Pregame: Illinois at Nebraska, Friday, September 20th, 7:00pm CT, FOX

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Fighter of the Nightman
Pikeillinifan said:
The rumors around Lincoln were around him being back in his element and having too much fun, with some other rumblings sprinkled in.

No matter how good you are, at the B1G or SEC level, you have to be 100% dialed in 24/7 to succeed.

My bet is that he learned a valuable lesson from that experience, but then again, he walked away a very rich man, and he gets to spend time in Scottdale with his family, so it can't be all bad.
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Heard from a friend in Omaha and another in Lincoln that he at least had a close call with getting a co-ed pregnant or something kind of Urban Meyer-esque like that (I cannot recall the details) … ZERO idea if that’s just a rumor, but the fact it exists and two people who aren’t friends heard about it at least speaks to rumors floating around about him while he was there.
 
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pvaughn8
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Heard from a friend in Omaha and another in Lincoln that he at least had a close call with getting a co-ed pregnant or something kind of Urban Meyer-esque like that (I cannot recall the details) … ZERO idea if that’s just a rumor, but the fact it exists and two people who aren’t friends heard about it at least speaks to rumors floating around about him while he was there.
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#254      
Illini-Rule
I just checked out the Nebby fan site. The one is found was boring and hardly any comments. There may be a different site that I didn't find. By the way Dan.... thank you for such a great site. It always amazes me when I check out other fan sites and see how unsophisticated they are.
 
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Old.Edgy
Ander1345 said:
Wonder how much research they did for this considering he was benched because he had a concussion not for throwing ints...
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These writers do as little 'research' as possible... They rely on 'popular name brands' first, and then total yards & number of TD's and finally a low INT number...
 
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1970 John
Old.Edgy said:
These writers do as little 'research' as possible... They rely on 'popular name brands' first, and then total yards & number of TD's and finally a low INT number...
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As I’ve said before, journalists are pack animals. They’ll seldom stray far from the herd. There be dragons.

Say what the herd says, and if you’re wrong, well, that’s what everyone was saying. Safety in numbers.
 
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mhuml32
These Kansas, Nebraska, likely Penn State night games, where the TV ratings are much higher - it's that much more important to win or "impress". If Illinois would have beaten CMU something like 27-21 on BTN at 11am, it would have gotten lost in the shuffle for 95% of CFB fans. That isn't going to be possible on Friday night in Lincoln. Put on a good show, boys.
 
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Brosky
CaptainCrutch said:
Idk man, picking 7-8 in general is pretty reasonable in my opinion but saying “at least” 7-8 wins is hard for me to buy into.

You have to finish 4-5 to get to 7 wins. On its face, expecting that when we’re 3-0 sounds simple. But, of those 9 games, 4 of those teams (@22NEB, @10PSU, 16UM, @9UO) are currently ranked above you. Let’s say you “expect” to grab one of these (which is bold). You’ve got 3 losses there. You have to go 3-2 against the other 5 to get to 7. Don’t snag one and you can only afford one loss against the rest.

MSU, Rutgers have shown themselves as capable teams this far.

NW, Minnesota, Purdue don’t look good, but when’s the last time we’ve avoided every toe-stubbing opportunity laid in front of us?

I think 7-8 wins is doable (if we’re as good as no-context games make us look), but I don’t think you can treat that as the minimum.
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I agree with you.
 
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aaeismacgychel
I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but Nebraska has canceled in person classes on Friday to accommodate students so they can fully attend and enjoy the game. Yes, this is an actual thing and not a joke:

Nebraska cancels Friday classes to accommodate football

So expect an even roudier crowd on Friday with a full day of drunken pregaming. Nebraska fans seem absolutely psyched about this game and the prospect of beating a Top 25 team for the first time in something like 8 years. Most are extremely confident in this being a blowout and will likely be showing up expecting domination.

In my opinion key to this game will be not playing from behind early. Need to score first, hopefully on our first drive, and take the crowd out of it before they can really ramp up. Can't go down a couple scores early or I do think there's a real chance this could snowball. Going to be a tough game, but with an amped up crowd who also has been kicked in the nuts the past few years in big games, if you score first and follow that up with a huge pick, that crowd will start getting restless.
 
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aaeismacgychel
mhuml32 said:
I believe classes weren't canceled but moved online for Friday.
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That is correct, just the in person part of the classes were canceled, not the classes themselves. Well unless they're lab classes I guess, lol. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. However, Nebraska still did it specifically because of the football game, which is pretty incredible.
 
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big10fan
Battle89 said:
Sums up a lot of today's priorities in one phrase

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First of all, that's inaccurate. They have gone to an online format for Friday to accomodate 90,000 people coming on campus without the obvious headache of parking of commuters, instructors and other employees at the same time. Seems a very prudent decision, to me. I'd suggest you posting this says much more about your priorities than it does "a lot of today's..."
 
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