Wisconsin 27, Illinois 10 Postgame

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I've never seen a team less prepared for a game than us tonight.
Pick just about any game with Zook as our head coach for that except for that one great season and I don't even want to talk about Lasagne guy or Superbowl guy
 
#77      
Pretty pathetic showing tonight in all phases of the game. Not sure how one can reasonably justify either Miller or Henry being back next year. Not good enough, just not good enough. Not sure how we could come out this poorly in all 3 phases for the 2nd time this season and yet we did. That's on the players and that's on Bret too, but man, when we can't put together any actual functional defensive scheme or OL blocking scheme for multiple weeks this season, you need new blood there, plain and simple. Awful awful game.
 
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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
Aside from the media dude...who would see a bright side in this? I can get on board with the arrgghhh though!
 
#81      
We looked like a team (and staff) who thought they'd just show up and win. This could have been a whole lot worse too. Three fumbles that we recovered and got back, probably three dropped picks by Wisky too.

Terrible game plan. Especially offensively. You can't keep running deep dropbacks when you can't block anybody. No screens, no slants, no quick passes to the edges. Just drop back and flail around or hand offs up the gut for 1-2 yards.

Bottom line, the holes in recruiting were on full display tonight. Punter, RB's, both lines.
 
#82      
So frustrated. Will be a very long time that our talent and schedule line up like they did this year. Under performed. What’s crazy is this is not a bad year relative to what we are use to.
This 1000%. We completely blew it. Had all the hype we wanted and now we’re back to being a joke of a program.

Will take a long time to earn that back.
 
#83      
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....
Quote: "No matter how you slice it, even if they win the last 2 games, based on pre-season expectations, this season has been a (major?) disappointment."
Also, the defense giving up 27 points to this offense was totally inexcusable.
 
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Coach's comments during the post game show were surprising...Almost apathetic...
 
#90      
Again, after that performance vs the worst offense in the B1G...like historically bad...and the nuke at Indinia...there's absolutely no way you can come back with the same DC next year and be serious about moving this program forward.
Bret's press conference after Washington is burned into my brain. I think it's more likely than not that Henry isn't even here for the bowl game.
 
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Quote: "No matter how you slice it, even if they win the last 2 games, based on pre-season expectations, this season has been a (major?) disappointment."
Yes. It has. This had the makings of a no worse than 10 win team. The defense was putrid all year. I never can understand why we were playing receivers 10 yards off the LOS. We should have been in their face knocking them off their route. Lots of questions on what this program is. Where is it going? Bret has a lot to answer for. This is all on him.
 
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Quote: "No matter how you slice it, even if they win the last 2 games, based on pre-season expectations, this season has been a (major?) disappointment."
Also, the defense giving up 27 points to this offense was totally inexcusable.
I disagree still. Who thought they were guaranteed 10wins? I don't remember... We were considered a dark horse for the playoff. Thats exactly what we've been until Wisconsin just made us look awful. You must have been really drinking the kool aid hard pre season.
 
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The ONLY bright side is that this performance was Soo bad that Bret might actually fire Henry and Miller after the season.

Fire Discher while your at it too. Special teams have been horrendous
I don't think Discher should be fired. We had a couple bad games, but I think the absolute biggest issue has been our long snapper being able to deliver a ball above the ankles. Hilariousky Kreutz has had the same issues getting it to Luke though that's a separate issue. In any case, snapping has been a major problem this year and has been one of the primary reasons for a lot of our struggles with blocking and timing. I think it we replace our long snapper and center, a lot of these problems will clear up.
 
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