I'm in this boat, right here! 50+ years of witnessing bad or, at best, mediocre football with a good season sprinkled in (remember before last year, only 4 seasons of 9+ wins since Illinois joined the B1G in 1953.) All the while thinking 'why can't a major institution like the University of Illinois at least put together consistent winning seasons?' Just WINNING seasons. Like Edgy, not expecting a Natty - would love to have one, sure, but not expecting it. All that said, I think the floor has been raised and instead of 6 wins being the floor, I'm now looking for a minimum of 8 year-in and year-out. In a pure rebuilding year, Ok, maybe 7 wins. But this AD, Coach and Staff have this program going in a different direction. Not Indiana-type direction (again, would be wonderful to see.) I've seen comments on here that we "don't want to be another Iowa." While I dislike them as much as anyone on this board, heck, give me what they've done over the past 25 years in a friggin' heartbeat. Yes, I am PROUD for the first time in a very long time! And, when I wear my Illini gear around the DFW area, I get a lot more "I - L - L "'s from people and conversation around athletics. It's pretty fun!
Illinois Football Recruiting Thread
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Seems like a depth piece
We will add a proven starter and a few depth guys. Farrell will play a lot more this year too
Another underwhelming transfer. Is Bret broke?
Is he wrong though? Our defensive line at the moment is very underwhelming. We need to start stacking up on bodies fast and furious.
I wouldn’t think this is one of the big time transfers on campus this weekend- usually you don’t commit at the breakfast!
Solid piece but small. Rotation player
Which we just got…a body….we have the money for DL. We aren’t broke. Spent 3 mil on Houser….Bailey, Juice and you think X was cheap to get back haha. Plus Valentine, Clement, Renfro, etc.
Any news on the DL players on campus this weekend?
Whether in good faith or not, I think the question is not if Bret was broke at the beginning, rather do we have enough left to fill the DL with more than "bodies".
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Yeah, we had to get depth pieces to go along with the starters. I would imagine the starters will be next.
Trolls gonna troll...if 19 wins over the last 2 years and 3 good bowls in the last 4 years isn't enough, idk what is
Welcome Isaiah. Who will be next.
Let me know when the NCAA start playing regular season games in January - prior to the end of transfer season and prior to both spring practice and summer camp. Our rosters isn't complete and no one has every seen the transfers coming in play. The kid from Bowling Green only played 174 snaps last year but he had a 76 PFF which is materially higher than any player that transferred out.
Poor Isaiah don't even think he got a boom!!!! What have we become!!!
That has nothing to do with this coming years DL fiasco
I think the term troll gets thrown a little loosely here. Also I think most are thrilled with 19 wins over 2 years and want to keep this train rolling, which probably requires not taking a step back on defense
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