Honestly who knows. None of us know what JW is currently doing or where the search process currently stands. In the end we will look at the coach the Illini end up with and judge accordingly. Let's just sit back and enjoy the long strange trip that is a coaching search.
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Honestly who knows. None of us know what JW is currently doing or where the search process currently stands. In the end we will look at the coach the Illini end up with and judge accordingly. Let's just sit back and enjoy the long strange trip that is a coaching search.
Forbes will never happen. He's a Bruce Pearl guy.
PostersLastStand
- Wayne County, IL
Corporate motivator. Game show host.
Or, his no. 1 choice is still coaching in the NCAA tournament.
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This is totally off topic but since every other post is as well, thought I'd just throw this out here. I was watching the 30 for 30 "Playing for the Mob" episode about BC's point shaving scandal the other night and afterwards just had to take a shower. Not because of the greasy mobsters in that show but because of the multiple Bruce Pearl comments in that episode. That slimy POS that just makes my skin crawl.
Oh my. What a ridiculous article. Northwestern makes the tournament once as an 8 seed, with a coach coming from outside the program, but somehow that shows that they have an amazing network of assistants and past assistants ready to be head coaches? What??
It's amazing Northwestern has found a way to be so terrible when half the media hype's them up when that have mediocre success.
Wow. Why waste a column on something he could've written in a 1 sentence twitter post. "I'm an annoying little purple cat and hate Illinois."
KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
Don't give Purplestein the clicks. :tsk:
Medill people are ridiculous in general, but Teddy is one of a kind.
It's a collision of two totally inexplicable things, a professional "journalist" who is emotionally attached to a sports team in the way an 11-year-old is, plus being totally obsessed with the no-one cares sports rivalry between Illinois and Northwestern.
It defies description.
Indeed. But Marshall's agent is in Atlanta...
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
LOL, I guarantee you Teddy has taken three or more punches to the face at parties and walked away thinking there's nothing wrong with his persona. Such a tool.
I say we only offer the next coach 250k per year so we don't look desperate.
Being a Northwestern fan is fine. Being a not-remotely-undercover media shill that churns out bizarre hit pieces against a perceived rival when neither fan base (his purported readership, mind you) really gives a damn is just so strange.
Like, who is his editor? Why is the Tribune paying for this?
Yep, it is so damn obvious.
LOL He very much screams "I was on the sports teams, but never played so I always aspired to write about them." I could listen to my grandfather and get wiser sports news on today's times. He's deceased btw.
Medill took a step back with that piece. I know it's a column but even those need to be based on facts. Then the speculation about Lovie not working out was baseless.
This is the main point. To realize and actualize what is possible. The Illini can get an elite coach and become a full member of the Blue Bloods IF THEY WANT TO. Right now is the time they are making that decision.
Not to go all Shaman on you, but to quote Wayne Dyer (the motivational speaker, not a point guard): "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at CHANGE".
I've seen this happen too many times to ever doubt this for a second.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal with Do Not Contact Tag
Man, that is next level. Even for him.
SalukiIllini
- Evansville, IN
I wonder what on earth he's seen in Lovie's first year that makes him think "it won't work"?
That's the wrong question. The question is what that throwaway line is doing in a column ostensibly about Illinois' basketball search.
Christ, Teddy is the worst
I'm sweating bullets watching this SMU game
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