TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
Beat Purdue and Bret will have beaten everyone in our division in just 2 years
YesGang, I’m super pumped. I DVRed the game, but we had to entertain another couple during the game. Is the watch worth it?
Thanks, Buddy.Sprained ankle and it also was injured previously ......No word yet if he will or will not play next week.............I. Williams has a concussion..............
I don't know what it was like on TV but it was pretty electric in the stadium especially at the end! I almost couldnt yell anymore on the last drive. And the student section was absolutely packed to the brim too.
How was he timing up their snap count so easily!? That shouldn't happen in high school! Brian Ferentz!Post game is interviewing T. Barnes and he is such a classy dude.......talked about the calls for him to blitz and thanked coach Walters for calling his number........Classy dude........He really really is...........................
Now interviewing the kicker Pinton and he said "" I just did my job "".............................cool ...................solid...................heavy.....................
I can't read this........I'm drunk- Tough to think beyond this game too much without knowing more about DeVito. 0-6 is comfortably in play if he's done, but let's just hold off on that.
- The dark cloud over the game does become a much brighter spot after the win: that was an easy, comfortable victory if TDV had played the whole way. We had way too much for Iowa
- It's hard to recall a game more negatively impacted by the playcalling on both sides. And I'm a Bears fan!
- This is actually the offense Brian Ferentz recruited and built, and....yikes. They just don't really do anything well. We're a very tough pass pro challenge and all things considered they did better than some of our other opponents have, but most of our sacks were more on their OL than our rushers, woof. And we'll get to Art Sitkowski but how is a program like Iowa making a multi-year starter of someone like Spencer Petras?
- Leave it to me to be negative about our defense: there are a LOT of major pieces of what we've built there that won't be here next year and I don't just mean Walters. If Seth Coleman isn't playing on Sundays next year I don't know what GM's are watching. And we know about Witherspoon already.
- I sympathized with Lunney for a lot of this game, I really did. Going one-dimensional against the Iowa D is death. That is a correct thought to have. But the two plays that both should have been game-enders are just unforgiveable playcalls. No one on earth was fooled on the almost-fumble, and the pick before it was just a total failure to correctly calculate the situational value of 3 points.
- Is it possible Pinton just beat out Griffin in practice?
- The thing with Lunney is that he just seemed to resist the reality of the game that he got forced into, losing TDV and also Isaiah which slashes the playbook even further. He kept trying to outsmart a game that had ceased to become a football game, he reacted in the totally wrong way.
- Art seems like a nice kid. And when he's stepping into a deeper throw rather than trying to throw a touch pass you can see where the recruiting ranking came from, he has plenty of arm and is actually throwing those balls, it's not a chuck-and-hope the way it is for more pipsqueak-y QB's. But he's nowhere even close to a B1G QB and hasn't been from the second he stepped on campus. There's nothing there. If anyone saw Bielema's presser this week he made some pretty pointed comments about his willingness to usher people out of the program who don't have what it takes to help the team win, all the way down to the equipment staff. An exception has been made for Art Sitkowski in a way that's strange and now has systemic risk for what should be a special season.
- Not to defend either of them, but Sitkowski is a more usable player in Tony Petersen's system. Lunney exposes everything he can't do. A totally different player than TDV. A guy like that should not be your backup in year 2.
- Is that enough doom and gloom after beating Iowa for everybody!? My god what a game. An offering to the shrine of the B1G West, the division America needs.
- For real though, get well soon Tommy.
Could you just enjoy the win?? What’s with all the negativity- Tough to think beyond this game too much without knowing more about DeVito. 0-6 is comfortably in play if he's done, but let's just hold off on that.
- The dark cloud over the game does become a much brighter spot after the win: that was an easy, comfortable victory if TDV had played the whole way. We had way too much for Iowa
- It's hard to recall a game more negatively impacted by the playcalling on both sides. And I'm a Bears fan!
- This is actually the offense Brian Ferentz recruited and built, and....yikes. They just don't really do anything well. We're a very tough pass pro challenge and all things considered they did better than some of our other opponents have, but most of our sacks were more on their OL than our rushers, woof. And we'll get to Art Sitkowski but how is a program like Iowa making a multi-year starter of someone like Spencer Petras?
- Leave it to me to be negative about our defense: there are a LOT of major pieces of what we've built there that won't be here next year and I don't just mean Walters. If Seth Coleman isn't playing on Sundays next year I don't know what GM's are watching. And we know about Witherspoon already.
- I sympathized with Lunney for a lot of this game, I really did. Going one-dimensional against the Iowa D is death. That is a correct thought to have. But the two plays that both should have been game-enders are just unforgiveable playcalls. No one on earth was fooled on the almost-fumble, and the pick before it was just a total failure to correctly calculate the situational value of 3 points.
- Is it possible Pinton just beat out Griffin in practice?
- The thing with Lunney is that he just seemed to resist the reality of the game that he got forced into, losing TDV and also Isaiah which slashes the playbook even further. He kept trying to outsmart a game that had ceased to become a football game, he reacted in the totally wrong way.
- Art seems like a nice kid. And when he's stepping into a deeper throw rather than trying to throw a touch pass you can see where the recruiting ranking came from, he has plenty of arm and is actually throwing those balls, it's not a chuck-and-hope the way it is for more pipsqueak-y QB's. But he's nowhere even close to a B1G QB and hasn't been from the second he stepped on campus. There's nothing there. If anyone saw Bielema's presser this week he made some pretty pointed comments about his willingness to usher people out of the program who don't have what it takes to help the team win, all the way down to the equipment staff. An exception has been made for Art Sitkowski in a way that's strange and now has systemic risk for what should be a special season.
- Not to defend either of them, but Sitkowski is a more usable player in Tony Petersen's system. Lunney exposes everything he can't do. A totally different player than TDV. A guy like that should not be your backup in year 2.
- Is that enough doom and gloom after beating Iowa for everybody!? My god what a game. An offering to the shrine of the B1G West, the division America needs.
- For real though, get well soon Tommy.
Looks at schedule and sees Michigan State, Nebraska and Northwestern still upcoming. 0-6? Really? Comfortably? Come on, CG. Seriously.- Tough to think beyond this game too much without knowing more about DeVito. 0-6 is comfortably in play if he's done, but let's just hold off on that.
To lose the turnover battle -3 and still pull out a win.
Is our defense amazing or what?!?
Ah yes good call forgot that one.-2 with the Bailey interception.
I will say that overturned fumble returned for a TD was one of the worst moments I've seen live. Just absolutely soul crushing at the time after we had been on the brink of victory twice.