Maybe after the emotion wears off I'll be less pissed off, but this is the worst I've ever felt after a win. That defense stirred up all of my PTSD as an Illinois football fan.
Illinois 50, Purdue 49 OT Postgame
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illiniswish09
- Northwest Suburbs
Walters is such a D bag
Walters is a snake for crossing a line against Bret. It reveals the true character of Walters and reveals he has no form of gratitude to the program that gave him a chance.
Bret is an icon in the small coaching circles so when Walters loses his job very soon, good luck finding another HC job.
Bret is an icon in the small coaching circles so when Walters loses his job very soon, good luck finding another HC job.
blackdog
- Champaign
Coming in to the game the defense was giving up 14.2 ppg. College Football is completely wacky sometimes so it's absolutely nuts to immediately jumping to fire the coordinator based on one game.
That postgame interview was a mixture of Fran McCaffrey and Tom Izzo and Walters has done 0 to earn the ability to act that arrogantly.. 1-5 and acting like he's done something.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
Wow!I played flag football in 1970 and was coached by the guys from Hopkins 4E, I think I’m remembering correctly. Was that one of you guys???
Well we looked a little flat a few weeks ago against a lesser opponent and then followed it up with two solid games. We beat Nebraska and played Penn state tough till the end looking like we absolutely belonged on the field with them. I don't know what the hell today was, but it definitely was our worst game of the year. Hopefully we can regroup and get back to the level we're capable of for the Michigan game. If not we will get curb stomped.
I am stunned. I had to run errands all afternoon with my wife. I was able to check the score at halftime and saw IL was thumping them, as they should so I wasn't worried at all. I finally had time this evening to check to see how the game went. When I saw P U had 49 points I almost fainted. Then I glanced a little lower on the box score to see IL had 50. It took a few seconds for it to sink in.
Dan, I would again like to make a motion for a dislike button.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
One of the iron laws of football fans is that every team, no matter how good or bad, must always have exactly one (1) Bad Coordinator. No more no less.
Henry took the baton back from Lunney today.
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I can’t believe we traded in 11 am Beth Mowins for this.
Walters is a douche
Well, I'll just disagree. As you say, no way to prove this. But we are still a mercurial team and will likely be for the next three or four years at least. We just don't have the talent to always overcome the variety of matchup problems, hot games by opponents, bad refereeing, boneheaded plays by our own guys, etc.
Who we are going forward will be sometimes this team that squeaked by today and sometimes the team that went to Nebraska and won. That's where we are. We don't get the same team every week, because right now there's really only a few programs in America that get that.
In a weird, wacky way this may have been a blessing in disguise. If we had thumped Purdue, maybe we would have gone into next week too overconfident. Now we are going in most likely as a 10 point underdog. Our team needs the motivation. Our team will be hungry to clean things up. Our Defense was embarrassed today, but will correct it next week. I want a win against Michigan more than anything. They are extremely beatable this year.
Illini 35
Michigan 25
Muck Fichigan
Illini 35
Michigan 25
Muck Fichigan
Our run defense has been trash all year. It just got exploited today. Jacas needs to play DT next week
I hope this arrogant pr*ck doesn't win another game this year. That's if he even makes it to the final game
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Vintage ESPN+/Early BTN cluelessness about what was going on was bad, yes (and was a failure of the entire production team), but I just have less and less patience for the way announcing crews treat games as their own "performance" in terms of style and content.
Literally no one asked for this.
Someone has referenced the game already, but I’m not sure that anyone was asking for Koenning to be fired after giving up 67 to a below average Michigan team in 2010. They got things corrected and came back strong. Sometimes things go horribly in one game—let’s hope it gets corrected.
2X2L
- Metaluna
Gee whiz.A win is a win …
We’ve got a lot to clean up …
We’ve got some guys who we’re gonna really have to try and get healthy quick …
Altmyer … Keep doing your thing kid …
Josh McCray … One tough dude … Love seeing that guy do well …
Oh yeah … Ryan Walters … Since I know you’ll be reading this later … We standing on business over here … So you can take all that nonsense and all the talking and all the pretending you don’t know what you did today back with you to Purdue along with that fat L … You’re a bum in my book …
I-L-L …
blackdog
- Champaign
The guys behind me were yelling about how bad Lunney was at a time when we had 40 points and over 400 yards of offense so who actually knows who the Bad Coordinator is.
It's both. We were definitely at a disadvantage going into the game since we had very little film on their QB and little time to plan against that change. This is an example of when we would have been better off if their experience QB, (Card) started. Going into a game without the ability to have a detailed strategy against your opponent, and the time to practice against it, is huge - especially when this QB's skill set is very different.
The screaming of PURDUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! on at least 4 separate occasions certainly felt like a bit much. It was a massive comeback, but save it for a play that decides the game.
not me or any of the guys in my area, as far as I can remember
We did make a swimming pool out of the showers and ended up flooding the lower floors though.
That was it for athletics for the semester LOL
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