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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2014 -> 11:49 AM) Bears plan to can Tucker after season. http://www.csnchicago.com/bears/report-bea...er-after-season Unless Trestman goes along with him this does nothing for me.

Hopefully this year leads to an 8 team playoff. I realize you then have a debate over the 9th best team being led off but if you give automatic bids to the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12, and SEC champions a bid and then have 3 at large spots it will be incredibly rare for a championship caliber team to be left out.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 6, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) Pretty sure that's as bad as losing to app state. I'd argue it was worse.

This would be as bad as a loss as I've ever seen. Home against a low major team that is around 300 in Kenpom in a game where Lavert was on fire? Holy crap.

Kentucky's defense is incredible. There are times their offense can be pretty ugly but they have so much size they are efficient even when they aren't shooting well.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 4, 2014 -> 01:01 PM) Nebraska hire reminds me of Gene Chizik. So all they need to do now is buy a Heisman level QB to come play for them and then get an offensive coordinator who is the real brains behind the operation and they can compete for a national title, suck when they offensive coordinator leaves, fire Riley, and then hire the offensive coordinator back to win again?

Even with how unpredictable March Madness can be its pretty tough to see anyone other than Kentucky or Duke winning the title this year.

North Carolina is a really unimpressive team. Really good athletes but the skill level isn't high and no one except for Paige can shoot.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 3, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) Egwus core numbers haven't improved since his sophomore year and his advanced metrics have gotten even worse. Everyone thought he'd be a breakout star after the last time we played Miami and he's literally gotten worse. As you mentioned his hands are so, so bad. Some of the worst I've ever seen, and you can't teach good hands. He is also one of the dumbest players I've seen. I cannot understand it, he seems like a smart kid otherwise but he has 0 basketball instinct. Last night he was routinely outsmarted by a guy who has only played the game for a few years. 1. Cosby I think will be fine. He looks the part. Just a terrible luck stretch right now. 2. Yep. 3. I still like Colbert as a backup going forward. Black looks good playing down low. Still, yeah, the big weak point of the team. 4. Hill played mostly well but he made some really dumb plays yesterday. Nunn needs to become more of a focal point. 5. Starks will be better than he showed last night. How could he not be? But yeah PG is our other big problem. The same position imbalances that were Weber's downfall are currently destroying Groce in year 3 as well. I'd be stunned if Cosby and Starks don't start making shots. Those are guys who are both proven shooters at the high major level. I don't think you need a real PG to be successful but we do need to find more capable big men (although we are perfectly fine at PF going forward and Darius Paul should help a lot at center next year). The key is that if you don't have a good PG you need multiple multi-dimensional guards/wings that can create. Michigan was the best offensive team in the country last year because of their wings. Their PGs made wide open shots at a nice clip but neither Walton or Albrecht was a big part of the offense or creating for others. We will be really good offensively as long as Starks and Cosby both get back to being the 40% 3 pt shooters which they have always been.

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 2, 2014 -> 11:30 PM) I know someone was on here 2 years ago saying similar things. Also that he can't shoot or create. Just had vision.? The shooting is what kills him. Unless you are an absolute freak athlete its impossible to create if you aren't at least a threat.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Dec 2, 2014 -> 11:13 PM) 1-10 with 1 assist is pretty awful. Starks cost the team possessions with just terrible shot selection. I'm not saying Tate played well by any means, but I would have rather watched him more with Nunn, Hill, and Rice than Starks tonight. All in all, they were both terrible. The answer is not playing a PG at time. Tate isn't a Big 10 level guard and if he didn't play for Simeon in high school he wouldn't have been offered a scholarship.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Dec 2, 2014 -> 11:02 PM) Illinois will also miss Abrams when their starting PG goes 1-10 while going 1-7 from 3. The illini should have probably played Tate more in this game, but not with Colbert and Black out there with him. The rotations need to be tuned up a bit. No. Tate is really awful. He was dreadful defensively tonight and teams only have to guard 4 players when he is on the court.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 2, 2014 -> 10:50 PM) Egwu is such a horrific basketball player. I have 0 idea how he hasn't improved 1 but in 4 years. He's improved a lot. He was really f***ing awful as a freshman. Bad hands is a basketball player killer (see also Kwame Brown). It really is too bad Darius Paul f***ed up, sure would be nice to have him backing up Egwu this year.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 1, 2014 -> 02:28 PM) Come, high profile coaches, to Illinois, where the unrealistic expectations of our fans just axed a coach 1 year from a BCS bowl. We'll be 100% behind you though! Zook followed up the BCS bowl with 2 under .500 seasons in a row including a 3-9 season where 7 of the 9 losses were by double figures and the only game where the team was competitive in the first 7 games of the season was in a win against Illinois St. Pretty sure my expectations for Illinois football are perfectly realistic.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 1, 2014 -> 01:25 PM) This is the more troubling issue: #illini football attendance since 2009 2009: 59,545 2010 - 54,188 2011 - 49,548 2012 - 45,564 2013 - 43,787 2014 - 41,549 It really is too bad Illinois didn't have a competent AD in place in 2009 to fire Zook while the program still had a lot of talent. A new coach could have taken over, had a couple 8-4 type seasons right off the bat and actually had a chance to build a legit program at Illinois. Sigh.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 1, 2014 -> 12:54 PM) Because kids and teenagers use it to seriously harass others. It's incredibly cruel the way they use the internet to bully. Agreed and it is also quite different to have someone you actually know in real life harass you through the internet then someone on an anonymous message board. If someone a person knows is constantly harassing or threatening them online it is entirely reasonable to be concerned that such conduct will continue elsewhere.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Dec 1, 2014 -> 10:14 AM) It was "bowl or bust," so its the right move to keep him for at least one more year, made more so because Mike Thomas hiring in a market that has vacancies at Neb and MI would be an utter disaster. The Nebraska and Michigan vacancies are irrelevant to Illinois. They aren't going to be hiring from the same coaching pool anyways.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 29, 2014 -> 10:41 PM) Good god Amari Cooper. How are you not double teaming him at this point? Alabama only throws his way.

That is just an awful call in the Bama-Auburn game. No way you can say Auburn player had possession on that play.

Sucks for Ohio State. JT Barrett is done.

If Beckman blows this one he shouldn't be allowed back on the bus to Champaign.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 29, 2014 -> 12:06 PM) I'm so conflicted So am I. Last week I was sure I would be rooting for an Illinois loss today but watching the game today I'm rooting for an Illinois win and a bowl game.

So with this loss the Bears season is over. Hopefully they lose the next 3 and that Minny game will be big for draft status.

Matt Forte was unbelievably open for an easy first down on that last play as well. Just an incredibly awful play by Cutler.

And that is fine but you still need to defend and the only year Crean has put together a good defensive team at Indiana was when he had Oladipo and Zeller at the same time. Even with Vonleh who was a terrific interior defender last year they still weren't great on that end. With their current frontcourt they are very likely going to be really bad on defense all year.