This isn't a proven top football program, so recruiting elite talent and developing it is more difficult. Even some losing football schools programs have packed stadiums. However, I do feel our Head Coach has shown he is an expert on the O Line. The difficult more challenging task for our coach is landing the right type of young men he can develop in to those elite NFL prospects like he has proven he can do. Its tough to Against other programs with stadiums packed full, that are winning then us landing those elite caliber players will be an uphill battle. Even Alabama has guys graduate and transfet and new players need to be developed the difference is they are big, huge, and damn good to start with. They are down this year but I watched them still have new guys that are over 350lbs and can move. We are a basketball school and while support for football has improved until fans consistently come out like at footballs schools even when they struggle at times even like Bama did twenty years ago , or Nebraska and others at times. It will be even more challenge for any coach at Illinois.
Isaiah is pi$$ed! Very emotional. Trying to hold them in check. Felt like he could explode any second,
His body may need a year to recover.
Go for the lobotomy and be a lifelong Illini fan!
Well, no. Not even close.
Obviously NFL teams go off of their own evaluations, but they wouldn't waste their time asking college coaches about their players if it had absolutely no effect. LOL
I think it’s very hard for fans to have known preseason how poorly the offensive line was going to perform.
No, he wouldn't have. He's a center and would have replaced Kreutz, who up to this point is our top performing o-line player. Maybe from a blocking assignment and blitz recognition callout he'd help, but that hasn't even been the main issue, which is that we have nobody capable of playing RT on our roster, Gesky and Crisler have struggled hard, and even Pearl has been fairly leaky at LT.
Frustrating to see it continue, knowing it’s so easily fixed. Yet we tolerate it.
How did we get the only coach in America who overhypes his players?
Bielema proved his competence at Wisky, though not saying he is working his magic this year. I'm hoping its poor decision making by his underlings, obviously which he chose.
Because we continue to push the boundary. And because it’s a bad look, especially when you’re getting blown out.
It's not complicated. Bielema says things in private that are different than what he says in public.
Yeah, it gives me pangs. There is something selfish about it. It's like the dorks in the NFL who get up off the ground and signal first down when they're down 21 with 6 minutes to go. (That whole signalling first down thing is about as fresh as the choreographed burlesque endzone celebrations these mans perform after scoring, but I digress).
No matter how bad things ever get around here.........................Bielema is NOT Beckman!
Bill Belichick would not have put Tim Beckman on his staff. Let’s just stop right there.
Like basketball all our players are “elite”
Hey, what else can you do. Just enjoy the atmosphere. Were I local I would’ve bought season tickets too.
Also hard for the coaching staff since they are going against our defensive line in practice. If they are both bad, they both actually might look good.
