It looked like a football play, or a hockey check.
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Only thing that could hold him back is Trent experienced some real lows with the program and still stuck it out. DGL has always been on a winner. Not complaining but legacy is different without something bigger being achieved with a DGL team. They are projecting to that being a possibility with these blow outs.
Kostas
- Naperville, IL
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
Hummel is a legend in his own mind......I'm not as enamored with Hummel as many here are......I don't care for his broadcasting style as if his opinion carries more weigh than others.........He routinely butt's in or talks over the other announcers and thinks his opinion is better than anyone else's.......
I'm waiting for him to incorporate a hearty " Boiler Up " into his schtick........JMHO and I either mute the sound when he is involved in a game or turn to another game.........
Again , JMHO and it's not really worth a plugged nickel........it really really isn't................
Big Jack
- Decatur
So they are going to France or Lithuania?
Yeah, I tried to listen to Dakich, but the opening minute of his show was so bad I can't make it to the Underwood interview. Just unbelievably hateful and racist nonsense coming from him right from the go.
Tacomallini
- Washington State
And even if you don't have the spare time, you should all be commended for making time to post on here. Keep up the fine work!
I usually just mute the sound and watch. But kinda seems like Hummel was over-compensating to Hoosier fans for being a Purdue guy last night.
His take on why Brad hadn’t removed his starters didn’t square with the way the college game is now played with metrics weighing so heavily. And the fact we were going 9 deep anyway.
BillyBob1
- Champaign
He also said Brad should be fired when the FBI stuff came out.
PTI is arguing who had a worse night last night, Woodson or Calipari. Id say both are not enjoying life
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Pretty sure where Brad speaks and what he says are usually strategic.
It’s extremely hard for programs that have been of privilege and that have known great success have fallen more back into the pack. People within those programs.. their fans... their media... all begin to believe that perpetual success is their birthright. That they should not lose, ever. That they always and forever must be ultimate winners.
In a way, this is understandable. Everyone likes having success. And we all can quickly become addicted to the feeling. But this is also a sign of a bit of immaturity – to begin to squeal like kids when we don’t get what we want... when we don’t always get our way.
Success is not easy, but it is so sweet when you taste it. Success is also never guaranteed to anyone... any time.. any where.
We of Illini Nation know what it means to have a great success. The Illini are one of the great legacy winners in a State that has roundball in its DNA. But the Illini have also known many lean years before Coach got here to right this proud ship. We know the pain of falling off a high perch and finding consistent winning so difficult.
Another example of that is Nebraska football. Their fans have been 'Dazed and Confused'... and disoriented for the past 25 years since they fell from High Heaven and into Cornhusker Hell.
For myself, I respect what Indiana has accomplished in their history. As a student of the Game and someone who has made this Game important in his Life – I can admire and appreciate what they’ve done.
But I also know that success is not something that they can always expect. That success is not something they can always have. That success is a mixture of good planning, hard work, good fortune... and the roundball gods smiling down favorably on you when the time is right and the ball needs to fall one way and not the other.
Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Penn State... places like that believe that success is their birthright on the football field.
We know the names of the roundball programs that always have felt the same way. Well, a place like UCLA had to grow up. Wasn’t so easy for them any more after The Legend Coach left and roundball landscape changed. Other programs have had to do the same. (And DePaul fell so bad from where they once were that they can barely see up that high any more).
Indiana now tastes more of the bitterness of defeat more often. Not so many banners. And that is never easy to swallow.
That’s why a Game like last night is so special. You couldn’t see it coming. At times, you could not believe it was happening. But it did. And it feels so good.
Somebody’s always gotta win and somebody’s always gotta lose. You play the Games to find out who – and why. And when success does come... you wrap your arms around it and want it to stay forever. Even when you know that – it wont.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Speaking of which, we've had an absolute dearth of the F-Yeah Girl lately. I mean, those Oregon and Indiana games warranted a hella large dose of her.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
BTW, the Inside The Hall commentariat were bit*hing about the fact that Humrichous wanted to play for IU, the coaching staff wouldn't even give him a look, and now he torches them. lol salty Hoosier tears.
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
I find the defending of Goode's play last night by so many people here to be confusing and really absurd if you take his actions in context and take out the emotion of him being a former Illini......
What if he had injured Tomi ( a current Illini ) with his bonehead play with the game already decided long before......????
What if the Flagrant foul called on him earlier in the game for an elbow thrown at KJ would have injured him ??
What if the shot to KJ's chin thrown by him on a KJ drive in the paint had done damage to a current Illini.....??
It looked to me like Goode was out of control most of the night and whether he is a current or former Illini should not outweigh his dangerous actions last night........
As I have always said , I respect everyone's opinion whether i agree with it or not.........I ask that my opinion and others with a similar opinion be granted the same respect..............look at the replay and take into account that he left the Illini .....we didn't leave him and to then play as reckless as he did last night against his former team tells me all I need to know.....JMHO.......
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
F yeah........................
Before I steal this and post it everywhere, any last words? /s
Seriously though this needs a bigger audience.
sacraig
- The desert
Smiling Brad was harder to find that yelling Brad.The best part is the smiling Brad at the end
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
I don't think he's playing dirty or that there's any intent at all pru. He's the only one playing hard on that team. He played the same way here. He learned that aggressiveness here. He simply left for more playing time at his childhood dream school and it's turning into a bad dream for him.
If he was playing dirty with intent to harm our players, that's a different animal.
And I agree with you he was def reckless a few times but I think it was him attempting to lead his team to actually give some effort. That team has no leadership. I'm very glad his fouls resulted in no injuries and I'm sure he is as well.
The box scores shows DGL with one technical foul but zero personal fouls. Do technicals not count as personal fouls?
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
my brother , I agree he was the only loosier with a pulse last night but that elbow he threw at KJ was dirty as it was away from the play going on the other side of the court........and a flagrant foul rightly called as it was right in front of the ref.....
his last foul on Tomi was the impetus for the chickens**t push by the balloween oaf and I'm glad no Illini was injured on that stupid play by goode........
I respect your opinion my friend , but I guess we need to agree to disagree on this matter.....cool beans.......
as far as izzo-zero , I have zero respect for that whiny childish imp.......I hope we give him a beatdown of epic proportions and we start to take control of the B$G when we beat scUM later on.....this could be another special season for the beloved and I want as many special seasons as I can while still breathing life into these tired bones of mine......
Like I said, shock jock. He just runs his lips to get a reaction. And he usually does get a reaction, because his takes are hot garbage.
You deal the most embarrassing loss ever on one of your most hated foes.
And it gets better from there. Not content with watching their program sink, they decide to burn the little bit that is still above water.
And it gets better from there. Not content with watching their program sink, they decide to burn the little bit that is still above water.
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