Oskee67
- Champaign
Look, Illinois can chew em up and spit em out with the best/worst of them. Whitman got out, made it, and wants nothing more than to come back. The same can't be said about some of his peers.
Maybe he's not as bright as we think he is, or maybe he knows exactly what he's walking into- a bizzaro world where our cold-weather school can barely stay afloat in basketball and football, even after investments in facility upgrades, but fields golf, tennis, and volleyball programs that can compete on a national scale. A school which yields some of the largest alumni populations in the world, but whose alumni involvement/donations are at an all-time low. A school that's been riddled with scandals and turmoil, in a State with no budget, yet whose academic standards are at an all-time high. Let's not even get into the fanbase this schools has...
We fired a football coach after after abuse allegations erupted over twitter, retained a women's basketball coach for no good reason with equally as egregious accusations, fired an AD months afterwards, created a search committee including a soccer coach that was named as a defendant on another lawsuit, signed a Nike deal with an interim AD weeks before a permanent one was hired, and finally hired an AD who (knowing nothing else about his background) only has a handful of years as a DIII AD under his belt, all while still not having a chancellor and provost in place.
None of this makes sense! But, Whitman was bread in it. Sculpted by it. And is exactly who we need to lead us out of it.
#AllIn #WillWin #Illini
Maybe he's not as bright as we think he is, or maybe he knows exactly what he's walking into- a bizzaro world where our cold-weather school can barely stay afloat in basketball and football, even after investments in facility upgrades, but fields golf, tennis, and volleyball programs that can compete on a national scale. A school which yields some of the largest alumni populations in the world, but whose alumni involvement/donations are at an all-time low. A school that's been riddled with scandals and turmoil, in a State with no budget, yet whose academic standards are at an all-time high. Let's not even get into the fanbase this schools has...
We fired a football coach after after abuse allegations erupted over twitter, retained a women's basketball coach for no good reason with equally as egregious accusations, fired an AD months afterwards, created a search committee including a soccer coach that was named as a defendant on another lawsuit, signed a Nike deal with an interim AD weeks before a permanent one was hired, and finally hired an AD who (knowing nothing else about his background) only has a handful of years as a DIII AD under his belt, all while still not having a chancellor and provost in place.
None of this makes sense! But, Whitman was bread in it. Sculpted by it. And is exactly who we need to lead us out of it.
#AllIn #WillWin #Illini
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