I understand you're angry. Your basketball program recently caught gonorrhea. Now not only does it burn when you pee and you have this discharge, but people are actually trying to sell you on gonorrhea, telling you you were fortunate to catch it when you did. Then these people show up who had it for years, but were recently cured and you hate them for it. You want not to have gonorrhea like them, but you know you're going to have it for years and it's just going to go right on burning and dripping. Worse you find yourself accepting your gonorrhea and pointing out it's positives, but not so deep down you hate yourself for it. You're gonna pull through, it's just going to be very unpleasant. Welcome to your life with gonorrhea.
Why tired of us? We can appreciate that you'll give oscar a chance, but don't let anyone fool you -- including Weber -- on how and why he was let go. The lack of a vote of confidence from Mike Thomas was not the final straw. The fact that Weber is trying to essentially rewrite the account of his history, and that people are willing to buy it because he's a nice guy, is disingenuous at best, and it especially makes Illinois fans appear ungrateful and wishy-washy. In reality, Weber's last six seasons fell short of expectations set by the Lou Henson-Lon Kruger-Bill Self years. It got to the point where major donors to the program were willing to pony up their own dollars to take care of Weber's buyout so we could go out and get whoever we needed.
Maybe Weber can build up something for KStaters to be proud of like he built up Southern Illinois. His coaching ability is respected by many. It's his lack of a thick skin and his admitted failure to build toughness in his players that derailed the Illinois program and left it where it is today, rebuilding with a new coach and a whole lot of raw talent that, for the most part, doesn't know how to run an offense. If Weber can repair those mistakes and get back to what made him successful at SIU, then KSU will be better off for it.
dude, know what you are. you're illinois. you're not appreciably better than northwestern in football, and your hoops isn't - and never has been - a national powerhouse. your best year came with weber at the helm. now he's gone. deal with it.
your new coach wouldn't have been hired if he didn't win a pair of games in the tournament. he will fail, and fail miserably, and you weird illinois fans with your stupid, highly overrated orange crush student section will be sobbing for weber and wishing he'd come back to champaign to eat your chicken nuggets and mow your lawns and pick up your dry cleaning.
so please, take your former racist mascot chief illinigook, your disloyal athletic director, your ugly fans and your papa del's pizza and go away. i think jim croce or john grossi or jim crocket or (whoever) is about to reel in a big 2-star forward to add to his top 200 recruiting class which will combine with your weak-minded, undisciplined loser players.
have fun in the CBI.
