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Hopefully Rose can hit a game winner so we can again forget how awful he is.

This Bulls team in certain stretches this year have been amazingly bad, particularly on O.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Nov 3, 2013 -> 12:53 AM) You're kind of exaggerating the recruiting (at least with respect to last year). Ultimately, I think Beckman can run a mediocre program. Despite the fact that he is significantly better at running a program than Zook, I don't think he can exceed that because I don't think he's good enough at identifying coaches to overcome his scheme deficiencies. The recruiting is going to get even worse because he is a lame duck coach. It is time to act now. And he certainly is not better at running a program than Zook, or he hasn't come remotely close to showing it. Not that Zook was some mastermind, but he was soooooo much better than Beckman has ever been. I lost the numbers, but the scoring margin for Zook vs Beckman (even in Zook's first and last years) is a blowout in favor of Zook. We aren't even remotely competitive under Timmy. Zook also got us to a Rose Bowl while Beckman has lost 12 straight Big 10 games. You cannot possibly say Beckman is "significantly better at running a program than Zook". There's 0 evidence of that. QUOTE (gatnom @ Nov 3, 2013 -> 12:53 AM) Is there a coach out there better than Beckman? Probably. But, would he be willing to take this job? I know I wouldn't risk my career on Illinois, at least not right now while it's so far buried. This is not the question you should be asking. Really, it should be, "could we possibly do any worse than Tim Beckman?" And since we can't win a single Big Ten game, and can't even be remotely competitive in most of those games, the answer is definitely no, you cannot. At the extreme worst case scenario, we hire the second coming of Tim Beckman, which is the same as keeping him. He's the worst we can do.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Nov 2, 2013 -> 11:22 PM) YOU'VE GOTTA BE f***ING KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible. Sorry man

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 2, 2013 -> 08:10 PM) Some would view it as a risky hire but is there really such thing as a risky hire when your program is this bad? Take a chance on a guy who brings in a great offensive system and who could potentially do a great job here. Yeah I agree he is worth trying. Have to be unique in replacing Beckman.

I'm down with Babers. He's likely a complete disaster, which is to say he's not any worse than what we have now. And if he does end up successful, I think it would be in a very big way.

Losing was the best possible outcome. Time to fire Beckman.

Well their kicker is horrible so there's hope.

Tim Beckman and staff have to have the record for most sideline interference calls, right? I didn't know it was a rule until we got that moron for a coach.

Holy s*** we're winning.

I did love the half time crew destroying our coaching staff.

Just when Tim Beckman can't get worse, he somehow does.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 1, 2013 -> 09:48 PM) I will agree with this. Also, I haven't seen ANY evidence whatsoever of this so-called 5 inch improvement in his vert. Edit: not the title part. lol. Unless he got a cyborg knee, highly doubt 5 inches to his vert was physically possible.

Not really. Even the premium stuff I'm subscribed to is saying basically saying "because it's KU".

Bulls up 3...feel like they are up 20

There's nothing concrete connecting him to KU. Everyone assumes it's KU because it's KU. Bill Self comes to town yesterday and doesn't bother to say hi to him. That's telling to me, and probably telling to him. I think Memphis is the real competition here.

I don't think it's KU. Memphis or Illinois for Alexander IMO.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 10:44 PM) A little more time at AAA for Rienzo, Beck and Johnson would not hurt anyone. Rienzo needs to work on being more efficient and Johnson and Beck are in no hurry. This. Whoever the 6th guy is is going to get plenty of starts in MLB anyways.

26-4 76ers over Heat wat

Trading Hector is likely dumb. Trading Danks and not eating salary would be the best thing ever. Hell, just take him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:44 PM) Matt Spiegel ‏@MattSpiegel670 3m When asked if Sox roster could handle three 1B/DH types, Hahn told us not to project based on today. Dunn gone somehow? Or Konerko retiring? Yeah, didn't take it this way at all. More like, he's not coming back, but we don't feel like creating a media s*** storm today.

That foul on Rose was a joke.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 02:10 AM) I don't know if Derrick and Booz have beef or what, but it's been long enough that they have zero rapport on offense. Boozer is the worst-utilized player I've ever seen us have. We have the best PG in the world and Boozer, our second best offensive player, is never involved in the offense. For f***'s sake He has 19 of our 33 points? I guess that doesn't disprove what you're saying, but still.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 02:03 AM) I was waiting to see who would be the person to declare the season over in the first half of the first game... Tony Snell's career is.

QUOTE ('IlliniKrush' date='Oct 29 @ 2013 -> 04:29 PM' post='2883872') Stop saying this. It's not meaninglIt's . What exactly were your expectations coming into this seasomething Record, etc? We've played 3 BT games, all of which we knew lose. Were your expectations to win those? Everything depends on what happens in these next 5 games, 4 of which we should be competitive. Yes, it is absolutely meaningless. Improving on a 2-10 team that should never have been 2-10 is meaningless. It's not an argument for Beckman and your followup questions are asking something different. My expectations were to be a remotely competitive team in a terrible Big Ten. We've since gone 0-3 losing on average by 28 points. Wow.