Lovie also has real problem with the way he's allocating scholarships for positions, a key part of any recruiting program. With 85 schollies, you can afford no more than 4 dedicated to kickers and long snappers, leaving an average of 3.7 for each position. You need more RBs because of injury issues, AT LEAST FIVE, but next year we'll have SEVEN, one who's injury prone and 3 that haven't shown they can play at this level.
You need at least four QBs, which we have this year. IF we bring in a QB in this class, we probably need to shift one to another positions or lose them to transfer.
Receiver is where we're WAY overloaded with players who'll never reach the three deep with 16 players at TE and WR., over 5 players per position. We're starving LB and DB for this, and it shows on the field. Given the poor recruiting year we're apparently having at DB ( 12 schollies where we should have 14-15 with 5 players who likely shouldn't make the three deep anytime soon, NO competitively recruited DBs or LBs "warm" to us...) and LB (7 where we should have 11), this is MAJOR problem moving forward.
With proper personnel management and a top assistant staff I have no reason to believe Lovie couldn't be successful at Illinois. The real question is why he hasn't hired one....
You need at least four QBs, which we have this year. IF we bring in a QB in this class, we probably need to shift one to another positions or lose them to transfer.
Receiver is where we're WAY overloaded with players who'll never reach the three deep with 16 players at TE and WR., over 5 players per position. We're starving LB and DB for this, and it shows on the field. Given the poor recruiting year we're apparently having at DB ( 12 schollies where we should have 14-15 with 5 players who likely shouldn't make the three deep anytime soon, NO competitively recruited DBs or LBs "warm" to us...) and LB (7 where we should have 11), this is MAJOR problem moving forward.
With proper personnel management and a top assistant staff I have no reason to believe Lovie couldn't be successful at Illinois. The real question is why he hasn't hired one....