IlliniInOK
- no longer in OK! Centralia, IL
Need an OC? I think we should graciously give them our most recent OC as a show of good faith in light of their coach stepping down due to health issues. It's the neighborly thing to do.
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Need an OC? I think we should graciously give them our most recent OC as a show of good faith in light of their coach stepping down due to health issues. It's the neighborly thing to do.
No chance. And just so everyone is clear, we will not be the only program looking for a coach next year, our roster will be a nuclear wasteland, and all of the coaches we like so much will have another big year on their resume and be more attractive to better jobs.
So pretty much wipe the slate of the guys we've been talking about and look for the names that might peek over the horizon next year. Bob Diaco immediately springs to mind.
I won't be surprised if Diaco gets the Cuse job right now.
Maybe Sumlin will falter and get fired and Illinois can get him this time around. Hilariously wishful thinking...
Ruffin McNeil fired at East Carolina. That's a strange one. Unless they're going to pull a Gene Chizik/Gus Malzahn situation and hire Lincoln Riley.
I don't understand why there isn't more talk about this guy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Monken
Not just from the Illinois standpoint but nationally. The guy took an 0-12 team and has them sitting at 9-3 in 3 years. I wanted to hire him instead of Beckman and Southern Miss went and got him.
He's an Illinois native who can recruit the plains and south and seems to do well taking an aimless program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Monken
Not just from the Illinois standpoint but nationally. The guy took an 0-12 team and has them sitting at 9-3 in 3 years. I wanted to hire him instead of Beckman and Southern Miss went and got him.
He's an Illinois native who can recruit the plains and south and seems to do well taking an aimless program.
He didn't though. Yes, Southern Miss did in fact lose 12 games and win 0 in 2012, but "an 0-12 team" has a meaning which does not fit the situation Monken inherited.
That's a program which dwarfs the rest of that conference in stature and infrastructure. If Monken stacks two 10 win seasons together this year and next? Color me interested for the other reasons you mentioned. But making the Southern Miss he inherited into a 9-3 team in the Sun Belt in three seasons is really not much to write home about.
Babers is going to 'Cuse. Will be announced tonight after the game or in the AM.
The rumors that he has been itching for the exit door are true, Bronco Mendenhall to Virginia.
Very interesting hire. BYU is a very unique job, kinda tough to say exactly how well he was doing there.
Niumatalolo is LDS, could he be in play for that gig?
Very interesting hire. BYU is a very unique job, kinda tough to say exactly how well he was doing there.
Niumatalolo is LDS, could he be in play for that gig?
Babers to Syracuse is a done deal, they're just waiting for the MAC title game to be played tonight.
He's the absolute perfect fit and he would have been ours. On November 28, 2015, Tim Killeen and Barb Wilson chose to hang an interim noose around Bill Cubit's neck rather than a 5-year contract to make Dino Babers the future of Illinois football.
Syracuse is a tough gig, Babers is no Knute Rockne, maybe we regard that with a shrug in 6 years as we pick ourselves up out of the basement of Power Five football thanks to Coach Whoever. But here's guessing that decision was Slush Fund II.
You are probably right but I have a feeling that we will be pleasantly surprised with our choices next year
There are always good coaches available. Always always always.
And unfortunately there are always lots of openings. Always always always.
It's more a question of finding the future great coaches that aren't obvious. Look at any year ever, there were multiple elite coaches who were ready to move up and would have jumped at the Illinois job. This year it might be Dino Babers or it might be like Jake Spavital or something.
Maybe, but at least things will be really, really stable.
No reason to be ill, he's good. That's why he will not be an Illini
If he is going to Syracuse he would have went to illinois.
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I like babers but if you want to see what are our program will look like with a guy like babers look east at IU. To compete in B1G you need to defend and be able to run the ball... No accident that Maryland hired a defensive minded coach. Rutgers seems to be leaning that way too.
I like babers but if you want to see what are our program will look like with a guy like babers look east at IU. To compete in B1G you need to defend and be able to run the ball... No accident that Maryland hired a defensive minded coach. Rutgers seems to be leaning that way too.
Tevon Coleman, Jordan Howard...... But other than that I can see your point about defend
This seems like a good time to point out that Dino Babers and Bill Cubit won the same number of B1G games this year.
IlliniRunIn07
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It was Purdue and Maryland. And we beat Purdue by more. But your underlying point still stands, we suck. And I wanted Babers as much as a lot of people in this thread do.
I haven't seen this brought up, and am wondering if I just missed it. With the last bball/fball coaching searches, there were some BOT members that were upset that we did not hire a black coach, and they were vocal about it. I am against turning down a more qualified coach just to get a black coach here, but Babers would've killed two birds with one stone. He was my favorite realistic candidate AND could've helped any racial tension that might exist in the community. Why, why, why was there not a push for him?
Babers hasn't stayed anywhere long enough to truly know how he would do once he was responsible for recruiting and growing players. His team would have been fun to watch and hiring him would have resolved a perception problem Illinois has had with never having hired an African American coach.
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