I had not known that brother. Great man and huge influence in many life's! Thank you, for bringing that up!
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Trying to emulate one of the greatest QB's to ever play and getting a chance to be around him at a conference championship game means someone is labeled as a head case seems a bitttt much.
I can definitely see that. Huge catch radius, long, athletic.
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Big loss, but had a feeling he was rising too fast to stick around for long
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
sucks. that said, am confident that Coach B will find a VG replacement
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
Say it ain’t so Dre!
Illini92and96
- Austin, TX
I wonder if it was bigger money, bigger role, or both.
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
I knew things were going too well for us. Some bad news always pops up at some point. Hopefully we can get a good replacement.
Both … And his old boss at ND just moved over to USC …
I won’t get too much into specifics but it was obvious that there was going to be change in the recruiting department … This just isn’t the change I was expecting …
We can never have good stuff I’m telling you. There’s always something that pops up and then we fall right back to where we were.
Big question for you then: how much does this hurt the recruiting momentum? It seems that trajectory of the program and connections with coaches should be most important, but clearly he was doing a great job making inroads.
Not Indy but....Dre was obviously a big part of it but so is our GM Pat Embleton and I think the on the field coaches play a bigger role in the momentum and recruiting than Dre.
illinidarrin
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Does this derail things with Anderson, Sutter and Rankin?
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Mike Neu Named Illinois’ Senior Offensive Assistant
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Mike Neu Named Illinois’ Senior Offensive Assistant - University of Illinois Athletics
Neu joins the Illini with 23 years of coaching experience, including the last nine season as head coach at Ball State.
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Probably putting a little too much stock in the recruiting staffers. Important but Bret, Lunney, Art most important for them. Edit: Forgot Stepp
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Derail is a little bit strong … Bret, and his main group of assistants have to be the ones to get the job done …
It’s recruiting department job to make the job for Bret and those guys easier …
But losing Dre hurts some in state relationships and especially relationships in Indiana … No doubt about that …
Let’s see what direction Bret goes for replacement … That’ll determine a lot … Bret doesn’t want to lose momentum and won’t lose momentum … You can bet your
on that …mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Derail is a little bit strong … Bret, and his main group of assistants have to be the ones to get the job done …
It’s recruiting department job to make the job for Bret and those guys easier …
But losing Dre hurts some in state relationships and especially relationships in Indiana … No doubt about that …
Let’s see what direction Bret goes for replacement … That’ll determine a lot … Bret doesn’t want to lose momentum and won’t lose momentum … You can bet your
With the timing and current motion in recruiting, I wonder if Bielema will look for a quicker search process than normal.
Epsilon
M tipping over
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USC and UCLA have been losing strong CA recruits to Oregon (and elsewhere) for a good decade or so now. Hopefully nothing changes lol. I will forever root against USC and UCLA because how they tried to screw Oregon from joining the B1G after they started the implosion of the PAC12 and forced U of O to take half revenue shares from the B1G.
I hope we destroy them next year.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Wow! I don’t think it’s Bielema who’s living “rent free” in someone’s head. 
Joel Goodson
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Mike Neu Named Illinois’ Senior Offensive Assistant
Mike Neu Named Illinois’ Senior Offensive Assistant - University of Illinois Athletics
Neu joins the Illini with 23 years of coaching experience, including the last nine season as head coach at Ball State.
he's gonna be our QB whisperer, particularly for the younger guys (ie, development). I really like this add. takes some of the load off Lunney (so he can focus on the offense)
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