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Bret Bielema Takes Reins of Illinois Football
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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1568526" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>That's the original sin of the whole thing. Whitman hadn't been in D1 football since 2000. Lovie hadn't been in D1 football since 1995. Both guys supremely confident, some might say overconfident, that they know everything there is to know about everything. They got together in secret in Lovie's Tampa home in February-March 2016 and convinced each other they had the can't-miss formula to turn around a program neither of them really understood.</p><p></p><p>And you know what's funny? It would have been so much clearer what was going on at the time if it weren't for Garrick McGee. McGee as a sitting Power Five OC, poached away from a winning program in March, former D1 head coach himself, regarded as an excellent recruiter, it covered so much of the stink of what was a horribly misguided staff that until Thad Ward was added as a late afterthought basically had no one that could get players. But McGee was a gem in the all-important OC spot. Welp.</p><p></p><p>Trust but verify this time around, for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1568526, member: 746137"] That's the original sin of the whole thing. Whitman hadn't been in D1 football since 2000. Lovie hadn't been in D1 football since 1995. Both guys supremely confident, some might say overconfident, that they know everything there is to know about everything. They got together in secret in Lovie's Tampa home in February-March 2016 and convinced each other they had the can't-miss formula to turn around a program neither of them really understood. And you know what's funny? It would have been so much clearer what was going on at the time if it weren't for Garrick McGee. McGee as a sitting Power Five OC, poached away from a winning program in March, former D1 head coach himself, regarded as an excellent recruiter, it covered so much of the stink of what was a horribly misguided staff that until Thad Ward was added as a late afterthought basically had no one that could get players. But McGee was a gem in the all-important OC spot. Welp. Trust but verify this time around, for me. [/QUOTE]
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