not trying to give him an excuse- I just really think he's a bumbling rough ridin' idiot
I've never really understood how he became a high-level coach based on his personality. It almost seems like he doesn't really want to and is just happy to be here with no idea how it happened.
the "how" is pretty straight forward, he spent 18 years on the bench of a well respected b10 coach in a tightly knit business. but it's not just the coaching profession, if anyone sticks around long enough, eventually they will get a shot, Illinois was guilty of giving him that chance, and guilty of not realizing their mistake sooner than they should have.
currie was just incompetent, there's really no excuse for his error in judgement when making the hire that he did. and that is what's scary.
I've always said we shouldn't be angry with oscar- any of us would take the money, the real problem with all of this is that we have an AD who somehow thought that hiring oscar was doing the right thing.