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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 1657678" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p>It will take several seasons for BB to get the team where we all want it to be.</p><p></p><p>For the first time in 30 years we have a head coach who's the complete package. He's grounded in the college game. He understands the primacy of consistent recruiting, developing a complete team, and he has excellent NFL coaching experience to augment that. He seems mature, seasoned and having good judgment, particularly compared with earlier in his career. He is a native Illinoisan and is focusing on recruiting the best in the state as well as from around the nation. He has and is further developing the networks to do both. He is very intelligent and can manage a large staff effectively. When he speaks he exudes competence, authority, confidence (but not arrogance), and charisma. He reflects well on the university.</p><p></p><p>We haven't had all of that in one package since White and Mackovic in the '80s. Both had been D-1 head coaches, White having great success at Cal and Mack as a HC at Wake Forest. Both had solid NFL experience, too, particularly with QBs. (After leaving Cal, White coached under Bill Walsh at SF in the late '70s. Mack was QB coach under Tom Landry and then head coach of the Chiefs.)</p><p></p><p>No one since then has had that complete package of experience and skills. Not Tepper. Not Turner (many years as a college asst and only one year as a head coach before heading to the Bears.) Not Zook (ace recruiter but not a bright guy, clearly a lightweight, and unable to develop a complete team... recall the many talent gaps and the special team debacles we had under him.) Lasagna: embarrassing. Lovie... retired in place; 12 yrs as a college assistant, which ended 30 years before he took over at Illinois.</p><p></p><p>This is why I'm more optimistic than I've been in literally decades. BB can get this done. We need more and better talent. We need top QBs. I watched Wisc-PSU yesterday. There's no reason we can't have the quality of players that the Badgers have, or better. But it will take a while. Compared with every coach we've had since 1991, however, I'm highly optimistic.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime it will probably suck but we'll see regular glimpses of genuine hope and enjoy a rational projection of increasing success. I'll take that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 1657678, member: 2886"] It will take several seasons for BB to get the team where we all want it to be. For the first time in 30 years we have a head coach who's the complete package. He's grounded in the college game. He understands the primacy of consistent recruiting, developing a complete team, and he has excellent NFL coaching experience to augment that. He seems mature, seasoned and having good judgment, particularly compared with earlier in his career. He is a native Illinoisan and is focusing on recruiting the best in the state as well as from around the nation. He has and is further developing the networks to do both. He is very intelligent and can manage a large staff effectively. When he speaks he exudes competence, authority, confidence (but not arrogance), and charisma. He reflects well on the university. We haven't had all of that in one package since White and Mackovic in the '80s. Both had been D-1 head coaches, White having great success at Cal and Mack as a HC at Wake Forest. Both had solid NFL experience, too, particularly with QBs. (After leaving Cal, White coached under Bill Walsh at SF in the late '70s. Mack was QB coach under Tom Landry and then head coach of the Chiefs.) No one since then has had that complete package of experience and skills. Not Tepper. Not Turner (many years as a college asst and only one year as a head coach before heading to the Bears.) Not Zook (ace recruiter but not a bright guy, clearly a lightweight, and unable to develop a complete team... recall the many talent gaps and the special team debacles we had under him.) Lasagna: embarrassing. Lovie... retired in place; 12 yrs as a college assistant, which ended 30 years before he took over at Illinois. This is why I'm more optimistic than I've been in literally decades. BB can get this done. We need more and better talent. We need top QBs. I watched Wisc-PSU yesterday. There's no reason we can't have the quality of players that the Badgers have, or better. But it will take a while. Compared with every coach we've had since 1991, however, I'm highly optimistic. In the meantime it will probably suck but we'll see regular glimpses of genuine hope and enjoy a rational projection of increasing success. I'll take that. [/QUOTE]
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