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Lovie Smith out at Illinois
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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 747277" data-source="post: 1564032"><p>Genuinely curious about how realistic it is to get out of that cycle. The west is weak, but in order for us to ascend, someone has to fall. And with the way college football is now it’s hard (national recruiting, CFB playoffs, TV money splits, transfer portal etc.). It seems tough to crack in to a top tier with any sort of regularity now.</p><p></p><p>We always talk about just wanting Iowa or Wisconsin stability, but that just seems like such a tall task. Northwestern (ugh) seems to be the most realistic for us: Boom and Bust seasons that could change from one to the next if we get lucky in the portal. Making it to the big championship just to get demolished by OSU and then the next year Iowa is back up and we sink to middle/bottom of the pack. It just seems like team identities are sort of set at this point (I know this year seems like a counter to that, but it’s because of Covid)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 747277, post: 1564032"] Genuinely curious about how realistic it is to get out of that cycle. The west is weak, but in order for us to ascend, someone has to fall. And with the way college football is now it’s hard (national recruiting, CFB playoffs, TV money splits, transfer portal etc.). It seems tough to crack in to a top tier with any sort of regularity now. We always talk about just wanting Iowa or Wisconsin stability, but that just seems like such a tall task. Northwestern (ugh) seems to be the most realistic for us: Boom and Bust seasons that could change from one to the next if we get lucky in the portal. Making it to the big championship just to get demolished by OSU and then the next year Iowa is back up and we sink to middle/bottom of the pack. It just seems like team identities are sort of set at this point (I know this year seems like a counter to that, but it’s because of Covid) [/QUOTE]
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