Illinois at UCLA, Friday, November 13th, 8:00pm CT, FOX

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AssemblyHallForever
Like I have said, there is zero pressure on us. It’s all on UCLA. Play good and loose and we have a solid chance of winning this game. They have not played a good offense all season to this point. We will be the second best offense per the numbers until they play USC. When they played Oregon, Oregon was a broken team. If Barry can run a balanced offense and keep them off guard, our chances increase. They ar3 good but untested.
 
#108      
bluemountain
ChiefGritty said:
I've seen some Brando slander on the internet lately, and I won't have it, he's great, kind of the last of the Keith Jackson/Brent Musberger Voice of the Football Gods types
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Brando has been around a long, long time. I remember watching him on ESPN back in the 80's, when college hoops was the only major sport they carried.

With Gary Danielson having retired, the only guy I can think of who is in the same category would be Brad Nessler, who is quite good IMO. Todd Blackledge is close in terms of tenure. There is always Al Michaels of course, but he is in his own category.
 
#109      
Mr. Tibbs
bluemountain said:
Brando has been around a long, long time. I remember watching him on ESPN back in the 80's, when college hoops was the only major sport they carried.

With Gary Danielson having retired, the only guy I can think of who is in the same category would be Brad Nessler, who is quite good IMO. Todd Blackledge is close in terms of tenure. There is always Al Michaels of course, but he is in his own category.
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“ how do you do !”
 
#110      
WyattEarp
ChiefGritty said:
I've seen some Brando slander on the internet lately, and I won't have it, he's great, kind of the last of the Keith Jackson/Brent Musberger Voice of the Football Gods types
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you can disgust me anyday marlon brando GIF by Maudit
Marlon Brando Justice GIF by The Godfather
 
#115      
BZuppke
Dan said:
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Subtle read on this but based on how Chesney speaks they are quite confident to the point of overconfidence. Bret will use the same defensive plan we used against Nebraska - keep everything in front of you - but UCLA will actually score some points. We need to score more than they do.
 
#116      
ChiefGritty
bluemountain said:
Brando has been around a long, long time. I remember watching him on ESPN back in the 80's, when college hoops was the only major sport they carried.

With Gary Danielson having retired, the only guy I can think of who is in the same category would be Brad Nessler, who is quite good IMO. Todd Blackledge is close in terms of tenure. There is always Al Michaels of course, but he is in his own category.
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Nessler of course also iconic for being the voice of the NCAA Football video games back in the day.

As long as we're shouting out old college football voices: Verne Lundquist
 
#117      
OrangeBlue98
ChiefGritty said:
As long as we're shouting out old college football voices: Verne Lundquist
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Ah, Uncle Verne. His “Kick Six” call in the Iron Bowl is one of the most memorable football calls of my lifetime. Sorely miss him with Bill Raftery on college basketball as well. I’d watch the most wretched matchup imaginable if they were calling the game.
 
#118      
OrangeBlue98
BZuppke said:
Subtle read on this but based on how Chesney speaks they are quite confident to the point of overconfidence. Bret will use the same defensive plan we used against Nebraska - keep everything in front of you - but UCLA will actually score some points. We need to score more than they do.
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To be honest, if I were UCLA I’d probably be bordering on overconfidence as well. It’s been a great turnaround, and they’ve had games without their high dollar QB. They’ve taken everything thrown at them and are still standing undefeated.
 
#119      
AssemblyHallForever
the Castle on Daniel said:
This feels strangely winnable to me. I am INFURIATED we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory vs Duke and Purdue. WE WOULD BE A ONE LOSS TEAM GOING INTO THE FINAL STRETCH! THE GAME VS IOWA WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR ALL THE MARBLES!!
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You cannot look at it this way. If we win those two games, would Hauck leave or get pushed out depending on how you look at it. Would our defense be any better than it is right now with Hauck? If MSU didn’t have a brain fart in OT, we could have lost that game. Do we beat Oregon? We cannot change anything and I believe we are in better shape now than we were 5 weeks ago. I believe the Purdue game was a turning point. It gave Bret and Cooper two weeks to fix what Hauck broke. Scott is playing his best ball of the season. Our D has averaged only 13 points in the last three games. I am confident we could win the last three games and put us in a spot to get to the B1G championship game if a few other things happen.
 
#120      
ChiefGritty
OrangeBlue98 said:
Ah, Uncle Verne. His “Kick Six” call in the Iron Bowl is one of the most memorable football calls of my lifetime. Sorely miss him with Bill Raftery on college basketball as well. I’d watch the most wretched matchup imaginable if they were calling the game.
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The best.

Though let's not just be old fogies, Jason Benetti and Robbie Hummel have been a revelation doing B1G basketball, Greg Olsen is a great new voice in the NFL, you can still do this well.
 
#121      
Illini2010-11
AssemblyHallForever said:
You cannot look at it this way. If we win those two games, would Hauck leave or get pushed out depending on how you look at it. Would our defense be any better than it is right now with Hauck? If MSU didn’t have a brain fart in OT, we could have lost that game. Do we beat Oregon? We cannot change anything and I believe we are in better shape now than we were 5 weeks ago. I believe the Purdue game was a turning point. It gave Bret and Cooper two weeks to fix what Hauck broke. Scott is playing his best ball of the season. Our D has averaged only 13 points in the last three games. I am confident we could win the last three games and put us in a spot to get to the B1G championship game if a few other things happen.
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I agree. We can all look back and be disappointed in those two losses, but the reality is that we could have very easily been 2-4 entering the Oregon game (had MSU ran a better 2-point conversion in OT), and the Maryland game was also a tossup in the 4th quarter. Those were two games that could have been losses that the Illini pulled out.

We should simply look at the current record of 6-3 entering Pasadena and celebrate how impressive it is to be in the current position.
 
#123      
OrangeBlue98
Illini2010-11 said:
I agree. We can all look back and be disappointed in those two losses, but the reality is that we could have very easily been 2-4 entering the Oregon game (had MSU ran a better 2-point conversion in OT), and the Maryland game was also a tossup in the 4th quarter. Those were two games that could have been losses that the Illini pulled out.

We should simply look at the current record of 6-3 entering Pasadena and celebrate how impressive it is to be in the current position.
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I predicted seven wins at the start of the season. It’s been a wild and crazy ride to get to this point, but I do think we’ll get one more win out of these three games.
 
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