Today feels so good. This might sound a little ridiculous to say but it feels better than last Saturday. Last Saturday was supposed to be nothing more than a one-off fluke. To see us come out today and play smart, disciplined, assignment football and win a ROAD Big Ten game, our second in a row, I don’t know..,,it feels much sweeter to me.
Our secondary player has gotten significantly better as the season has gone on, I didn’t count many blown coverages today. That’s a dramatic change for us and it will only improve our chances of more of these wins as the season winds down.
Personally I take much more pride in the Wisconsin win. If you were going to assign a game to be fluky, is pick the one where the goal line marker was floating down the sideline. Of course happy with the win today and looking forward to next week. I'm also happy we had Purdue and Rutgers after the Wisconsin game and not the other way around.This will probably sound stupid but I think today's win was more important than last week. A case can be made that Wisconsin overlooked the Illini last Saturday and didn't come in completely mentally ready to play 60 minutes and a lot of things went Illinois' way in the upset. Today they went on the road and played a team that had embarrassed them a few times in recent years that should have taken the Illini seriously. And Illinois dominated the whole way. Hopefully this is a team figuring out how to win games week to week. Just don't take Rutgers lightly next week.
Personally I take much more pride in the Wisconsin win. If you were going to assign a game to be fluky, is pick the one where the goal line marker was floating down the sideline. Of course happy with the win today and looking forward to next week. I'm also happy we had Purdue and Rutgers after the Wisconsin game and not the other way around.
I don't think saying we don't match up with them is a "pansie move" lmao. They were without their starting QB and all American WR, and as previously stated the weather made it incredibly difficult to pass. However we still needed to execute and we did. Great win today.Old fashioned boiler butt beating. Where is the "we don't match up well eith them" pansie crowd.
When 25% of your winning team’s highlights are punts...
Then again... Hayes was unbelievable today!
I feel sorry for all the fire Lovie fans, they are without anything to say now to support their point of view. However, they will probably try to blame our win on the weather... Some people in life look for reasons to not be happy or to support their negativity.
The fire Lovie crowd HAD every reason to be like that. Instead of bringing negativity in, let's just enjoy where we are at currently ehI feel sorry for all the fire Lovie fans, they are without anything to say now to support their point of view. However, they will probably try to blame our win on the weather... Some people in life look for reasons to not be happy, or to support their negativity.
The fire Lovie crowd HAD every reason to be like that. Instead of bringing negativity in, let's just enjoy where we are at currently eh
Agreed, but there are certain fans that want to see Lovie fail.....sounds crazy, but I honestly think some would prefer us to lose just to promote their point of view..100%. To be honest, anyone who was NOT deeply concerned about a future under Lovie two weeks ago did not have the best interest of the program in mind. Nobody could have predicted the Wisconsin outcome, and that has clearly given a new mindset to the team.
This will probably sound stupid but I think today's win was more important than last week. A case can be made that Wisconsin overlooked the Illini last Saturday and didn't come in completely mentally ready to play 60 minutes and a lot of things went Illinois' way in the upset. Today they went on the road and played a team that had embarrassed them a few times in recent years that should have taken the Illini seriously. And Illinois dominated the whole way. Hopefully this is a team figuring out how to win games week to week. Just don't take Rutgers lightly next week.