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Lovie Smith receives 2-year contract extension through 2023
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<blockquote data-quote="BasketOfBunnies" data-source="post: 1431634" data-attributes="member: 746026"><p>I am reading these posts and I'm shaking my head. Does anybody really think that giving Lovie 2 extra years is going to solve anything? Look back to Mike White. Inherited a death spiral of a program and got the U of I to the Rose Bowl in 5 years. He ran the table with Juco talent and sure he cut a couple of corners but he brought us to Pasadena for the first time in 20 years. John Mackovic brought us to 4 bowl games in four years. Ron Turner went from 0-11 to the Sugar Bowl. Ron Zook came in, recruited so well that the New York Times accused him of cheating (which he did not) and got us to a bridesmaid Rose Bowl in 2008. Zook got fired for a 6-6 season. Lovie has shown nothing in his tenure here; his record is Gary Moeller abysmal, his recruiting classes make alumni envious of the recruiting class of North Dakota State, and has brought the program back to laughing stock status. Lovie Smith is a money grubbing cancer that will bring nothing more than additional misery to an already awfully pathetic program. </p><p></p><p>And, let's be brutally honest...Ron Zook got fired for a 6-6 season and Lovie Smith got rewarded for a 4-8 season. Something tells me the Illinois PC police have an agenda other than winning games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BasketOfBunnies, post: 1431634, member: 746026"] I am reading these posts and I'm shaking my head. Does anybody really think that giving Lovie 2 extra years is going to solve anything? Look back to Mike White. Inherited a death spiral of a program and got the U of I to the Rose Bowl in 5 years. He ran the table with Juco talent and sure he cut a couple of corners but he brought us to Pasadena for the first time in 20 years. John Mackovic brought us to 4 bowl games in four years. Ron Turner went from 0-11 to the Sugar Bowl. Ron Zook came in, recruited so well that the New York Times accused him of cheating (which he did not) and got us to a bridesmaid Rose Bowl in 2008. Zook got fired for a 6-6 season. Lovie has shown nothing in his tenure here; his record is Gary Moeller abysmal, his recruiting classes make alumni envious of the recruiting class of North Dakota State, and has brought the program back to laughing stock status. Lovie Smith is a money grubbing cancer that will bring nothing more than additional misery to an already awfully pathetic program. And, let's be brutally honest...Ron Zook got fired for a 6-6 season and Lovie Smith got rewarded for a 4-8 season. Something tells me the Illinois PC police have an agenda other than winning games. [/QUOTE]
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