DaChief4ever
- Urbana
Shoulda listened to Vegas Odds.....my wallet hurts now.
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.
College teams use their own footballs, not the home school's. I definitely saw an Indiana player hoisting a Nike orange and blue swoosh ball after one of our turnovers.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.
I thought we had a 5 star TE. He's been nowhere to be seen in his career and his only touch in this season was a fumble.I thought the TEs were supposed to get involved in this offense?
4-8 ceilingTurn the corner ???
IF this program does not get more disciplined AND clean up the stupid penalties we will continue to support a sub .500 team !!!
Look at the schedule. Everyone on here keeps making predictions... TRY to make a realistic one now.
"Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results"snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
pathetic
I highly doubt that it was "designed" as a backwards pass but, even it it was, the execution was off. DeVito was ready to throw the ball but Chase wasn't looking yet, and by the time Chase was looking Luke Ford had whiffed on his block and the defender was able to destroy Chase just as the ball arrived.I still maintain that the backwards pass was the dumbest play of the game.
Well ok, I just assumed it was like basketball, and we used their balls.College teams use their own footballs, not the home school's. I definitely saw an Indiana player hoisting a Nike orange and blue swoosh ball after one of our turnovers.
Also, the ball is the last thing we should blame for last night. We didn't work out basic kinks (like not getting taunting penalties) and we were still in it. This game turned on the incorrect TD call in the first half and the fact that our defensive calling went into bend-not-break mode while Indiana rocked a two-minute drill.
More deflating than getting stuffed and coming away with no points after being first and ten from the 6 yard line I believe? Not to mention giving Indiana a mental lift. And the Illini D once again seeing the offense Gail to score points. I do agree that if you’re gonna go for it, you need a much better play.You don’t go for a FG in that situation. That would be deflating. But you don’t call a run out of shotgun. They were already stuffing our run down there. Maybe some type of rollout run pass option. But not run up middle out of shotgun. That play never had a chance.
Well if you bet Illini at original line you would have won right? Of course for those who didn’t, it was a tough beat.Shoulda listened to Vegas Odds.....my wallet hurts now.
That has been my thought about Ford for awhile — or at least wonder why everyone seems to love him so as a player. I get that he’s home grown guy and seems like a great guy — all reasons to support him. But keep hearing how he needs to be used more in offense and what an oversight coaches are making. Thing is often times when player isn’t being “used correctly,” it’s more a statement on his abilities rather than coach’s.it was not designed to be a lateral and it wasnt. but thats also on TDV to make 100% sure it isnt. It was straight sideways and needs to be at least 1 yard forward to avoid the issue of stupid refs
Luke Ford is really a disappointment in most aspects when on the field. He looks the part walking off the bus, but thats about it.
Its hard knowing you were the better team in just about every aspect of the game , except passing , yet lost. I guess thats better than getting shellacked, but why do I still feel so $hitty ?
The basketball team is going to be really good
I get that, which is why I’m always surprised when I see posts about spread coming down as if Vegas has reassessed things as far as the quality of the team. No, like you say, they are just reacting to get that balance you mentioned.yes, but Vegas doesnt really try to predict the score or the spread,
they just try to predict where they need to put it so 1/2 the people bet on one side and 1/2 on the other. They then collect all the money from the losers and 10% from the winner and they make LOTS of money.
Many computer models have been written to predict these things and some are amazingly correct. And then there are some that are way off.