Pregame: Illinois vs Western Michigan, Saturday, September 17th, 3:00pm CT, ESPNews

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#78      
WesterveltVictoryCigar
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#79      
Glaze72
This game scares the crap out of me. And not only because I've got $200 riding on the over (4) for wins for the season.

Good bet? Or not?
 
#80      
FiveStar
I'm interested in what people think about tv coverage. Is any ESPN/ABC better than any BTN to you guys? Is btn better than the lower level ESPN channels? What do you guys think? I guess fox is a player in this now too.
 
#81      
EfremWinters84
tjjohnso said:
I'm guessing ball park of 50k.
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And if we happen to lose this one, and then lose again @ Nebraska, a 1-3 Illini team may be back down to ~40,000 in the stands by the time we return home against Purdue.

Have I turned pessimist?
 
#82      
eyepatch
FiveStar said:
I'm interested in what people think about tv coverage. Is any ESPN/ABC better than any BTN to you guys? Is btn better than the lower level ESPN channels? What do you guys think? I guess fox is a player in this now too.
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BTN is disastrous on SO MANY levels. Their football game coverage - technically - is efficient, but the announcers are just okay. Their studio work is OMG. I can't remember the former coach's name (with the mustache who coached at Pitt for a while), said something so inanely obvious that even my daughter laughed and repeated it. It was something along the lines of, "If the receivers don't drop the balls, they'll have more receptions." Well, thanks for THAT insight. I get the BTN Network, the Pac 12 Network and the SEC Network. The coverage of all sports with the other two networks is VASTLY superior to the BTN Network. To begin with, those networks offer lots of the current season's contests - in all kinds of sports. BTN repeats the bejiminy of BTN Live and BTN College Football, or whatever they call the shows over and over and over. Besides repeating programming over and over, they've used the same disastrous set from last year - a blue and white horizontal backdrop that morays my HD set. And when they did the B1G football previews, visiting camps during the preseason, the programming guide wouldn't even say if it was Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois... BTN is minor league - single A baseball - compared to every other sports channel
available.
 
#84      
BWBW
I'm going with Illinois 27, WMU 17. Third game of the season, after playing a patsy to start and a solid club in the second game, the coaches show what they can do "coaching up" the players and the players reduce the penalties, win the turnover battle, and beat a pretty good team.
 
#85      
SescIllini
When you live in the East Coast you just take the games as they come and don't worry so much about announcers. I just hope I have ESPNews or can get it online.

If we can't come up big to beat WMU at home when we really need a win, this will say more of the players mental make-up than anything.
 
#87      
dgcrow
SescIllini said:
When you live in the East Coast you just take the games as they come and don't worry so much about announcers. I just hope I have ESPNews or can get it online.

If we can't come up big to beat WMU at home when we really need a win, this will say more of the players mental make-up than anything.
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Agreed. Today's announcers, IMO, are in general so incompetent that I have my mute button on for 90 percent of all sporting events I watch on TV.
 
#88      
TheBucket
Glaze72 said:
This game scares the crap out of me. And not only because I've got $200 riding on the over (4) for wins for the season.

Good bet? Or not?
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I have the over 4.5. Would love to have gotten it at 4.
 
#89      
Hamer
A lot of outsiders (including 2 of the 3 "experts" on BTN.com) picking us to lose. Let's hope we know something they don't. THis is an important game for us - maybe more important than N.C.
 
#90      
Orange
SescIllini said:
When you live in the East Coast you just take the games as they come and don't worry so much about announcers. I just hope I have ESPNews or can get it online.

If we can't come up big to beat WMU at home when we really need a win, this will say more of the players mental make-up than anything.
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If the game is broadcast on any ESPN network they usually have it on watchespn.com
 
#91      
Second and Chalmers
EfremWinters84 said:
And if we happen to lose this one, and then lose again @ Nebraska, a 1-3 Illini team may be back down to ~40,000 in the stands by the time we return home against Purdue.

Have I turned pessimist?
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The conference games are always higher. Some of that is opposing fans, some of that is the lack of other stuff to do in the later months when the weather isn't as good, etc.

The week-of crowd is generally a very low percentage of the tickets sold for a game. Last week proved to be a happy exception to that, but generally speaking, most of the attendance is already baked into the cake.
 
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Deleted member 3875
EfremWinters84 said:
And if we happen to lose this one, and then lose again @ Nebraska, a 1-3 Illini team may be back down to ~40,000 in the stands by the time we return home against Purdue.

Have I turned pessimist?
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Realist.
 
#94      
DoctorOrange
dgcrow said:
Agreed. Today's announcers, IMO, are in general so incompetent that I have my mute button on for 90 percent of all sporting events I watch on TV.
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Perhaps it's my personality, but I just have to laugh when I read something like this. Here's why:

1. There's almost NO WAY that's true, but if it is it means that

2. You'd rather listen to sports in silence than experience the atmosphere, sounds of the game, etc...

I find the thought of #2 preposterous, as I have no idea how you could find it enjoyable to listen to almost all sports without any sound.
 
#95      
SalukiIllini
eyepatch said:
BTN is disastrous on SO MANY levels. Their football game coverage - technically - is efficient, but the announcers are just okay. Their studio work is OMG. I can't remember the former coach's name (with the mustache who coached at Pitt for a while), said something so inanely obvious that even my daughter laughed and repeated it. It was something along the lines of, "If the receivers don't drop the balls, they'll have more receptions." Well, thanks for THAT insight. I get the BTN Network, the Pac 12 Network and the SEC Network. The coverage of all sports with the other two networks is VASTLY superior to the BTN Network. To begin with, those networks offer lots of the current season's contests - in all kinds of sports. BTN repeats the bejiminy of BTN Live and BTN College Football, or whatever they call the shows over and over and over. Besides repeating programming over and over, they've used the same disastrous set from last year - a blue and white horizontal backdrop that morays my HD set. And when they did the B1G football previews, visiting camps during the preseason, the programming guide wouldn't even say if it was Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois... BTN is minor league - single A baseball - compared to every other sports channel
available.
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Other than prime time games, ESPN isn't any better. ESPN has been garbage for years now and I would much rather this game be on BTN than ESPN news.
 
#97      
Illinisteve25
My pick last week was way off. However I'm going to give it another try. Weather permitting I'm guessing something like ILLINI 28 WMU 13
 
#99      
SampsonRelpenk
dgcrow said:
Agreed. Today's announcers, IMO, are in general so incompetent that I have my mute button on for 90 percent of all sporting events I watch on TV.
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If you've got a surround sound setup, I've heard that you can mute one of the channels and just get the sounds of the game with no commentary.
 
#100      
BZuppke
I agree that many announcers say a lot of stupid things, but when they have the crowd sound dialed in properly it adds to the game for me. As long as it's not Beth Mowins, I'm good.
 
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