I listened to 670am in Chicago talk Illini football for 3 hours this morning !! This hire makes Illini football relevant in a very fast way !!
When is the last time THAT happened??? JFW!!
I listened to 670am in Chicago talk Illini football for 3 hours this morning !! This hire makes Illini football relevant in a very fast way !!
When do you guys think this will be official? Tomorrow?
I could understand the wait if we were hiring a professor or a facilities maintenance person.
This is different though, surely they don't have to follow any goofy rules for such high profile hires?
Everything about Whitman so far shows he gets the press and the PR game (note how he addressed the Cubit 'leak' rumors right up front in his presser). Tomorrow is Peyton Manning day. I'm guessing no earlier than Tuesday and hopefully before the basketball tourneys heat up.
The idea that there is a unit of the University that is currently without executive leadership and is being forced to delay their own business, while a uniquely qualified individual has agreed to take the job.
That seems like the exact kinds of exigency that that waiver process was designed for.
And back to football. Yes the chicago press has a lot of naysayers. It's amazing how ignorant they are when talking about college athletics. That being said they tend to dwell (understatement) on everything that could be bad about this hire. Well that could happen but a lot of good things can come too. They act like nothing is different. Lovie's offense was bad at Chicago, therefore it will be bad at Illinois. Do they think Lovie hasn't figured out his offense needs to be better? He had a pretty decent offense at TB, so maybe he's figured some things out. I have faith
Lovie is in Champaign