Illinois 52, Western Illinois 3 Postgame

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pruman91
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A glorious start to a much anticipated 2025 season result's in a 52-3 victory over Western Illinois..................The lads were up for this game from the opening kickoff and led 31-0 at the half....................

Luke Altmyer with a 17-21 night , didn't catch how many yards..................
Laughery with a 100 + yard rushing total.......
Bowick with 2 TD receptions in his Illini debut......................
Hank Beatty with a Red Grange record breaking punt return total of 133 yards and a TD.........
Defense played tough all game long especially on that goal line stand on a 1st and goal from the half yard line keeping wiu to a FG........
Jacas was a beast with 5 tackles and I think 2.5 sacks and a forced fumble..............
The pass defense was tight all game long also.............................

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great game pru............we kicked some arse as you said we needed too.........we really really did....call you later babe..........

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yes babe , we punched them in the mouth and they whimpered big time.....I await your call my love.................

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now the competition level will get tougher especially on the road next week but I saw a complete team win tonight .........................

1-0 guys and gals..........................

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I'm basking in the afterglow of this new season starting off with a 52-3 thrashing by the Illini.......been a while saying something like that hasn't it ?
 
#39      
Piotyr
Luke was great, Gabe was great.

Questions about the O-line a bit that won't be answered until they face a better opponent. Similar concerns about the defensive backfield, gave up a few too many easy ones to a team that was outclassed from the go.
 
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Chuck Nuggets
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Valentine looked like a totally different person.
Altmyer looked like an enhanced QB. His delivery has been tweeked a bit from last year.
This team is on a mission. No fooling around this year.
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Valentine has the burst to hit the hole that Feagin doesn't have.

Luke still holds the ball too long. It drives me crazy. Don't take the hit, man.
 
#43      
illini0440
Perfect opening game for the fans and coaches. Covered and took care of business but still plenty to coach up on film and for Bret to light there you know what’s up.

First drive their motions and shifts gave us fits really just with our communication which was good for us to see. Linebackers got that shored up real quick.

I’ll have to go back and rewatch it but I’m pretty sure we ran Cover 1 the entire game haha. Very vanilla, a few D line stunts but mostly just letting Gabe do his thing.(which you can do against western)

The starters stayed in on offense because Bret was pissed at some of their effort(up front mostly).

Some good stuff all around from Luke, the RBs and Receivers. Some stuff to clean up too. Justin can’t assume Luke isn’t throwing that ball just because he’s still holding it as he’s splitting the safeties. Luke also messed up some timing on a couple other deep balls but not too concerned.
 
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