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<blockquote data-quote="Arizona Bob" data-source="post: 1482983" data-attributes="member: 746438"><p>If you want to understand why the defense is performing so poorly, you need look no further than the defensive staff resume's. </p><p></p><p>Of course we all know of Coaches son Miles Smith being the LB Coach. He had no college coaching experience prior to getting a key P5 position at Illinois.</p><p></p><p>DL Coach Clark had no paid position coaching position at all, let alone from more successful P5 programs than Illinois. This is VERY rare for any serious P5 program.</p><p></p><p>CB Coach Hudson only had a couple of years coaching experience at Florida Atlantic before coming here. NO P5 experience, let alone better P5 programs than Illinois.</p><p></p><p>Then we come to Coach Byrd, our passing game and safeties coordinator where we have had perhaps the worst recruiting and on-field performance for the team. He's pretty much trailed Lovie throughout his career since his stint with the Rams....NO college coaching experience at all.</p><p></p><p>Finally we come to our part time DC, Lovie. He hadn't coached at the college level in almost a quarter century, had no recruiting contacts and was clearly out of touch with current P5 defense and offense.</p><p></p><p>So cummulatively this staff only has 2 years of college coaching experience in the last quarter century, with only Lovie having ANY previous P5 coaching experience.</p><p>No sane college coach could be expected to be successful with this weak of a staff, perhaps the WEAKEST amongst P5 programs, and certainly the weakest in the B1G.</p><p></p><p>If Lovie thought he could build a great defense, or even a competitive one, with this quality of staff, he's a fool. I don't think he is. If he built t staff knowing it wasn't what was needed to be successful, then he needs to go for that reason alone.</p><p></p><p>Anyone who's watched recent Illini games sees that the primary deficiencies with the team have coaching as the root causes, be it uncompetitive recruiting, game planning or player development. Besides LBs Hansen and Harding (who both have SERIOUS pass defending deficiencies) Is there ANY player on defense we can say is well coached? It's pretty clear Wole is achieving on natural talent and energy, NOT great technique being coached.</p><p></p><p>AD Whitman must see this problem as well, yet he seems powerless to influence Lovie to bring in top, P5 experienced assistants to have the team meet it's potential. Apparently he's too intimidated by Lovie to bring up this subject.</p><p></p><p>To be successful in any endeavor, you need quality people, process, and product. The product is poor, but there's no reason it can't regain successful quality again. it has before under sound management. The process is a mess. It results on poor game and program strategy and a terribly deficient recruiting program.</p><p>People? Those here have never been successful at the P5 level, and we've seen more than enough evidence they can't succeed here.</p><p>I'm sure I'm not the first observer to see this. Have any of you Q clubers (or donors) ever had a converstation about this with Whitman?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arizona Bob, post: 1482983, member: 746438"] If you want to understand why the defense is performing so poorly, you need look no further than the defensive staff resume's. Of course we all know of Coaches son Miles Smith being the LB Coach. He had no college coaching experience prior to getting a key P5 position at Illinois. DL Coach Clark had no paid position coaching position at all, let alone from more successful P5 programs than Illinois. This is VERY rare for any serious P5 program. CB Coach Hudson only had a couple of years coaching experience at Florida Atlantic before coming here. NO P5 experience, let alone better P5 programs than Illinois. Then we come to Coach Byrd, our passing game and safeties coordinator where we have had perhaps the worst recruiting and on-field performance for the team. He's pretty much trailed Lovie throughout his career since his stint with the Rams....NO college coaching experience at all. Finally we come to our part time DC, Lovie. He hadn't coached at the college level in almost a quarter century, had no recruiting contacts and was clearly out of touch with current P5 defense and offense. So cummulatively this staff only has 2 years of college coaching experience in the last quarter century, with only Lovie having ANY previous P5 coaching experience. No sane college coach could be expected to be successful with this weak of a staff, perhaps the WEAKEST amongst P5 programs, and certainly the weakest in the B1G. If Lovie thought he could build a great defense, or even a competitive one, with this quality of staff, he's a fool. I don't think he is. If he built t staff knowing it wasn't what was needed to be successful, then he needs to go for that reason alone. Anyone who's watched recent Illini games sees that the primary deficiencies with the team have coaching as the root causes, be it uncompetitive recruiting, game planning or player development. Besides LBs Hansen and Harding (who both have SERIOUS pass defending deficiencies) Is there ANY player on defense we can say is well coached? It's pretty clear Wole is achieving on natural talent and energy, NOT great technique being coached. AD Whitman must see this problem as well, yet he seems powerless to influence Lovie to bring in top, P5 experienced assistants to have the team meet it's potential. Apparently he's too intimidated by Lovie to bring up this subject. To be successful in any endeavor, you need quality people, process, and product. The product is poor, but there's no reason it can't regain successful quality again. it has before under sound management. The process is a mess. It results on poor game and program strategy and a terribly deficient recruiting program. People? Those here have never been successful at the P5 level, and we've seen more than enough evidence they can't succeed here. I'm sure I'm not the first observer to see this. Have any of you Q clubers (or donors) ever had a converstation about this with Whitman? [/QUOTE]
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