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To the editor: I would like to thank head coach Ron Zook and the
rest of the Illinois football team for bringing us the 2005 season.
It began on a promising note when the Fighting Illini beat a Rutgers
team, who later would play in the Insight Bowl with a 7-4 record, by
the score of 33-30. Illinois also defeated the San Jose State
Spartans.
But against California, Illinois fortunes changed. Illinois was
up 17-7 at halftime, and it looked like the Fighting Illini would
win again in sunny Berkeley, Calif. But the second half,
particularly the fourth quarter, was another story. The Golden Bears
wore down Illinois and scored a 35-20 victory. This loss spiraled
the Fighting Illini into a tailspin that they could not recover
from, especially with a team starting mainly underclassmen in the
lineup, but they did gain valuable game experience that will carry
over to next year.
As I mentioned earlier, Illinois' head football coach is Ron Zook.
This was coach Zook's first year with the team. Wherever he has
gone, he has established a winner.
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 Before Ron came to Illinois, he was with the Florida Gators,
where he compiled a 23-14 record, three bowl appearances, and his 23
wins at Florida ranked second among active coaches nationally
completing their third year of their program; but I suppose the
Gators did not think that kind of record was good enough for them,
so they let Zook go.
Illinois would gladly welcome this kind of record since the last
couple seasons before Zook the Illini had only won a total of four
games. It may take a few years before this happens, but with Ron
Zook at the helm, there is no reason that it cannot be done, for he
is a mastermind when it comes to recruiting. As coach Zook also
noted, "You don't always have to have the best players to win the
game, but instead the best team that wins."
The bottom line is that the Illinois Fighting Illini football
team will eventually turn their program around and it will be built
around a great head coach who knows how to win, and that is head
coach Ron Zook.
William Sewell
(Posted Dec. 28, 2005)
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