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Not to rain on your parade, but hoping the defense just gets fixed is putting a lot of weight on the word “hope.” Aaron Henry may have just been inexperienced last year but I didn’t really see any signs of improvement from start to finish. His post-game pressers were always just “we’ll make changes because we have to” which tells you nothing, and then nothing would result. Bret could have taken over the defense but he didn’t, and we’ve got Aaron Henry served up for a year two now. Jim Leonhard left for the Broncos so there’s not even really the hope that he could do something (not that he showed me any benefit being on staff last year).

If the defense loses the people it did this year and somehow becomes *better*, that would be pretty amazing. There were a bunch of stupid mistakes that should have been coached out but never were. Same coaches are still here. Thinking that just changes because…idk just because?…is a fools errand.

I’m excited for some Illinois football and hopeful we can find our way to a bowl game but I’m not expecting our defense to be anything to write home about. I’d be very glad to be wrong though!
Obviously defense was a problem last year, and Henry doesn’t yet have a track record that leads one to jump to the conclusion that improvement is imminent. But what the hell do his post-game pressers have to do with anything? You expect him to come out and say what changes he expects to make to give a heads up to the next opponents’ offenses so you are “told something”? Definitely need to see improvements on D, and we’ll have a better idea if Henry is the guy who can bring that about after this year. Could care less about “improvements” in his post game pressers though.
 
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Obviously defense was a problem last year, and Henry doesn’t yet have a track record that leads one to jump to the conclusion that improvement is imminent. But what the hell do his post-game pressers have to do with anything? You expect him to come out and say what changes he expects to make to give a heads up to the next opponents’ offenses so you are “told something”? Definitely need to see improvements on D, and we’ll have a better idea if Henry is the guy who can bring that about after this year. Could care less about “improvements” in his post game pressers though.
I think for me it was more venting my frustration than anything. I agree that he’s not gonna say anything to give it away it just seemed like there were no changes to give away regardless. Trotted out the same undisciplined defense every week.
 
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How us old folks kept warm back in the White / Mackovic days.

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Oh, yeah. That made November Saturday afternoons up in the east balcony much warmer and more pleasant. I believe I still have that bota somewhere.

Side Note, we are losing the license plate wars
The UI Alumni Association emailed me in Virginia a couple years ago asking whether I'd be interested in a UI affinity license plane in VA. The rep said that they were in contact with the VA DMV about it. I responded hellz yeah and noted to myself that we have quite a few alums, not only in Northern VA but all over the state, so was optimistic about this getting done. Out of the BT you can currently get OSU, Michigan, Penn State, and Maryland plates. Plus Notre Dame. They even have a Texas A&M plate.

They then emailed me back around six months later telling me that they'd had such paltry alumni response to their inquiry that they couldn't reach the threshold of interest that the DMV set, which was (IIRC) around 100. Sad, but it has been my experience living around the country that our alums have relatively low attachment to the university in this way.
 
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Oh, yeah. That made November Saturday afternoons up in the east balcony much warmer and more pleasant. I believe I still have that bota somewhere.


The UI Alumni Association emailed me in Virginia a couple years ago asking whether I'd be interested in a UI affinity license plane in VA. The rep said that they were in contact with the VA DMV about it. I responded hellz yeah and noted to myself that we have quite a few alums, not only in Northern VA but all over the state, so was optimistic about this getting done. Out of the BT you can currently get OSU, Michigan, Penn State, and Maryland plates. Plus Notre Dame. They even have a Texas A&M plate.

They then emailed me back around six months later telling me that they'd had such paltry alumni response to their inquiry that they couldn't reach the threshold of interest that the DMV set, which was (IIRC) around 100. Sad, but it has been my experience living around the country that our alums have relatively low attachment to the university in this way.
likely due to our crappy football record the past 35 - 40 years

I can just about guarantee you a much more enthusiastic alumni base if our football record was similar to Wiscy or Iowa
 
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Not sure through the "official" channels, but the cheapest tickets on StubHub right now are $88. There seem to be quite a few tickets available in the lower bowl for $115-$140, though. Not terrible.

My father in law is a Cubs season ticketholder (and unfortunately a Hawkeye fan, lol), and he keeps asking me if we want him to get us tickets ... and he'd presumably pay for them. So, I am a real moron for not just going that route. However, I need to make sure that our little one (7 months old right now) has a suitable babysitter, which is slightly more difficult on Thanksgiving Weekend! Lol. Might just leave him at one of our parents' house and drive back to Chicago on Friday for the game and come back for him on Sunday. :ROFLMAO:
Seems like the only responsible plan is to thank your FiL for the tickets and hand him your kid. Everybody wins.
 
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