It sounds almost as if the "its better for us if he doesn't come back" crowd thinks he's been out there bemoaning OHIO, talking about how he can't wait to get away and what a crappy podunk mountain town it is, putting his resume out on craigslist, etc. Fact of the matter is, this is all based on speculation at this point. None of us knows what JG has said to Illinois, or vice a versa. Maybe it was true, but about 65% of the stories out there yesterday seemed to use @siggysports as their primary/sole source, a guy with 4 previous tweets who may infact be a front for Mr. Boa.

We don't know what JG's interest level is, we know what various Chicago area media sources and Illini leaks purport his interest to be. We don't know what Illinois's interest level is, we know what Chicago are media and illini leaks purport it to be. We don't know whats been offered, how much money we're hoping he's mulling over declining, or even what OHIO's counter offer is. Heck, we don't even know where Coach has been the past 3 days. At one point we all thought that he'd been flown to Urbana on Monday from Port Columbus, but then some reports came out yesterday saying that there was a plane on the way to Athens to pick him up...or to drop him off...or to pick up his family.

All we know about this situation is coming from unofficial, unnamed, possibly non-existent Illinois sources. The same sources who told us that Shaka had "solid interest" in the Illini job (http://wtvr.com/2012/03/20/report-shaka-smart-shows-interest-in-illinois-coaching-job/) less than 24 hours  before he rejected it. Then Brad Stevens was a done deal, except he didn't want the job either. Maybe JG wants the Big10 gig, maybe he's seeing how much OHIO wants him, maybe he and his family are on a camping trip in west virginia and he's going to be shocked when his phone blows up from all the missed calls/voicemails/texts when he gets back to athens. Chill out, lets not run the man out of town on a rail! Remember 5 days ago when we were playing in the sweet 16? Lets give him a little benefit of the doubt here.