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Ron Zook

Ron Zook

  1. Illinois' Thomas faces another tough call
    ESPN logo ESPN 9 hours ago

    It’s rare an AD welcomes hearing from an unhappy and vocal fanbase about their teams' failures; no one in the position enjoys firing coaches and loves the painstaking process of a coaching search. In a perfect world, Ron Zook and Bruce Weber would be...

  2. Illini's Weber focuses on wins, not job
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch logo St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1 day ago

    He repeatedly has said he will evaluate each coach and his program when the season is completed and make a decision based on the body of work. Thomas made those same comments on Champaign radio station WDWS on Saturday as he was peppered with phone...

  3. To our current AD Mike Thomas and our president, I understand you have a job to do and sometimes that involves difficult decisions and I respect that
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Herald & Review 2 months ago
  4. Maryland football coach Randy Esdall needs his key recruit to stop the losses
    The Washington Post logo The Washington Post 1 day ago

    It was Mike Locksley, the former New Mexico coach who covered Maryland and Virginia like a blanket when he was the Terps’ running backs coach and recruiting coordinator more than a decade ago. Locksley is the guy who successfully recruited for Ron Zook...

  5. Ranking coaching hires: Nos. 6-15 all have something to prove
    CBS Sports logo CBS Sports 6 days ago

    No. 8: Tim Beckman Illinois Highest ranking: No. 7 on two ballots Lowest ranking: No. 19 Beckman turned around the fortunes at Toledo and now he will be expected to do the same at Illinois, which was consistently inconsistent under Ron Zook. "It's not...

  6. Florida State Football: 2012 is Make or Break Year for Fisher
    Bleacher Report logo Bleacher Report 1 week ago

    Considering that Fisher has been at FSU since 2007 and served as the team’s coach-in-waiting for two years before taking over, some fans are quietly wondering if Fisher could be FSU’s version of Ron Zook. That line of thinking fails to give Fisher the...

  7. No Big Ten football coach in the last few decades has survived as long with as poor a record as Ron Zook
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  8. Step Into My Office - Ron Zook
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 5 months ago
  9. Big Ten Recruiting Grades: Urban Meyer and Brady Hoke Lead the Way
    Bleacher Report logo Bleacher Report 1 week ago

    Tim Beckman's first class when examined in that light is somewhat excusable. Ron Zook did him no favors with the epic late-season collapse. Even Zook's ability to sell himself and the program to high school kids seemed to erode down the stretch. The...

  10. Illinois football signs 19 to letters of intent
    Herald & Review logo Herald & Review 1 week ago

    And while Rivals.com, which closely tracks college football recruiting, ranked Illinois' class No. 10 in the 12-team Big Ten Conference, it said Beckman had done a good job holding things together after Ron Zook was fired as head coach on Nov. 27. ...

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About Ron Zook

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Ron Zook (born April 28, 1954 in Loudonville, Ohio) is an American football coach and the current head coach at the University of Illinois. Full Article

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  1. To our current AD Mike Thomas and our president, I understand you have a job to do and sometimes that involves difficult decisions and I respect that
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Herald & Review 2 months ago
  2. No Big Ten football coach in the last few decades has survived as long with as poor a record as Ron Zook
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  3. I think our program is very close; I really do ... We just didn't finish a few games here and there.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: PennLive.com 2 months ago
  4. I honestly hope we go to a bowl, and I'm here to be able to do it
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Washington Examiner 2 months ago
  5. I'm sure when he feels like the time's right, he'll talk to me
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Washington Examiner 2 months ago
  6. They want to show people that this program, it's going in the right direction
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: San Antonio Express 2 months ago
  7. I think he'll learn from it
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
  8. He knows he could have a special year next year as well
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
  9. Everywhere he's been he's won ... Even with the (health) problems Coach Kill's had, they haven't missed a beat.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
  10. If you look at them offensively, they are doing a lot of things ... That's a great football staff. They have been together for a long time and you are going to see all kinds of different formations, all kinds of things our defense has to be prepared for. We thought MarQueis Gray was a heck of a player l...
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2 months ago
  11. These guys have a chance to do something that never has been done (here) ... Win two bowl games (in a row). … There are enough things these guys are playing for. And just pride. They want to show people this program is going in the right direction.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
  12. Off the top of my head I would say that Reilly will play
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Herald & Review 2 months ago
  13. I don't care who you're playing, there's no way you can have that many turnovers and hope to win
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Herald & Review 2 months ago
  14. I would off the top of my head say Reilly will play, but Nathan right now gives us the best chance to win
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
  15. Hopefully he can come back and be ready to go ... He was in pretty good spirits (Sunday morning) when I talked to him.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
  16. We can be a good team if we play like we did in the first half ... That's the frustrating thing. Somewhere along the line we disconnect a little when something bad happens. It's something I thought we got better at. It's a confidence thing.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  17. As soon as we turned it over the first time on offense, then it seems like they began to think and we went back into the old mood
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune 2 months ago
  18. All right, (it was a) tale of two teams out there; tale of two halves ... I told them at halftime, you know, we've got to continue to play the same way. We obviously went out there and, as soon as we turned it over the first time on offense, then it seems like they began to think and we went back into t...
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: The Sports Network 2 months ago
  19. When you've got problems, that's when you find out what kind of people you are and what kind of person you are and you've just got to keep on keeping on and work through it
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Sports Illustrated 2 months ago
  20. I told them at halftime, you know, we've got to continue to play the same way. We obviously went out there and, as soon as we turned it over the first time on offense, then it seems like they began to think and we went back into the old mood.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: WAWS FOX 30 2 months ago
  21. If you go back and look particularly at the punt return game, look at the number of times you wish Ryan would have fair caught, I don't think we'd be in quite as bad a shape as we are
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  22. My wife brought that up as well. A lot of times it becomes a mental game. Confidence is an issue
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Hanford Sentinel 2 months ago
  23. He is very, very talented and very, very mature. He has played professional baseball. He's an older guy and he understands what big games are all about. He's a big-time player and our guys want to play against great players, and they'll get a chance against this quarterback and this running back.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Herald & Review 2 months ago
  24. Their quarterback has really fit into their system
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Herald & Review 2 months ago
  25. I'm not a big guy to change just to change ... But when things are going south the way things are, you kind of have to do something to kind of change the mojo.
    – Ron Zook SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 months ago
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