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BrownTown
Ander1345 said:
Zuppke would be appalled at the state of the game right now wouldn't he...?
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Zuppke was an innovator.

He is credited with the huddle, screen pass, flea flicker, the onside kick, formalizing the use of line backers, and made the Wing T famous.

If any coach from that era would be happy with the state of the game, Zuppke might be it.

But yes, they would all think the game is incredibly soft and probably toss their hat at a penalty for roughing the Quarterback.

Seeing kickers regularly nail 50 yard kicks would probably be akin to sorcery.

Watching teams go for it on 4th and 3 from their own 45 yard line might result in an aneurysm for coaches that regularly punted on 1st down to secure field position.
 
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BrownTown
BrownTown said:
Zuppke was an innovator.

He is credited with the huddle, screen pass, flea flicker, the onside kick, formalizing the use of line backers, and made the Wing T famous.

If any coach from that era would be happy with the state of the game, Zuppke might be it.

But yes, they would all think the game is incredibly soft and probably toss their hat at a penalty for roughing the Quarterback.

Seeing kickers regularly nail 50 yard kicks would probably be akin to sorcery.

Watching teams go for it on 4th and 3 from their own 45 yard line might result in an aneurysm for coaches that regularly punted on 1st down to secure field position.
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The fake punt is also credited to Zuppke though Bronko Nagurski made it famous with the Bears a few years later.

What some don't know is how closely aligned the Illini and Bears were in those days...

Same colors, Wing T offense, they shared Red Grange during a regular season. Papa Bear was a grad and close friend of Zuppke...list goes on

Illinois is as important to the growth of the early NFL as anyone.
 
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Ander1345
BrownTown said:
Zuppke was an innovator.

He is credited with the huddle, screen pass, flea flicker, the onside kick, formalizing the use of line backers, and made the Wing T famous.

If any coach from that era would be happy with the state of the game, Zuppke might be it.

But yes, they would all think the game is incredibly soft and probably toss their hat at a penalty for roughing the Quarterback.

Seeing kickers regularly nail 50 yard kicks would probably be akin to sorcery.

Watching teams go for it on 4th and 3 from their own 45 yard line might result in an aneurysm for coaches that regularly punted on 1st down to secure field position.
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I more meant that he was against Red Grange playing for the Bears because he thought he would be reduced to a mere paid spectacle.
 
#229      
BrownTown
Absolutely, great point. The NIL would be blasphemous to them! Lol

But he was wrong and Red Grange became a star on the field, in the media, etc so maybe he warmed on that eventually? Who knows. Just wanted to take a chance to highlight the immense history Illinois has with the game to anyone who may be less knowledgeable
 
#230      
BretMyBeachHouse
BrownTown said:
The fake punt is also credited to Zuppke though Bronko Nagurski made it famous with the Bears a few years later.

What some don't know is how closely aligned the Illini and Bears were in those days...

Same colors, Wing T offense, they shared Red Grange during a regular season. Papa Bear was a grad and close friend of Zuppke...list goes on

Illinois is as important to the growth of the early NFL as anyone.
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Yep. Halas needs to be our next statue.
 
#234      
BrownTown
Indy Illini Fan said:
Definitely not nothing …

Lot to play out with the carousel but wouldn’t shock me at all to see Norvell as an Analyst or something next year …

Any Jacksonville, IL residents on here ? They’d know why Norvell came for a visit …
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Not a Jacksonville resident but 15 minutes outside in the country. They have the nearest Walmart, so that's our closest "city".

Merritt Norvell (Jay Norvell's dad) is a bit of a local legend. He would be way before my time so I couldn't do his accolades justice but he was a star at JHS, to put it lightly.

Believe he even came back and talked to the team a few years ago when my buddies' son was playing.

Even wilder, Norvell and Ken Norton Sr. were a couple years apart and played on the same team at JHS.
 
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ptgrd23
AD used to be a nice job. If your coaches were winning all you had to do was raise funds from alums.

Now so many schools are hemorrhaging money due to declining student enrollment, debt from Covid years, and rising costs due to $NIL/NCAA settlement and coaching pay. AD's are held accountable when coaches do not win.

Football can no longer subsidize all the women and non revenue sports.

Unless you are AD in SEC or B10 it is a tough tough job. If you get good coaches somebody steals them. Your best players are stolen via $NIL too.
 
#244      
illini0440
TentakilRex said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1991980991674519926
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College Football GIF by LSU Tigers
 
#246      
gibb52
Is that a "we're still working out the details of an extension for Lane and will announce it after the Egg Bowl"

Or "Lane has accepted the LSU job but everyone has agreed to keep it quiet until after the Egg Bowl"
 
#248      
Oracle21
Ole Miss AD gonna treat Kiffin like Bo treated Bill Frieder. Now who turns into their Steve Fisher and coaches them to the National Championship?
 
#249      
Mr. Tibbs
I doubt any new deal at a new school is 100% done, but the odds of him staying at Ole Miss are not good.
They cant compete against LSU or Florida from a prestige standpoint and they know it
I still find it crazy how schools in that conference poach coaches from other members . you just dont see that in te B1G today. Not since the 1950's - early 1960's
 
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