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OT: Former Illini player goes off on Beckman

I was just going to post this. I know we compete against Illinois for some recruits so this could be really interesting to follow.
 
This one bothered me:

"Toby Harkins worked for months as our head trainer and was not a licensed medical professional in the state of Illinois. He was fired".

As well as this one:

"Teammate @KennyKnight was attacked by @coachbeckman in the fall of 2013 at practice and his interview w about it @TaylorRooks was covered".

But overall he is putting it all out there. I am actually glad that he is.

I know that this is going on in several schools, but I actually applaud this kid for doing this. There are a bunch of tweets that make you cringe.
 
If I was an investigative reporter, I would interview some of Beckman's former players at Toledo.

As an aside, it's interesting to look at Beckman's record:

2012: 2-10 (0-8)
2013: 4-8 (1-7)
2014: 6-7 (3-5)
Overall at UI: 12-25 (4-20)

I guess you could call it progress, but the Illini have obviously "improved" using the Rutgers model of scheduling weak OOC opponents (which last season included 1-AA Youngstown State, Western Kentucky, Washington, and Texas State).
 
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sutomcat said:
Beckman sounds like an awful person.

Just as disturbing for Illini fans, their 5th your senior and rep at B1G Media Day appears to write at a 5th grade level. I think I am being generous with that evaluation...
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I think Beckman is a big-time football coach (not a good one, but a typical one in terms of demeanor and attitude). I would have zero doubt that if there weren't implications for it, there would be at least a handful of kids on every Power 5 roster who feel similarly used by the coaching staff. I get that this is painting coaches with a broad brush but this is a zero sum game and I long ago stopped believing that it brings out the best in these guys.

Edit: Having said that, by the way, I think this is a really immature and not terribly meaningful way for this kid to get his message out there. Discuss this face-to-face with Beckman first, if that doesn't get any answers, write an informed op-ed, start a campaign to end this type of behavior. A bunch of twitter posts like this create a wave of excitement for a few days and then it just becomes more noise.
 
JoeSU said:
If I was an investigative reporter, I would interview some of Beckman's former players at Toledo.

As an aside, it's interesting to look at Beckman's record:

2012: 2-10 (0-8)
2013: 4-8 (1-7)
2014: 6-7 (3-5)
Overall at UI: 12-25 (4-20)

I guess you could call it progress, but the Illini have obviously "improved" using the Rutgers model of scheduling weak OOC opponents (which last season included 1-AA Youngstown State, Western Kentucky, Washington, and Texas State).
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Saw that a Toledo kicker came forward and said he saw similar actions from the staff.
 
I get to see Illinois play a lot out here in the land of Lincoln. The team may have had a better record last year but they are still lousy and Beckman is an arrogant pr**k. The accusations do not shock me.
 

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