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Illinois Fighting Illini (you'll see)

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Illini Dylan said:
No doubt and something I have to remind myself of, I'm thrilled we're 7-2 in Bielema's 2nd year. Part of it is, when you've been so laughably bad for as long as Illinois has, when you finally have a decent team, it feels like a "now or never" type thing.

I just want a trip to Indy, it's there for the taking and this season, while a success, it'd still make me sick if we let this golden opportunity slip through our fingers. I'm confident we'll rebound against the Boilers this week.
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I think the way he is building the team is fairly sustainable. A tough Defense and a running game can win a lot of games. If he gets lucky and pulls a great QB from recruiting or transfers, that will be the years where more will be possible and probably expected if he keeps winning above .500 every year. As much as we dog him, he is a decent coach when expectations aren't out of whack.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
I think the way he is building the team is fairly sustainable. A tough Defense and a running game can win a lot of games. If he gets lucky and pulls a great QB from recruiting or transfers, that will be the years where more will be possible and probably expected if he keeps winning above .500 every year. As much as we dog him, he is a decent coach when expectations aren't out of whack.
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I think he would really be in a good way if the B1G was keeping the divisions...his competition in the West (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa) are all teams built similarly, so he'd just have to do it better than they do. But I don't know that they'll be anywhere above 6th or 7th in the future when things get muddled together.
 
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Illini Dylan said:
No doubt and something I have to remind myself of, I'm thrilled we're 7-2 in Bielema's 2nd year. Part of it is, when you've been so laughably bad for as long as Illinois has, when you finally have a decent team, it feels like a "now or never" type thing.

I just want a trip to Indy, it's there for the taking and this season, while a success, it'd still make me sick if we let this golden opportunity slip through our fingers. I'm confident we'll rebound against the Boilers this week.
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Illini Drop Heartbreaker at Indiana

No. 14/16 Illini Rally Late, Fall Short vs. Michigan State

What's even more amazing about your season is that both losses (i.e. Indiana & Sparty) were real close games and with a break or 2 in those games the Illini could easily be 9-0.

I'd rather see the Illini really rebound against scUM in 2 weeks?

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ScriptOhio said:
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Fortunately his 2 girls look more like their mother.......:lol:
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They probably better resemble one of his assistant coaches.
 
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Illinois' Bret Bielema 'very upset' with controversial ending after No. 3 Michigan edges Illini 19-17

Chase Brown rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns, but No. 3 Michigan escaped Illinois’ upset bid 19-17. Jake Moody drilled a 35-yard, game-winning field goal with nine seconds left to help Michigan improve to 11-0. A questionable no-call on Michigan's fourth-and-3 conversion helped set up Moody's go-ahead kick much to the displeasure of Bret Bielema and the Illinois coaching staff.

"I’m extremely pissed off," Bielema said. "Very angry. Very upset. Think our kids did a lot to win the football game and to continually have things go against us, very frustrating. You have to stand up for the people you believe in. I believe in that locker room big time. I know they’ll rise up to the challenge once again."
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ON HIS FRUSTRATION WITH THE OFFICIATING:
"Very frustrated. I think I always look forward to film on Sundays as a coach. But I keep getting answers I don’t love and it doesn’t help us during the course of the week. We hopefully will play a cleaner game. Some penalties have really hurt us in the last three ball games. We have to correct that internally if we’re doing something illegally then we gotta correct that. Very, very frustrated with the ending of that football game."
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ON HOW THE ILLINOIS PLAYERS ARE HANDLING THE OFFICIATING:
"I’m afraid to put them in here with you guys because I don’t think they’re going to handle questions well. I think they’re angry, I think they’re frustrated. I think as coaches we have to guide them and put them through. We always talk to them about how we have to earn the things we get. I think we earned an opportunity to get a victory today. Obviously, came up a little short. We can definitely correct some mistakes and move forward and when we’re in this position again, we can come out on top.”
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Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...r-No-3-Michigan-edges-Illini-19-17-197992018/
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Illinois' Bret Bielema 'very upset' with controversial ending after No. 3 Michigan edges Illini 19-17

Chase Brown rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns, but No. 3 Michigan escaped Illinois’ upset bid 19-17. Jake Moody drilled a 35-yard, game-winning field goal with nine seconds left to help Michigan improve to 11-0. A questionable no-call on Michigan's fourth-and-3 conversion helped set up Moody's go-ahead kick much to the displeasure of Bret Bielema and the Illinois coaching staff. Categorizing that no-call as ‘questionable’ is way too kind, it was a blatant missed call in a critical situation.

"I’m extremely pissed off," Bielema said. "Very angry. Very upset. Think our kids did a lot to win the football game and to continually have things go against us, very frustrating. You have to stand up for the people you believe in. I believe in that locker room big time. I know they’ll rise up to the challenge once again."
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ON HIS FRUSTRATION WITH THE OFFICIATING:
"Very frustrated. I think I always look forward to film on Sundays as a coach. But I keep getting answers I don’t love and it doesn’t help us during the course of the week. We hopefully will play a cleaner game. Some penalties have really hurt us in the last three ball games. We have to correct that internally if we’re doing something illegally then we gotta correct that. Very, very frustrated with the ending of that football game."
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ON HOW THE ILLINOIS PLAYERS ARE HANDLING THE OFFICIATING:
"I’m afraid to put them in here with you guys because I don’t think they’re going to handle questions well. I think they’re angry, I think they’re frustrated. I think as coaches we have to guide them and put them through. We always talk to them about how we have to earn the things we get. I think we earned an opportunity to get a victory today. Obviously, came up a little short. We can definitely correct some mistakes and move forward and when we’re in this position again, we can come out on top.”
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Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...r-No-3-Michigan-edges-Illini-19-17-197992018/
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The 3 calls were on a segment of 4 plays. The refs missed an obvious OPI on the frosh TE Loveland that should have resulted in a 4th-and-18, get-it-or-lose the game, play for TTUN from their own 40 with 53 seconds left. Even BTN’s coverage on The Final Drive, which doesn’t like to point out bad calls or controversy, showed that it was a clear-cut violation for a block before the catch, near the catch, which was made clearly past the line of scrimmage.

The next play was a tricky-tack DPI on Witherspoon that gave them 15 yards, followed two plays later by a catch that seemed to obviously have hit the ground before it was controlled, giving them another 5 yards, which replay decided was a call it couldn’t change.

I was amazed at how calm Bert was in the postgame clip I saw, but he probably had a different perspective since he had just lost his mother on Tuesday.
 
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BB73 said:
The 3 calls were on a segment of 4 plays. The refs missed an obvious OPI on the frosh TE Loveland that should have resulted in a 4th-and-18, get-it-or-lose the game, play for TTUN from their own 40 with 53 seconds left. Even BTN’s coverage on The Final Drive, which doesn’t like to point out bad calls or controversy, showed that it was a clear-cut violation for a block before the catch, near the catch, which was made clearly past the line of scrimmage.

The next play was a tricky-tack DPI on Witherspoon that gave them 15 yards, followed two plays later by a catch that seemed to obviously have hit the ground before it was controlled, giving them another 5 yards, which replay decided was a call it couldn’t change.

I was amazed at how calm Bert was in the postgame clip I saw, but he probably had a different perspective since he had just lost his mother on Tuesday.
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Claiming biased officiating is overplayed throughout the world of sports, but I don't know how anyone can watch the last couple of minutes from that game and not see that there was an egregious bias going on is beyond me. They weren't even trying to appear impartial.
 
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