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Good reasons that UI donor SPENCER ATKINS has for endorsing a former Illini for the school's athletic director opening.
Only that former Illini is not RICK GEORGE, or CRAIG TILEY, or TOM MICHAEL, or any of the other familiar names that have been bandied about.
"I don't understand why they are not looking at SHAWN WAX," says the director of The Atkins Group.
A star received on JOHN MACKOVIC's 1990 Big Ten championship team, Wax left in 2012 for — eek — the University of Iowa following 15-plus years as one of RON GUENTHER's UI lieutenants.