The funny thing is #24 for USC caught him but he got no where close to Feagin in his long run.
Illinois 34, USC 32 Postgame
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Is there a solution to fixing the defense? Seems that we may not have the personnel to stop good offensive players.Good teams find a way to win … Gritty win …
OL much improved … Offense looked good … Ball security is the drill of the week …
Defense … Work to be done … A lot of it … Tackling is the drill of the week …
Few hours to enjoy this and onto the next opportunity …
Enjoy the afternoon ladies & gents …
Much needed after that …
I’d say we did a hell of a good job tackling (especially in comparison to previous games) and we had a lot of QB pressure as well. We just played a ton of soft coverage which led to easy dink and dunks.
I watched the condensed game and man it felt like we had our foot on their necks the majority of the game. The hardest 180 I’ve ever seen a team pull after that Indiana game.
The amount of forth down conversions they had was insane. Some truly great TE catches and QB play so absolutely hats off (and Lemon was the best player on the field). Our line play was better on 90% of snaps, both sides of the ball.
Frankly I felt pretty good leaving the game, even better after watching the replay. Just an A+++ response by this team.
I thought the defense fought pretty hard considering how good USC's offense is. The handful of long conversions on 3rd and 4th down was the only super frustrating part.
Our guys were clearly scared to hit WR's coming across the middle on those floating passes, and I cant blame them. Nobody wants to risk getting a targeting call. Miles Scott went low multiple times, which isnt really an effectiveway to break up the pass IMO. I think there has to be a better way to attack the ball while still avoiding targeting.
Our guys were clearly scared to hit WR's coming across the middle on those floating passes, and I cant blame them. Nobody wants to risk getting a targeting call. Miles Scott went low multiple times, which isnt really an effectiveway to break up the pass IMO. I think there has to be a better way to attack the ball while still avoiding targeting.
I don’t agree with the statement that fumbles are unacceptable. Turnovers happen in basically every college and pro game played.
USC turned the ball over on a drive that was clearly headed for a touchdown. USC moved the ball down the field the entire game.
This game was close. We were very lucky that USC scored early on the last drive and gave us time to score. This was an even match
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
Yep, that’s what I was going for in short version! Hence “”.
There were moments of atrocious tackling, and moments of stout fundamentals vs the No1 offense.
Me and my two buddies were rooting exactly as you. But I am not sure how dumb it is. They were down by 5 and needed a touchdown. So it’s hard to give up a touchdown score.
But I do see your point.
I think many fans just don’t realize how complex and fast moving a football game is.
Thanks for the post.
This is a reminder that AI needs to be fact checked. I did a Google AI search for the same question. Here is the response I got:
And the AI answered in 3 different ways. 1) nobody has done it; 2) Hank Beatty is the first Big Ten player to do it since 2003; 3) 5 players have done it including Gayle Sayers in 1963 and Terry Metcalf in 1975.
The Footballguys Forum answered an entirely different question, which TDs rushing, receiving, KR and PR. So that's a bad answer.
The University of Illinois link is accurately described, and I was able to confirm on Sports Reference that Steve Breaston did in fact do this in 2003. The link also says Beatty is the first Illini to do it since at least 1995. This is weird phrasing, and Sports Reference confirms no Illini did this in 1995 - in fact there were no KR or PR touchdowns that season.
So my guess is that Beatty is the only Illini to do this, but I can't confirm it, and neither can AI at this point.
Edit: Also Gale Sayers was in the NFL by 1965, and in that season had a rushing, receiving, and KR TD in the same game which is probably what your AI is referring to. AI is not great yet, and Google AI is one of the worse options. According to Sports Reference, in college Sayers had one career passing TD, in 1964, and did not record a receiving TD that season, so likely Sayers did not accomplish this feat.
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That was the correct call in the Oregon game. Knee was down. In our game, I am not sure what the refs saw but it looked like to me that KF was down.
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
Me too! Holloween I believe.
Incredibly foolish move by Mackovic. Still frustrating
That game was a blast. When altmyer threw for the TD and competed the trifecta, I told my son about Kittner and the micron Pc bowl. And he was like “Micron PC”? Wut?
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Wait til you tell him about the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl.
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
I forgot to add that immediately after this 7 of our top 10 commits flip to Wisconsin, Iowa, scUM, Northwestern, Bowling Green, and Alcorn St.
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
Well Feagin is THE ARTHUR WAGON. Better tie him to the hitchin post when you can.
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
What could have been in the 94 season. That team went 6-5 in regular season. But legit could have been a national title contender with better offensive coaching. We were so so overly conservative due to Tepper's defense first mentality that it just bogged down an offense that had some talent. 5 losses by the following margins: 1, 6 (tackled at 2 yard line on last play), 5, 4 & 6. The Michigan loss featured a horrible missed clipping on Michigan's punt return td to seal the win. And the 4 pointer was the infamous collapse against #2 Penn State where we blew a 21-0 lead to lose 35-31 in the last minute.
A good head coach would have gone at worst 9-2 with that team & with some lucky bounces they had the talent (especially on D) to go unbeaten. Until Bret, the program was still reeling from that early 90's sequence where Mack left & we went low budget to hire the D coordinator instead of hiring an established proven head coach. Tepper had a good track record but by the early 90's the game was changing & his read/react style was getting exposed by the pass first offenses that were starting to expand across the country. He was great at the 3 yards and a cloud of dust type of defense but the modern stuff not so much.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
Underrated Play of the Game: Dixon making a perfect form tackle after Feagin's "fumble". That was 100% going to be a TD and a 14-14 game at the half if he doesn't hustle there.
Love Key & Peele, but McCringleberry should have been from Brown. Missed opportunity.
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Please note the AI discussion is in the Malik Elzy thread.
Paging Dan (and I am the biggest offender there).I think there's a separate AI discussion going on in that thread, but I was responding to a specific post on this thread that utilized AI.Please note the AI discussion is in the Malik Elzy thread.
AI is everywhere!
Thanks. Im thinking this took a bit for the athletic department to sort out. If pre1995 doesn't listen types of TDs that would account for that stat.
That no one can give a person who last did it seems remarkable in these database days.
We can safely say it's a rarity.
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