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Illini add Texas HS football coach Joe Price to recruiting staff
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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1472145" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>This is very true. It has nothing to do with the 2020 recruiting class, and very little to do with the 2019 season.</p><p></p><p>To describe the entering year 1 freshman as a coach's "first" class even on a normal hiring schedule is always a little bit of a misnomer, as inevitably many of the recruits had committed to the previous coach. Think back to discussions of whether Rashard Mendenhall was "credited" to Turner or Zook. The answer is always, naturally, whatever suits the argument you're trying to make.</p><p></p><p>The late hire was a hinderance, no question, and I think when college football nation looks back on this era the conclusion will be that pulling the trigger on replacing your coach in March is probably a bad and unnecessarily impatient concept.</p><p></p><p>But we're through all that now, there are less than a handful of players on this roster who were ever coached by Bill Cubit (including maybe our single best player Reggie Corbin), and maybe like 13 who weren't handpicked by Lovie. We're old, we're experienced, we've built toward this moment, it's time to see it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1472145, member: 746137"] This is very true. It has nothing to do with the 2020 recruiting class, and very little to do with the 2019 season. To describe the entering year 1 freshman as a coach's "first" class even on a normal hiring schedule is always a little bit of a misnomer, as inevitably many of the recruits had committed to the previous coach. Think back to discussions of whether Rashard Mendenhall was "credited" to Turner or Zook. The answer is always, naturally, whatever suits the argument you're trying to make. The late hire was a hinderance, no question, and I think when college football nation looks back on this era the conclusion will be that pulling the trigger on replacing your coach in March is probably a bad and unnecessarily impatient concept. But we're through all that now, there are less than a handful of players on this roster who were ever coached by Bill Cubit (including maybe our single best player Reggie Corbin), and maybe like 13 who weren't handpicked by Lovie. We're old, we're experienced, we've built toward this moment, it's time to see it. [/QUOTE]
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