Josh Whitman Named 14th Illinois Athletics Director

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aluma

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aluma
I love the down to earth feel with Whitman. He does it while also coming across extremely articulate and focused!
 
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Konnie

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Western Suburbs
Konnie
I live in the Chicago area and I do not care what the Chicago media says or does. The media is full of fair weather fans and unless you are winning, you are the focus of their complaints. I will judge Whitman by his actions and results not by the Chicago media writings and comments. I believe Dee’s note is right: Be Positive.
 
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Illinivek23

Illinivek23
Gurnee
Illinivek23
Can't agree more with Konnie - The Score, in particular, is a waste of time. Would be great if we could reel in WBBM 780 or similar to further our academic image.
 
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CoalCity

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St Paul, MN
CoalCity
I wonder about what kind of relationships he's developed while he was in St Louis that might prove useful in helping recruit this downstate 2017 class. Hadn't really thought about that until just now.
 
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AutoPoster 3000

AutoPoster 3000
AutoPoster 3000
I realize I'm the only person on this thread who cares, but as a classmate and section-mate of Whitman's in the College of Law class of 2008, I can confirm that he just nailed the question about his former professors -- Reynolds, Leipold, Tabb ... he got all of them but one from memory, which I could never have done. A reminder why he was summa cum laude and I was merely cum laude.
 
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Second and Chalmers

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Second and Chalmers
AutoPoster 3000 said:
I realize I'm the only person on this thread who cares, but as a classmate and section-mate of Whitman's in the College of Law class of 2008, I can confirm that he just nailed the question about his former professors -- Reynolds, Leipold, Tabb ... he got all of them but one from memory, which I could never have done. A reminder why he was summa cum laude and I was merely cum laude.
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Reynolds and Leipold are two of the best teachers I ever had at any level of school :thumb:
 
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deadpool81

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deadpool81
ugh, some of these media people are just killing me with their inane questions. They come in with their story already pre-written, so they ask their canned questions to get the fill-in-the-blank quote they need, and in doing so, miss some great opportunities for real substantial follow up questions.

Example: JW gives an interesting response about his approach of implementing incremental changes. Just begging for a follow up of "what are some incremental changes we can expect to see, how about a timeline?" or whatever.

Instead we get this hard-hitting question, and yes i'm paraphrasing here: "tell us again about how you were a football player at UI and now you're the AD, OMG". so tone deaf.
 
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Illini_1979

Illini_1979
Oregon
Illini_1979
Great job. I'm cautiously looking ahead and seeing a light at the end of the tunnel (and hoping it is not an oncoming train).

:):thumb::shield:
 
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South Farms

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near Ogden & Rt 83
South Farms
Second and Chalmers said:
Reynolds and Leipold are two of the best teachers I ever had at any level of school :thumb:
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Was Mark Rutkowski still teaching undergrad business law in the late 90's - early 00's ? He was one of my favorite teachers back in the 80's .

He and tax accts teacher Ken Willis were superb