A five-game losing streak isn’t the weight-loss plan Illinois coach Tim Beckman had envisioned.
“How do I look? I’ve lost 22 pounds,” the first-year Illini boss revealed this week. “You think I like losing?”
Beckman joked Tuesday that he needed to lose the weight, and that his wife is pleased. But a rough initial campaign in Champaign seems to be taking a toll on Beckman, who also had the sideline chewing-tobacco incident earlier this month.
Keep in mind Beckman’s Toledo teams won eight games in each of the past two seasons.
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