Recent content by philcon

We won but got outcoached. Underwood's old school bullheadedness refusal to play zone against one of the worst three pointing shooting teams is laughable....unless you're rooting for that team. It cost them the first time that they played them and it almost did again. We won because the...

Maybe....that's the issue

Biggest disappointment of the game by F A R is the performance of Newton. I literally kept rewinding plays during the game to see what he was doing. In short....NOTHING. It's one thing to underperform. It's another to not even try....LITERALLY!. If you don't believe it.....go back and watch...

What Illinois fans have to realize is....we aren't all that. It's amazing to me to see post after post after post about us vs a MAC team and how they are so far beneath us. They aren't. I've been an Illini fan for over 50 years so I'm not a hater...I'm a realist. Toledo is a legit threat and...

21-17 Hawks...hope that I am wrong! (i.e. hope that we win....not that they beat us by an even higher margin) :)

I get the thought process but the thought seems to come from when we are on defense. If Kofi is there....they have no defense and would have to collapse which would leave wide open 3's and this year we have the arsenal to deliver on those.

Purdue-11 on Betnow. I think Purdue will win....but Illinois will cover. 34-24 Purdue (hope that we win obviously!!)

This game will tell me a LOT about the maturity of this football team. It's not that unusual for a team to upset another team. The question is....can they follow it up the next week with a solid performance....ESPECIALLY against at least statistically (-5.5 point spread) a team that you are...

28-24 NEB. Hope I'm wrong

I think he fell for one reason and I am surprised that this hasn't been talked about much. I love Ayo...and Illinois basketball... but late in the season even the TV announcers figured out what other teams already knew. He can't drive to the basket consistently using his left hand. Force him...

I haven't read any replies to this point about this comment but here is mine.....Omar Payne is V E R Y under rated if he is put in the right college bb system. He was a top 50 player in HS. Has gotten bigger/stronger (which all players do in college but it's particularly important playing...

True...unless Wieskamp is out

Which is why no Alabama QB ever does squat in the NFL

Illinois 77 Iowa 72 Book it Later in the year Duke might win but they are young and their D sucks. If Kofi doesn't get in foul trouble (and I realize that is a BIG if) Illinois won't lose. I'm that confident. Illinois basketball and football coaches over the past few years have...

As Ptown mentioned...Kofi needs to work on three major things: Inside footwork & mid range jumper are two of them. The third is weird because he's a big, strong individual. However...if you tape the games...go back and look at how many passes were thrown into him in the paint and somehow...