Recent content by fatt lacosse

All offseason I was complaining that we didn't take an RB in the transfer portal with so many guys available. I just don't buy that we couldn't have outbid Boston College for Evan Dickens.

i'm around MSU people a lot and let me tell you the vibes are in SHAMBLES around that program right now their high point so far is not getting completely blasted by notre dame. they never led, but it took long enough to get away from them that they left it feeling some semblance of hope...

we have one home win against purdue since 2010, and it took a 10 win team to do it, and they just barely did so after forcing overtime and surviving a 2 point attempt

i'll be there. it'll be some classic illini football action. half empty building, winner goes 3-9 and loser goes 2-10. can't wait

After the way his departure went down, we'd definitely be better off this year if Henry were still the DC. Shocked to see such an important hire missed so bad, but when you hire in February you're dramatically limiting your options for who's available. Bielema babying Henry may have cost us a...

On defense they're abominable but their offense has some pieces

being a deeply unserious football operation, deion sanders colorado spotted them three turnovers in the first quarter but MSU is also competing in the trenches in a way that makes me uncomfortable

Can't really blame the staff for the passing attack falling apart in the second half. They brought in receivers, the guys just got hurt. Losing Perry sucks. We need Platt back and contributing before the MSU game.

Winnability of some of those games changed for me. UCLA is looking more like a sure loss, I was very impressed with how they closed out cal and that's west coast on the road. Nebraska has been about as expected. Michigan State took care of business against what I expect will be two middling MAC...

Let's talk about The Mission, which at Illinois is always to win six no matter what happened last year. Purdue is of course the most can't-lose game on our schedule with the exception of SIU. With the Duke loss, MSU has become an absolute make-or-break game for our season. The schedule after...

man, credit to bielema because it's been a while since i saw a fresh "here is a college football metric. there's illinois hanging out in the bottom quartile" type of graph. but there it is. i just don't know how this happened since the vibes seemed immaculate for the last couple years. the 5-7...

I'll take the Runner over the Walker

Man, if you insist. I certainly hope you're right. RB was on my wish list for the portal and we got nothing out of it at that position even though there were plenty of players we could have grabbed. That's actually been the only thing that's bothered me this offseason. But I'd love to be wrong!

sounds like the illini donor base is as mad about morez as i am though

there's michigan's backcourt set