Not so fast though.
In one of the big surprises of the still relatively young 2016 college football offseason, Illinois fired former interim-then-"permanent" head coach Bill Cubit and his son, offensive coordinator Ryan Cubit, Saturday morning.
Though no one felt Cubit was long for the Illini -- his contract, along with Minnesota head coach Tracy Claeys's, were both so short and relatively modest in compensation that many criticized the deals as effective coaching search punts -- no one foresaw the Illini's successor to Tim Beckman fired a month after National Signing Day.
While it's still pretty early to know what's next for the Illini, new Illinois AD Josh Whitman is already under the microscope for not letting the players know before announcing the decision to the media as well as terminating Cubit while football recruits were on campus.