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Illinois vs Nebraska in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 28th, 2021)
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<blockquote data-quote="Fighter of the Nightman" data-source="post: 1487267" data-attributes="member: 590800"><p>I never got the harping on this ... everyone wants that, and it should be first priority, but this could be a nice gimmick for people to see Illinois in a national spotlight. I don’t think you schedule this game with the mindset, “We’re 2-4 and hopeless (both true), you have to schedule it with the mindset that our replacement for Lovie - a diamond in the rough boy wonder from the MAC that we got epically lucky on - had a surprisingly promising first year and has some nice recruits coming in and this game might be his program’s coming out party.</p><p></p><p>I am always sympathetic to the argument about giving up home games, but ADs have to look at the side aspects of their jobs (i.e., the parts aside from “hire winning coaches) with the assumption we’ll be better in a few years ... even if we won’t.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighter of the Nightman, post: 1487267, member: 590800"] I never got the harping on this ... everyone wants that, and it should be first priority, but this could be a nice gimmick for people to see Illinois in a national spotlight. I don’t think you schedule this game with the mindset, “We’re 2-4 and hopeless (both true), you have to schedule it with the mindset that our replacement for Lovie - a diamond in the rough boy wonder from the MAC that we got epically lucky on - had a surprisingly promising first year and has some nice recruits coming in and this game might be his program’s coming out party. I am always sympathetic to the argument about giving up home games, but ADs have to look at the side aspects of their jobs (i.e., the parts aside from “hire winning coaches) with the assumption we’ll be better in a few years ... even if we won’t. [/QUOTE]
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