Brad Underwood Named Illini Basketball Coach

[illynifan34]

Can he and his staff recruit. That's the question mark right?

 

[Love the Illini]

He will run a fun offense watch a lot of Big 12 basketball due to having grown up Iowa State fan. Ok state was one of the best offensive teams in the country. Suppose to be good X and O coach but has spent most of his coaching career as an assistant. Will be interesting how he recruits which is a big key. If struggles with recruiting I see nothing more then another Bruce Weber we will see

 

[OneTime3]

Well offense is what the kids like to do these days and sells systems - what are the chances Frazier and Tillmon stay on board?

 

[Deleted member 569417]

Typical Illinois.

 

[NunnBetter]

I thought nothing could be official until Monday?

 

[Lake Camelot]

For those of you who said, "I like Keatts, but I wish I could see him at a bigger place", THIS IS IT.

Great coach. Not as spashy as some other names on the initial list, but he's a dang good basketball coach. GREAT HIRE!

This seems like a reasonable description. I expected a much bigger name. This doesn't excite me really at all. But that doesn't mean he can't succeed.

 

[GBPillini]

National guys seems to like it.

Josh Whitman is my hero. Illinois AD crushed it with the search and didn't throw away $75K of school's money on... http://es.pn/2nz5RAx

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/843195896762257408

 

[ivwilsoniv]

Well offense is what the kids like to do these days and sells systems - what are the chances Frazier and Tillmon stay on board?

What are the chances that people will start spelling "Tilmon" correctly by the time he's on campus?

 

[VanHalen]

Can he and his staff recruit. That's the question mark right?

We can work with it. He's a solid X's and O's guy which this program is sorely lacking.

 

[OneTime3]

What are the chances that people will start spelling "Tilmon" correctly by the time he's on campus?

What are the chances he legally changes his name to Tillmon by the time he's on campus?

 

[illynifan34]

What are the chances that people will start spelling "Tilmon" correctly by the time he's on campus?

What are the chances he's on campus?

 

[BigJIllini]

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Illinois! What a steal.

 

[The Galloping Ghost]

Underwood can walk into every recruit's home and ask him if he wants to run the most efficient offense in college basketball. That's going to win some recruiting battles.

 

[BillyBob1]

Thought they had to wait until Monday?

 

[Ubermensch]

Kansas State fans are really super pissed off. They have *always* wanted Brad Underwood. Instead they have Bruce Weber. You want to talk about nut punches? You have no idea how sore their nuts are right now.

http://goemaw.com/forum/index.php?topic=39075.0

 

[GoIllini40]

Can he and his staff recruit. That's the question mark right?

Underwood was so underpaid at Oklahoma State, you're probably not paying him Bennett money so that leaves a ton of money for his staff.

 

[illynifan34]

Is this like hiring Lon Kruger from Florida?

 

[illiniguy24]

Wow! Does he keep Walker??


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[IntenselyOrange]

He will hire great recruiters to surround him! Casey (Whitman) did not strike out - he hit a home run.


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[LFOD]

Underwood it is! I kinda like it. He looks angry. I'm angry. Let's go win some games!

 

[WesterveltVictoryCigar]

Is this like hiring Lon Kruger from Florida?

Well Lon had that Final Four but was trending down at UF. So.....no.

 

[Kathy]

I Loved this when I heard about it!!!!

 

[GBPillini]

Official Announcement

http://fightingillini.com/news/2017/3/18/mens-basketball-underwood-hired.aspx

 

[mattcoldagelli]

Well, every national college basketball writer and every person that pays even a little attention to Big XII basketball is super impressed.....but it doesn't do it for JiroDreamsOfMcRibs. So I guess I'm pretty torn.

 

[ChicagoIllini]

For those of you who said, "I like Keatts, but I wish I could see him at a bigger place", THIS IS IT.

Great coach. Not as spashy as some other names on the initial list, but he's a dang good basketball coach. GREAT HIRE!

Yep. Great hire! I didn't give him as much thought as I probably should have because I assumed Ok State would not let him get away. Great work JW! :thumb: