Illinois 120, Fairleigh Dickinson 45 Postgame

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HoopsterMan
Rebounding Dog said:
Yes…. guys that play well fast🙂 Wagler did great with keeping a snails pace. Coleman looks like he plays better up tempo …. the game was fast last night and the passing was quick with very little dribbling… interesting change! Fun stuff…. run run run🙂
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Fascinating. Coleman is definitely twitchier, but that's a fairly significant shift for one player.
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
Dan said:
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To put this further into perspective:

Illinois scored 1.591 points per possession.
FDU scored 0.597 points per possession.

That mathematically means that if the two teams played 100 possessions, Illinois would win by:

159.1 - 59.7 = 99.4 points (!)

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The actual game was 75 possessions and Illinois won by.... 75 points.
 
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March2TheArch
RollChief said:
It was probably just a bad game and ramping up to real moments that matter, but it seemed like they're working on something with him that's giving him some hesitancy on the defensive end. Not sure if it's getting burned on pump fakes or something, but he seemed like he was second-guessing himself on the defense, or just didn't really have the dog in him that I remembered last year. Honestly, I was thinking that he looked more like Carey Booth on defense than the Z we know and love. I'm sure it's just ramp-up stuff that he'll get past.
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Hope so.

Makes me wonder if he's nursing some injury. He looks stiff at times.
 
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grue2
lstewart53x3 said:
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You think someone who’s one of the greatest offensive minds of his generation (crafted the #3, #14, and #2 offenses in the country by age 29 (the first 3 offenses of his career) and is on pace for the #1 offense at 30) was a hire worth criticizing as our 5th and lowest paid assistant at 24?
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There is a big difference between questioning and criticizing. I saw far more questioning in the forum than criticizing.
 
#182      
lstewart53x3
grue2 said:
There is a big difference between questioning and criticizing. I saw far more questioning in the forum than criticizing.
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This is all from is from one recruiting thread in 2023. We made the E8 in large part due to Tyler’s evaluations and offensive design that very season:

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The hire was heavily criticized here and elsewhere.
 

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grue2
lstewart53x3 said:
This is all from is from one recruiting thread in 2023. We made the E8 in large part due to Tyler’s evaluations and offensive design that very season:

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The hire was heavily criticized here and elsewhere.
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Crossed wires? These posts seem to criticize Brad for the hire which is different than criticizing Tyler. My comment was about Tyler. There were more questions of Tyler's readiness than criticisms (this does not imply there were no criticisms). There were many criticisms of BU.

I'll freely admit that I'm one of the people who questioned the choice to hire Tyler and Zach. Tyler as an offensive coach has worked out great. Zach on defense was (IMO) a disaster. I give the blame for that to BU for sticking with Zach when it was clear he didn't have it. You can't blame the new hire for trying their best.
 
#189      
ILFaninFL
Every recruit we are interested in should get a copy of this game and be asked, "Do you want to play in this system?" The answer should be, "Where do I sign?"
 
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NarrowJ
Feels like splitting hairs a bit with the “questioned it” vs “criticized it”. I think the salient point is that no matter which of those camps you were in: you were wrong.
 
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