Also, Blackman went 5-13 in non-conference games, but 12 of the 18 games the Illini played out of conference were against teams ranked in the Top 20. Talk about setting a coach up to fail!
I find it interesting where our mindset is as a fanbase and the remainder of our schedule. The Big Ten West is there for the taking and we are well positioned in our remaining 8 games. Only Maryland should be a clear favorite. Let us compare to how they used to schedule and what we were up...
Like anyone believes this guy, he said his plastic surgery, which makes him look like a totally different person, was the result of a tragic bunge cord accident and not vanity and hubris
The independent investigator was the former Inspector General for the State of Illinois, she also conducted the Mike Madigan "independent" investigation that didn't find much in the way of wrong doing before the Feds ultimately indicted him. My guess is she didn't look too hard.
What Knight did to Uwe Blab was similar but just as bad, as what he did to Giomi if that who you were speaking about. Knight was very unhinged in the 80's
The real Doug Collins leaving the Bulls is one of the great untold stories of our time....It is right up there with Bobby Knight decking a particular sportswriter ad why the Illini didn't land Uwe Blab
As the Great Philosopher Al Davis said,
"Just Win Baby"
That will shut them up....Brad has not done that in March so there is a lot of chatter, it is very simple...going someplace else is not going to change that, it rooted in the human condition
The John Mackovic Experience....all the places Brad wants to go, with perhaps the exception of K State, will make the Illini boosters look like fawns in the woods in comparison. Brad is a good coach, but I would take Miller in a heartbeat over him
Kevin Warren has one job with the Bears...get a Stadium deal teed up so when Virginia is not among us, they can sell the team and extract full value. Any new owner will want to bring in his own guys so Warren is a 3 to 5 year solution tops, total hired gun to get the Stadium deal structured and...
Crazy to think of the bad and tragic stuff off the field stuff that has happened to coaches who played/ were to play the Illini in the last 4 months.....Josephs at Neb, Beard at Texas and now Leach