Not impossible with LL either. You could probably get all 3 by just splitting the money originally committed to Rod Smith. His assistants/Coordinators were severely underpaid at Buffalo (I think highest paid was 135k) so JW can give each of the 3 significant raises to join LL here. Use the financial flexibility from filling 3 coaching positions for the price of one to give Nate an offer he can't refuse to come back.
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Are there any people with decent experience or knowledge of the differences in coaching at college levels? I just go off my perceptions that D1 is an entirely different animal than D3. In my mind D3 is closer to high school than P5 if that makes any sense. And that's probably unfair, but that's why I'm so hesitant on LL and his staff. Like Lovie's D was relatively "simple." I worry that LL's will be as well and once B1G scout it, we'll be in trouble.
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BOOM! Feed my ego.
After that loss to Western Michigan, no thanks.
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I guess I don't really know what analyst and quality control actually do. I just assumed they were like an assistant to the assistant type of thing lol. I figured he was pretty much at least "on" a staff. But yeah, even so it was super minimal. I would choose J 10 times out of 10 over Miles due to his playing experience and passion for the university, but I'm not gonna hold not hiring J against Lovie, if that makes any sense.
Loren Tate I believe is going to be 90 this year. A walking history of U or I sports.
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You forgot Dee Brown in there somewhere...
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Kirby Smart, Jeremy Pruitt, Mark Stoops, Mike Stoops, Dan Mullen, Shane Beamer (technically was never a coordinator), Clark Lea, Mike Leach, Pat Narduzzi, Manny Diaz, Jeff Hafley, Jonathan Smith, Justin Wilcox, Dave Aranda, James Franklin, Mel Tucker, Greg Schiano, and that's just a once-over not counting internally promoted assistants.
It's very common. The common denominator of course being big time success at big time schools as a coordinator.
I hated to see Self leave and now root against Kansas probably more than any team that isn’t a traditional Illini rival, but what did you and your friend think he was going to say?
So we are all starting to realize its gonna be LL corect?
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- Chicago, IL
This would be the most boring Illini coaching search ever if it breaks tomorrow morning and Leipold is at the podium on Sunday. Which is a credit to Whitman I guess.
They are meeting Sunday
If J wanted to coach, he could be coaching, somewhere, instead of being a Champaign realtor.
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To me that would be the most un-Whitman-like hire. Obviously I don't know the true circumstances. Maybe Leipold completely blew the doors of the interview and JW was convinced he was the guy. But a LL hire is the easy hire. I think it'll still work. He's better than what we've seen the last 5 years.
To me a JW hire would be somehow convincing Fickell, or bringing in a young coordinator like Leonhard or Manning. I think JW would love to bring in BB, but is very self-conscious about his, and the school's image, and is hesitant to take the chance of damaging that image with a BB hire.
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Did the Clawson rumors/look fall off for some reason?
Sports Illustrated has "sources" claiming Bielema and Leipold have interviewed with JW:
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SOURCES: Bielema & Leipold Interviewed With Illini AD This Week
Multiple sources have confirmed former Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema and current Buffalo head coach Lance Leipold have spoken to Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman regarding the opening.
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Obviously just reading our board.Sports Illustrated has "sources" claiming Bielema and Leipold have interviewed with JW:
SOURCES: Bielema & Leipold Interviewed With Illini AD This Week
Multiple sources have confirmed former Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema and current Buffalo head coach Lance Leipold have spoken to Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman regarding the opening.
I will be underwhelmed if it is LL but I’ll be happy to root for him and the team. My level of confidence is significantly higher with BB but I get that he’s not kosher enough. I think Monken should have gotten a sniff. To say he runs the triple option is misleading. Lots of single back sets in his “flex” bone scheme.
I was just checking out Buffalo’s roster and now I’m all in on LL. Turns out they have a freshman OL on the roster from my high school — H-F. Go Vikings.
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thinking about these lately for some reason
Going by flights I'm totally guessing Jim McElwin
Sports Illustrated has "sources" claiming Bielema and Leipold have interviewed with JW:
SOURCES: Bielema & Leipold Interviewed With Illini AD This Week
Multiple sources have confirmed former Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema and current Buffalo head coach Lance Leipold have spoken to Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman regarding the opening.
First that I have seen that Whitman met with LL at his home in Buffalo, but that makes sense with some other info that is out there.
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I trust Football Scoop a lot, they are the best connected coaching carousel people out there, and the names they put out there were Bielema, Leipold, Monken and Clawson.
Sure sounds like it's Leipold, but if it's not him, I think the rest of that list is probably the place to look.
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