Groce to Illinois

[lefty]

Many Illini fans find it odd and even ominous that neither Jerrance Howard nor most of the players were present at the introduction of the new head coach - even though hundreds of others were....
What with a few of the comments from the Chicago high school coaches, I can smell a power struggle coming........

BTW -- anyone hear what's happeinging with Wayne McClain?? Does Groce want to keep him on board to preserve the legendary Peoria Pipeline?

Didn't sound like it from the article this morning....seems like it would be a good idea to keep JH or get someone out of Chicago..and maybe his current assistant will be good enough

[onetuffshot]

Coach Howard

Maybe he is going to follow Weber to K-State?

[AZ BU Fan]

Thank God there is another relatively local College MBB coaching change story to take over Forum members analysis and debate!

[bert notorius]

Howard was starting to get better players but they were still boys among men compared to the rest of the big 10. The big 10 is stacked with pretty good coaches right now, and it's not a friendly place for a major conference apprenticeship program.

[Da Coach]

Former Kent State coach (Geno's predecessor) and current TCU coach Jim Christian will take the head coaching job at Ohio, replacing John Groce.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/18228449/ohio-university-hires-tcu-coach-jim-christian

Christian was coming under fire at TCU, so this may be a good move for him. He was 56-73, 18-44 in the Mountain West Conference in his 4 seasons at TCU. He never had a winning conference record.

[tornado]

John Groce names his first hire for assistant at Illinois
..he hires Jamall Walker from his staff at Ohio...

http://www.illinihq.com/sports/illini-sports/mens-basketball/2012-04-02/walker-join-groces-staff.html

[tornado]

.... one of the U of I trustees threw a stink..

looks like U of I isn't the only school with a whole lot of dysfunctionality on their Board of Trustees

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/poshard-herrin-working-relationship-awful/article_28610f5e-77c7-11e1-92b7-001871e3ce6c.html