Like Guenther?
In order to be like Whitman, Guenther would have had to have been a lawyer, a Bronze Tablet scholar and a former NFL player. Didn't know Ron was all that. Thought he was a PE major?
Like Guenther?
Hey, I'll take the Guenther years over the last 4 wouldn't you??
Hey, I'll take the Guenther years over the last 4 wouldn't you??
My biggest beef with Guenther was that he held onto mediocre coaches too long. He did hire Hambly, Small, Tiley, Self, Kruger, Hartleb. Who can you name that Thomas hired that has amounted to anything?
Did they coach at Illinois?
Remember when we hired Gary Moeller to get our football program out of the cellar?
Please, please Whitman over Chun.
Chun looks competent, but being a cog in the tOSU machine doesn't tell you anything about what he could do at Illinois. He'd make more sense for an established program that needed to optimize what they're doing - not a program that needs to lift itself out of the cellar. Remember when we hired Gary Moeller to get our football program out of the cellar? It's not so easy when you don't have the resources and brand of Michigan or tOSU backing you up.
My biggest beef with Guenther was that he held onto mediocre coaches too long. He did hire Hambly, Small, Tiley, Self, Kruger, Hartleb. Who can you name that Thomas hired that has amounted to anything?
I along with many others here do not. I will take your word for it and gladly support Whitman if he is the hire.
Moeller was the DC at Michigan. We hired him in 1977. He failed miserably and lasted only three seasons.
The News-Gazette put the Whitman story from a week ago back on top of the sports section on illinihq.com. Maybe they're trying to tell us something.
Mark Tupper @MarkTupper 7m7 minutes ago Mark Tupper Retweeted Jersey Jon
John Groce knows him (Chun) from their days at Ohio State. Also says he's a really good guy. #dechr
Well, I'm on board with Whitman among the remaining candidates although we shouldn't totally discount Patrick Chun's impressive level of not-Tom-Michaelness.
I do think it's slightly interesting that after nearly four months of people insisting we all had no clue what was going on behind the scenes, it sounds like in the end they made a desperate pitch for (almost) everyone's concensus home run picks, completely whiffed on that effort, and then defaulted to the best remains available Illini Guy with a utterly hireable, diversity box checking non-Illini Guy as the first alternate. Which was more or less exactly what everyone who knew nothing thought was going to happen.
Mark Tupper @MarkTupper 7m7 minutes ago Mark Tupper Retweeted Jersey Jon
John Groce knows him (Chun) from their days at Ohio State. Also says he's a really good guy. #dechr
https://twitter.com/hashtag/dechr?src=hash
Moeller was the DC at Michigan. We hired him in 1977. He failed miserably and lasted only three seasons.
Chun gets the AD job, brings Matta home to ECI and Tressel to C-U to run the football program.
Now, how do I get the blue font to work?