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Bookmark or Share- Pregame: Illinois vs Purdue, Saturday, October 12th, 2:30pm CT, FS1Darrell Hazell went 3-24 in the Big Ten, with two of the three wins coming in Champaign. Hazell won more Illinois-Purdue games at Memorial Stadium than Zook, Beckman, Cubit, Lovie and Bielema combined. RML, PNWIllini and Fighter of the Nightman. #452. Oct 10, 2024.
- Pregame: Illinois vs Purdue, Saturday, October 12th, 2:30pm CT, FS1The biggest blunder of Whitman's tenure was maintaining Lovie after that season. Season 3 should show progress; it clearly did not, and the defense was historically bad. Unfortunately, Lovie was retained and had a mirage bowl season in 2019, which meant he parlayed that "success" into another lost season in 2020.
- Pregame: Illinois vs Purdue, Saturday, October 12th, 2:30pm CT, FS1Bielema has had to fight tooth and nail to rebuild relationships with the Illinois high school coaches who felt spurned. Cubit's only recruiting class was very poor (13/14 in conference), compared to Smith's 10/14, 12/14, 13/14 and 14/14.
- Illinois Football Recruiting Thread | Page 3 - Illini Message BoardThere are transition years from one coach to another. I don't count 2016 against Lovie or 2021 against BB. Lovie Smith composite national recruiting rankings 2017: 46 2018: 54 2019: 56 2020: 82 Lovie fired and BB brought in mid-December of 2020 2021: 73 BB composite national recruiting rankings 2022: 46 2023: 38 2024: 49 2025: Way too early but ...
- Illini Football 2024 | Page 5 - illinoisloyalty.com2016: -7.75 (7th worst season) Lovie Smith 2021: 2.20 (30th best season) Brett Bielema I know it's a little funky to switch from best- to worst connotations but the recent first-year coaches have been so horrible that it became necessary.
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