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Overcoming Adversity: Illinois moving on despite coach's firing week before season

ESPN.com | September 2, 2015

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Schad: Illinois had to remove Beckman immediately

ESPN college football Insider Joe Schad discusses Illinois' firing of coach Tim Beckman.

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No tears flowed at Friday's players-only meeting -- "We're grown men," senior defensive back V'Angelo Bentley said -- but most Illinois players still sat, stunned, in silence.

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