Our recovered kickoff counts as an on-sides kick, doesn't it? I bet Purdue fans view the one that we recovered as more awful than we view the traditional one that they recovered. (I kinda felt for them after ours: that was something that--in years past--we would do.) Btw, when was the last time EACH TEAM successfully recovered an onsides kick? Or that each team had a 100% success rate on onsides kicks?
Illinois 50, Purdue 49 OT Postgame
I am certainly as guilty as many here (maybe more than many) of overreacting in the game thread (a place I desperately try to stay away from during games). Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (credit: Jimmy Buffett, appropriately from the song "Fruitcakes").
However, I'd like to point out that it has been said many, many, many, times on Loyalty that there is no such thing as a "good" loss. Ergo, there can be no such thing as a "bad" win. If a "bad" win does not exist, this must therefore be considered a good win.
5-1 baby, 97% of us would have taken that at the beginning of the season in a heartbeat. Now let's heal up, prepare and kick the living daylights out of ScUM next week!
However, I'd like to point out that it has been said many, many, many, times on Loyalty that there is no such thing as a "good" loss. Ergo, there can be no such thing as a "bad" win. If a "bad" win does not exist, this must therefore be considered a good win.
5-1 baby, 97% of us would have taken that at the beginning of the season in a heartbeat. Now let's heal up, prepare and kick the living daylights out of ScUM next week!
In an odd way, the defensive side of the game kinda reminded me of the 2011 Ohio State game. OSY was 1 of 4 passing, but it wasn't because (as some people thought afterwards) they never needed to pass. They tried to pass plenty, but the coverage was good and their qb keep scrambling and getting frustratingly good gains. (Big difference here of course was that we couldn't stop Purdue's regular running game either.)
Well that was easy! We had it all the way! I will say they like to make it interesting.
We won. Other than that you dont want to know.
Didn’t realize Walters calls the offensive plays.
We were going into the game and we are coming out of the game. Are we one of best 25 teams in country? Maybe not. But then again the polls — especially when it comes to anything lower than 10 or 15 — aren’t really about “best.”
He took it over yesterday.
I highly doubt it. Illini won and had 182 votes/points this week. USC was first out of poll, lost, and only had 98 points.
So what was all the blabbing about the analyst by the commentators yesterday? Some fine reporting there.
He fired his OC two weeks ago. Last week he had someone else do it. Yesterday, reportedly it was him
On Love watching our signals while wearing a headset, would we really not have changed those up enough that he’d be able to tell them anything meaningful? It didn’t feel like we struggled to move the ball? Maybe more of an attempted psy op than anything useful?
Unrelated, but can somebody explain the offensive pass interference on the 2pt conversion? Don’t recall ever seeing that called against an O-linemen and the replay didn’t answer any questions for me.
Unrelated, but can somebody explain the offensive pass interference on the 2pt conversion? Don’t recall ever seeing that called against an O-linemen and the replay didn’t answer any questions for me.
I’d be shocked if that happened. Rivalry game and most voters probably didn’t watch the game.
i dunno, thought they had some really good insights on how well our DC, Kevin Kane, was calling our defense
i thought the call could have been ineligible receiver downfield, he didnt PI.
i hate the blame the official game but man, that was rough. really was flabbergasted at the no call on LA targeting.
Desperate? They had already been successful. I wasn’t surprised at his call for 2 pts.
I actually didn’t think they were terrible overall but then again I don’t consider an announcer making some positive remarks about our opponents as being “homers” for those teams as some on here do.
Plus I tend to tune out announcers except for mainly factual comments. The bad reporting referred only to them mentioning the analyst in connection to play calling many times if that analyst was calling plays. Maybe they did mention Walters was calling plays and I missed it while tuning them out.
He blocked the LB covering Laughery. Can't do that - it's basically a pick play. The targeting could/should have been called. I was more floored by the obvious DPIs that went uncalled - three on Purdue, one on us.
Can't stand Walters. I hope he gets the can and is stuck being a mid level door mat. From sending out the team during the 3 in 1 and just being an arrogant @$$, I hope they get rolled the rest of the year. And once again, commentary of the game was atrocious. They wanted Purdue to win that game flat out. Disappointing that we can't get any love from any national commentators. 1 of em was decent but the secondary commentator was crickets when Illinois did anything then hyping up Purdue D-line like they were the most dominant front in college football.
Could not agree more with #1. This was the first home game I've attended in a while. It's bugs me how the wine and cheese crowd says "Well, at least we won". We should be irate at the number of mental mistakes and big plays we let up.Just got home from game. Few thoughts:
1) Embarrassing that a number of fans stormed the field after beating a terrible team. Such a bad look
2) Illini were on cruise control until a double move td from Purdue, followed by the sack, fumble td. Completely turned the game around, and the fans clearly felt it
3) Defense looked bad for stretches in first half, but tightened when needed. In the second half, it broke. So many miscues, and Purdue took advantage. 500+ yards allowed is unacceptable (at least they made one stop on last play)
4) The onside kick recovery was terrible (get the ball!). That type of recovery up the middle like that should never happen
5) Very fortunate on game tying drive. Live I thought Altmyer fumbled, the replay was very close. Glad it was called down on field, as these calls always seem to go against us
6) Altmyer and offense was mostly crisp. Wow is Bryant a beast
7)
"Forget what you saw, Illini won back the Cannon. 5-1. Beat Michigan!"
Beat Michigan
The color commentator saying, “nice” or simply laughing after every other positive-yard play was painful.
Come on man, it was one bad game. Our defense has been solid all year until yesterday - much improved from last year. Lunney has been really good the entire season
