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<blockquote data-quote="mossimo142" data-source="post: 1431516" data-attributes="member: 14428"><p>I'd prefer they move on to a different staff, but my take on the extension depends on how his salary/buy out are negotiated into it. If there is no additional, or minimal, money added it's about as good as we could expect. I don't buy Whitman's sob story letter one bit. I'm impressed with the positive improvement on offense, but none of that is a result of Lovie Smith as a head coach. His bread and butter is defense, and we just witnessed some historically bad defense before us. What exactly is he getting paid for?</p><p></p><p>Doubled win total:</p><p>This is about as hollow of an argument as I can imagine. The only good/respectable win of the 4 was the Minnesota win, which appears to be a fluke. We needed a 4th quarter comeback and final goal line defensive stand to beat Kent St. to open the season. We only led FCS WIU 14-7 at the half for our second win with the total yards about even for both teams. The third win was against an atrocious Rutgers team, where again the total yards for each team was about even. The win against Minnesota was good. The moral victory he claims against USF is weak because they put up 626 yards against us. Even if you buy that argument, how do you tangibly measure that pulling off an upset win drastically changes the course of the season? If you think that, then the following blow out losses we suffered surely fall squarely on the coaching staff for not being able to rally the troops. </p><p></p><p>Stability:</p><p>As previously mentioned: Tepper got 5 years, Turner got 8, Zook got 7, Beckman got 3 (because of a scandal). Being a mediocre/bad coach at Illinois has provided tremendous coaching stability at the head coach level. Stability ends at the head coach because there was and will be major turnover to the entire coaching staff. Only 4 out of the original 9 coaches on Lovies staff remain. I'd lose no sleep over Ligashesky leaving and minimal sleep over Andrew Hayes Stoker leaving. Adding to that coaching instability will be 2/3 new defensive hires this year. Most of the turnover has been on the defensive side of the staff, and all that from a Defensive minded head coach.</p><p></p><p>Talent/Recruiting: </p><p>The claim is we are seeing more top talent in Champaign than ever in a decade. It's a false statement when looking at where IL falls nationally in recruit rankings, and doesn't even take into consideration that the bulk of the talent that made our mediocre ranking high was either kicked off the team or has transferred. </p><p></p><p>It will be intersting to see how the off season goes. If they can minimize transfers, hire proven/good recruiters and coaches for the empty spots, and pull off a GOOD recruiting class (top 30/40) then there is some cause for optimism going into next season. Even if that all happens, what exaclty is Lovie getting paid to do then?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mossimo142, post: 1431516, member: 14428"] I'd prefer they move on to a different staff, but my take on the extension depends on how his salary/buy out are negotiated into it. If there is no additional, or minimal, money added it's about as good as we could expect. I don't buy Whitman's sob story letter one bit. I'm impressed with the positive improvement on offense, but none of that is a result of Lovie Smith as a head coach. His bread and butter is defense, and we just witnessed some historically bad defense before us. What exactly is he getting paid for? Doubled win total: This is about as hollow of an argument as I can imagine. The only good/respectable win of the 4 was the Minnesota win, which appears to be a fluke. We needed a 4th quarter comeback and final goal line defensive stand to beat Kent St. to open the season. We only led FCS WIU 14-7 at the half for our second win with the total yards about even for both teams. The third win was against an atrocious Rutgers team, where again the total yards for each team was about even. The win against Minnesota was good. The moral victory he claims against USF is weak because they put up 626 yards against us. Even if you buy that argument, how do you tangibly measure that pulling off an upset win drastically changes the course of the season? If you think that, then the following blow out losses we suffered surely fall squarely on the coaching staff for not being able to rally the troops. Stability: As previously mentioned: Tepper got 5 years, Turner got 8, Zook got 7, Beckman got 3 (because of a scandal). Being a mediocre/bad coach at Illinois has provided tremendous coaching stability at the head coach level. Stability ends at the head coach because there was and will be major turnover to the entire coaching staff. Only 4 out of the original 9 coaches on Lovies staff remain. I'd lose no sleep over Ligashesky leaving and minimal sleep over Andrew Hayes Stoker leaving. Adding to that coaching instability will be 2/3 new defensive hires this year. Most of the turnover has been on the defensive side of the staff, and all that from a Defensive minded head coach. Talent/Recruiting: The claim is we are seeing more top talent in Champaign than ever in a decade. It's a false statement when looking at where IL falls nationally in recruit rankings, and doesn't even take into consideration that the bulk of the talent that made our mediocre ranking high was either kicked off the team or has transferred. It will be intersting to see how the off season goes. If they can minimize transfers, hire proven/good recruiters and coaches for the empty spots, and pull off a GOOD recruiting class (top 30/40) then there is some cause for optimism going into next season. Even if that all happens, what exaclty is Lovie getting paid to do then? [/QUOTE]
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