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Bring back Lon Kruger!!
Bring back Lon Kruger!!
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I knew that Josh Whitman would be quick with his decision on a new coach but WOW. The new head coach is Brad Underwood who left Oklahoma State after just 1 year. Not even 24 hours after Underwood's now former team lost to Michigan he's now the new head coach for the Illini. Underwood spent 11 years as an assistant at Western Illinois and started his coaching career at Hardin-Simmons, where Lou Henson got his start. He was the head coach at Stephen A. Austin for 3 years until he was hired at Oklahoma State last year. He has a career record of 109-27 and his teams have made the big dance every year. There will be a press conference at Noon on Monday to introduce him. I imagine he'll be somewhere in the building on Monday night when they host Boise State in the NIT.Comment
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yeah......again a complete surprise by Whitman and it sure looks like this was one on his short list. Underwood wasn't on anyone's list mainly because of just going to OSU......but I think he'll do well...Comment
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It shows they were looking way before the Illinois coach was fired. He was fired already in their minds before the season was even ended is my guess.. Quick!!Comment
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John Groce's name as well as Geno Ford's name are being mentioned multiple sources as candidates for he open Cleveland State head coaching jobComment
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New Illinois head coach Brad Underwood has hired former Kenticky assistant and recent South Florida head coach Orlando Antigua as an assistant coach. This is an odd choice.Originally posted by bigjimmy View Post
Antigua was an up-and-coming coach with a reputation of being a great recruiter while on John Calipari's staff at Kentucky.
However, after just 2+ seasons at South Florida before he was suddenly fired 13 games into this past season. He destroyed the USF program in more ways than one. Besides his atrocious record of 23-55 in a little over 2 seasons and a revolving door of recruits and players coming and going, his program is now being investigated by the NCAA for a massive academic fraud scandal. And in an effort for damage-control, his brother Oliver Antigua (an assistant coach) was the fall-guy and got fired. But as the NCAA digs deeper into the scandal, and apparently last USF already knows there will be plenty of violations found and they expect major sanctions, they decided to take it a step further and fire Orlando as well in January.
But even before the results are known, and whether Orlando Antigua will receive any NCAA penalties himself, Illinois has hired him-
Funny that most of the articles or announcements about Illinois hiring him don't even mention the academic fraud scandal and the disaster he left behind at South Florida.
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And Groce ends up at Akron.....good for him....
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