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Bret Bielema Takes Reins of Illinois Football
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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1567686" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>To my point about how people pretend things were obvious in retrospect, this is not remotely true.</p><p></p><p>First of all, there is no such thing as a widely known MAC offensive coordinator, period. Especially not a 31-year-old in his second year in the role.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, if Campbell were so highly sought after he would not have been at Toledo another four years.</p><p></p><p>You only had to look at the numbers to see that Campbell was doing a good job and the plan when we hired Beckman was to bring him along as OC, but it was a genuine surprise that Toledo handed him the keys with such a light resume, and he had made his name in the coaching world SINCE then.</p><p></p><p>Basically every word of the maximalist case against Mike Thomas is a hazily smudged exaggeration. A bad time under a bad AD that is thankfully behind us, but the propaganda alternate history of it all is really annoying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1567686, member: 746137"] To my point about how people pretend things were obvious in retrospect, this is not remotely true. First of all, there is no such thing as a widely known MAC offensive coordinator, period. Especially not a 31-year-old in his second year in the role. Secondly, if Campbell were so highly sought after he would not have been at Toledo another four years. You only had to look at the numbers to see that Campbell was doing a good job and the plan when we hired Beckman was to bring him along as OC, but it was a genuine surprise that Toledo handed him the keys with such a light resume, and he had made his name in the coaching world SINCE then. Basically every word of the maximalist case against Mike Thomas is a hazily smudged exaggeration. A bad time under a bad AD that is thankfully behind us, but the propaganda alternate history of it all is really annoying. [/QUOTE]
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