What's the point of all of this, though? Do you actually believe that what you or anyone else on this board feels about this team will make a whit of difference in terms of how they move forward? Is Josh Whitman twiddling his fingers and not taking what you might consider the right kind of action because we aren't pissed enough?Optimism has nothing to do with being delusional. On the contrary, I do not believe that Illinois is destined to be perpetually bad, I actually believe that Illinois as a program has great, really great untapped potential. I just don't believe it will happen with just blind faith. The way you do it is by looking at what was the underlying talent level in the 80s and 1999-06 and try to achieve that with consistent recruiting rather than blind faith that we can do it with miraculously discovering diamonds in the rough better than other programs or BU outsysteming and outsmarting the rest of BIG and national coaches.
When blind "hope" fades, then we tend to hear all the excuses that recruiting is not possible, that everyone else cheats, that our location is bad, and we do not have the resources. If you believe those, then you believe that Illinois will indeed be perpetually bad because I can tell you for sure that our location will not change and UI is not likely winning the lottery of academic and AD budgets anytime soon.
If you think that Underwood should be fired right now, or if you think that he's never going to be successful, just come out and say it. It'll save us all a lot of time.