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General Category => Halas Hall Football Forum => Topic started by: ThePAMan on August 26, 2024, 11:55:29 AM
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Because Tempo never knows when the games are, and Judge Judy always goes to the wrong stadium for the games, we are back at this.
Aug 29 (Thu) 8 PM CT Big Ten Network
vs Eastern Illinois
Game is in Champaign. It will be hot.
I'll be damned if I can find any game notes on the wreck that is the Illini website.
Illini 2-0 all-time versus the EIU Panther squad.
If you want a cheesesteak, go to East Main 105:
Illini Cheesesteak - $13.00
Candy M&Ms, Peanut M&Ms, Sour Patch Kids, Cookie Dough Bites - $4.00
Philly Cheeseteak Fries - $11.00
Popcorn - $5.00
(Yes, I can find this shit...)
Game opened with Illinis at -30.5. Currently at -27.5 a few spots at -28 at one. Smart money moving against the Illinis!
https://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/odds/las-vegas/
Go Illini!
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I’ll be flying home during the meat of this tussle. Guys will have to do the heavy cursing for me.
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I think we can handle the JV ok.
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who the fuck plays a college game on a Thursday night
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who the fuck plays a college game on a Thursday night
Shitty college teams.
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Finally found the notes! All items stolen from Fightingillini.com...
Illinois vs. Eastern Illinois
Date/Time Thursday, Aug. 29 | 8 p.m. CT
Location Champaign, Illinois (Memorial Stadium)
Tickets Tickets Start at $15 at FightingIllini.com
TV Big Ten Network
Radio Busey Bank Illini Sports Network | Listen | SiriusXM (161/195), SXM App
Eastern Illinois finished its 2023 season with an 8-3 record, and the Panthers closed the campaign with four consecutive wins. EIU earned votes in the first AFCA FCS Coaches Top 25 poll of the year while being picked to finish second in the Big South-OVC preseason poll.
The Illini and Panthers will square off for the third time on Thursday in their first matchup since 2008. Illinois leads the all-time series, 2-0, after recording a 42-17 win in 2006 and a 47-21 victory in 2008. Both contests were played at Memorial Stadium.
Air Raid Siren: New for 2024, an Illini celebrity will sound the Illini air raid siren right before kickoff to get the crowd pumped up for the Fighting Illini football team. Former Illini basketball star and recent NBA Draft pick Terrence Shannon Jr. is scheduled to be the first Illini celebrity sounder for the home opener against Eastern Illinois on Aug. 29.
*Illinois was one of the best in the Big Ten at improving its roster in the transfer portal. According to CBS research of 247Sports ratings, the Illini's roster had a net rating gain of +2.78 between transfers in and transfers out, the sixth-best mark in the Big Ten, and that was before Illinois added WR Zakhari Franklin.
Rest of the notes are standard feel good bullshit to cover up how disappointing this program really is....
I think Illinois is going to win, but it would not surprise me if Illinois loses.
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2024/08/28/illinois-bret-bielema-big-ten-illini-college-football-2024
Quite the indictment of Illinois football. Hell, Illinois sports....But we are lucky to have him!
Illinois still hasn’t had a coach with a winning record since John Mackovic, who bolted for Texas after the 1991 season. There has been one winning season in 12 years and only four of them in the last 23, as well as back-to-back bowl appearances only once post-Mackovic — in 2010 and 2011, the mediocre final two go-rounds for Ron Zook before he was fired.
Bielema, who is 18-19 at the school, is still trying to move the needle yet already has an outside chance to finish his fourth season in the top 10 on the list of Illini coaching wins; Lou Tepper is in 10th, three spots ahead of him, with 25. And if Bielema were to continue at a neither good nor awful rate of six wins per year through the end of his contract, in 2028? Almost unbelievably, he’d be all the way up in third place on the list, behind forever-ago coaches Bob Zuppke (131) and Ray Eliot (83).
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Until further notice, he’s probably as good as we can do.
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Unless the boosters dig really deep.
