Nathan Scheelhaase

"He'll learn from his mistakes," said head coach Ron Zook. "He'll be in there working and working and watching. I promise you he'll be watching the tape tonight. That's just the type of person that he is and he'll learn from it. If there's one thing Nathan does, maybe he tries a little bit too hard. He'll settle in there."

It sounds boring, but Illinois didn't lose because its quarterback was too inexperienced. It lost because Missouri, once it finally had a chance to see Illinois' new schemes and make adjustments, won the line of scrimmage.

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