I was at an Illinois board last night. They seemed pretty happy that he is gone. He was there only one year so I can't say if they are right or not. I will say they did follow Illinois' game this year did you? Did you watch the linebackers play both last year and this year?
Originally Posted by: wpr
What was it, two days ago that Kevin Greene joined the Jets organization, after (according to him) first seeing if the Packers would take him back?
So, Kevin Greene reitres to "spend more time with family." A couple lesser name assistants follow him out the door. A couple years later, he asks to come back. The Packers say NO. Two days later they hire McGaricle from Illinois. [wtf]
Originally Posted by: nerdmann
Yea Nerd, I liked Greene too. Well, if 1265 wants McGarigle more than Greene; maybe that's an indication that McGarigle is truly special.
WPR, I went to NU, so i can easily report those Illini fans are a bunch of....bunch of...Uffda's😂 .
And Uffda, you rarely if ever offer "real Opinions...minus the bias." The basis for your belief is ALWAYS grounded on bias and hate; they are NEVER grounded in cogent logic and football acumen. This is a perfect example: you dont know shit about McGarigle, yet you find a way not only to hate the move; but, you denigrate my opinion of the man without having any basis to do so. You're a certifiable troll in this thread! And if you dont provide information about McGarigle, you should stop trolling and just STFU in this thread. If you troll by responding to what I just, I'll ignore. You must provide info about McGarigle to get my attention.
Hardy Nickerson and Lovie Smith [a LB at Tulsa and earned his chops as a LB coach] said McGarigle is a stud. Additionally, he was a great college player, very smart both as a human and a football player, respected wherever he went as a player or coach, and he’s a wonderful magnetic young man. And McGarigle is just a football dude. There was no doubt that his career would be about football, whether a player, coach, sportscaster, scout, front office guy, agent or if no one wanted him, he’d cut the grass for free like Forrest Gump.
As youngster Tim was a huge Bears and Illini fan.
He came to NU as a skinny runt, 2 star recruit, looked like a safety, no way he was over 200lbs. His 1st choice was Illinois, but was not offered scholarship, so he came to NU. He started 3.5 years and holds the college record for most tackles in history. The guy was unbelievable, always in position, always wrapping up, always taking the right angle, always assignment sure [Well of course not “always”], yet he had minimal talent. When he wasn’t perfect, it was Pat Fitzgerald [NU’s LB coach at the time] yelling in his earhole, “YOU ARE SELFISH;” if you eff up I practice you’ll eff up in the game;” etc. Do you know who Fitzgerald is now?
Tim was drafted in 7th, spent 2 years with Rams, he spent a year out of football and hung around campus while waiting for another chance. His old Rams DC [Jim Haslett-who earned his chops as a LB coach and was Bengals LB coach last year] became HC in USFL and drafted Tim, who played for him.
When his dream of playing ended he returned to NU for his masters in Sports administration and he asked Fitz if he could coach and he got a grad assist position helping Randy Bates. Fitz [after being named HC] hired Bates as LB coach in 2006. Bates’ LBs over 10 years have been very good and one’s skipping his 4th year and will be drafted high in 2017.
In 2012, Western Michigan University HC Bill Cubit hired Tim to coach LBs, don’t know anything of his time there [thru 2015]. Cubit was hired by Illinois as O-Coordinator in 2013 and was named HC in early 2016.
Now, with a plethora of available choices, Cubit’s first choice in 2016 as his LB coach was McGarigle, who worked under him 3 years before at WMU. The kid left an impression! But, a few weeks after giving Cubit a 2 year deal as HC in 2016, Lovie made it known he wanted to coach at Illinois. The Illlini ate 2 years of Cubit’s contract, fired him and hired Lovie. Lovie’s first hire for DC was the great Hardy Nickerson, who was his LB coach at Tampa for 2014 and 2015 [And Lovie was D-Coord. at TB when Hardy was a perennial all pro there]. Now, Nickerson and Smith probably had a ton of ideas for who’d coach their LBs. Well, they retained Tim to coach the LBs. He obviously made an impression. The only other coach hired by Cubit that was retained at his position was DB coach Williams.
Of the Illini LBs in 2016 coached by McGarigle:
In 2015, Hardy Nickerson Jr. was a Grad student transfer from Cal, who could have gone anywhere. I think he came to Illinois in 2016 only so Tim could be his LB coach. Hardy Jr said it was a once in a lifetime chance to play for his father, but this was misconstrued. Hardy Jr obviously knew his daddy [LB Coach] would be McGarigle, I think that’s what he meant by father😂. Nickerson was a very good college player with Cal; but was not considered draftable, so he was coming back for his 4th season. He adapted to his dad’s game plan and is now a realistic day three possible draftee.
Tre Wilson 2 star recruit: After barely playing as a MLB as a FR in 2015; as a true soph in 2016 became one of the best Strong sides in the big 10 and didn’t start until big 10 season started. He’ll be one of top 2 Big 10 SLBs next year, he’ll be drafted high, maybe very high. And under McGarigle’s tutelage, he not only grew leaps and bounds as a LB, but was academic all big 10.
Julian Jones 2 star recruit: After barely playing as a FR in 2015; as a true soph in 2016 got a lot of PT at WLB, he started last few games of season had a huge game against Michigan. He’ll be starting in 2017. And he’s okay, not great; but made a nice jump under McGarigle
Crawford 2 star safety recruit: Barely played a RS So in 2015. In 2016, started first part of 2016 at WLB and lost his job. He did progress, but not as much as one would hope under McGarigle in 2016.
Given the talent he had to work with, Tim did as good a job with LBs as could be expected in one year and Linebacker coaches he’s worked under include Nickerson, Lovie Smith, Haslett, Bates and Fitzgerald. Trust me, Tim was paying attention.