Let's see how he does against Minny with a full week of practice with the ones before we give up on him. Nearly everybody wants a great QB from the portal
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Thanks. Not terrible, but certainly everyone was hoping for better. I think the ticket “deals” came out too late in the week for some to make plans. Hope Homecoming can top 50k!
If there's no proof did it ACTUALLY happen? Lmao
IA was in his face every single pass play I can remember, really limits the playbook. You can't run the ball every down against a D like IA's
illini80
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I wouldn’t say he was terrible, and we did win the game with him at the helm, but his qb rating was 28.3. That’s not good.
BB said the 1s get 80% of the practice snaps, so IMO with a full weeks of practice Art will be better prepared for Minn, this also puts them having to game plan on who is actually gonna start.
Yep and the IA coach got an unsportsmanlike penalty to try to fire his team up, IIRC, but instead the play seemed to fire us up or at least keep us at a very high level on D.
Not losing 15 yards on what was clearly a late hit was one of the few breaks we got in this game
Who was that OSU HC who liked to say, "Everyone wants to gamble with MY money"?
I don't understand why that's relevant. It wasn't a normal football game. It wasn't a normal football moment. We did not play to our strengths, we played to our weakness, we played into their strength, and maximized the likelihood of something catastrophic happening. I prefer not seeing us doing this again.
Cannot rely on Art going forward. Great kid but inaccurate and takes to long to process stuff. Also Barry has to be a lot lot better than he was last night.
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Can’t argue with @lexwaldez in this situation (Iowa defense and Art QB). But just a few games ago we ran Chase into the pile three straight times and failed to score. Plenty of folks, including me, were more mad at that lack of creativity.
It's one thing to be rational and another to be of the glass is half empty thinking. Gritty is definitely more the latter along with looking for the worst in everything.I like Gritty - great poster. I don’t think he’s TRYING to rain on any parades, and I’m sure he’s pumped we won. Probably just how he is.
He’s not like the truly worst type of message board poster there is - the guy who needs to “calm us all down” and temper the optimism of us simple homers. The “only rational one,” if you will. These people get their kicks on talking down to excited fans, and they’re the worst. That ain’t Gritty, IMO.
If that's the case, that's worrisome. While all concussions are different and affect people differently, as someone who has experienced concussions playing sports, throwing up is not a good sign as that is at least a moderate concussion. If true, even if he were to pass concussion protocol, he should probably be held out next game to give him 3 full weeks to get back to health, as the risks associated with a second concussion in a short period of time on long term health are just too high. It's a shame as we could really use him against Minnesota, but if he's trying to recover from a moderate concussion, it's just not worth risking his future health.
Fighter of the Nightman
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Well, fair. I guess I just appreciate his effort and how informative he can be … but yes, there’s too much positivity to take in right now to not unsuspiciously find the negatives.
Illini_1979
- Oregon
It's worth watching just for the Illini defense.
Lol I thought he handled that presser like a coach on the hot seat but that's just me
For all of our expert analysts, who have pointed out all of the flaws in our backup quarterback who has only gotten 20% of the reps in a brand new offence and has just fully recovered from surgery. And how "ugly" the win was and how are offensive coordinator could have called better plays! I almost thought I mistakenly got on the Alabama or Georgia or Ohio State message board where they are so used to winning that they have the luxury of complaining about how pretty a win looks. How about just enjoying the moment and be thankful. The one thing that stuck out to me is the fact that 90% of the fans were still in their seats after the third quarter ended and stayed until the game ended. Looking forward to Homecoming and beating Minny! I L L
This one's for you Mike55
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
I saw a pre-season ranking of backup QB’s across all of D1 football. Artur was ranked somewhere between #15 and #20.
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
I’d prefer not to see any proof
Got 6 tickets at the tailgate tour in Springfield at 25$ a pop in section 130. A complete steal! Cant wait to be part of the 50k
That was possibly the strangest, most gut wrenching, most high blood pressure inducing, most asthma attack and heart attack inducing Illini football games I have ever seen. After the game I don't know if I was happy, relieved, exhausted, or all of the above. Obviously the defense won the game for us, but I loved the attitude of players on both sides of the ball. They kept fighting until the end, even when seemingly everything was going against us (The Iowa OL holding on almost every play, fumbles, injuries to important players, mind boggling play calls). The energy of the fans was contagious and I loved the camera views late in the 4th quarter that kept showing the student section, with everyone standing, yelling, and waving their orange towels.
I am sure BB is already thinking of people who might become our DC next season. The word is out about Ryan Walters and he is going to get a lot of interest for head coaching positions.
People keep bad mouthing Art and somewhat justifyingly so. We all hope Tommy is back next week, but what other options at QB do we have? Do we put IW back at QB? Is Donavan Leary ready? Is Ryan Johnson more accurate than Art? I'm not enough of an insider to know the answer.
I noticed Josh McCray didn't get any carries, which was a surprise. Maybe the coaching staff wanted to give him one more week of rest. I thought Reggie Love looked pretty good, but we still need a 2nd string RB to really step up. We have to find a way to get Chase Brown less carries.
Fabrizio Pinton is a stud. How he was that calm, cool and collected is beyond me. In my opinion he should be handling the kicking duties from now on.
GO ILLINI.
I am sure BB is already thinking of people who might become our DC next season. The word is out about Ryan Walters and he is going to get a lot of interest for head coaching positions.
People keep bad mouthing Art and somewhat justifyingly so. We all hope Tommy is back next week, but what other options at QB do we have? Do we put IW back at QB? Is Donavan Leary ready? Is Ryan Johnson more accurate than Art? I'm not enough of an insider to know the answer.
I noticed Josh McCray didn't get any carries, which was a surprise. Maybe the coaching staff wanted to give him one more week of rest. I thought Reggie Love looked pretty good, but we still need a 2nd string RB to really step up. We have to find a way to get Chase Brown less carries.
Fabrizio Pinton is a stud. How he was that calm, cool and collected is beyond me. In my opinion he should be handling the kicking duties from now on.
GO ILLINI.
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