The cliché trust the process has ballooned over the last few years with Joel Embiid sending it into the stratosphere. But that cliché has true meaning, though. It isn’t just a saying to delay failure. Trust the process is a saying that some Illinois fans took to heart just a few years ago when Lovie Smith took over the program.
Lovie is starting to build a team that is competitive against just about any program in the nation. That wasn’t the case when he first took over, though. Fans had to trust the process and see what he was building.