Illini Football 2026

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Se Il Illini
Inexperience on the both sides of the line raises red flags. My head says 6-6. But this staff will squeeze out another regular season victory along with a bowl victory 8-5. Illinois will be much better by the end of the season.
 
#302      
zentrails
bluemountain said:
As bad as Beckman and Tepper (and Zook) were, the worst 2 coaches in my lifetime were Lovie and Moeller, with Moeller being the worst. By mid-70's standards Blackman was a good coach; he had to deal with ridiculously difficult non-conference schedules and there was no way he was going to beat OSU or UM. With today's schedules he would have gone to bowl games every year, in which case who knows how the program develops?

Moeller inherited a lot of starters from a very competitive team in '77 and it took him all of one year to run the program into the ground. And for those who think Beckman is a jerk, well Moeller made him look like a saint. I was in HS and went to a lot of games during that era - it was brutal.
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Yep, Moleface was awful and even ended up flaming out later in a great situation at UM. He gets my vote for worst
 
#303      
GMAN55
IlliniWu said:
I have them 10-2 as well but I can see 11-1. Think this offense is going to feed families plus the defense has the playmakers to keep giving them the ball back on the backend.
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I would be thrilled if this prediction comes true .
 
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