Illinois 50, Purdue 49 OT Postgame

#476      
Bassinillini
Some random (but not necessarily unconnected) thoughts.
1. Wasn’t Walters implicated by an Illinois staffer for stealing Michigan offensive signals in 2022?
2. Sometimes those who protest the most are most guilty (see his comments about Michigan next season after PU got smashed by UM
3. Maybe Brett found out later Walters wasn’t “doing things the right way” even while at Illinois hence his comment yesterday. Also maybe not coincidence rumors of Love stealing signals.
4. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
 
#477      
Illiniaaron
ChiefGritty said:
Those were major missed opportunities, but that team had already accomplished a major big-picture step forward, it was already our best season since Zook.

(And honestly, our next 11 games after going to 7-1 in 2022 were garbage, arguably our next 17. The omens of MSU and Purdue were as bad as they looked)


I get to make a free hot take here because there's no way to prove it: we do not make a bowl game if we lose that game.

As it is that's a really, really worrying performance. We will go 5-7 if that's our team going forward. 10-2 is possible if the Nebraska performance (where we were, like, unrecognizably better in the trenches, especially defensively) is who we are going forward.

Who's the real us? We were in retrospect really bad against Kansas. The score flattered us against CMU and PSU. Hard to know.
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I think if they lost yesterday there was a great chance the wheels come off the season. You’re looking at a 99.5% chance of being 4-4 with all the indicators pointing down for the last four games.
 
#478      
RabidDawgClassic
Bassinillini said:
…coincidence rumors of Love stealing signals.
4. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
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I’d love to see video or a screen grab of Love wearing the headsets, at least to make a more reasonably educated opinion about what may or may not have happened. But more importantly, is it even possible for one team to tap into their opponent’s radio signals? I would assume there’s some sort of encryption, but I’m not at all knowledgeable about this subject.
 
#479      
TheDrinkinLincoln
RabidDawgClassic said:
I’d love to see video or a screen grab of Love wearing the headsets, at least to make a more reasonably educated opinion about what may or may not have happened. But more importantly, is it even possible for one team to tap into their opponent’s radio signals? I would assume there’s some sort of encryption, but I’m not at all knowledgeable about this subject.
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I think it's more that Love was looking at the Illinois coaches and reading hand signs from our position coaches and relaying them to the Purdue staff
 
#481      
MoCoMdIllini
gibb52 said:
The good news: We won. If you've been a fan for 10, 30, or 60 yrs you've seen many nut punches where something weird or stupid happens and we lost games just like this one.

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I spent the last few minutes of the 4th quarter saying "welp...here we go." And then the tying FG and thought "not so fast".

Then the sack to end it was this massive wave of "no f***ing way! Again?!"
 
#483      
STLini25
There is nothing improper about attempting to read/steal hand signals and almost all teams attempt to do so every game
 
#485      
illinihoosier
STLini25 said:
There is nothing improper about attempting to read/steal hand signals and almost all teams attempt to do so every game
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So why was Walters so pissed at UM and calling them out publicly on a radio show last year? Wouldn’t a coach just look the other way if it’s just a football fraternity ethical tactic to steal signs? It’s ok to do it in the game but not ok for a scout to do it as he claimed? Help me understand.
 
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