wxcept Minnesota and cal, we were in all of the other games coming down the stretch
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wxcept Minnesota and cal, we were in all of the other games coming down the stretch
Not sure where to post this. I was looking at how the team has done each quarter over the past couple of seasons. I was curious to see if we were just getting tired in the 4th quarter. Keep in mind the 2019 #'s had the extra game.
The obvious trends I saw is that our defense was WAY better in the third quarter both seasons and worse in the second quarter of each half. I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that is common across college football but I'm curious to see how adding more depth will change these numbers.
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Illini | 85 | 93 | 90 | 79 | 347 |
| Opponent | 89 | 103 | 58 | 90 | 340 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Illini | 71 | 80 | 79 | 82 | 312 |
| Opponent | 119 | 143 | 87 | 124 | 474 |
The obvious trends I saw is that our defense was WAY better in the third quarter both seasons and worse in the second quarter of each half. I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that is common across college football but I'm curious to see how adding more depth will change these numbers.
We do not speak of the Northwestern Game
Yeah this seems like it could be a depth thing. It is kinda amazing how much better 2019 was. We basically gave up 2-3 games worth less of points.
Edit: more like 4 games worth, though I guess it depends what you consider an average amount of pts given up is.
| QB | RB | WR | WR | WR | TE | LT | LG | C | RG | RT | LS | ||
| Starter | Peters | Brown | Smalling | Imatorbhebhe | Sidney | Ford | Lowe | Green | Kramer | Jeresaty | Palczewski | Tabel | |
| 2nd | Williams | Epstein | Washington | Hightower | Navarro | Barker | Cerney | Slaughter | Brown | Jones | Pearl | Hall | |
| 3rd | Robinson | Bonner | Dan | Campbell | Cumby | Moore | Griffin | Tyler | Engel | Sparks | Plohr | Reagin | |
| 4th | Taylor | Norwood | Holmes | Carter | Frenchie | Reiman | Kirts | Ingold | Butler | Novak | Cronin | ||
| 5th | Spann | Sims | Metclaf | Hickey | Sandy | Pihlstrom | |||||||
| 6th | Beetham | Love | Boucher | Thomas | |||||||||
| 7th | Fedanzo | Lindenman | |||||||||||
| 8th | Lillig | Bickle | |||||||||||
| 9th | Bobak | ||||||||||||
| WDE | NT | DT | SDE | SLB | MLB | WLB | CB | CB | SS | FS | K | P | |
| Starter | Gay | Avery | Woods | Carney | Eifler | Hansen | Cooper | Adams | Hobbs | D Smith | Brown | McCourt | Hayes |
| 2nd | Bell | Pate | Shipton | Randolph | Tolson | Barnes | Degroot | Beason | Witherspoon | Ware | Martin | Griffin | Griffin |
| 3rd | Coleman | Okpala | Newton | Mondesir | Knight | DarkAngelo | Gardner | Walker | Nicholson | Marchese | Joeseph | McCourt | |
| 4th | Davis | McCoy | Riggins | Holmes | Mead | Coghlan | McEachern | Wyatt | Leitzsey | K Smith | Thompson | ||
| 5th | Barnes | Roundtree | Di Lorio | Bobak | Schultz | ||||||||
| Seniors | 27 | Starters | Seniors | Juniors | Sophmores | Freshman | |||||||
| Juniors | 25 | Offense | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| Sophmores | 21 | Defense | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
| Freshman | 19 | ||||||||||||
| Redshirt FR | 22 |
man... that is a solid 2 deep across the board. Seeing it all at once really makes me optimistic - I hope we get to see this 2020 season in its entirety. This should be a reminder not to let 2021 recruiting woes numb what this 2020 team should be.
if we can stay relatively injury free and the dline position group surprises us, this team will be good
Hightower is a regular transfer. Are you expecting him to get a waiver?
