October 31st, 2009 at 10:23 PM ^
It was concerning to see how they responded to that stand. But, lets see how they respond in the coming weeks. Get to a bowl game and win it, then we can take some momentum into next year. Theres still a chance at respectability with some good games coming up.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:26 PM ^
To be honest, I am not THAT surprised. This is essentially the exact same Illinois offense that torched us last year. Juice Williams did the same thing that he did to us as he did last year. I just kept waiting for a Michigan response but they just turned it over. That is pretty disappointing.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:35 PM ^
I'm watching the UT-OSU (NTOSU) game and I'm taking a drink every time they say roommates (you guys should try it, wow, you'll get trashed) and that stat makes me want to drink even more! That was just painful to watch, I just wish Illinois had played like that all year so we wouldn't have lost to a 1-6 team...
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October 31st, 2009 at 11:02 PM ^
this being all on RR and staff. I watch Mike Williams, and I hate to rip on these kids. But do you thing RR and staff were teaching him to miss reads, miss his assignments, run right by the ball carrier?
Tate a few times could have thrown and got 6-7 yards, putting us in 2nd or 3rd and short, but instead held the ball and tried to force it. I doubt RR is teaching this, and I KNOW Tate will learn with experience.
I agree with Steve, they are trying to make plays, they are trying to make up for their known shortcomings.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:36 AM ^
failures that have caused that. I think there's a good chance that things are so manic and out of control on the sideline that it spills over to the players' execution. It didn't look like that before the goal line stand. And, we're generally a better defensive team in the second half. So, what happened? One thing: we gave Illinois life, which they ate up. But it was more than that. We also collapsed.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:05 AM ^
If Roy merely extends his body into the endzone at the end of that run after catch, we go up 21-7 and put the clamps on this game.
I think that was one of the biggest momentum swings I've seen in any collegiate football game, EVER.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:38 AM ^
I'm inclined to be forgiving of a guy who made a big catch over the middle on 3rd and long, and turned it into a 76-yard gain. Faulting him for not contorting his body properly at the very end of a huge play is a little silly. He was not responsible for the momentum shift. (Actually, his play shifted momentum - and field position - dramatically in our favor.) That came from our offense crapping its pants in the four plays that followed (and our D following suit immediately thereafter).
November 1st, 2009 at 11:56 AM ^
You can't blame Roy for the ensuing plays, but I do think getting run down at the 1 yard line, after having about a 4-5 yard head start, is pretty bad.
I thought one of RichRod's mantras was being the physically superior team, hence all the Barwis stuff, etc.
Mike Hart is probably the only guy I can understand when he gets run down from behind.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:29 PM ^
It was a little disappointing to see, but we knew going in that Roundtree wasn't a speed guy. For him to turn a 20- or so yard throw into 76 is still very, very good.
What is distressing, though, is that I don't know if we have a guy with top-end speed in the WR corps. In fact, the thing that has struck me the last two weeks is that we just don't seem that fast or athletic as a team.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:37 PM ^
Unfortunately. I don't know if we win if we score on that possession, but I do think the final score would have looked a lot better (and not just by 7).