Say nothing, as schools that had not been directly involved did. They did not issue an official statement. Issuing a statement actually shows the need to defend yourself to the public. And IMO, if they felt that they needed to, the correct language would have been to vehemently deny that any member of the University was ever involved, without adding "monitoring" as part of the wording. Monitoring implies that the situation (wrt UI) could change.
agreed. stupid to this. To the casual basketball fan you do not connect the two together. Right now as basketball fans, do you really know the other coaches involved if you don't really do you research? Absolutely not... the only ones I know of so far are the ones who have been named specifically. Now that Illinois has said the statement their name is automatically on everyones tongue