Recent content by BES76

Illinois basketball, 1978-79 season. Illinois just beat No.1 MSU, and now 13-0. Played Ohio State 2 days later (was at the game). Lost on a bad inbound play in overtime. Forgot the guard, but he drove to the sideline, got double teamed, turned it over, layup for OSU win. Finished the season...

As inconsistent as the offense is, this season is tanked with BAD defense. If we has last year's D we would likely be 3-2 and looking up, at worst looking toward 7-5 with the games remaining. This is back to the Zook/Lovey days of giving up 30+ per game against D1.

I would say 50-50. It looks like the best we can hope for is 4-8 after this game.

Well ... Illinois has won five (1914, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1951) national championships.

I missed this one. But it is not a good thing for the highlight reels when you have to PUNT on 4th and goal...

Nope (as in nobody else). Zuppke's last 6 seasons were 17-27. Moeller (6-24-3), Valek (8-32), and Beckman (16-28) never made 50 games.

Given our FT % as well, I would ask what is Brad focusing on during practice? Certainly does not appear to be shooting skills or technique.

What!?! We only need to win 5 more games to make March Madness ... 14th seed in the Big 10, win out!

This is exactly what Moeller did in his short tenure. Played the guys he recruited, passed over better players to develop the young guys. Many of those players left by year two. History repeats itself. I firmly believe that if you are a good coach, you can make/coach the players you inherent...

Was that the game Moeller tried to swap players for the 2-pt conversion (we scored at end of game ??) and time ran out for delay of game! omg he was bad.

We'll need 47 ... we're giving up 46 pts and 556 yds per game in the Big 10. Edited ... to steal from WizardBill, we might do better with 11 orange cones.

hahaha ... If you continue down that post (below), you can insert 'Illinois' for 'Minnesota'. Simply having a young team (after 2-1/2 yrs) is not a valid excuse. Our D guys needed better coaching and now that might get it...

Including today, post-1950, Lovie trails only Moeller and Valek in win percentage (0.258), and this year's defense after 7 games is worst in history at 510 yd/game after and tied for 4th worst at 34 pts/game (trailing only Valek ('69), Zook ('05) and Beckman ('13,'14)). The offense is up +5...

True. The basis behind the rumor is what's disgusting ... "Hey I was only abusing my daughters, not bestiality!". They could make this guy disappear and the world would be a better place.

Well, my faith in Canadians is at least partially restored ... not so fast says snopes. http://www.snopes.com/canada-legalizes-beastiality/