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Anyone want my tickets and parking pass to tonight's game?
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Anyone want my tickets and parking pass to tonight's game?
Yes please! I email you back.
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Yes please! I email you back.
Just leave the Mattoon blacks at home.
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I'm gonna go ahead and put it out there again. Bret Bielema is trash.
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Just leave the Mattoon blacks at home.
Yeah, don’t want any trouble with the police!
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Yes please! I email you back.
Ok. I didn't get it.
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Ok. I didn't get it.
Yeah I realized that. I even emailed back to follow up and realized I need to send you the message on here, so I sent you one on here. You can just transfer them to me and let me know what you need!
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Yeah I realized that. I even emailed back to follow up and realized I need to send you the message on here, so I sent you one on here. You can just transfer them to me and let me know what you need!
Need either your cell or your email address.
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Need either your cell or your email address.
Pm’ed you!
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Pm’ed you!
You taking a friend, a lady friend, or your daughter?
Regardless, enjoy the game.
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You taking a friend, a lady friend, or your daughter?
Regardless, enjoy the game.
Taking a buddy, one of my best friends from high school I haven’t seen in a while.
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Taking a buddy, one of my best friends from high school I haven’t seen in a while.
Oxy and BJ potential? Just in before Jobu and Tempo get ahold of this one....
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Oh man. Best friends from high school are the worst. Good luck with that Judy.
Remember, you can't drink and smoke/snort as much as you used to.
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I'm gonna go ahead and put it out there again. Bret Bielema is trash.
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today?
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Yeah, was gonna ask if he traded the other ticket for a BJ.
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Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today?
Absolutely not! I'm in a great mood today actually.
Found out yesterday that I got a promotion at work.
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Oxy and BJ potential? Just in before Jobu and Tempo get ahold of this one....
I’m not gay, he is! 😂
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I’m not gay, he is! 😂
Wait, this dude is gay? He surely doesn't live in Mattoon, does he?
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Wait, this dude is gay? He surely doesn't live in Mattoon, does he?
No, we’re neither gay. I was just making a joke.
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No, we’re neither gay. I was just making a joke.
Oh. Ok. Well, I wasn't passing judgement either way. Just so we're clear. Nothing wrong with being friends with fags.
I actually went to a gay wedding a while back. It was super fun. They had drag queens and everything
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Oh. Ok. Well, I wasn't passing judgement either way. Just so we're clear. Nothing wrong with being friends with fags.
I actually went to a gay wedding a while back. It was super fun. They had drag queens and everything
Love this part “ Nothing wrong with being friends with fags.” 😂🤣 I spit my drink out reading it!
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Oh. Ok. Well, I wasn't passing judgement either way. Just so we're clear. Nothing wrong with being friends with fags.
I actually went to a gay wedding a while back. It was super fun. They had drag queens and everything
Someone has to ask, were the bathrooms at the reception gender neutral?
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Someone has to ask, were the bathrooms at the reception gender neutral?
Great question. If I recall correctly, which I may not, it was the standard hotel, mens room, women's room, then family bathroom where you can take a toddler who shit themselves and have some privacy.
So, technically, the family one is gender neutral. I think. Hell I don't know.
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Honestly don’t have much experience with gender neutral. So it’s just a free for all?
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Honestly don’t have much experience with gender neutral. So it’s just a free for all?
Unless it is single user, yes.
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Unless it is single user, yes.
I said single occupancy. I think the big word must have confused golf.
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So do we have a realistic shot at 7-8 wins?
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So do we have a realistic shot at 7-8 wins?
Realistic?
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Realistic?
Semi-realistic?
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Just saw a CBS article in which the guy thought we were underrated.
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Semi-realistic?
It is still Illinois, so aren't the odds against it?
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5-7 likely
7-5 if we get super lucky
3-9 if we get bad breaks or injuries
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Offense already sucks!
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Defense sucks too!
2 win season!
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Bielema sucks ass
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Is Mikey Dudek healthy yet?
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O line not blowing EIU off the line inside is problematic
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Is Mikey Dudek healthy yet?
