A 3-5 start is terrible for any college basketball coach in the country. You never want to lose five games in non-conference, let alone five games in the first eight you have played.
John Groce’s seat is not only hot, it is somewhere on the Scoville Heat Unit Scale between the Ghost Pepper and Standard US Grad Pepper Spray. This has been the worst start in Illinois basketball history since the 1974-75 season in which they started 2-6.
Groce deserves to be on the hot seat. Since he became the head coach of the Illini the team has slowly decayed.