Here's who can really take the program to the next level...
lllinois football has no business being the pitiful pile of filth that it has become. There is way too much talent in this state to excuse the biggest school in the Land of Lincoln getting smoked in recruiting by a tiny private school that isn't even in Chicago, and being a ludicrous 60 games under .500 in Big Ten play since 1997.
And so, once again, Illinois is out a head coach, this time due to circumstances that are pretty disgusting. With just a week before the season starts, the Illini ain't getting a new coach before they play Kent State, and they probably ain't getting a new one any time soon.