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I just wish this ongoing saga would conclude if it's taken this long and we get a lousy ad well God help us all
From the 4 being discussed, I rank them:
1. Frazier
2. Whitman
------Line of Acceptability------
3. Michael
-----Line of Outright Disaster-----
4. Lubin
Lubin would be a middle finger to the fan base.
Sorry meant to add on, what if it's no one we've discussed? like way out of left field.
I'd agree with that but I'd move Whitman in to the category of "meh". Not really acceptable for me but probably not an outright disaster.
Hard to say without knowing who it is. Tom Jurich? Yay! Loren Tate? Ugh.
To me there's an order of magnitude difference between Whitman and someone like Tom "20-more-years-of-the-same" Michael. Desperate times call for risky measures. I can get behind Whitman because, youth and inexperience and RG lineage aside, there seems to be a genuine high ceiling with him. If we can tolerate an initial learning curve, good chance he grows into our own Jim Phillips or Craig Tiley.
The troubling part, though, is that Craig Tiley is already Craig Tiley now. Make him say no first. Then look to Plan B.
The tough part of Whitman is that he'd have taken the job the day it was available.
The tough part of Whitman is that he'd have taken the job the day it was available.
Which likely means that they exhausted attempts of getting George and Tiley
The tough part of Whitman is that he'd have taken the job the day it was available.
I don't see how it has negatively impacted the sports teams since the time MT was dismissed. Now if we would've fired MT a lot sooner, then we're talking different circumstances.
What's tough about that? Just asking. To me, that would've meant that they didn't even try for guys like George or Tiley, and that would've upset me. If Whitman would've been hired a month ago, does that really change anything that has happened at Illinois since that time?
I'm frustrated as a fan that we are still waiting, but honestly, I don't see how it has negatively impacted the sports teams since the time MT was dismissed. Now if we would've fired MT a lot sooner, then we're talking different circumstances.
Thomas fired 11/9/15.
Whitman hired 11/9/15 + 20 minutes
Whitman gets to not retain Cubit and execute an actual job search for football that may net us Babers or Fleck or anyone better than Cubit and that staff.
Illinois reportedly narrows field of athletic director candidates
Illinois is narrowing the field of candidates for the athletic director vacancy and top university administrators will meet with potential hires early next week in Indianapolis, according to Tribune sources.
The Illini are expected to interview at least three or four candidates and could finalize their decision by the end of next week, sources said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...thletic-director-spt-0130-20160129-story.html
It wasn't some sort of hand-wavy "Nobody's contacted me" or "I'm committed to this university" type of statement, either.
Umm, yes it was.
Yes, wonder why not Chicago?
I get that Indy is a bigger city, bigger airport (than CU I mean) and the ease of anonymity, but why not also play the "Illinois flagship" card and go to your state's biggest city?
Don't know Illinois' FOI laws, but I know a lot of schools conduct their informal interviews out of state to avoid FOI rules. In Florida, for example, media have the right to sit in on interviews. (This actually happened at Florida State two ADs ago, when they hired Randy Spetman.)
Might have something to do with it.