mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
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Illini Football 2024
I'm way more concerned about portal tbh... (as said above ^)
Can someone explain the reasons why Altmyer would enter the portal? I feel like he's made his best life at Illinois.
I don't think Luke will ever be a 1st-2nd round pick purely due to size limitations. Somewhere in the 4th-5th round would probably be his ceiling
That’s what his biggest pay day could be in college. We have a lot of holes to fill in positions that are pretty expensive
I think we will be just fine
This is a testament to a lot of hard work by Luke, but also to our staff's development skills. This is a pretty impressive improvement beyond normal expectations. We have a strong case to be made for development of WR's, DB's, OL, DL, even TE, and now QB's. Speaking of TE, I hadn't seen this interview of Tip before. He's a great interview:
The link doesn't reflect whichever interview you are talking about......This is a testament to a lot of hard work by Luke, but also to our staff's development skills. This is a pretty impressive improvement beyond normal expectations. We have a strong case to be made for development of WR's, DB's, OL, DL, even TE, and now QB's. Speaking of TE, I hadn't seen this interview of Tip before. He's a great interview:
Great interview! I haven't seen one of these before.
Eye opening response by BB when asked about his daughters and how often he's able to be with them. Having gone through a divorce when my girls were 5-6 years old and both of us (parents) moving to different but nearby cities (Phx & El Paso) I can certainly relate to how work/life sometimes requires huge sacrifices and how it can be incredibly difficult to maintain a healthy relationship with your children. I'm not sure if I should be giving mad props, or feel sorry for how things are. I guess I'll just do both and give BB and the rest of the coaching staff a shout out for their dedication and work ethic. I am very blessed that I continue to have a wonderful relationship with my girls into their mid-30's. Not everyone in those situations are as fortunate.
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Yeah, I get the sense that in today’s NIL world we’d have a donor(s) step up in order to keep our star QB. Much like it was reported that there were donors ready to step up for Domask if he was able to return. We may not be Alabama or Georgia, but I think our donors are smart enough, invested enough, and have deep enough pockets to know you can’t let your star QB transfer if your goal is to rise in BIG/college football.
It also comes down to the players making good decisions to grow in a consistent system or derail their careers. Luke seems legitimately happy here form everything I've seen. Even this season he's grown from "Can he be the guy?" to "We're going as far as he can carry us."
During a week where there is already an announced sellout, I'm left without much to do in terms of tracking ticket sales. One thing I did realize last night and could be worth tracking in the coming weeks: Illinois has a good chance to average attendance above 50,000 for the first time since 2010.
Counting the sellout this Saturday, we're averaging 54,500 at our home games this season. We'll need to average only 38,749 in our final two home games to end the season with an average of 50,000. That is going to happen. Below is a chart showing what we would need to average in the final two home games in order to reach attendance averages of 50-54k.
Should be fun to keep an eye on this the rest of the year.
Counting the sellout this Saturday, we're averaging 54,500 at our home games this season. We'll need to average only 38,749 in our final two home games to end the season with an average of 50,000. That is going to happen. Below is a chart showing what we would need to average in the final two home games in order to reach attendance averages of 50-54k.
| To Reach Season Average of: | Average Attendance Needed Final 2 Weeks: |
| 50,000 | 38,749 |
| 51,000 | 42,249 |
| 52,000 | 45,749 |
| 53,000 | 49,249 |
| 54,000 | 52,749 |
Should be fun to keep an eye on this the rest of the year.
Illinivek23
- Gurnee
Regarding our DL in the future - are Bray, Farrell, Barna and Muragin (out with an ACL) all expected to bulk up to ~300 #ers? These guys are all long, too.
Also haven't seen Gentle Hunt with any significant snaps in the last few games - he would give us some more experience, if not size, up front.
Also haven't seen Gentle Hunt with any significant snaps in the last few games - he would give us some more experience, if not size, up front.
Very few head coaches would give a 30 minute interview to a couple of nerd guys during the season when there is virtually no free time. It's probably part of the plan to build support for the football program.
Muragin was moved to olb
This could have been recorded during the offseason fwiw... I enjoyed it but I'm just not a big fan of asking people about losing loved ones unless you clear it with them first which I assume they did.
Bray, Farrell and McCullum are all players they are a year or 2 away physically. They’re just young players forced into action early.
The repercussions of Sed McConnell being the only d-line prep recruit from 2021 class followed by zero for the 2022 class.