Game Thread: Illinois at USF

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IlliniGuy108

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This could be a tie game if we ran Epstein, crouch, and the option, and mixed in some throws. Offensive play calling is awful awful awful
 
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Illini79

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Hello fellow fans watching from the comfort of your air conditioned living rooms, it is wickedly humid here at the stadium!
 
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DonIllini

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Bottomline this offense is this team weakness. I'm not going to blame the defense when they continue to be out there. Those boys are tired.
 
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FC Illiniman

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Illini79 said:
Hello fellow fans watching from the comfort of your air conditioned living rooms, it is wickedly humid here at the stadium!
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With no pads or a break on defense, good learning experience, someone in the future will get the payback beat down.

Usf comes to chambana next year.
 
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Sizzler22

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McGee was a steal for this team, I don't think some people know the history of this staff. This team will be good, takes time.
 
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t7nich

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Boyd down in severe pain. NOOOOOO!!
 
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Illiini

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Patience. These kids are learning.
 
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lexwaldez

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IlliniGuy108 said:
This could be a tie game if we ran Epstein, crouch, and the option, and mixed in some throws. Offensive play calling is awful awful awful
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You have to remember all the true freshmen we're playing. The playbook is probably VERY limited. If you had a team of Sr, Jr, with a few So's you could do what you suggest. We look pretty one dimensional because we are... because it's basically necessary. Play calling will improve as the kids are able to do more. We're easy to plan for. Hell, the announcers called our plays before we ran them most of the time. Doesn't mean it's a bad call. Run some plays you can't execute and see what that looks like.

I'd like to also say, the kids out there played their buttocks off for most of the game. This is going to make for some great teachable moments. They will now know what they want to look like in a couple years. And for all the delusional fans that thought we'd go 8-4 or 6-6 you can see all the hard work we still have to do. We kept it pretty tight until that terrible late first half score. Good effort for most of the game before they were just too much for us. I'll be interested to see us play some weaker B1G teams to see how we measure up there. Another win or two would be nice this year.
 
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lexwaldez

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RichardKeenesHair said:
The people on this thread are ridiculous. This isn't basketball, you don't rebuild a program in a year. Disgusting "fans". Give it 3-4 years
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Thank you RKH! So true! I'm very proud of how well these youngsters are playing this year, and our staff has been AMAZING with how quickly they've spooled these youngsters up thus far! Can't wait to see more games. I just want these kids to stay HEALTHY!
 
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