You also saw elite defensive lines. Good dline makes everyone better. Last year we had a bad dline and look at how the defense was
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Wow, some of us God created differently. My goodness. Cam Newton
Just rewatching the tennessee game.I love where we're at. We absolutely crush them if the officiating would have done their job consistently, al game. The late hits on luke are phenomenal, not to mention the three holding penalties on their ninety seven yard kick return. And their coach saying, he had nothing to do with their collective trying to pay our Luke Sywalker, 3 million a year. Take him from us, is laughable.
Idk how you can watch Miami and Indiana last night and act like what we have in the front 7 is good enough
Why hasn't it been done yet? I am not sure I see a rationale
I feel like today/tomorrow are good days to land a couple of impact DLine commits. I’m choosing to believe we were just holding the news to not take attention away from the National Championship game.
If for no other reason, I’m guessing Bret would want to do it for the morale of this board.
If for no other reason, I’m guessing Bret would want to do it for the morale of this board.
In my opinion, the biggest difference here is fan expectations vs. the reality of the marketplace for DL. DL plain and simple is notoriously difficult to fill through the portal. There just aren't a whole ton of experienced good ones out there and those that are fetch an absolute premium on the market. Really good DTs with P4 experience are quite rare. It's why I did warn early in the cycle that those saying we'll just go out and easily upgrade DL might not be realistic.
And don't get me wrong, I think we certainly need an upgrade in DL. And outside of McCollum, I didn't see much potential for better than average talent at best. So it's sorta a rock and a hard place. Our best bet is/was probably buying a good G5 DL or overpaying an inexperienced P4 player with upside. Either way though there will be risk associated. But the likelihood of getting an experienced high end no risk DL and winning that ensuing bidding war? Just hard.
As for not completely stocking up the LB room though, that one's weird to me. Seems like we should be able to do that...
do we have a set QB or are we waiting on the portal? I am guessing portal.
multipronged question:
i wonder if there was a deep dive into exactly who we have and their capabilities we'd find that we are closer to
a competitive team than what we think at first glance? how many defections haven't /won't find a place to go and
ask to come back? how many would we take back? ive heard rumblings on the national level that there are hundreds
maybe thousands of guys who have been convinced by an agent/ friend/ parent to hit the portal and have no home.
i wonder if there was a deep dive into exactly who we have and their capabilities we'd find that we are closer to
a competitive team than what we think at first glance? how many defections haven't /won't find a place to go and
ask to come back? how many would we take back? ive heard rumblings on the national level that there are hundreds
maybe thousands of guys who have been convinced by an agent/ friend/ parent to hit the portal and have no home.
Our key players that left went to P4 teams
Which "key players" were that? We didn't win 9 games with defense. We had Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, Western Illinois and Western Michigan on our schedule and all of those games but 1 were at home. So if you are asking me we started the season with the knowledge that 6 wins was a 95% probability. As for the other games we turned Duke over 5 times but they had 400+ yards and pushed us around all day. Indiana, Ohio State, Washington, Wisconsin we were awful defensively, Defense was very good against USC and NU and Tennessee was missing 5 players that opted out and 6 players were already in the portal.
We won with offense. We had the 56th ranked defense in the country. That isn't going to win you anything in the NCAA. So with the number of players returning and the number of Freshman or redshirts that didn't play, I am with the comments about "missing a few pieces." We will miss McCollum. We want players that want to be here and can tackle - for the most part, that's not the other 5 players that hit the portal.
We won with offense. We had the 56th ranked defense in the country. That isn't going to win you anything in the NCAA. So with the number of players returning and the number of Freshman or redshirts that didn't play, I am with the comments about "missing a few pieces." We will miss McCollum. We want players that want to be here and can tackle - for the most part, that's not the other 5 players that hit the portal.
Illinois Football Reality: 9+ wins for 2 years in a row - First time ever.
Illinois Loyalty: WE HAVE NO DL, THE SKY IS FALLING, IT IS HITTING MY HEAD, WE ARE DOOMED, DOOMED I SAY!!
Illinois Football Reality: Illinois football is in an amazing place, possibly the best ever
Illinois Loyalty: BUT THE DEFENSIVE LINE, AND MAYBE LINEBACKERERS, IT IS A DISASTER OF EPICALLY PROPOTIONALITY!!!!
Illinois Football Reality: We have a good staff - they can figure this out
Illinois Loyalty: DEATH! DESPAIR! DELUSIONS! DE PLANE! HELP US ILLINI OBI WAN, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!
Illinois Football Reality: There are no cliffs in Illinois. We are doing very well. There aren't even ledges. Just come inside and relax.
Illinois Loyalty: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Illinois Loyalty: WE HAVE NO DL, THE SKY IS FALLING, IT IS HITTING MY HEAD, WE ARE DOOMED, DOOMED I SAY!!
Illinois Football Reality: Illinois football is in an amazing place, possibly the best ever
Illinois Loyalty: BUT THE DEFENSIVE LINE, AND MAYBE LINEBACKERERS, IT IS A DISASTER OF EPICALLY PROPOTIONALITY!!!!
Illinois Football Reality: We have a good staff - they can figure this out
Illinois Loyalty: DEATH! DESPAIR! DELUSIONS! DE PLANE! HELP US ILLINI OBI WAN, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!
Illinois Football Reality: There are no cliffs in Illinois. We are doing very well. There aren't even ledges. Just come inside and relax.
Illinois Loyalty: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
That's really your take? 
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
3 star IOL | C/O 2027 | 6’3 295lbs | Dillon HS 4.1 GPA | FOOTBALL & TRACK
Dillon, SC
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
16 y/o Football Player Eau Gallie High School Hybrid/LB HT: 6'4 WT: 190
Melbourne, FL
Scary straw man alert.
More football reality -
Indiana National Championship roster:
5 - star high school recruits = 0
4 - star high school recruits = 7
3 - star high school recruits = 55
2 - star high school recruits = 15
Yes, college football is changing based on money. But the money better spent is on coaching staff retention and player / team development.
Re: retention.....How much of that IU roster were transfers? How many of the impact players?
Very fine get.
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