And it's not really early for the Ducks, up until this year 12:30 pm kickoffs were very common. PAC-12 network was a big factor. Personally I like the 12:30 time slot.
Pregame: Illinois at Oregon, Saturday, October 26th, 2:30pm CT, CBS
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Yea, the Autzen crowd should be plenty loud, too much on the line and it's their job to draw penalties on the opponents. I think Ohio St had 5 penalties that you could attribute to the crowd. You're coming in ranked with a 6-1 record, the crowd should be ready.
Plus, they know when to be loud and when to be quiet.
My bad lol
Yeah. That was bad. What years was that done?
*cough* Hey, it's not that our fans don't know that, they just uhhhhhh want to make sure we're prepared for crowd noise during big offensive 3rd and 4th down plays... Uh-huh, yeah, that's it... Seriously though, we've gotta work on that.
When our fans get up and start clapping when it's 3rd down and were on offense I lose my mind lol
An over 25 year long battle, lol. At this point I'm convinced it's a hereditary condition, haha.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Our football and basketball crowds have very different personalities, I've noticed that.
Cheerful and vaguely disinterested at football, 15,000 simultaneous nervous breakdowns at basketball
100% Wouldn't change it for the world right now. I remember during my freshman year that 2001 Sugar Bowl season, as soon as it was 3rd down, loud cheering, followed by shushing and settle down arm motions, followed by a smaller percentage of people cheering, lol. But man was that great compared to the years that followed it. I'm just happy to see people filling the stadium again.But omg i'll take another packed MS doing this all year!!!
Strategically place fans in the know to shush each section!!
I think our fanbase in general could make the subject of many a thesis and scientific journal, haha. The longer I've been around the more I realize how crazy we truly are. I think we may all need therapy for fan PTSD.
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
Yep....and for everyone that thinks just a successful football program solves the packed stadium issue (spoiler alert: duh)...I still maintain that it needs to be an event....not just a football game.
Free food for students......as they leave the stands at the end of the game......student section (and others) full every game.
Can't miss entertainment surrounding the game.....make it the place to be in central and southern IL. This 100 yr. celebration is a blueprint. Find similar strategies to create this type of atmosphere every weekend!
With this schools engineering prowess, we have to find a way to the drone show intro for night games. (did anyone see Texas' Sat??
)A drone Block I and a drone Galloping Ghost with a proper intro song has to find a way to our appropriate department in DIA.
Make this a spectacle every weekend.
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OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Doesn’t Autzen have some sort of unique thing like a European-style roof/canopy that holds noise in? I know Autzen is a loud location despite being small-ish, and I thought something helped keep the noise in.
It does have something of a roof on one side, but not a very big one like Washington. I think it’s the fact it’s essentially a bowl that’s right up on the field, doesn’t have any structures to absorb the sound although I’m not an acoustics expert. Plus the fans are just loud. Must be a Pacific Northwest thing.
Illini fans going there for the first time will like it, even though it’ll be an advantage for UO.
96 1/2 hours to game time. It's our time. Make the best of it fellas.
Shout out to Josh Whitman for the culture he has created. I was hard on him early on, but he had a vision some of us did not see. Whitman, Bielema and Underwood have brought excitement beyond our wildest Illini dreams.
I will be eating Duck a L'Orange Saturday night in celebration.
Shout out to Josh Whitman for the culture he has created. I was hard on him early on, but he had a vision some of us did not see. Whitman, Bielema and Underwood have brought excitement beyond our wildest Illini dreams.
I will be eating Duck a L'Orange Saturday night in celebration.
Jet lag or time difference is only part of the issue. I have a friend who was an US Olympic coach in track and field and after long flights they would have the athletes go to the venues and do a light workout but that all changed after they started using the technology that came out of East Germany. They were so far ahead on understanding stress on the body and how long it takes to fully recover from workouts, competition and air travel. They were using electrodes connected to the athletes that were hooked into computers, then later laptops to measure things the rest of the world didn't yet understand. They had baseline measurements on every athlete then would measure after each session or travel and could determine whether someone was in recovery stage, fit or even if they were getting sick. I say all that to say when they landed, they went straight to the hotel and rested and hydrated which made a world of difference in their performance. They could also measure brain waves to understand an athlete's ability to focus during competition. And the last thing which was really interesting the program was loaded with many of the top athletes in the world, their various sports and events statistical measurements and they could determine whether you were in the correct event that suited your athletic skills, which include explosive power, endurance and reaction time!
I would love to say a W for us but we have several things going against the win. Oregon 38-20.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Urban Meyer calls Bret Bielema’s Illini one of the best coached teams in the country:
Krombopulos_Michael
- Aurora, Illinois (that’s a suburb of Chicago)
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M tipping over
- Pdx
Yes, there is no historical reason for that…
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Obviously because Illini will own Eugene after the game on Saturday.
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