Recent content by IllinoisOKC

good transfer qb with plenty of offense weapons imo and a heck of a secondary returning leads me to believe that 8 wins is the benchmark. I am hesitant about the oline(should be fine) and dline/lbers with a new defensive scheme but mark me down for 8 or more W’s.

https://fightingillini.com/news/2026/2/17/football-jordan-thomas-named-illinois-defensive-line-coach-run-game-coordinator.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%94%2520Jordan%2520Thomas%2520was%2520named%2520Illinois,for%2520loss%2520and%252010%2520sacks.

Tyrone Wheatley has hc experience, as he just recently stepped down as hc. fits the theme for the coaching staff. In all seriousness, does he have ace recruiting ability? Or was most of his success at recruiting mainly because of the school he was at?

Id gladly take wheatley! Loved watching him as a youngster as a raiderr!

Did you mean arch or art?

I still think what players we’ve retained the past 2 seasons have been more important than what we have or haven’t brought in the transfer portal..just my take on the transfer portal rankings

You might have forgotten but just a quick reminder, they did retain clarke, bailey and scott.

I believe those 2 players from montana that received waviers were a LB and OL. I do agree it would make a ton of sense for montana kids to enter the portal (since their hc “left”) but I don’t think I will get my hopes up.

Good call on rb coach, completely forgot about that one. If we don’t hire a safties coach, will that be because the new dc will take over group or would parker take over that position group?

So since I’m probably 3 or 4 steps behind. How many coaching additions will there be? DC, DL, ST, S, TE

Big fan of this qb but sounds like he’s returning to Delaware.

So were sitting at 7 transfers out as of right now. Will we see 20 guys transferring out this year?

illini legend! nuff said

I wonder if he would go pro

Sitting at 3 transfers, whats the over under on guys leaving this year? Feel like BB has done an outstanding job retaining talent but i feel like this year will be more than previously. Was personally excited for petty and baker when they came in as recruits. But im expecting more departures coming