Is BERT really some CROOT guy? I don’t really pay attention to recruiting because I’m not a loser, but it’s my understanding that Chryst is recruiting way better than him at Wisconsin anyway. Even if he is, it didn’t do him any favors at Arkansas, which is an easier place to recruit to than Illinois. His biggest accomplishment is maintaining Wisconsin, where even Gary Andersen could win 10 games and the division.
To me, comparing Lovie to Leipold is an awful comparison to me. Lovie was a washed up NASHNUL guy who ran outdated schemes and it showed. Leipold is winning at the college level right now. At fucking Buffalo, as we’ve all emphasized. If they really didn’t hire him because he lost last night to a solid Ball State team or because he’s in the MAC and Beckman was in the MAC (he won more than Lovie anyway?)...um, wow. I guess that explains why they hired Lovie over guys like PJ Fleck and Matt Campbell lol.
It doesn’t help that BERT is a huge fucking trog and asshole who rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Tolerating his nonsense gets pretty old if you aren’t winning at Wisconsin rates, which he won’t do at Illinois.
I mean, we’ll see, weird hires work out all the time, but it looks pretty damn bad unless Leipold and a bunch of other corches turned them down. If they wanted a CROOTS CLICK guy, then hire Scheelhaase. If this is the same AD that hired Lovie, I have to assume he stopped watching football in 2009. “Let’s hire the Bears guy, he’s pretty good!” “Wow, we can get the Wisconsin guy, that’s a home run!”