Yeah I have faith in both Bret and Josh and think it can get corrected by next offseason
But I’m now fairly confident there was a misread this offseason. And while I love spicy Bret, complaining openly about being poor is not where you want to be. Probably burned the bridge doing it (not that we were ever going to get him back, but still).  Previous Message They’re too smart to have ever actually believed that all schools were just going spend their $22M and nothing more than that, but I never really understood the benefit of speaking about it in those terms. And Bert complaining on Twitter about Michigan throwing big money at Lopati, combined with us not budgeting enough money to keep any of our DL, it just gives off the vibe that we have misread the situation in some way. Previous Message
At least publicly Whitman seemed pretty Pollyanna-ish that everyone was going to stick to the House settlement
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 DL depth just took a hit. Cam Brooks out with an achilles. - tvillini March 30, 2026, 18:45:33
- John Holocek is returning to Loyola as HC. Current HC is moving to “GM”* - CanHartlebHireSnider April 17, 2026, 10:38:05
- Lopati to Michigan* - CanHartlebHireSnider April 14, 2026, 17:47:09
- Larry will get his.* - Toonces April 14, 2026, 19:16:06
- Outwork, outsmart, outpay. :-( Eh. - Dilbert April 14, 2026, 17:58:51
- Outwork, outsmart, outpay. :-( Eh.
 - osklister April 14, 2026, 17:53:13
- Outwork, outsmart, outpay. :-( Eh. - osklister April 14, 2026, 17:53:13
- Donovan Leary to West Florida - jdl April 14, 2026, 14:50:08
- Gotta admit I'd never heard of West Florida. First classes: fall of 1967. - osklister April 14, 2026, 16:40:03
- Go Argonauts!* - KingTalkyTiki April 14, 2026, 15:05:05
- Related.... - ISeeDeadHawkeyes April 14, 2026, 15:23:47
- We’ll always have that two point conversion vs Michigan* - CanHartlebHireSnider April 14, 2026, 14:50:51
- Wasn’t it Purdue?* - bjl63 April 14, 2026, 15:52:32
- No - CanHartlebHireSnider April 14, 2026, 16:00:19
- Lopati has decomitted * - jdl April 13, 2026, 13:47:22
- Meh, we're a basketball school - IlliniSax05 April 13, 2026, 14:43:07
- meh. Bigger things to worry about for the 27 class. - ijustkrushalot April 13, 2026, 13:57:17
- My biggest worry about the 2027 class - jayd April 13, 2026, 14:13:54
- I’m wondering about our financial situation compared to the Jonses - biclops April 13, 2026, 14:21:15
- I was concerned the second Bert and Josh started talking about a level playing field. - OB25 April 14, 2026, 15:43:46
- So there's what I will call "hard NIL" and "soft NIL". We know for a fact, with "Hard NIL"... - ijustkrushalot April 14, 2026, 15:20:33
- We are either a poverty program, or playing by imaginary rules. Either reality is bad.* - Dude_The April 13, 2026, 14:29:19
- In reality, it can't be good. For some reason, we are trying to socialize we have plenty of $$ - UofIL6 April 13, 2026, 14:24:17
- Agreed but this just is a continuation of a pretty awful off-season* - bjl63 April 13, 2026, 14:08:59
- Yeah, even the big boy playoff teams seem to be using portal quarterbacks to actually see field time - ATL April 13, 2026, 13:58:19
- Let someone else pay for his clipboard years.* - Warrin'_Illini April 13, 2026, 13:53:27
- That was fun* - uofi1998 April 13, 2026, 13:52:52
- congrats to 2029 MAC Champion, Buffalo - assassin April 9, 2026, 16:03:22
- lol Bert responding to a Michigan site about Lopati - assassin April 9, 2026, 10:56:21
- Luke Altmyer on GMFB * - Poldark April 9, 2026, 8:37:02
- Practice - jdl April 8, 2026, 22:20:41
- Seems we're just about on the verge of losing our big-time prep QB. Not a lot of good fball news - UofIL6 April 8, 2026, 20:49:21
- Tank got a new deal - jdl April 6, 2026, 11:52:52
- we have added a transfer safety from NIU - assassin April 3, 2026, 20:19:53
- Who is the starting QB next year? * - MC April 2, 2026, 17:10:00
- meh, we're a basketball school again - IlliniSax05 March 31, 2026, 10:06:24
- This has not been a fun offseason - illini21 March 31, 2026, 9:12:37
- We had depth? * - bjl63 March 30, 2026, 21:52:44
- At least that's a position where we loaded up with talent in the portal and had no defections - UofIL6 March 30, 2026, 19:17:28
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