Game Thread: Illinois at Oregon
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I hope everyone is happy with 6 wins. Because we are about to repeat 2022 in the second half of the season. If this team doesn’t come out with their head on fire, the rest of the season will crash down hard.
They are blasting Maryland right now 34-10 at the half, hope we can get out of this at least somewhat healthy
As coach, where do you start?
Ask idaho
We're clearly witnessing two different classes of football team today, but performance is exacerbating the discrepancy. Can't imagine a much worse way for the first half to have gone. Injuries (to bodies and to confidence) could be costly, moving forward. With so much left to play for this season, this is my main concern.
You can make a strong argument for Lunney, but man…. Everyone and their mother has been saying that Aaron Henry needs to pressure Oregon to give the Illini defense a chance and that Dillion and the Ducks like playing against man defense to motion teams out of coverage and Aaron has done his usual rush 3 and play man. Just seems like he doesn’t prep contingency plans against teams and doesn’t really know what else to do except his tried and true 1 way of doing things.
This really is it in this new world.
This game will either get some more NIL flowing or we’re stuck where we’re at and can look forward to these beat downs when we play Oregon or tOSU.
...and called a timeout right after the 2 minute warning to get the ball back.
I’ve been trying to watch from a phone, out with family.
What have been the major injuries so far?
What have been the major injuries so far?
I got the impression the TO was just to give the D a chance to catch their breath, to hopefully help prevent another TD. Wasn't effective, obviously.
Don't disagree. Defense has been either fantastic or abysmal. Offense had been constantly good or mediocre. Just depends if you prefer extremes or middle ground.
SuperMetroid
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For what it’s worth it was Oregon that called that timeout
This is the same Oregon team that only scored 35 points in the entire game against Purdue (a team that has fully imploded).
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
I am OK with this. I would rather be tier 1 in one sport and tier 3 in another than low tier 2 in both. In the current NCAA, you have to make decisions on which players to buy based on your available dollars. We do not have the available dollars to do both, like tO$U and Oregon do.
When feagin wwnt down, it has changed our demeanor. Laughery is not a B10 back, love getting illinois kids, but it's a bruisers game. Without feagin, nobody is fearing our run game and now it affects our passing game. The look on Oregon running backs faces to annihilate our LB and safeties is what B10 running is about.
TentakilRex
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Well the IHSA playoff brackets will be released tonight
Really gonna have to pick it up in the second half. Best we can hope for is no more injuries.
Just wish we could have kept it competitive.. Oregon clearly just has the elite athletes that we don’t have.. nothing u can do scheme wise in this game, just try to get 9-10 wins with these winnable games left on the schedule and use that momentum for recruiting and NIL
Only thing you can hope for is Oregon letting up and making the final score look respectable
If they close out this game as something like 42-28, I would feel good about this effort.
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