The last time you mentioned that was after the Citrus Bowl. I mentioned giving you the most liked comment in Loyalty history (pretty sure it was). We need to do this again to beat it!Btw that was most active Game Thread of all time any sport on this siteGo Illini
Illinois 45, Duke 19 Postgame
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I fear we may miss McCray later in the year. (And for his sake, it does appear as though he will get many carries at Georgia.) Our running back room doesn’t feel as deep as other positions.
I agree
You bring up a good point. Just getting turnovers doesn't mean you're going to score as a result. IIRC, we scored off every turnover we got, no matter where on the field. If I'm wrong about that, somebody please correct me.
Absolutely, the repeated description of Mensah's under-thrown pass as his mistake (especially by the commentators) and not emphasizing it primarily as Heckel's great play is just ridiculous. How many times have we seen a DB get hit in the numbers by a gifted errant throw and they can't bring it in. Heckel went up and absolutely stole that pass.
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What makes it appear that McCray will get a lot of carries this year for UGA? O/U on his carries next week on the road against Tennessee? 0.5?
That’s also what happens when you have players around the ball
We have 3 good backs. How much more depth do you want
Lol, yep.
(Though I'm in the camp that thinks it NEVER makes sense to call an opponent overated: assuming you win, you just diminish the victory. God forbid you lose, cuz then you've lost to an overated team.)
Good point. I was a little cocky going into the game, based in part on Duke's poor first half performance v. Elon. I'll be more careful going forward.
Duke fans' copium.
We should be favored.
Tell me about it, I was a freshman in 1970 Hopkins Hall!, rough slog back then up to 2003, although Blackman was pretty good.
Mac and White were bright spots that didn't last long enough.
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Plus just the right amount of Stick em on his gloves LOL
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Exactly. That's coaching. It's still not likely we recover every ball that hits the turf, but the staff is absolutely coaching our team on what to do to give us a better than 50/50 shot at them.
Hopkins 1979-1980 second floor .
1st 3rd & 4th floors had girls on west side
2nd was still all guys
I was in 263 (or maybe 267 ? ) . the first room on the inside , just west of the double doors 1/2 way down the hall on the south side
Raiola sack fumbles back to back times (inside their own 10 IIRC) in a tie game and we recover neither. Then the very next play after the punt Luke fumbles and they recover. (then they go down miss a FG, goes to OT, we win).
I think we still held back on D not to show IU anything in a few weeks. We played several series in a soft zone in the first half. We tightened up in the 2nd half but still refrained from running any blitz packages. I think we will see more in two weeks. Another week of trying things against Western Michigan with different personnel will help against IU. Gabe was mostly silent yesterday other than the forced fumble. I see him getting more involved as the season progresses.
This will not be the last time we see that message this year.Btw that was most active Game Thread of all time any sport on this site
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Or indiana.
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Dip your nuggets in my staff source sauce.
Could be. I suspect it will be within 3 points either way at kickoff.
I just looked up the matchup on ESPN and sure enough it's at 61.4/38.6 in IU's favor at the moment. That will change, likely, but it's how I feel about it currently.
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