This thread is magical. Custard (of course) comes in with the most OPTIMISTIC comment on the Bielema hire. “Hopefully he can stay sober and it works out.”
And early in his tenure people were outraged when I called out his egregious public shaming of his players. Textbook example of the cognitive dissonance of the HQ.
Interesting to quote something I was pretty much dead-on about. Said he needed a good staff and to open the pocketbook to get them, and that’s exactly what they have done. Walters is a stud that’s going to be a P5 HC sooner than later and Lunney has an exceptionally efficient offense that dominates TOP every week.
Still don’t buy that what he said was “egregious public shaming.” It was a snippet taken out of context and posted on twitter to be provocative, and you lapped it up while failing to do any further research into the bigger picture of what was said.
The players said it was a non-issue, they were so devastated by the egregious bus tossing that they went out the next week and beat #7 PSU in Happy Valley and damn near salvaged a bowl season out of a rough 1-4 start.
This is probably too long to read since it’s not in twitter format but gives some good insight into the meaning of the entirety of his comments pertaining to the massive future hole at O-line they were staring at.
“Bielema was referring to a future hole in his roster on the offensive line. The Illini currently have no offensive linemen who were recruited in the previous staff's last three recruiting classes. The two offensive linemen from the Class of 2019 are third-stringers. The three offensive linemen from the Class of 2020 have all transferred.”
Good stuff here:
https://247sports.com/college/illinois/Article/Illinois-Fighting-Illini-football-Bret-Bielema-roster-personnel-viral-comments-out-of-context-173570640/
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