Illinois 24, Virginia 3 Postgame
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
It's disturbing that we're playing less clean football than we were in year 1 and will be going absolutely nowhere so long as that's the case.
I suspect that's a 1-11 type Virginia team, Tony Elliott spent most of the game yelling at his own guys. Not a situation that seems to be meshing well, and they are young and thin on the lines. That's an even worse team than Wyoming and might be worse than a Chattanooga team ranked in the top 10 in the FCS.
All of that said, just a totally dominant performance defensively. Armstrong looked like he just wanted to go home by about the middle of the third quarter, we made it absolutely miserable for them. Looking at some of the offenses in the B1G West, one can't help but be hopeful that once again Walters' bunch will keep us in games.
I suspect that's a 1-11 type Virginia team, Tony Elliott spent most of the game yelling at his own guys. Not a situation that seems to be meshing well, and they are young and thin on the lines. That's an even worse team than Wyoming and might be worse than a Chattanooga team ranked in the top 10 in the FCS.
All of that said, just a totally dominant performance defensively. Armstrong looked like he just wanted to go home by about the middle of the third quarter, we made it absolutely miserable for them. Looking at some of the offenses in the B1G West, one can't help but be hopeful that once again Walters' bunch will keep us in games.
Iowa lives off blocked punts. They'll block at least one of ours, I'm afraid. But I do want to see our D against their impotent O.
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Just finished watching delayed broadcast on Tivo. At the risk of being redundant, these three things stood out:
1. Attendance was embarrassing. Unlike Fox and BTN, ESPN had no problem showing how sparse the crowd was, with multiple long distance panoramic shots. Pitiful! Absolutely awful!
2. Defense was outstanding. It may keep us in 8 of the 9 remaining games this season. Walters is a genius. I really think he's a student of the game.
3. After last year, I thought "disciplined play" was going to be our trademark under BB. Always win the turnover battle. Minimize penalties, and never have any stupid ones. During the broadcast, they said we were tied for 13th best in the nation last year in terms of turnovers. QUESTION: Can we get this get corrected immediately? If not, it will cost us a Bowl opportunity.
1. Attendance was embarrassing. Unlike Fox and BTN, ESPN had no problem showing how sparse the crowd was, with multiple long distance panoramic shots. Pitiful! Absolutely awful!
2. Defense was outstanding. It may keep us in 8 of the 9 remaining games this season. Walters is a genius. I really think he's a student of the game.
3. After last year, I thought "disciplined play" was going to be our trademark under BB. Always win the turnover battle. Minimize penalties, and never have any stupid ones. During the broadcast, they said we were tied for 13th best in the nation last year in terms of turnovers. QUESTION: Can we get this get corrected immediately? If not, it will cost us a Bowl opportunity.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
To have a crowd like that for a 3PM game against a Power Five team on a gorgeous day like that symbolizes in the stands what a mountain we have to climb on the field.
Nobody said this was going to be easy.
Nobody said this was going to be easy.
I think they are making an effort. Today was high school band day and there were hundreds and hundreds of free tickets handed out to the high school musicians. Educators were admitted free to the Wyoming game.
Today was Ag Day too wasn't it? I thought I heard Barnhart mention something about that on the radio.
Here's an odd stat for today:
Illinois beat Iowa at home 47-7. Duke beat Clemson at home 19-13. Kansas won at Iowa State 41-23.
Illinois beat Iowa at home 47-7. Duke beat Clemson at home 19-13. Kansas won at Iowa State 41-23.
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Ouch. Shows we're being mentioned with some of the more pathetic programs. Hopefully we're rising to a level where we aren't thought of in the same breath as Kansas football.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
That’s wild. My Senior year in C-U.
Appreciate the sacrificeOk...so.... I go to work.... and Iowa, ND, Wisconsin, and Miznoz all lose....and we dominate a team that sh#t whipped us last year?
Sigh........ok I'll just go change my schedule now.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
What a strange game. Illini again have 4 TOs and have more penalties than they did against Indiana (though for a few less yards), and they win pretty handily. D was just tremendous.
I’m getting the feeling what we’ve seen from DeVito these last two games is what we’ll see all season — I.e. the turnovers. Just a matter of whether or not the good things he does out weigh the TOs, I will say I have more confidence that he’ll more and better good plays than we saw from the QBs last year. So we’re seeing progress.
I’m getting the feeling what we’ve seen from DeVito these last two games is what we’ll see all season — I.e. the turnovers. Just a matter of whether or not the good things he does out weigh the TOs, I will say I have more confidence that he’ll more and better good plays than we saw from the QBs last year. So we’re seeing progress.
For the life of me I'll never ever understand how someone wouldn't be a fan of the "war chant". That always got the crowd hyped as hell, was catchy as hell and I've lost count of how many fans / alums of other Big Ten teams admired the hell out of it.
If loving watching our players' pregame entrances, TD celebrations, music being played loud as hell, our awesome band performing the "war chant" in beautiful hyped up harmony is considered an "inconvenience" then I suppose Illinois should just stick to tennis & golf. (FTR, I respect the heck out of both tennis and golf but come on man, lets embrace making Illinois football fun & entertaining again!
Technically they've played in a CFP Playoff game more recently than Illinois has.
The inconveniences weren’t related to anything I specifically mentioned. The lack of inconveniences were their own positive from today’s gameday experience.
And I’m sorry… you may have liked the war chant, but if you think that’s hype… then you’ve been attending a different set of games than I have been for 18 years and have met with a whole different subset of fans/alumni than I did. What team is terrified by a slow monotonous clap on third down? It’s not loud… it’s not annoying… it just… was. Then again, maybe it was more exciting pre-2005 before I started attending games. Boooooring. I want the crowd to be cheering, not slow-clapping.
But, to each their own I suppose.
They used to charter buses from Chicago
And high school kids got In really cheap
Maybe you could fill an empty seat too
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
Yeah, definitely missed the group text to wear the orange top, not the blue