Boogua

I'm mostly just venting, but it happened in the NBA, so there's a nonzero chance of it happening in the MLB. My educated guess was that the line dropped because of our lineup card.

The betting line dropped almost 10 cents in favor of the Royals right before the game. I thought it was so weird considering the sox were facing lefty. Now that I've watched this homeplate umpire the entire game, I feel like someone knew something I didn't.

He's a really good player, but it looked like the Illini got better when he missed time to be honest. He gets beat on defense a lot, stops the ball, and turns the ball over too much against physical defense. He did a great job helping turn the program around, but he was overrated IMO.

Ayo is pretty good... Really looking forward to the Illinois-Michigan matchup in a week and a half.

This IU/Illinois game is one of the least pleasant experiences I've ever had in my life watching basketball

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/01/kevin-stefanski-browns-mistakes-criticism-chiefs-afc-playoffs

He didn't challenge a play that wasn't a catch earlier in the game. He also then challenged the Hill catch which cost him a timeout. Then after intercepting Henne in the endzone it seemed very clear that they wanted to bleed the clock and have that be the last possession if they could. Played really slow (to where they had to blow another timeout) and was trying to run and throw short passes. Backfired badly. They also won the coin toss and deferred, which had them playing from behind the whole game. A team like the browns that can run the ball that well doesn't want to play from behind.

Stefanski was terrible for the Browns. Wow.

I can assure you that this wasn't the case.

Saban also gave Mel Tucker an assistant coaching job after he was maybe the worst bears DC of my lifetime. So maybe.

Bears 3 dropped picks. I miss Fangio the most because they caught those when he was the coach.

They tried that earlier today... similar results.

Illini shot 23% from 3 and 61% from the line and were still right there at the end. Frustrating game for sure, but not the end of the world. While Ayo was everything for the illini pretty much all game, he was clearly exhausted at the end. He actually cost the Illini in the last few minutes with his unwillingness to give up the ball. I hope he uses this as a learning experience and is more willing to let Curbelo be the ball handler down the stretch (when he's that tired... I've never really seen him gassed like that before). Curbelo has a super bright future.

If Underwood can't get his team up to play Mizzou he should just stop scheduling this game. Clearly Mizzou is just way more up for it every year.

He should send a gift basket to the Bears front office every year for not drafting him and ruining his career.