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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #90 on: November 20, 2020, 08:32:14 PM »
Gophers up on Boilers
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« Reply #91 on: November 21, 2020, 06:07:31 AM »
The gofs were a little fortunate to get the win being down a bunch of players. A questionable offensive pass interference on a late td that may have been the game winner for PU.
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #92 on: November 21, 2020, 06:03:44 PM »
Really impressed with NW today.  Badgers physically pushed us and UM all over the place.  They couldn't do it to the wildcats.
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« Reply #93 on: November 21, 2020, 06:24:31 PM »
Yeah that outcome really surprised me. One thing that kept coming back to me today is Lovie’s policy of not tackling to the ground in practice and how each year we’ve seen the team typically take several weeks to start playing through contact and making tackles.
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #94 on: November 21, 2020, 07:07:58 PM »
Quote from: ridingthegrange on November 21, 2020, 06:03:44 PM
Really impressed with NW today.  Badgers physically pushed us and UM all over the place.  They couldn't do it to the wildcats.

Northwestern played a smart game. The Wildcats defense is excellent and quite opportunistic. Pat Fitzgerald & Mike Hankwitz (DC) have done a great job over the years. Scary part is the university made a huge commitment to football (new $270M facility for all sports opened in 2018) and Fitzgerald is still a young head coach with no (apparent) aspirations of finding another college/NFL job.

https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2018/06/28/lakefront-facility-puts-northwestern-among-the.html
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #95 on: November 21, 2020, 07:09:04 PM »
Watching the Bedlam matchup. OSU’s defense makes Illinois’ look like the 85 Bears
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« Reply #96 on: November 21, 2020, 07:13:54 PM »
Quote from: dwc13 on November 21, 2020, 07:07:58 PM
Northwestern played a smart game. The Wildcats defense is excellent and quite opportunistic. Pat Fitzgerald & Mike Hankwitz (DC) have done a great job over the years. Scary part is the university made a huge commitment to football (new $270M facility for all sports opened in 2018) and Fitzgerald is still a young head coach with no (apparent) aspirations of finding another college/NFL job.

https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2018/06/28/lakefront-facility-puts-northwestern-among-the.html

NW has had a good thing going for quite some time. They were 3-9 last year (but still pushed our shit in). But they’re certainly light years ahead of us and with that investment and and continuity it doesn’t look like that’s going to change any time soon. At the same time if schools like WI, IA, NW can build long term successful programs there shouldn’t be any reason Illinois can’t.
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #97 on: November 22, 2020, 04:43:10 PM »
Quote from: Custard on November 21, 2020, 07:09:04 PM
Watching the Bedlam matchup. OSU’s defense makes Illinois’ look like the 85 Bears

Oklahoma State is right up there with the biggest frauds in college football. Just about every year, the Cowpies win a few games, proclaim themselves Big XII contenders and then fall flat on their face against [insert Big XII conference team besides OU] before finally getting rolled by Oklahoma.

Hope you're feeling better.
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« Reply #98 on: November 22, 2020, 05:46:42 PM »
Quote from: Custard on November 21, 2020, 07:13:54 PM
NW has had a good thing going for quite some time. They were 3-9 last year (but still pushed our shit in). But they’re certainly light years ahead of us and with that investment and and continuity it doesn’t look like that’s going to change any time soon. At the same time if schools like WI, IA, NW can build long term successful programs there shouldn’t be any reason Illinois can’t.

I agree there is no reason why Illinois cannot be successful at football. The on-field success (at football) Northwestern, Stanford and Duke have enjoyed the past 25 years has invalidated any and all excuses. Note that I'm not talking perennial national/conference champion contender level for the Illini; however, the success and consistency Iowa has enjoyed during the Hayden Fry / Kirk Ferentz years is, IMO, a reasonable expectation.

When I was going to college, Northwestern was arguably still the worst college football program. A few years earlier over a 4 year period (1978-81), the Wildcats lost 34 in a row while compiling a 1-42-1 record. The '81 team finished 0-11 and gave up 505 points in 11 games while scoring...82. Yikes. I doubt the Illini have ever approached that level of all-time futility. Times have changed, though. Ever since Gary Barnett led the Wildcats to the Rose Bowl following the 1995 season, Northwestern has generally fielded a competitive football team each year. Fitzgerald has done a great job at his alma mater since taking over in 2006. Last year was a bit of an aberration for the Wildcats, I think. After Northwestern beat Wisconsin yesterday, it appears the Wildcats will be heading to Indianapolis to play in the B1G Ten Championship (barring Covid-19 interruptions). If it happens, that would be twice in the past 3 conference championship games for NW (also 2018 against Ohio State). Crazy. I think 2020 Northwestern is much better equipped to compete with Ohio State, if they meet in Indy.
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #99 on: November 22, 2020, 07:46:30 PM »
Good stuff! And thanks for the well wishes!
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #100 on: November 23, 2020, 06:15:40 AM »
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« Reply #101 on: November 23, 2020, 02:19:00 PM »
That’s great
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #102 on: November 28, 2020, 12:00:37 PM »
Since Ohio State-Illinois has been cancelled, I'm watching Maryland at Indiana. Desperate times call for desperate measures, right?!

2020 special: Maryland loses 34 yards on a play and still gets a first down. MD is driving but another Taulia Tagoviloa pass is picked off and returned a long way before the DB fumbles. Perhaps that's why he's a DB, not a WR. Terps recover. 1st down, MD, but only after losing 34 yards in field position on the play.



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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #103 on: November 28, 2020, 02:30:27 PM »
Jaret Patterson, Buffalo, with 385 yards rushing and 8 tds.

So far.
5 minutes left in the game.

Finishes with 8 to tie Howard Griffith.
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Re: 2020 Football
« Reply #104 on: November 28, 2020, 07:13:38 PM »
Quote from: Mn on November 28, 2020, 02:30:27 PM
Jaret Patterson, Buffalo, with 385 yards rushing and 8 tds.

So far.
5 minutes left in the game.

Finishes with 8 to tie Howard Griffith.

I met Howard in person once, I said he was the Al Bundy of college football... he didn't get the joke till I explained it to him 😂
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