It’d be cool to see us pursue Kris Hutson and Bryan Addison from Oregon. Bryan was one of their top DBs and is a 6’5 safety. He was away from the team for personal reasons, so we’d have to do our due diligence, but his physical profile and experience are attractive to me given our desperate need for capable DBs.
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He’s a big part of that “unit that stunk.”
It'll obviously be Altmyer but yes. If you see the waters we are traveling in for our positions of need (mostly JUCOs), we just don't have the NIL $ for a top guy at any position. Unrealistic to expect us to get a top QB and especially one that is an upgrade of Altmyer who has two years of eligibility left and already spent a year in our system.
He made some big plays but also seemed to commit the most stupid penalties of any player on the team. Just could not stay under control. If he thinks he will be better off somewhere else good for him. A lot of coaches would park him on the bench for the penalties. Brett kept rolling him out there.
mhuml32
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Is it though …
Led the secondary in lowest allowed completion percentage when targeted (54.5%), led the team in pass breakups, and led cornerbacks in defensive stops. Penalties were a problem. He's still a loss.
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Lotsa WAG?
Hard to allow a high percentage if every time you get beat, you just hold the guy!
I do agree he's probably a net loss though.
and given timeliness of said penalties, might translate into 3-6 pts less per game for opposing teams....
Mr. Tibbs
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I dunno
some of my team mates from high school I would take a bullet for, others I would put a bullet in
The off field stuff wasn’t worth those stats … Believe me …
mattcoldagelli
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ETA: saw you added some specifics in a more recent post. But simply saying "penalties were a problem" seems to be putting it extremely diplomatically.
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The money has moved from under the table to over the table. The relative differences between schools / boosters that will spend a lot and those that won't has not changed. We had a a short-term bump because we got organized more quickly than others when NIL started, but on a pure money basis, in the long term, I don't think much has changed.
Until we start winning consistently and get good, agreed. And Bret is our best chance for that.
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Because penalties are often more noise than signal. Nicholson had 2.5 seasons of starting snaps and didn't have a penalty issue before, even when he was targeted more frequently last year when he was the weakest secondary starter.
Can't speak to this and can understand it could make this a required separation.
but he also led all FBS defenders with 11 penalties...
Joel Goodson
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er, you've omitted our ascendent status as a P2 member. now, obviously not all members are equal. but our status, relative to non-P2 schools, is considerably better than it was a short time ago. and that gap is only gonna widen
In regards to Taz:
it was suggested he pack it on up and hit the road Jack
it was suggested he pack it on up and hit the road Jack
I'm repeating my own words from a couple months ago, but there will be 34 schools in the P2 all ascending with the same money. Right now we're around #30 in that group. Not sure that gap matters so much when we have miles to go just to be good in conference, let alone nationally.
I'm also in that camp that thinks money will turn that P2 into a P1 sometime down the road, and Illinois will not be part of that P1. Except as non-conference punching bags.
Personal opinion or do you facts that you are basing this claim on?
Witherspoon had penalty issues too, and some considered him a hotdog. But in his case, talent and competitiveness were surely enough to compensate for a few personal fouls and PIs. The coaches recognized that Spoon's swagger was integral to his success.
It’ll happen, and unless something changes, we’ll be on the outside looking in. Hopefully something changes soon, we’re trending in the right direction.
Rashad Rochelle to Indiana State fwiw
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