Illini Basketball

It's not what you think.

John Groce had to say goodbye to assistant Ramon Williams, who took a job with Virginia Tech this week.

Basketball school is now in session.

Part of coaching a team or running a city is simple: interact, listen, and, ultimately, do something. John Groce and Don Gerard seem to know the rules.

Now that the coaching carousel ended for Illinois, bigger questions are bound to emerge. The McColley dives in to the next chapter.

Three fires. And now, two hires. Matt Bollant comes from Green Bay touting one of the more impressive coaching tenures in all of the nation. Can he turn around the lowly Illini Women's program?

Sure, U of I fans were fed up with Bruce Weber. But you don't have to travel far to find a cautionary tale of a Big Ten school firing a relatively successful coach in favor of a rising star.

In what seems what will be Bruce Weber's final game as the head coach of Illinois, his team showed up, and ready to play into the same mistakes that will have cost him his job.

With a dismissal now all but imminent, Coach Weber is crying into the mic these days. You shouldn't shed a tear, says The McColley.