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<blockquote data-quote="Love the Illini" data-source="post: 1567702" data-attributes="member: 628271"><p>Every football coach in the state knows that Lovie did not go out of his way to build relationships with the high school coaches in the state. That was very evident for any coach that attended the state coaches clinic at the U of I. Talked to every head Illinois coach since Tepper at some point and never had a conversation with Lovie or saw him go out of his way to speak to a high school coach. This was shown by his inability to recruit the state didn't get any of the top 25 players in the state this year. Lovie was a pro coach who never really adjusted to the college game especially the recruiting part of it. I know Coach Bielema and he is a college coach through and through and will hire much more of a college type staff. He knows Illinois and the midwest and I think he will recruit locally much better than Lovie did. Bielema can coach he was a highly thought of defenisve coordinator under Snyder at K-State and was brought to Wisconsin as DC to be the replacement for Alvarez. Whether he is the guy who can turn the Illinois program around or not I don't know but I believe he will be hungry to prove himself as a college coach again and overall a good hir.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Love the Illini, post: 1567702, member: 628271"] Every football coach in the state knows that Lovie did not go out of his way to build relationships with the high school coaches in the state. That was very evident for any coach that attended the state coaches clinic at the U of I. Talked to every head Illinois coach since Tepper at some point and never had a conversation with Lovie or saw him go out of his way to speak to a high school coach. This was shown by his inability to recruit the state didn't get any of the top 25 players in the state this year. Lovie was a pro coach who never really adjusted to the college game especially the recruiting part of it. I know Coach Bielema and he is a college coach through and through and will hire much more of a college type staff. He knows Illinois and the midwest and I think he will recruit locally much better than Lovie did. Bielema can coach he was a highly thought of defenisve coordinator under Snyder at K-State and was brought to Wisconsin as DC to be the replacement for Alvarez. Whether he is the guy who can turn the Illinois program around or not I don't know but I believe he will be hungry to prove himself as a college coach again and overall a good hir. [/QUOTE]
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