Last I heard he was switching to the OL. And I agree that tolson has a very good shot at starting. I have heard Shammod has started stacking good weight, and with his speed that’s why I’m giving him the nod. Well have a true battle where anyone of degroot, ware, cooper, Barnes, tolson, Smith, knight and Gardner can battle it out. Should be fun.
I’ve been wanting to say this for awhile. Our two deep is as talented as we have had for a long time. I know recruiting hasn’t been great but that should affect our view of this team. We could be really good.
no way of knowing with all the stuff going on. So until we know about the transfer process I went just on the film I’ve seen of him at Miami.
That is awesome to hear about Shammond. I thought he looked good with his limited PT too. And if Degroot starts I'll be a bit disappointed. Nothing against him I just expect more from others. I'm glad he found a spot at LB. Nice depth piece.
Time in the system. IW wasn't healthy a lot of last year. Full year in the system and body by lou starting to show results.
I think Robinson has shown that he isn't exactly B1G starting material. He can fill in and do some things, but he isn't what you want if you are a good/decent team. That is not meant to be a bash on him either.
I think with Williams, he is so electrifying as an athlete, that you still have hope that he could be a decent starter on a decent team.
Looking at the depth and all the comments about our young players with body by Lou, keeps me coming back to how all of this is stopping Lou from having them personally during their most effective growth cycles. Really disappoints me. I see all the twitter videos of lineman pushing cars and Behbe jumping on a trash can but I hope they have some serious guidance in what they need to be doing on a person by person basis
They would have been given workout regimens just like incoming freshmen who have signed are given before they are on campus. Yes, there is a lot of personal responsibility, which worries me about a couple of players who struggled enough when the coaches were there. But I would assume there have been Zoom sessions of workouts and chats checking in on weight and other figures. I have no inside knowledge; just feedback from other programs and past best practices.
Does anyone have a read on what Isaiah's role will be on this team going forward, is he our '21-'22 QB, or is he going to likely play another role on this team. I just want to see him take the field in any capacity this season. Hoping someone with more insights can weigh in. I get this isn't exactly the best timing to answer this question.
if it were up to me, he would play a Ryan tannehill type role. Given that I worked with tanNehill, I think this could be risky for the sake of injury. My guess is that he will be workEd into Midfield and goal line situations this year.
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Highest-graded returning Power 5 interior OL:
1. G Josh Rivas, Kansas State
2. C John Michael Schmitz, Minn
3. G Wyatt Davis, Ohio State
4. C Tyler Linderbaum, Iowa
5. C Doug Kramer, Illinois
6. G Kendrick Green, Illinois
7. G Alijah Vera-Tucker, USC
8. G Trey Smith, Tennessee
PFF College@PFF_College ·2h
Highest-graded returning Power 5 interior OL:
1. G Josh Rivas, Kansas State
2. C John Michael Schmitz, Minn
3. G Wyatt Davis, Ohio State
4. C Tyler Linderbaum, Iowa
5. C Doug Kramer, Illinois
6. G Kendrick Green, Illinois
7. G Alijah Vera-Tucker, USC
8. G Trey Smith, Tennessee
Anyone else have a good feeling about this team? I think we could be surprisingly good next year. Maybe Minnesota decent next year. 6 wins should be the absolute floor.
Whether we win 5 or 9 games I think this is the most talented team we've had since the Zook era (I understand that isn't saying much). Unfortunately I think there is only 4 games we should easily win. Hopefully we will win at least 3 of the Purdue, Nebraska, northwestern, Minnesota, Iowa and Indiana games but all of those teams are also pretty talented too.
Just looking at our two deep. I wanna re-release another depth chart with all the new players added. But it looks really solid. I would make a argument that our two deep is as good as anyone not named Nebraska or Wisconsin in the west. I don’t think Iowa or Purdue are gonna be great this year.
Here is what I project the 2 depth chart to be after adding a couple more grad transfers. Looks to be the best we have had in a long time. Very excited about the season. Let me know if you think i should change anything. The newly created *star position was difficult to show on this chart without pulling guys from their natural position.
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