Illinois at Penn State, Saturday, September 28th, 6:30pm CT, NBC

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altgeld88
Mr. Tibbs said:
Penn St & Purdue are the two premier turf grass land grant schools - known nationwide for it . Hence both have grass fields
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+ Virginia Tech. I drive past its Turfgrass Research Center just east of the stadium every time I take my daughter to school there or pick her up. ~ A decade ago it pioneered among college teams the use of "Turf Trays" in which grass and soil on a sand base sit above square plastic trays that facilitate drainage and underground air circulation for growth. The field comprises ~ 5000 of these trays. They installed it after a wrath-of-God downpour flooded the field and forced cancellation of a game.

Sorry to get into the weeds on this and go down a rabbit hole. ;) 🦃

Still puzzled about the 19-point PSU-Illini spread. Apparently I'm inappropriately optimistic about my team.
 
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pruman91
altgeld88 said:
+ Virginia Tech. I drive past its Turfgrass Research Center just east of the stadium every time I take my daughter to school there or pick her up. ~ A decade ago it pioneered among college teams the use of "Turf Trays" in which grass and soil on a sand base sit above square plastic trays that facilitate drainage and underground air circulation for growth. The field comprises ~ 5000 of these trays. IIRC they installed it after a wrath-of-God downpour flooded the field and forced cancellation of a game.

Sorry to get into the weeds on this and go down a rabbit hole. ;) 🦃

Still puzzled about the 19-point PSU-Illini spread. Apparently I'm inappropriately optimistic about my team.
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Nothing wrong with getting into the weeds from time to time (daily )..............

Again , just my humble fried clyde opinion..................no , my name is NOT clyde.........it really really isn't......But you can call me Ray or you can call me J , .....etc etc etc.......
 
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RockfordIllini
So I think we match up with them pretty well offensively. They have fast, twitchy athletes on the edges and are very aggressive in their pursuit of the ball. Our RPO seems like the perfect antidote to slow down their pass rush and take advantage of some overpursuit.

My questions are on defense can we contain the run and big plays? Stopping the run was the concern going into this year. We’ve done okay with the exception of KU but we are going to see alot of the same concepts tomorrow night. And we’ve been good at limiting big plays but KU gashed us last year.

If we can stop the run like we did at Nebraska, I think we’re got a good chance to win. If Penn State runs it like KU did I think we will struggle.
 
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Illini-Rule
pruman91 said:
Nothing wrong with getting into the weeds from time to time (daily )..............

Again , just my humble fried clyde opinion..................no , my name is NOT clyde.........it really really isn't......But you can call me Ray or you can call me J , .....etc etc etc.......
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But don't have to call me Johnson...

 
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altgeld88
Scanned MGoBlog this afternoon for yuks and saw this from earlier in the week, complete with mandatory condescending football snark. The Connelly article is behind the ESPN+ paywall (and he!! will become a glacier before that network gets any of my cash.)

"Could be something to watch."

Lol. Yeah; might be almost as interesting as Minnesota @Michigan, though certainly nowhere near as enthralling as Oregon @ UCLA is likely to be.

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PSUDan90
Penn State fan here. I agree with a lot of your sentiments here. Illinois is a tough as nails team, well coached, with a very good QB. I don’t get the 18-pt spread. I do think our OC will throw some new wrinkles at Illinois that we haven’t seen yet. Night games at Beaver Stadium are special. I think it will look and feel like a Whiteout! Here’s to a good game with no injuries on either side.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman
PSUDan90 said:
Penn State fan here. I agree with a lot of your sentiments here. Illinois is a tough as nails team, well coached, with a very good QB. I don’t get the 18-pt spread. I do think our OC will throw some new wrinkles at Illinois that we haven’t seen yet. Night games at Beaver Stadium are special. I think it will look and feel like a Whiteout! Here’s to a good game with no injuries on either side.
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🤝🏻
 
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altgeld88
PSUDan90 said:
Penn State fan here. I agree with a lot of your sentiments here. Illinois is a tough as nails team, well coached, with a very good QB. I don’t get the 18-pt spread. I do think our OC will throw some new wrinkles at Illinois that we haven’t seen yet. Night games at Beaver Stadium are special. I think it will look and feel like a Whiteout! Here’s to a good game with no injuries on either side.
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Thanks for stopping by. Should be an outstanding atmosphere. Hope your OC throws some things at us that we saw from him in Lawrence, KS last September. ;)
 
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SampsonRelpenk
PSUDan90 said:
Penn State fan here. I agree with a lot of your sentiments here. Illinois is a tough as nails team, well coached, with a very good QB. I don’t get the 18-pt spread. I do think our OC will throw some new wrinkles at Illinois that we haven’t seen yet. Night games at Beaver Stadium are special. I think it will look and feel like a Whiteout! Here’s to a good game with no injuries on either side.
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This chain of Reasonable Opposing Fans paying us friendly visits is just not sustainable.

I think you're absolutely right that you'll throw some stuff at us in key moments we didn't know we had to prepare for (that's exactly what we did to Nebraska last week).
 
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