Recent content by Illiniinhouston

His success at OSU wasn’t that good. He had an okay year, but it wasn’t anything special.

To people who are saying this is fine because it’s at MSU and they had it down as a loss. There were expectations before the season that the Illini would be a top 25 team this year. You don’t get blown out by 20 and show no ability to score if you were a boarderline top 25 team. So either the...

I can’t speak for anyone else, but my reason for pessimism is that this is year 3 of BU and we’re seeing the same issues of scoring droughts, TO’s and bad defense. Through the first 3 games of the season there’s been no reason to assume the team has turned a corner. There hasn’t been any...

Sadly we saw the same issues tonight that we’ve seen the first two games of the season. Namely substandard defense, scoring droughts, way too many turnovers, and kinda falling apart the last 10 minutes of games. The difference being that we weren’t playing a nobody school tonight. Unless thee...

I think it was meant tongue-in-cheek.

I think the point that was trying to be made is that all the elements are there for a team that was overhyped coming into the season. Yes it’s early, but nobody can say they’ve been wowed by how the team has played the first two games. Again, if that continues without fairly major improvement...

I think nobody is saying that they aren’t happy with the win. But what they are saying is that there are concerns going forward from the first two games. Concerns that lead some to believe that the 2-0 start is a byproduct of weak teams, not the Illini being good. It’s a never a bad idea to...