University of Illinois graduate Brad Evans considers himself a big supporter of Illini athletics director Josh Whitman. Evans, a national sports media figure who has more 134,000 Twitter followers, thinks Whitman, a former Illini football player, has done a “bang-up job” during his five years atop his alma mater’s athletics department and is “a visionary for the university” in his attempt to elevate Illini athletics.
From men’s basketball’s renaissance, improved facilities across the athletics campus, support of progressive ideas in college sports…Evans thinks Whitman has been “ahead of the curve.”
But Evans does have a big disagreement with Whitman on one issue — and one Evans, a Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Famer, is invested deeply: sports gambling.
