Game Thread: Illinois at Indiana

[LockportIllini70]

How many more weeks until we get the amazing Bart Miller coaching?

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Two IU players led with crown of their helmets and hit altmyer in shoulder, toss em

 

[Pikeillinifan]

They will go for the kill here.

 

[Oracle21]

4 sacks on Luke in 1.5 quarters so far. This is just a straight up butt whipping in all phases

Indiana has better line play, more explosive skill guys, better special teams. Just better all around and they have energy of home field

 

[RockfordIllini]

Was afraid of this. We’ve given up too many negative plays all year. Finally coming back to bite us. Still time to come back and still time in the season to fix it. But this ain’t good enough.

Also refs aren’t helping. But our o line has to be better.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

If we have a prayer in this game, we need:

1) A defensive turnover, maybe even a pick six.

2) Luke to complete a few deep passes to free up our run game.

If things keep at the current pace … well, yeah. Lol…

 

[rdk573]

I knew we were overrated but I did not think we were overrated this bad..

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

Beatty wide open, Luke needs to stay in and deliver!

 

[RDS]

Need a pick

 

[azillini1]

If IU scores on this possession, game over. At least there are a couple other games on.

 

[STLflyinIllini]

A turnover would help.

Hard to get a turnover if you cant tackle or stay with their WR

 

[illiram]

Gotta stop them here or it will be a long night....

 

[Old.Edgy]

Jeez.... do we look bad ? Or what ? ? ?

 

[therealmiket86]

Luke has gotta learn to throw those over a receivers head out of bounds. The pocket is collapsing, bud, you're going nowhere.

A lot of the sacks are Luke. The Oline also hasn’t looked good

 

[BrownTown]

Stop them here or it's an Indiana boat race

 

[Retro62]

Even the IU fans around us said that targeting was a bs call.

 

[New Creation]

We need to slow down this game and get the run game going.

 

[HailtotheChief]

We need was to get open...n block a lil better. They are not blitzing much. Maybe run Luke a lil more

 

[illiniguy24]

Sad this was just so predictable with how we’ve looked the last few first halves combined with these defensive personal losses

 

[Goillinikobd]

BB might have a 2 TD halftime speech, but he doesn’t have a 3 TD one, not against IU tonight.

 

[OB positive]

Can't win the big games if you don't come to play. We are who I thought we were.

 

[Nohops 73]

Has Luke thrown the ball out of bounds to avoid a sack even once all year? With all the sacks he took last year I would have thought that would have been a point of emphasis all off season.

 

[pvaughn8]

Starting to assess my other options for Saturday night

 

[Leelnd]

Feagin is soft…kills me to admit it but this is brutal

Just stop it...

 

[therealmiket86]

Every bounce is going Indiana's way.

Yes but they also look much more prepared.