As a wise coach once said, divorce is sometimes good.
Josh Whitman promised wins. Lovie didn’t deliver.
And now? He’s gone.
Illinois and head football coach Lovie Smith decided to part ways today after five dismal seasons in Champaign.
How did this start?
Remember March 5, 2016? Josh Whitman, on his first day on the job, fired Bill Cubit, who had the interim title removed just a few months before when an interim chancellor (Barbara Wilson) and interim athletic director (Paul Kowalczyk) made him the permanent head football coach.
And Whitman knew who he wanted.