DC Bobby Hauck out at Illinois

Second place is 1st loser said:

I haven't a clue. It's painfully obvious, but I think it's a form of self soothing. They want to find someone to blame versus addressing the problem, which is significant. They are hoping that one decision fixes the problem and don't want to accept the fact that that entire side of the ball needs an upgrade and that can't be fixed this year.

There is no way that a reasonable person can't see that the guys we throw out there are slower, less athletic and can't physically match up with the opponent. These other teams a just bigger, taller, faster and have better athletes.....on defense.

We spent our money on the offense. If the reverse was true, these same people would want Lunney fired.

This is not an easy fix when we have no financial answers. That's the crux of the issue.

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I don't think that anyone is saying that "one decision fixes the problem" at all. There are multiple problems, but the one problem you can fix is the disaster DC that can't even get the correct number of players on the field consistently.

Would you rather that nothing was done and keep Bobby ineptly managing our D? He didn't have the chops or commitment to do the job, not even close.

Kudos to Bobby, he got a solid payday and his kid a shot at a job he never would have had any other way. But that came at a cost to our program.

Hingle McCringleberry said:

I don't think that anyone is saying that "one decision fixes the problem" at all. There are multiple problems, but the one problem you can fix is the disaster DC that can't even get the correct number of players on the field consistently.

Would you rather that nothing was done and keep Bobby ineptly managing our D? He didn't have the chops or commitment to do the job, not even close.

Kudos to Bobby, he got a solid payday and his kid a shot at a job he never would have had any other way. But that came at a cost to our program.

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If he walked in and shut down his career because he felt overmatched schematically and he felt the defense regressed because of his coaching, then you have to cut bait. No doubt. You can't have a guy who's not 100% in. Is that what happened?

Or did Brett tear him up and strongly "hint" that it wasn't going to work out? Not sure how you can come to that conclusion after four games, but whatever. That's fine. The issue here is that this is on the heels of Henry getting run out and people thinking that was going to help the results. What makes us think that a third DC in four games changes anything?

We had a couple of NFL caliber players on D last year, most notably Jacas and Bailey. Having just one defensive lineman that was worth a salt made a big difference because he was doubled. As a DC, you can work with that to some extent. This years roster has nobody remotely close to having that type of physical impact.