Year three of the overhaul for us is on the way. We established some things we needed to take care of — one being facilities. Really excited about our state of the art facility we'll be moving into at this time next year. #Illini
Lovie: A lot of exciting things are happening as we talk about Year 3 of the rebuild. When you start 15 true freshmen and one redshirt freshman that tells you about where you're at with your program. #Illini
Lovie: Year 3 will produce results. #Illini
Lovie: Also excited about some new additions to our staff (Rod Smith, Cory Patterson, Austin Clark, Gill Byrd). #Illini
Lovie: We realize we haven't won enough football games. #Illini
Lovie: We're excited about our schedule. When you only leave the state of Illinois one time until late October, you have to be excited about that. We need to get off to a good start. #Illini
Lovie: We have some legitimate training camp battles starting with who will be our quarterback. #Illini
Lovie: Last year I don't think (new redshirt rule) would have changed much. We felt like we needed to play those freshmen who gave us the best chance to win. Odds are we're going to play more (young guys) this year, but we have options. #Illini
Lovie: We need to be able to keep our guys in our state as much as anything. #Illini
Lovie: I don't think you should ever say this is how many wins we have to have. I just know behind the scenes (young players) have gotten so much better. There were about 3 games we didn't have a chance to win last year. The rest of the time we played competitive ball. #Illini
Lovie: I just know we're a better football team right now. With my history, that will show results through the course of the year. #Illini
Lovie: Mike Dudek is an excellent football player. Mike's had an excellent offseason and is completely healthy now. #Illini
Lovie: As we came into our program we evaluated it. We needed to upgrade the talent level. We're doing that. In an ideal world we wanted to have more wins, but I like where we are. #Illini
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