He's not even doing The Illiniboard football podcast anymore. They claimed last year finished him off.
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O line not blowing EIU off the line inside is problematic
It’s not a problem until October 26th.
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It’s not a problem until October 26th.
Good one
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I don't get challenging that
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Is Judge Judy cheering or jeering?
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Is Judge Judy cheering or jeering?
He’s probably splooging.
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Mn, McCrae looks like he put fat back on!
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Tempo, should we book our flights for The Rose Bowl? Wait, who would the B1G even play in The Rose Bowl since there is no Pac 10?
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I’ve been to the Rose Bowl. Was fun, but doubt I’ll go back.
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I’ve been to the Rose Bowl. Was fun, but doubt I’ll go back.
Who wants to be in 70 degree weather on NYD? Not you, apparently.
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I respect Howard for sticking around and doing the post-game show after taking such a whipping.
(https://i.postimg.cc/8CFNXSP1/IMG-8647.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/zL1s34gM)
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Is the Rose Bowl the national title game this year, if not, I don’t want it.
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Some quick wit there LoL.
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Let the Luke Altmeyer Heisman campaign begin!
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So what’s the story about Judge Judy going to the wrong stadium that sounds funny and almost impossible
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ah crap I missed it
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So what’s the story about Judge Judy going to the wrong stadium that sounds funny and almost impossible
Judge Judy was planning on traveling to the wrong stadium for an Illini game until he saw my Hey Tempo post. True story!
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Judge Judy was planning on traveling to the wrong stadium for an Illini game until he saw my Hey Tempo post. True story!
The man, the myth, the legend…
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Good opener. I hope our offense can click vs real competition.
Friday night lights kickoff tonight in town with a good matchup. Keep the winning going.
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The man, the myth, the legend…
Oh man. If you would have showed up at EIU's field, and taken a picture of the empty stadium, that would have been epic.
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On a side note, that QB for EIU looked like someone you might not pick for your flag team. Looked kinda fat and out of shape. Like he had been working a shitty job for 20 years and wanted an outlet for some frustration.
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Oh man. If you would have showed up at EIU's field, and taken a picture of the empty stadium, that would have been epic.
Damn, missed opportunity. I wish I would’ve thought of that!
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Damn, missed opportunity. I wish I would’ve thought of that!
Yeah. Well, I can't think of everything all the time.
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The man, the myth, the legend…
How was the game? You just decide to sit on the 50?
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Looked like a lot of people left at halftime to hit the bars.
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How was the game? You just decide to sit on the 50?
It was good. Thanks again. Nah we just stayed in those seats. It was a pretty good crowd, but a lot did leave early. Places looked full at the beginning because crowd was spread evenly. No noticeable holes.
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Good opener. I hope our offense can click vs real competition.
Friday night lights kickoff tonight in town with a good matchup. Keep the winning going.
Oh hey Beach Bum! Hope you're still fucking yourself. If not, go fuck yourself!
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O line not blowing EIU off the line inside is problematic
EIU was supposedly good. Maybe that was their one strength?
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My smart tv recorded the game, nice! Watching it now
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My smart tv recorded the game, nice! Watching it now
Smart tvs are nice.
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They did what had to be done against a far inferior opponent.
Now let’s see some of that against teams with a pulse.
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They did what had to be done against a far inferior opponent.
Now let’s see some of that against teams with a pulse.
College football playoff for this squad. I'm calling it right fucking now.
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Man this is an ass whoopin
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https://x.com/TheFieldPass/status/1829536679591301427
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https://x.com/TheFieldPass/status/1829536679591301427
https://x.com/TheFieldPass/status/1829881846022181281?t=IfyGn5FzctIIOqHhYT4H_Q&s=19
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https://x.com/TheFieldPass/status/1829881846022181281?t=IfyGn5FzctIIOqHhYT4H_Q&s=19
I've heard that the guys who do these grades are just guys watching the game who have no clue who missed assignments that other guys look bad trying to cover for, and stuff like that