Would the last 0:46 Illini drive have played out differently whether it was 43-40 or 42-41 when it started?
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This right here.
A lot of the stuff coming out of PU feels like such insecure “little brother syndrome”
Bret totally knew Walters was going to go for two at the end and he was ready for it and we blew them up
Fresno state doing for to bc they have the chance to beat a B1G on the road makes sense. PU doing it just feels well kinda desperate.
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It was about zero degrees on an early December game. Fresno State just wanted to get back to Fresno as quick as they could.
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39 rushes for 177 yards, 4.5 ypc, not world beating but not awful. Laughery and Valentine got nothing going but Mccray was solid finding some spaces to get through.
No. My point is that if you are down 42-41 everyone would be saying “why didn’t we go for 2”?
I don’t know if I’ve ever seem laughery break a tackle. With this line we need backs like faegin and McCray who can move and he pile and fall forward
Well, to be fair, 10 attempts and 60 yards came from Altmyer, and 2 attempt and 10 yards came from Bryant.
When we ran plays designed for running with our backs, we averaged 3.96 ypc. I don't feel like that's all too great.
Even though it was from the 18?
Our recovered kickoff counts as an on-sides kick, doesn't it? I bet Purdue fans view the one that we recovered as more awful than we view the traditional one that they recovered. (I kinda felt for them after ours: that was something that--in years past--we would do.) Btw, when was the last time EACH TEAM successfully recovered an onsides kick? Or that each team had a 100% success rate on onsides kicks?
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I am certainly as guilty as many here (maybe more than many) of overreacting in the game thread (a place I desperately try to stay away from during games). Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (credit: Jimmy Buffett, appropriately from the song "Fruitcakes").
However, I'd like to point out that it has been said many, many, many, times on Loyalty that there is no such thing as a "good" loss. Ergo, there can be no such thing as a "bad" win. If a "bad" win does not exist, this must therefore be considered a good win.
5-1 baby, 97% of us would have taken that at the beginning of the season in a heartbeat. Now let's heal up, prepare and kick the living daylights out of ScUM next week!
However, I'd like to point out that it has been said many, many, many, times on Loyalty that there is no such thing as a "good" loss. Ergo, there can be no such thing as a "bad" win. If a "bad" win does not exist, this must therefore be considered a good win.
5-1 baby, 97% of us would have taken that at the beginning of the season in a heartbeat. Now let's heal up, prepare and kick the living daylights out of ScUM next week!
In an odd way, the defensive side of the game kinda reminded me of the 2011 Ohio State game. OSY was 1 of 4 passing, but it wasn't because (as some people thought afterwards) they never needed to pass. They tried to pass plenty, but the coverage was good and their qb keep scrambling and getting frustratingly good gains. (Big difference here of course was that we couldn't stop Purdue's regular running game either.)
Well that was easy! We had it all the way! I will say they like to make it interesting.
We won. Other than that you dont want to know.
Didn’t realize Walters calls the offensive plays.
We were going into the game and we are coming out of the game. Are we one of best 25 teams in country? Maybe not. But then again the polls — especially when it comes to anything lower than 10 or 15 — aren’t really about “best.”
He took it over yesterday.
I highly doubt it. Illini won and had 182 votes/points this week. USC was first out of poll, lost, and only had 98 points.
So what was all the blabbing about the analyst by the commentators yesterday? Some fine reporting there.
He fired his OC two weeks ago. Last week he had someone else do it. Yesterday, reportedly it was him
On Love watching our signals while wearing a headset, would we really not have changed those up enough that he’d be able to tell them anything meaningful? It didn’t feel like we struggled to move the ball? Maybe more of an attempted psy op than anything useful?
Unrelated, but can somebody explain the offensive pass interference on the 2pt conversion? Don’t recall ever seeing that called against an O-linemen and the replay didn’t answer any questions for me.
Unrelated, but can somebody explain the offensive pass interference on the 2pt conversion? Don’t recall ever seeing that called against an O-linemen and the replay didn’t answer any questions for me.
I’d be shocked if that happened. Rivalry game and most voters probably didn’t watch the game.
i dunno, thought they had some really good insights on how well our DC, Kevin Kane, was calling our defense
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