But why male models?
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I won’t be. Beilein praised him. He was the defensive coach when they played in the Natty.Would anyone be upset about that ? They shouldn't be ...
Luke's a dang good coach ... All we did all year was complain about howthe defense was ...
I don't know many better defensive coaches than Yak ...
Chester upset we recruited over Amani & Sencire. He brought in Jayden & Underwood and him butt heads….. It’s a running scenario.. Chet feels disrespected. Crappy situation.
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I don’t know what’s going on anymore… I went to go paint my daughters room and it’s like the gates of Mordor opened…
Is Yaklich a good recruiter?
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
What I can find:
He goes 214-173 coaching high school basketball (.553)
Gets hired at Illinois State as an assistant (went to school with Muller)
His last year at ISU is their 28-7 season
He gets hired at Michigan, has great two year run with JB. Is lead recruiter for one guy (4*, transferred after one year). Isn't retained by Howard.
Hired at Texas for COVID season (Shaka's penultimate season), ends up a slightly disappointing year for Longhorns but likely would have made the tournament
Gets the UIC head job but they are really bad under his tenure. Is fired after this season and leaves with second worst winning percentage in program history.
He goes 214-173 coaching high school basketball (.553)
Gets hired at Illinois State as an assistant (went to school with Muller)
His last year at ISU is their 28-7 season
He gets hired at Michigan, has great two year run with JB. Is lead recruiter for one guy (4*, transferred after one year). Isn't retained by Howard.
Hired at Texas for COVID season (Shaka's penultimate season), ends up a slightly disappointing year for Longhorns but likely would have made the tournament
Gets the UIC head job but they are really bad under his tenure. Is fired after this season and leaves with second worst winning percentage in program history.
turnaround3
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If we’re poaching HC’s from irrelevant nothing type Chicago area programs how about the one with actual program ties that just went 25-5 as opposed to the one with a .402 win percentage in four seasons?
For clarity’s sake I’m not clamoring for either of these guys whatsoever I just don’t at all understand, defensive guru-dom not withstanding, why this particular guy would be or purportedly is, atop Brad’s list.
For clarity’s sake I’m not clamoring for either of these guys whatsoever I just don’t at all understand, defensive guru-dom not withstanding, why this particular guy would be or purportedly is, atop Brad’s list.
Bigtex
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That would be my take
Yeah I am super sad to see Chester leave man, but it does need to be contextualized that of all our current staff....not one of his specific recruits has been a high level producer for us at all. One could argue they never even got a shot to prove themselves (other than Epps) and in fact it seems that's how Chester felt.
This doesn't take into account how important he was in development/game planning but I'm not aware of how those duties were all split specifically.
UIC is an awful job ... So hard to be successful there ...
I definitely wouldn't consider him an elite recruiter ... But he's an elite X&O guy ... Especially defensively ...
It would definitely mean TA would be carrying the load recruiting wise ...
I also mentioned this earlier today ... But there is potential to lose 2 assistants ... That is still on the table from what I've gathered ...
I’m shocked Chester would leave. IL is a better job than WVU and there’s no way they are paying him more than we could pay. I’m interested in who replaces him. Given that most of these guys just go to the highest bidder I hope we bring in the best coach possible bc recruiting relationships are overrated at this point.
I am heart broken. Great recruiter, person, and he's a Illini! Should have paid him in gold and begged. He wore the orange and blue for crying out loud!
What does Coleman's emoji mean?
Step off the ledge my friend. Losing our 2nd best assistant isn't the end of the world.
We lost Chin and Antigua in one off-season and ended up fine. Let's see what Josh and Brad can do.
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This may have been an end of year evaluation. If an Asst. Coach keeps recruiting players that don't fit or excel in the program there is an issue. Likely this didn't work for one or both of the parties.
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Okay, this is promising. Let's look up how things went for him at Illinois State, Texas, and UIC for defense:
Illinois State average defensive ranking in previous season: 142
Illinois State with Yaklich: 89 + 80 + 44 + 73 + 19(!!!)
Texas average defensive ranking in previous season: 26
Texas with Yaklich: 24
UIC average defensive ranking in previous season: 115
UIC with Yaklich: 221 + 303(!) + 259 + 124
Give him the athletes and talent we have ... You're going to see a top 25 defense ... Likely top 10 ...
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