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Irrelevant fact. Hillary Farr on Love It or List It is in her mid sixties. Who'd a thunk it.
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Irrelevant fact. Hillary Farr on Love It or List It is in her mid sixties. Who'd a thunk it.
sacraig
- The desert
First off, my apologies for the earlier snark. Turns out, indeed, much solid.
So currently in a Will Bailey rabbit hole. If all of this has been said... nothing wrong with a refresher, right?
Bailey is from Chicago (check).
On the Huggins/Martin/Underwood coaching tree (solid plus).
Familiar with Champaign, as he was inducted into The Parkland College Hall of Fame in 2019 (interesting nugget that strikes a certain would-want-to-be-here tone).
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From the link:
"Will Bailey is in his firsth season on staff"
I think Wil Bailey would be a very good hire.
Down the rabbit hole with you. Bailey looks good, nice resume, checks all the boxes. All's fair in love and assistant college basketball coach hiring, but how will this impact Martin and Underwood's friendship if he poaches one of Martin's assistants?First off, my apologies for the earlier snark. Turns out, indeed, much solid.
So currently in a Will Bailey rabbit hole. If all of this has been said... nothing wrong with a refresher, right?
Bailey is from Chicago (check).
On the Huggins/Martin/Underwood coaching tree (solid plus).
Familiar with Champaign, as he was inducted into The Parkland College Hall of Fame in 2019 (interesting nugget that strikes a certain would-want-to-be-here tone).
South Carolina Bio
skyIdub
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Bailey doesn’t do it for me and it doesn’t sound like he has history coaching bigs. Seems like he would be redundant to Chester in my opinion.First off, my apologies for the earlier snark. Turns out, indeed, much solid.
So currently in a Will Bailey rabbit hole. If all of this has been said... nothing wrong with a refresher, right?
Bailey is from Chicago (check).
On the Huggins/Martin/Underwood coaching tree (solid plus).
Familiar with Champaign, as he was inducted into The Parkland College Hall of Fame in 2019 (interesting nugget that strikes a certain would-want-to-be-here tone).
South Carolina Bio
sacraig
- The desert
Well we still have two openings, so...
illini80
- Forgottonia
I think the assumption is Alexander fills one from what we have heard.
Alexander has a history coaching bigs. Chester's ties are largely on the east coast, particularly in the DC area. Bailey's sort of been all over but has midwest and Chicago ties. Think you're simplifying a little bit.
I have heard that Alexander will be promoted only if Gentry leaves, as they have a similar skill set. If Gentry stays, Alexander will stay in his current role.
Gentry is leaving.
Can someone show him the way out so we can get this process moving...........
Source?
Storr said the change in staff made him look into his options again and that he's willing to get to know the new guys before making a final decision. Personally, I think having the really strong spring he's coming off of had just as much, if not more, to do with it. The really solid high major offers are coming in for him.
pretty sure that the process is moving.
JJB
- Chicago, IL
My guess is that there is probably an understanding in place that a public announcement on Gentry doesn't occur until the hire for the other AC position is announced.
the national
- the Front Range
No offense but why? If the Zags hire him, wouldn’t it be on their terms not ours?
Could be a courtesy thing given that they have some down time between now and in-person recruiting ramping up. But I'm assuming it has more to do with ironing out contract details.
Opinion. More because of timing...
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Via 90 appears to be most direct route, although personally I'd go 94 to 90 to avoid having to spend any amount of time in Iowa
So you are agreeing that the vacancies are playing a role (the "new guys" you reference don't all exist yet). I stand by my statement that mystery erodes relationships. The longer the search goes, the tougher it will be to keep or develop relationships.
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Is Illinois not a really solid high major now? Christ, this fan base truly needs to follow Illinois State instead of the Illini. Much more fitting.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
I mean, not having guys in place isn't *helping*, but I think this was always going to be the case once Chin and OA decided to leave.
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