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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1386015" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>People look at it as "the Slush Fund destroyed the program and it was a wasteland until Mike White came, but he cheated, Mackovic bolted, and it was an inevitable fall back to the post-Slush Fund status quo".</p><p></p><p>When you realize how consistently in the 70's under Blackman we were beating the teams that have since passed us up, you realize that Valek and Moeller were brief exceptions to 100 years of consistent competitiveness and occasional excellence, and that whole narrative falls to pieces.</p><p></p><p>Guenther's bleeding dry of the program as a consumer-facing brand is what removed the floor from Illinois football, not the Slush Fund.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1386015, member: 527609"] People look at it as "the Slush Fund destroyed the program and it was a wasteland until Mike White came, but he cheated, Mackovic bolted, and it was an inevitable fall back to the post-Slush Fund status quo". When you realize how consistently in the 70's under Blackman we were beating the teams that have since passed us up, you realize that Valek and Moeller were brief exceptions to 100 years of consistent competitiveness and occasional excellence, and that whole narrative falls to pieces. Guenther's bleeding dry of the program as a consumer-facing brand is what removed the floor from Illinois football, not the Slush Fund. [/QUOTE]
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