Illini Football 2024

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Dan

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Welcome to the Illinois Football 2024 & College Football news thread :illinois:


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2024 Illini Football (3-0, 0-0)
DateOpponentResult
Thu, Aug 29Eastern IllinoisW 45-0
Sat, Sept 7KansasW 23-17
Sat, Sept 14Central MichiganW 30-9
Fri, Sept 20@Nebraska7:00pm FOX
Sat, Sept 28@Penn State6:00pm/6:30pm
Sat, Oct 12Purdue
Sat, Oct 19Michigan
Sat, Oct 26@Oregon2:30pm/3:00pm/6:30pm
Sat, Nov 2Minnesota
Sat, Nov 16Michigan State
Sat, Nov 23@Rutgers
Sat, Nov 30Northwestern
(Wrigley Field)

All times CT
 
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Illinivek23
mhuml32 said:
Didn't mention this in the past game notes but Jojo Hayden's PFF scores are solid in limited action. In some ways it's wild that Illinois is producing a lot of interesting edge pieces but could use an extra interior d-line piece (or two).


https://twitter.com/x/status/1835743357467070677
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Hayden laid the wood on at least one tackle that really stood out to me against CMU. Great to see.

Our LBs tend to be the mobile type - who is our run stuffer in the current 3 deep?
 
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Fighter of the Nightman
eas23 said:
Not sure if this has been pointed out the last couple weeks, but with the 3-0 start Bielema is now 21-19 as Illinois head coach. He's the first Illinois head coach to be over .500 through 40 games since Lou Tepper.
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And this really highlights how bad of records the Zook teams had before the Rose Bowl stint. While we went 9-4 in the Rose Bowl year and had a combined 14-11 record from 2007-2008 … we were 4-19 in his first two seasons before that, lol.
 
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Battle89
Not sure where to put this, but just saw that Tennessee is adding a 10% ‘Talent Tax’ onto every ticket to cover NIL. I’m sure they won’t be the last.
 
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Dkayak
Battle89 said:
Not sure where to put this, but just saw that Tennessee is adding a 10% ‘Talent Tax’ onto every ticket to cover NIL. I’m sure they won’t be the last.
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What’s next, NCAA salary caps?
 
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mhuml32
Did a quick dive of players Illinois lost to the portal this offseason and whether they've played well, played poorly, or barely/not played, or didn't land anywhere:


Played Well
Tobe
Mc-Cantos
Badie (hasn't played a lot)
Barlev
Love

Played Poorly
Anthony Johnson
McConnell (trending closer towards average than poor)
Nicholson
Miller

Barely/Not Played
Dennis
Moore (surprising)
Smith (3 snaps)
Ford
Leys
Pugh
Okla
Anderson
Davis


Didn't Land Anywhere(?)
Jenkins
 
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Calvin
Dkayak said:
What’s next, NCAA salary caps?
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I don't see it --at least not a workable version. The idea of a one-size-fits all seems like an obviously bad idea. tOSU or TX having the same limits as Vanderbilt or Kent State won't be workable --big schools will find ways around anything the NCAA tries to impose. I don't even think it can be done within conferences. Schools can spend what they want as long as they believe it's net positive.
 
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kmunt09
Regarding Salary Caps…and correct me if i’m wrong….

I believe there will be capped spending amounts per each university’s Athletic Department as a whole (not on a sport by sport bases).

The university will be able to chose where and how they divide the spending up (i.e. split spending 45% basketball, 45% football, 10% other sports for well balanced approach………….perhaps 60% basketball, 30% football, 10% other sports for Duke; etc.)

This is where the talk of cutting sports comes in. Hypothetically, if the spending Cap is $30 mil per Athletic Department, would the university chose to have a $2 million basketball player like TSJ over an entire program (such as Wrestling)? Tough Decisions, but the $2 million basketball player no doubt brings more ticket sales, national attention, and relevance in the B1G than an entire wrestling program combined.
 
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