I guess its all conjecture and personal opinion, but in
Posted on: August 5, 2020 at 13:38:03 CT
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general I feel like the SEC is the better conference and certainly has more talent over the same time period. I will grant that the B1G has better coaches in my opinion.
Either way, Illinois was coming off a 20 win season and had avged 19.5 wins per season the prior 5 years when Underwood took over. Cuonzo took over arguably the worst program in a major conference each of the prior 3 years with a wholly inadequate roster and the program was on probation. Even getting to the same general record would be a heavy lean to Cuonzo, and he has actually accomplished a better overall record.