ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Coaching Search Theater 3000 begins next week at 2:30 on ESPNU with Rod Carey's Temple taking on Lance Leipold's Buffalo.
Eastern Michigan 34, Illinois 31 POSTGAME
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Coaching Search Theater 3000 begins next week at 2:30 on ESPNU with Rod Carey's Temple taking on Lance Leipold's Buffalo.
Rutgers.
Eastern Michigan was no cupcake. But i shutter to think was a bigger, stronger and quicker team is going to do to our secondary. The s______ do not run through the goose much faster than it did on that final drive. Pathetic!.
Okay, I’ve cooled down a bit. Took the family to Jupiter’s for a little relaxation and stress relief and am more myself again.
Like a lot of people have said, the teams play really does fall on the coaches (whether is Lovie or any of the other coaches). That said, there is a LOT of talent on this team. Peters does some dumb things, but holy &$!@ does he also make some hella good plays we haven’t seen here in a long time. We just need to find out what the heck we’ve gotta do to make the offense more consistent.
On the defense... oh boy.... I wish Lovie would change the scheme. It’s not working with the current players we have (and may never work regardless of players). We have real talent on that side of the ball too, but if we don’t get it figured out soon... as in like the end of their next practice... it’s gonna only get uglier.
I don’t see 4 more wins this year based on the first three, but I do think the talent is here to capitalize in close games. Rutgers SHOULD be a gummy, and some the other teams we play have had less than stellar starts.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we are certainly taking our sweet time getting through the tunnel...
Like a lot of people have said, the teams play really does fall on the coaches (whether is Lovie or any of the other coaches). That said, there is a LOT of talent on this team. Peters does some dumb things, but holy &$!@ does he also make some hella good plays we haven’t seen here in a long time. We just need to find out what the heck we’ve gotta do to make the offense more consistent.
On the defense... oh boy.... I wish Lovie would change the scheme. It’s not working with the current players we have (and may never work regardless of players). We have real talent on that side of the ball too, but if we don’t get it figured out soon... as in like the end of their next practice... it’s gonna only get uglier.
I don’t see 4 more wins this year based on the first three, but I do think the talent is here to capitalize in close games. Rutgers SHOULD be a gummy, and some the other teams we play have had less than stellar starts.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we are certainly taking our sweet time getting through the tunnel...
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
We have two wins left in this team.
Before the season started i thought the offense could put some points up with Corbin back and a strong O-line (not what i expected yet) Receivers are playing better than last year,also. But even with a another year of experience I thought the D had a lot of ground to make-up. This team gave up huge amounts of yards and lots of points last season. So, i guess my point is I didn't think the D could make that big a turn around in one season. Thought Illini would win 4-5 games but that included a win, today.
We probably need to talk about the HC on the visitor sideline today.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
This defense couldn't handle a middle of the road (maybe) MAC team. This is the most pessimistic I've been about Illini football since about game 9 of 2011.
Strongly agree!!!!!
BananaShampoo
Captain 'Paign
- Phoenix, AZ
You mean that HVAC Contractor looking guy?
One and the same.
People talk about the challenges that come with our job but Eastern Michigan almost shuttered their program. They play pay games just to keep the lights on in Ypsilanti and yet Chris Creighton beats a Big Ten team on the road and goes to a bowl game with subpar talent seemingly every year nowadays. I think our conversation should start right there.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
Honestly the talent is there. Imagine if we didn't commit those penalties....
Eastern Michigan has been to 3 bowl games in its history. He’s taken them to 2 of them. They’d had 1 winning season in 24 years when he took them over.
Agree. The last thing Illinois needs right now is another rebuild. Continue to build off the transfers and recruiting class. All transfers have elgibility minus Petibone next year. We at minimum have D1 players and experience at all positions.
We haven't had talent and athletes in years, we also don't know how to win. EMU has bowled the last two years. We are a collection of talented transfers who didn't have success at their last program and a bunch of developing players who all they know is losing.
The key injuries have hurt us.
This is the loss that got me, I am out til a new coach I think.
Is it telling that some of the best play so far this season has come from athletes that have been coached (and developed) by some other coach and program?
We have had some tough injuries to be sure but all teams have injuries. We have depth problems.
Is it telling that some of the best play so far this season has come from athletes that have been coached (and developed) by some other coach and program?
We have had some tough injuries to be sure but all teams have injuries. We have depth problems.
Anyone who doesn’t miss the Zook days is lying to themself
No rebuild has happened here.
Their practice facility, if you can call it that, is an eye sore and their locker room is essentially a concrete box. They’ve got some new facility there now but I remember reading this summer that they still didn’t have the full funding for it. That place is unattractive as it gets in FBS ball. They attract little talent, 123rd ranked recruiting class in 2019 with only a couple kids I would have taken on our roster yet they accomplish what they accomplish. I think Chris Creighton should be a legitimate candidate for this program.
Horrendous clock management, a known characteristic of our coach before he was hired, cost us points at the end of the half.
(Plus he hired his kid)
I am unsure what the argument would be to keep this coach.
(Plus he hired his kid)
I am unsure what the argument would be to keep this coach.
Zook was horrible. He put up the same record as Turner minus the Big 10 championship.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Thing is, perhaps that's an even greater challenge, but I think it's a pretty *different* challenge.
Illinois is big time football, big time facilities, big time attention, and indeed quite a number of big time players. Sure we've got a losing culture baked into the roster and bad brand on the recruiting trail, but is Creighton's distinctly small-time background and affect the way to change that?
I'm not saying the answer is definitively no. But like, Creighton's a career lower division guy, he's got his coaches wearing mock work shirts with name tags, putting diamondplate accents on the uniforms, there's a gym-teachery whiff about him that I'm not sure fits in the Big Ten in the same way it does with a dead little program at a dead little school in a dead little town.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal
This is news
Schools with the highest paying Head coach salary.
In order:
Alabama
Ohio State
Michigan
Texas A&M
Auburn
Georgia
Clemson
Florida
Texas
Florida State
Nebraska
Illinois
Which one of those 12 teams doesn't belong?
also, out of the last 27 years, 21 national championships have been won by a team listed above.
In order:
Alabama
Ohio State
Michigan
Texas A&M
Auburn
Georgia
Clemson
Florida
Texas
Florida State
Nebraska
Illinois
Which one of those 12 teams doesn't belong?
also, out of the last 27 years, 21 national championships have been won by a team listed above.
KrushCow31
Former Krush Cow
- Chicago, IL
Saw this fun little nugget on reddit.
Eastern Michigan has more Big Ten wins in the past 3 seasons than Illinois.
Eastern Michigan has more Big Ten wins in the past 3 seasons than Illinois.
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