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Bookmark or Share- Coaching Carousel (Football) | Page 4 - illinoisloyalty.comI could actually see fellow coaches stumping for Bielema. He really seems like a "coach's coach", and I remember someone (if I remembered who, I would happily give credit because I thought it was a great comparison) saying Bielema is really a football ops guy at heart compared to the offensive-minded and defensive-minded coaches that we usually think of.
- Pregame: Illinois vs Purdue, Saturday, October 12th, 2:30pm CT, FS1Lovie's first class ended up being excellent (Kendrick Green, Owen Carney, Del'Shawn Phillips, Tony Adams, Alex Palczewski, Bobby Roundtree, Kendall Smith, Vederian Lowe, Bennett Williams, Nate Hobbs, Blake Hayes, Alex Pihlstrom).
- Illini Football 2024 | Page 7 - illinoisloyalty.comI truly believe that by hiring Lovie Smith in March 2016, the Illini were able to land Underwood to lead the basketball program about 1 year after the Lovie hire. The volume of work that Josh did in his first 15 months, when you think about hiring new head coaches for the 2 biggest revenue generating sports teams in the program, was quite amazing.
- Illini Football 2024 | Page 8 - illinoisloyalty.comLovie Smith went 10-34* Bill Cubit went 2-6 Tim Beckham went 4-20 *adding a loss from the interim coach 2012 through 2020, Illinois went 16-60 in Big Ten Games. Illinois has two more Big Ten wins in four years under Bielema than in the nine seasons prior. Bielema has done exactly what I think everyone was hoping for when he was hired.
- Football Recruiting 2019: How do the Illini Stack Up?Before comparing the 2019 classes, I'd like to compare the combined classes of Tim Beckman (2013-2015) with Lovie Smith (2017-2019). To be fair, I'm excluding Beckman's first class which was shortly after he was hired. Over the three years compared, they each recruited 67 players. Smith had one player rated below 0.75, so does not appear on the ...
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