we do have some heavy hitters on D which is good news. I liked seeing our guys swarm to the ball and knocking the snot out of some of those IU players thru out the game.
Indiana 23, Illinois 20 Postgame
Huge punch to just below the belt!! Just cannot lose this game like we did. 4th and goal and you don't kick the FG is just wrong. If you must go for the TD, roll out and toss a floater to a tight end---Indigneana was going to clog the middle, so just don't go there---but no, that's where we went---OOF.
Coaches, clean up the taunting and celebration penalties!! Lastly, tear the prevent defense pages out of the playbook.
Coaches, clean up the taunting and celebration penalties!! Lastly, tear the prevent defense pages out of the playbook.
Chief gritty, you don’t have to press receivers. But you sure as hell can’t give them 10 yard cushions. I mean golly, I’d rather give up big play and get ball back with time on clock. Not die a slow death with then get ball back with 20 seconds.
I am not one to blame the officiating and we had other issues tonight which could have swung the result.. We have had some games, FB/BB where a call or two were cringe worthy. Generally, these offset calls we get. I can't even say for sure there weren't calls that should have gone IU's way, but as to HORRIFICALLY BAD calls, the non-roughing the QB call and the personal flop call were embarrassingly bad. I know that there are post game referee calls in the pros, I wish there were the same now in college football.
Dear BIG10, please try and explain these. I would bet you cant with a straight face, lol.
Dear BIG10, please try and explain these. I would bet you cant with a straight face, lol.
QB position---DeVito is a competitor. He has a good sense of the pocket and and when to take off. He was off a bit at times and had a number of throws that were caught and dropped but thrown a bit behind the receiver. Not a bad game but a blah game, moved the chains a bunch but didn't translate into points.
WR position- --IW is an incredible athlete. He just needs the ball in his hands. He needs to slow down and make the catch first. Had a few bobbles both weeks now. Little baffled that we went away from Bryant(can throw in Hightower if want). Good size and looked open a few times. Beatty needs to see more action as well. More threats on the field and getting IW the ball becomes easier.
RB---Not much to say about Chase Brown. Elite RB who just has great insticts. I only have one beef with the running game. McCray is out and we need more production behind Brown. BB knows the team, JMO but I would like to see Aidan Laughery be RB #3 on the depth chart. Have no problem with Love or Hayden getting some touches but I just don't see a consistent "it" factor in either one of them.
Defense----Got smoked for 3 big plays in the first half. Two bad punts and turnovers hurt us. Settled down in 2nd half and looked incredible until that last prevent D drive. Indiana is a one trick pony and we couldn't stop them. Bazelak threw for 330 yards against us and hit some wide open receivers.
I thought our playcalling was a little suspect at times in the 2nd half. Hard to do but Indiana was trying to contain Brown and IW in the 2nd half. I want the ball in Brown and IW hands the most but I could almost predict what they were going to call just from the sets I saw. If I can see it than Indiana could as well. I have no problem with the D playcalling until the end. I know you have to change it up a bit on last drive but if they are going to score, play less prevent and if they score over the top on you than so be it and you have more time for the offense with 2 timeouts left.
Illinois started last season 1-4 last season and finished 5-7. This was a tough game to give away but am here for the long run. Have a big chore next game against Virginia and Brennan Armstrong. Amazing gunslinger who I am going to block out of my head until closer to game time.
WR position- --IW is an incredible athlete. He just needs the ball in his hands. He needs to slow down and make the catch first. Had a few bobbles both weeks now. Little baffled that we went away from Bryant(can throw in Hightower if want). Good size and looked open a few times. Beatty needs to see more action as well. More threats on the field and getting IW the ball becomes easier.
RB---Not much to say about Chase Brown. Elite RB who just has great insticts. I only have one beef with the running game. McCray is out and we need more production behind Brown. BB knows the team, JMO but I would like to see Aidan Laughery be RB #3 on the depth chart. Have no problem with Love or Hayden getting some touches but I just don't see a consistent "it" factor in either one of them.
Defense----Got smoked for 3 big plays in the first half. Two bad punts and turnovers hurt us. Settled down in 2nd half and looked incredible until that last prevent D drive. Indiana is a one trick pony and we couldn't stop them. Bazelak threw for 330 yards against us and hit some wide open receivers.
I thought our playcalling was a little suspect at times in the 2nd half. Hard to do but Indiana was trying to contain Brown and IW in the 2nd half. I want the ball in Brown and IW hands the most but I could almost predict what they were going to call just from the sets I saw. If I can see it than Indiana could as well. I have no problem with the D playcalling until the end. I know you have to change it up a bit on last drive but if they are going to score, play less prevent and if they score over the top on you than so be it and you have more time for the offense with 2 timeouts left.
Illinois started last season 1-4 last season and finished 5-7. This was a tough game to give away but am here for the long run. Have a big chore next game against Virginia and Brennan Armstrong. Amazing gunslinger who I am going to block out of my head until closer to game time.
I'm still optimistic for this season and beyond if this guy is our HC.
pathetic loss. Went away from aggressive D and laid back. Unfortunately falls on coaching.
I think the turnovers and dropped balls fall on the players.
Not fixed but we don’t matter enough to overturn a call. I’m guessing there is some negative incentive to the ref that leads to this outcome.
Was this Witherspoon? I said to the group I was watching the game with after Witherspoon made a nice play (not a great play, just a play he should make) that I wish he wasn’t yapping and posing cuz it is gonna come back to haunt him. Next play, like you said, same guy caught a 25-30 yard pass with Witherspoon “covering” him.
JJE
- Bethalto, IL
The season is long, but I'm not going out of my way to watch any more games this year. I've wasted way too many years watching the same rerun year after year. Illinois football has always been just something to keep me mildly entertained until basketball season. Wish it wasn't that ways, but it's been decades of the same product.
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
There are losses and then there are gutwrenching losses. For me, this was one of those gutwrenching ones.
Really feel for our team and coaching staff as well.
Really feel for our team and coaching staff as well.
JJE said:
The season is long, but I'm not going out of my way to watch any more games this year. I've wasted way too many years watching the same rerun year after year. Illinois football has always been just something to keep me mildly entertained until basketball season. Wish it wasn't that ways, but it's been decades of the same product.
See you here next week.
The season is long, but I'm not going out of my way to watch any more games this year. I've wasted way too many years watching the same rerun year after year. Illinois football has always been just something to keep me mildly entertained until basketball season. Wish it wasn't that ways, but it's been decades of the same product.
See you here next week.
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KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
Think the refs negated that play due to them not allowing Illinois sufficient time to complete second wave of substitutions by Indiana.
Damn. This game was so winnable, but made mistakes everywhere possible..dumb penalties, 3 turnovers, dropped passes, a few poor throws, and some questionable play calling. The refs completely blew the no TD call, but we did everything we could to lose.
Illini in OC
In. The. Alley.
It was just said on the radio we shot ourselves in the foot .......Look's to me like we blew our head off..................
LOL. PTOD
Players certainly messed up plenty, but I don't want to hear about how competent and amazing this staff is after some of those decisions. Plenty of blame to go all around for this one. Gonna be hard to commit 4 hours to watch a game each week, let alone venture to the stadium if this is the level of competence displayed.
New year….same old, same old
How is it every time we have to go to an Adidas school we drop the bag. I'm pretty sure that in both basketball and football we should have put in an exemption that we can use different balls, at least on game weeks. They are similar balls but not the same, and it showed with some of those incompletions.
Illini in OC