Lovie Smith didn’t get it done in two rough seasons as coach of the Buccaneers. Having moved on from Tampa to the University of Illinois, he failed — over five really long years — to lift the Illini to significantly higher ground.
Now, Smith — 64, and a decade removed from the end of his highly respectable nine-season run with the Bears — is back in town with his latest team, the Texans. Did the Bears make a mistake by firing him after the 2012 campaign? That was question No. 1 in this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on Twitter.