Vs all our expectations from nearly every one and vs the ease of schedule I think so. But…. You are what your record say you are.
Wisconsin 27, Illinois 10 Postgame
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Swing at the helmet of the defender at the end the play. The ref was watching him after he just had his first unsportsmanlike.
Pretty much nothing, all night....
Not a happy drive home tomorrow. That was less than ideal. Came out flat and left flattened.
Good. Ever since the Indiana first quarter we spent far too much time worrying about that, and never accepting we were bad.
Myself included
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Almost all because of Luke. Without him this looks like a four or five win team (also without X to be fair).
Barring some sort of serious turnaround, they absolutely will not. Could very well be Luke's final game as an Illini. Hoping that could be enough to motivate the guys he leads to play inspired football.
I disagree. Not as a whole. The O-line has been a major disappointment. Everyone knew we had a possibility of having another 10 win season. I never thought of it as guaranteed. We are still WAY better than we were under the previous regimes. I think Henry is not the answer at D coordinator. We obviously need a different guy on the O line. I think the only reason Henry is coordinator is he would have been going to Purdue with Walters if Coach B didn't promote him. Bad roll of the dice IMO....
We are definitely not a football school. At least not one to be taken seriously. Lots of talk of us turning the corner. I program turning the corner and wanting to be taken seriously DOES NOT LOSE THAT GAME.
Some recruiting mistakes on the Oline
I’ve never loved Lunney’s play style and I’ve always thought it was an incongruent with what made Bielema’s teams so good when he was at Wisconsin.
I don’t know who our QB will be next year, but I hope we get some run blocking OLineman and Valentine takes a huge step forward or something.
I’ve never loved Lunney’s play style and I’ve always thought it was an incongruent with what made Bielema’s teams so good when he was at Wisconsin.
I don’t know who our QB will be next year, but I hope we get some run blocking OLineman and Valentine takes a huge step forward or something.
Look on the bright side, the media dude who predicted that we'd play Miami of OH in the garbage pail bowl will now probably be right. arrgghhh
blackdog
- Champaign
Allowing 27 points to Wisconsin and only have 50 yards rushing is absolutely pathetic. The pass rush I can somewhat forgive in this game alone because they are damn good at that but its been a problem against anyone with a remotely talented dline.
Never showed up to play. Wiscy did. Just beaten in every facet of the game.
Never want to hear CFP talk for the next 5 years. This program still has a lot of work to do to be in that position.
Expectations should be 7-8 wins each season and get to some sort of bowl. That’s success for Illinois football.
Never want to hear CFP talk for the next 5 years. This program still has a lot of work to do to be in that position.
Expectations should be 7-8 wins each season and get to some sort of bowl. That’s success for Illinois football.
Showed fight, but at the wrong time.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
Recruiting really needs to take it up several notches to get in the playoff mix
#64 in composite talent stemming from high school/juco rankings. Talent at QB and receivers. RBs are average at high major. Great kicker. OL is average BIG at best and overall defense is below average. Off-season will need to retool heavily.
Like I've said before if you return a team of players who were mostly average why do you expect them to be great the next year. That's where Bret screwed up, he should have upgraded everywhere instead of counting on his current players would improve.
Lol I was shocked. I'll take it as a compliment
Krombopulos_Michael
- Aurora, Illinois (that’s a suburb of Chicago)
I can’t imagine back to back winning seasons feeling as unsatisfying as this one. My goodness. Glad that the expectations of this program are shifting but this program must make changes
Northwestern is very physical and plays smart....our lines are very soft and we rely on mistake prone teams to beat themselves....
100% not winning next week
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
I'm not quite here yet.....but if they don't take that bag of cash they just got and go get the absolute best defensive coach money can buy next year...you'll have my answer.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
How can you not be disappointed with this horrible effort against a bad team?
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