Fire a coach that has brought your program back to relevance. Has won the most Big Ten games of any school in the last four years with 1 (cough 2) BIG Ten regular season championships, a BTT Championship, a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Aurora East is in the Upstate Eight Conference, fwiw. But that's the only instance I can think of where the term upstate is applied to an area of Illinois.
I don't think casual fans would know the full context or be discerning enough to know BU from SM. So it would look like we just fired our best coach of the last 20 years for no good reason. And then hired an Xavier coach who was implicated in a scandal at his last job. Despite the vocal internet crazies who want BU fired, I think most Illinois fans still like BU despite what went down this year. And I'm not sure what kind of signal that sends to other potential and current coaches, not just basketball but all sports at Illinois.
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Thank you sir!
I think most of the fanbase plainly gives Underwood a pass on his first two years as well. Someone earlier in these threads included them in their analysis of why they weren't sold on Underwood at this time, but most of us (casual and hardcore alike) give him a pass because he inherited a dumpster fire and brought us back to life by year 3. That's a monumental accomplishment. And Underwood's numbers look phenomenal pretty much across the board if you omit those two years except in tournament success (which is admittedly a big one).
I certainly think Josh could fire Brad at some point... just not this year (or likely the next few) without a really good, publicly visible reason.
he needs justifiable cause.
Brad's a smart guy. He's well aware of his job security here. Firing him would be an absolutely ludicrous decision. Annoying as it may be, he's going to keep his eyes on the coaching market. Can't blame the guy, he's got hand.
I mean, coaches get fired for what you described above all the time.
Right but that cause doesn't need to be the sort that avoids a buyout. If underwood missed the tourney for the next two seasons, for example, that's probably plenty of cause because the fan base would be riled up and the buyout will decrease over time.
He's not really got the upper hand right now either, though. I think he and Whitman have equal hands. In the end, we will probably end up right back where we thought we were a week ago, which is mostly fine.
he has hand today, although he has less hand than he did a year ago. Let's say he goes 9-11 next year and misses the tourney, he's all of a sudden in a much more precarious position
More The burbs or Chicagoland versus downstate. No?
Anything outside a one hour radius of Grant Park might as well be Narnia to Chicagoans.
Are you predicting something horrible happens again next year, and we only have a 20 game basketball season?
Assuming this refers to Big 10 conference record.
Yeah, suburban and especially exurban Chicago shouldn't be lumped in with Chicago. I'd make the argument that those two places are more culturally and politically at odds than Chicago and downstate proper are in a number of ways.
Where exactly besides here is this being "reported"
