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Bookmark or Share- Luke Altmyer announces return to Illinois for 2025 seasonThe next game in 2024 would be a 60,670 sellout vs. Kansas, followed by over 51,000 vs. Central Michigan at 11:00 am. So our Thursday night crowds vs. EIU are now blowing away Lovie's Saturday home opener crowds, and we are routinely drawing close to 55k for weekend games. That is phenomenal.
- Illini Football 2024 | Page 5 - illinoisloyalty.comLovie Smith served his purpose. A former NFl/DC coach and first African-American coach in football at Illinois. Bret Bielema resume speaks for itself. Bielema is the best coach since John Mackovic and he was a good hire. Whitman had no business hiring Fahey but he had history with her. He has to make a good choice in women's soccer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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