Recent content by DeonThomas

Pre-season, I had us going 1-1 against Ohio St and Duke (3-1 overall after our first 4 games). It's still in play!

Looking like we may win by 40 and then lose by 40 on consecutive Saturdays. First things first -- SIU: 48 ILL 17 SIU We win. However, we fail to cover for a third consecutive week as we continue to give up a #**^load of yards on defense. And we finally get confirmation on our backup QB...

We wear the wrong jersey for that

So we now welcome a 1-0 Duke team that: * Just defeated 2025 playoff team Tulane (holding them to just 3 pts) * Won the ACC in 2025 * Yesterday ran the ball for 260 yards, averaging 5.1 yards per carry * Rushed the ball two-thirds of the time on offense, and controlled TOP at 36 min *...

A rather wimpy little fellow......no thanks. (Reminds me of an old, old Allan Sherman song -- The Titwillow from "The Bronx Bird Watcher." Allan attended UofI btw.) CHIEF!!!!!!!!!!

National Title game would suffice?

Encouraging. TY

34 ILL 24 UAB The pessimist in me says.......... I predict we'll win, but not cover. Too much year-over-year roster change, and overall way too much inexperience. A brand new Offensive line, and a QB who's new to the program. A beat up WR corp. A new DC, and we're still trying to...

Glad to hear you say this. When I first saw that Eberhart was moving to WR (perhaps already our #1 most talented player group where playing time will be difficult to come by), my mind instantly went to this place instead............ Are you kidding me? We just moved arguably our #1 incoming...

Good call! (I attended Spamalot just 4 days ago, btw.)

Damn.

Q. Coleman -- based upon our early "peeks" I think he's going to be quicker, faster and more athletic than Wagler. He will be in the starting lineup no later than game #5. Also predicting he will not reach Keaton's prolific 3-point shooting efficiency, even though he's going to be equally...

According to Jesse Rogers, he's make very good progress and an August return is still in play.

Yeah, we gotta get two guys this week who can start and win some Aug-Sept games. One of those two needs to be a guy who can become at least our #2 or #3 starter in the playoffs. 1. Boyd 2. Imanaga 3. New guy 4. Cabrera 5. Assad/Brown (Then hoping we can have Steele out of the...

This is a highly disappointing list.