And I love hearing the revisionist history on Zook. The recruiting was complete shit at the end because everyone knew he could not coach and he could no longer get marginal students into school. There is a reason the guy went to work at a bank after getting fired from Illinois and then came back as a ST coach for Green Bay and fucked up a playoff game.
I'll never understand why Ron Zook ever tried to do anything other than be a recruiting coordinator/assistant coach role. The guy was A+ at identifying/recruiting talent and sucked at everything else. It's telling that he now works FOR Mike Locksley.
Arguably the most talented Illinois team in history went 3-9 because Zook and his team of fools were coaching. Multiple NFL receivers and a NFL RB and...shotgun draw, the quarterback runs for 2 yards.
Fuck that and fuck this. Hopefully Bielema's building an actual system that can win long-term in the B1G, but I'm not holding my breath since he didn't have to do at Wisconsin and couldn't do it at Arkansas.