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<blockquote data-quote="Fighter of the Nightman" data-source="post: 1419789" data-attributes="member: 590800"><p>No level-headed Illini fan (perhaps a disturbingly small majority anymore?) is anything but fully supportive of Whitman at this juncture. For the state our football program was in post-Beckman, to get an NFL Super Bowl coach with ties to the Bears and Chicago to try to come clean it up was incredible. To get a sitting coach of a program with the prestige of Oklahoma State to come to Illinois in basketball was incredible. Will either one or both not work out? Maybe. But Whitman's job isn't to predict the future with his first/second big hires; it's to create winning programs for Illini athletics. Time will obviously be the judge of that, so logic follows the other way, too - we can't judge Whitman too harshly on bad results early (this especially applies for basketball right now).</p><p></p><p>Additionally, Whitman seems to have maneuvered the impossible so far by both positively changing the culture around Illini athletics and taking measures to catch us up with our peers while also maintaining the strong support of the donors ... it takes a special person to both keep great relations with his funding base and to snap some alumni out of the East Central Illinois Guenther delusion that viewed Illinois as some "local school" for Champaign County and not as the flagship university for the fifth biggest state in the country. If Lovie has to be fired eventually, I have full confidence that Whitman will find a replacement that can get it done. Won't even speculate on basketball at this point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighter of the Nightman, post: 1419789, member: 590800"] No level-headed Illini fan (perhaps a disturbingly small majority anymore?) is anything but fully supportive of Whitman at this juncture. For the state our football program was in post-Beckman, to get an NFL Super Bowl coach with ties to the Bears and Chicago to try to come clean it up was incredible. To get a sitting coach of a program with the prestige of Oklahoma State to come to Illinois in basketball was incredible. Will either one or both not work out? Maybe. But Whitman's job isn't to predict the future with his first/second big hires; it's to create winning programs for Illini athletics. Time will obviously be the judge of that, so logic follows the other way, too - we can't judge Whitman too harshly on bad results early (this especially applies for basketball right now). Additionally, Whitman seems to have maneuvered the impossible so far by both positively changing the culture around Illini athletics and taking measures to catch us up with our peers while also maintaining the strong support of the donors ... it takes a special person to both keep great relations with his funding base and to snap some alumni out of the East Central Illinois Guenther delusion that viewed Illinois as some "local school" for Champaign County and not as the flagship university for the fifth biggest state in the country. If Lovie has to be fired eventually, I have full confidence that Whitman will find a replacement that can get it done. Won't even speculate on basketball at this point. [/QUOTE]
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