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Illinois Fighting Illini (you'll see)

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Bucklion said:
:slappy: :slappy: :slappy: Yeah Tressel would go there. You know what Illinois is? JT is Peter North, and Illinois is 50 year old saggy porn tits. Why would a guy sign up for that after having Tori Black for over a decade? Yeah, I don't know either.
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I would hope that that's the first time that Jim Tressel has been compared to Peter North . . . but @ORD_Buckeye might well have done it on a Michigan-related thread at some point . . .
 
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wadc45 said:
An Illinois perspective about Tim Beckman and his assistants

Beckman's prospects after the 2015 season as explained in the article, which I agree with:

1. Wins 6+ games, goes to a bowl and the Cvijanovic accusations are false: keeps job
2. The Cvijanovic accusations are for real: fired
3. Wins <6 games: fired

Pretty simple. Doesn't matter if he brought in a better recruiting class last year. Doesn't matter he has increased the program's win total each year. There is a lot riding on this season for him.
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Ummm... I guess that you forgot to add:

4. Fired before taking the field.

In all fairness, I thought you had your bases covered with 1-3.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
Ilini has an opportunity to open up the checkbook and get a real coach.... or stay Illinois. I feel like there should be an over/under on it.
Over $4mil +1500
Under $3.99mil -2000

See what I did there?
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Not sure there's much checkbook to open. Last year, the AD took a $4MM subsidy and still lost an additional $3MM. Rauner has gutted the university's overall budget worse than Walker gutted Bucky's. And, that's just athletics. Their President just resigned over a second, unrelated scandal involving pulling a job offer for a Professor at the demands of influential donors. She replaced the President who resigned over an admissions scandal.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Not sure there's much checkbook to open. Last year, the AD took a $4MM subsidy and still lost an additional $3MM. Rauner has gutted the university's overall budget worse than Walker gutted Bucky's. And, that's just athletics. Their President just resigned over a second, unrelated scandal involving pulling a job offer for a Professor at the demands of influential donors. She replaced the President who resigned over an admissions scandal.
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The Provost also resigned last week as part of the fallout from the email scandal.
 
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SI's Brian Hamilton drops some Napalm on the Illini...

The place is a total mess, from the top on down, a fetid heap of skullduggery and incompetence befitting a state run right into the ground along the same principles. Now it must attempt to fix a football program that isn’t anywhere near the sleeping giant some contend it is, all while any worthwhile candidates might be advised to run far, far away, as fast as their loafers will take them.
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It’s time to stop pretending that there is untapped greatness bubbling just below the surface in Champaign. It’s time to put to rest the myth that Illinois football has everything it needs to be a Big Ten champion-caliber program, when the reality is it maybe has enough to be regularly decent.

This is a program boasting seven winning seasons in the last quarter-century. The cure, for the eternal optimists, is simply recruiting better, to mine the troves of in-state talent. That in-state talent amounts to 11 top-100 prospects in the last four recruiting classes, total, per Rivals.com rankings. There is one—one—top-100 player from Illinois in the Class of 2016. (And Darien’s Josh King is committed to Michigan State.) Put another way by a former Chicago Tribune colleague of mine, Joel Boyd: The state of Illinois has produced 11 composite four- or five-star prospects in the classes of 2015 and 2016. Louisiana, a state with one-third the population of Illinois, has 32.
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Yes, this is the cool thing about Illinois, that a student-athlete can arrive on campus, spend years having a cheese grater run across his or her spirit and build up enough resistance to shrug off the many failures of the adults in charge. Good for the school that it ran out a guy as allegedly selfish and careless as Beckman, not that it had much choice with an investigation that would be public record at some point. Beckman, for his part, issued a statement to multiple media outlets that disputed Thomas’s findings while adding that he “will vigorously defend both my reputation and my legal rights.” In other words, Beckman is pursuing the buyout money Illinois doesn’t think it has to pay him, which only confirms that everyone involved deserves each other.
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http://www.si.com/college-football/...ired-illinois-mike-thomas-athletic-department


Illinois has no shot here.
 
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