The MSU game may have been their best performance of the year.
Consistent downhill since.
Game Thread for NU vs. Illinois
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Consistent downhill since.
Most painful thing to watch behind the QB play and our kicker is watching opposing offenses barely get tackled...ever. Seeing a tailback pop out on the other side of a scrum, or seeing our defenders bounce off of ball carriers like pinballs...
Remember when that game sucked but many of us were thinking Hunter Johnson may have finally turned the corner? Man, if we had a QB *that* good instead of what we've had today we might only be down 26 right now.
Must be nice to have a FG kicker.Do they have a running clock in college football.Maybe they can institute one just for this game.
the sun did not shine.
but the Cats chose to play.
so we sat in the house
all that cold, awful day.
i sat there with sally.
we sat there, we two.
and i said, 'how i wish
we had something to do!'
too sad to stop watching
and too old to play ball.
so I sat and I watched.
they did nothing at all.
so all we could do was to
sit!
sit!
sit!
sit!
and we did not like it.
not one little bit.
Even Skoronski is getting in on the act. On the one-yard sack, after his man gets by him, he just quits on the play to watch his man slowly chase down Hilinski.
In my case, I went outside and finished putting up Christmas lights on a BIG tree. It’s not my fault the game is technically not yet over.
Illinois is straight-up running every down with their 2nd string and our first team defense still can’t stop them.
We didn’t have our annual spat over whether or not the Illini are true rivals, but I think that they are. The win in 2019 counted for so much more because it was over Illinois. And this complete defrocking hurts much more since it comes against Illinois.
This really, really sucks.
I hope it sucks enough for Fitz to make major changes.
This really, really sucks.
I hope it sucks enough for Fitz to make major changes.
I envision Gragg telling Fitz they need to meet on Monday, and Fitz having no idea why because in his head coaching career the AD never pressed him about any part of his job.
Apparently the #1 thing the Cats need to do is "get in the weight room."
That was in a tv graphic, so somebody must have said it.
That was in a tv graphic, so somebody must have said it.
With winning the final 5 minutes, today’s defeat is hereby promoted to Ignominious.
Maybe we should focus on tackling technique or the offensive playbook. Take the current playbook and throw it in a dumpster, then light the dumpster so we never have to watch that again.
Fitz has absolutely only gain, nothing to lose, by just admitting to the current problems and going about solving them in an aggressive way. If he doesn't, one has to wonder, and if not by, say, Wednesday, I will be highly skeptical he ever will. It is that bad.
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Smartest guy in the world. Left this mess to play in big games in packed houses, on National TV, at the highest level.
During the Dark Ages there were many games at times we left at the half, being blown out like today by halftime.
My understanding is that the DuKane conference did well this year with five teams in the playoffs: Batavia, Geneva, Glenbard North, WWS, and WN.
Congrats to Falcon86 whose son won a state championship yesterday, 35 years after he won a state championship for WNHS.
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