe pick up a great HS school coach on the D side and get better. Kinda can't wait to see who we get (but I suspect I will be waiting for a couple weeks).
Who is our narration coordinator?
He already lost the narrative by not letting everyone know Phair was leaving before he left.
He continues to lose the narrative every second he isn’t at a podium explaining every personal and professional reason as to why Phair left.
Honestly, we should probably have a constant live stream on Lovie so he can gain control of that pesky narrative.
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I am for a constant live stream on the Lovie beard to watch it grow!....like the program
No, it wouldn't have been bad, but I'd rather Lovie have the coaches he wants to be there. He's got a couple years left to prove himself before people really start calling for his head and only 24 regular season games to do it in. If you think an assistant change gives you a better chance to win any of them, I think you have to do it.
Look at the basketball team. Not only are all the players new to Underwood, all the assistants are also. You know they're not completely up to speed with how Underwood wants to run things and there's probably some things getting dropped that would've got taken care of with assistant coaches that had been with him for years.
BananaShampoo
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- Phoenix, AZ
I think you missed the sarcasm part of that particular post.