Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
cuz Univ of Chicago and John’s Hopkins play DIII
Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
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Joel Goodson
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Illini92and96
- Austin, TX
He can see how far he can get with football, and if it doesn’t work he can always go to graduate school at the school of his choice. It’s a no-brainer fallback.
Lots of beautiful women from rich families at Ole Miss, so seems pretty smart to me
if I recall, McDonald did the same thing with Ashton Hollins. Very similar situation; tall, athletic, slender WR from the south. If the evaluations are accurate I love the strategy bc it's way more difficult once those SEC schools start offering.
The major difference IMO is Hollins played QB in HS, so Orr may have a higher chance of contributing sooner into his college career.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
one of my sons went there. you speak the truth.
game day is a beauty pageant of women aged from 18-60
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
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Heck at FAR, the one girl I met that was born in Mississippi had the closest figure to a real life Barbie doll I've ever seen
TwoElevenEastDaniel
- Cochrane's-Orchid-Tonic
I have an ex from the University of Mississippi (I won't call it by its nickname, especially on Juneteenth) and you are speaking absolute truth.
Joel Goodson
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VIP article, no doubt, but the gist is here:
Gabe Jacas?
Joel Goodson
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Jacas and Coleman? c'mon, man
And I forgot Coleman! Dangit.
You are half right - Jacas and Coleman are both pretty darn good.
Marquis can still be our next Tez however
Joel Goodson
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both will play on Sundays
yeah, landing Lightfoot would be a huge recruiting statement. kind of an "Omar coming" moment
blackdog
- Champaign
To be fair they did only combine for 8.5 sacks on the year. I'm super high on both of them and expect to see more production this season but there were definitely several games where the lack of a pass rush was pretty noticeable at times especially late in the season. Starting with MSU the pass rush fell off a cliff and had 3 sacks total over the last 5 games including 0 against Purdue, Michigan, and Mississippi State.
Joel Goodson
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WRT Kennedy: would be flippin' awesome to swipe a kid seemingly destined for the home state SEC school. Jamison's rolling with the '24s. Needless to say, great to see.
I blame that on Walters. Now that we have a real play caller look for great improvement there. //s
Exactly with the MSU game, right about the time the Big Ten refs legalized holding for any Illini opponent!
blackdog
- Champaign
Really I think what it came down to was just lack of depth and guys getting tired as the season went on. The main guys up front had to play a TON of snaps.
In the 2H of season while our tackles were getting good penetration and forcing the QB out of the pocket they were too slow (think 280 lb nose guard) to run the QB down to get the sack.
Walters was one of top defensive coaches in NCAA last year. JMO but Walters was not innovative with corner blitzes, safety blitzes or lineman stunts to get to the QB. I know he tried them but they were picked up by the offense. It is a combination of correct scheme/stunt to put an athlete with clear shot or 1 man to beat to get to QB.
Nothing wrong with sitting back and relying on your all american corner backs to stop the deep ball.
But the fact we had great secondary and great run stuffing linemen meant he could have substituted out the slow line backers on 3rd down and blitzed faster safety types from different directions. We were very good but very predictable on defense.
Walters was one of top defensive coaches in NCAA last year. JMO but Walters was not innovative with corner blitzes, safety blitzes or lineman stunts to get to the QB. I know he tried them but they were picked up by the offense. It is a combination of correct scheme/stunt to put an athlete with clear shot or 1 man to beat to get to QB.
Nothing wrong with sitting back and relying on your all american corner backs to stop the deep ball.
But the fact we had great secondary and great run stuffing linemen meant he could have substituted out the slow line backers on 3rd down and blitzed faster safety types from different directions. We were very good but very predictable on defense.
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