Illinifan

The system is crazy. Beilema is the 10th highest paid Big Ten coach.

Sorry my last post was screwy. Our players had a watch party last night to watch their new coach and they find out today that it isn’t him. Many were told that it would be him. Only at Illinois. Sorry to provide bad info last night guys. Go Bulls.

Our players had a watch party last night to watch their new coach and they find out today that it isn’t him. Many were told that it would be him. Only at Illinois. I did watch today’s game. I thought that 3rd down play calling was poor, but at times the execution was poor too. But honestly I was hoping for more from the offense, especially in the second half. No excuse to only get 7 points tonight. I was “ok” with him not kicking the FG. But I’m just assuming he didn’t have high confidence in his kicker. Plus Lovie Smith never saw a 50+ yard FG that he didn’t like so it was refreshing to see a coach trust his offense to convert in those situations. And the right play was called, but the receiver dropped it. Im not worried about a rebuild taking 3 years. We’ve been in a 30 year rebuild... our fans arent exactly excited about a liepold hire.

I did watch today’s game. I thought that 3rd down play calling was poor, but at times the execution was poor too. But honestly I was hoping for more from the offense, especially in the second half. No excuse to only get 7 points tonight. I was “ok” with him not kicking the FG. But I’m just assuming he didn’t have high confidence in his kicker. Plus Lovie Smith never saw a 50+ yard FG that he didn’t like so it was refreshing to see a coach trust his offense to convert in those situations. And the right play was called, but the receiver dropped it. Im not worried about a rebuild taking 3 years. We’ve been in a 30 year rebuild... our fans arent exactly excited about a liepold hire.

My guess is that we will let him. I’m not going to pretend to have watched any games outside of this one but that defense was really unimpressive at first glance. But honestly, it was mostly the second quarter. I thought that some of your play calling on 3rd downs was suspect and your qb never kept the ball once on the read option. But player execution hurt you guys at very big times tonight as well. The interception in the, I think 3rd quarter, was just really weak effort by the WR and the drop on 4th down late in the red zone can’t happen. If you make both of those plays, you probably win.

I know that the loss is still raw for you guys and I really don’t want to annoy you with questions, so just tell me to shut up and buzz off if you want. But are there people on Lances staff that you absolutely don’t want to lose? Who do you think he will want to take to Illinois with him?

Sorry. It sucks that you are losing your coach. But unfortunately it’s what happens to MAC coaches when you are successful. I would love it if Liepold left us in 5 years for greener pastures because it would mean we had success as well. You can keep the defensive staff...

The illini players are starting to let it leak out that they have already been told that the new coach is Leipold.