Recent content by Hingle McCringleberry

The 2024 & 2025 seasons were the 2 steps forward and 2026 is the 1 step backwards. Ugh.

And to an IL team that is struggling compared to an OU team coming off a HUGE upset win against #1 Texas in an electric game environment. Tall task for our coaches 🤞

Poor off-season: Roster defections - both to NFL without adequate replacements (Jacas for example) & to other college programs Sub-standard DC hire (plus the lower level assistants DC brought with him from D2)

I just hope that Brett includes himself in the "we're a group that has learn things the hard way" statement. All the happenings of the off-season are largely his responsibility in order to be set for "continued program success" this season (and every season). Clearly that is not currently...

Except for the fact that Kansas didn't even offer him. Hard to choose a school that doesn't offer you scholly.

Shut down his career? The guy was retired! He shut down his own career 🤦‍♂️ u

Of course and you can cherry pick some stars from almost any roster. But program to program, Northwestern is not who we should be competing with for talent based on where we are now. Do we want to be competing for talent with Rutgers ....No, but they had Dylan Harper & Ace Bailey Do we want...

I don't think that anyone is saying that "one decision fixes the problem" at all. There are multiple problems, but the one problem you can fix is the disaster DC that can't even get the correct number of players on the field consistently. Would you rather that nothing was done and keep Bobby...

Not sure that's the level of competition that I want to take "talent" from. I'd prefer we take a kid away from Duke, UNC, UConn, FL, Mich, etc.

There was a near zero percent chance he was going to be a home run hire. He's never recruited at this level and just retired because he hated the current state of high level college football (NIL etc), he had never even been a DC. He was 100% a desperation hire because we had no other viable...

In what world is Hauck a more experienced Head Coach than Bielema? Was Hauck ever a HC at P4 school...No (closest he came was UNLV where he went 15-48) . Was Hauck ever in the NFL...No. Did he ever win any Major Conf Championships or Bowl Games...No. Did he ever have any prominent NFL...

Besides some espoused Sommelier level olfactory capabilities, what do you have to support your opinion that is contrary to what was on this board from good sources that played out throughout the offseason of 25'-early 26'? No-one is saying that he was committed to totally changing the defense...

By all accounts Brett botched the entire handling of the DC role due to : 1) the priority of his decision to make sure AHen was taken care of over best positioning our program's D 2) his over-confidence that he could still land a good DC even with #1 above When the DC talent pool dried up and...

Full disclosure, I don't have the time to review each every one of these dudes. So maybe I give you couple that are as bad. But that's not my point, my point is that we waited until AFTER all these guys had already been through the full interview cycle and been hired BEFORE we officially...

Here is the list of DC's hired after the end of the season (before the Playoffs though) and up until Aaron Henry took his job at ND (which is when UofI officially opened it's DC search): Is there any on this list we wouldn't take right now over what we have? All 25 Power 4 DC hires before...