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Good luck winning at Illinois.......that is unless we go into the "I'm pretty sure we're going to win but let's see how close we can make it" offense at the end of the game with a lead. UI almost gave the game against Wisky back because of it.
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Illinois up to 20th in the ESPN poll. MSU 9, Purdue 17, and Minnesota 24. Anybody seen the AP poll results yet?
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Terrible calls in the first half. Apparently somebody doesn't want Bo to lose 4 straight. Good job by the Illini to stick with it and stay calm. Surprised they didn't allow the basket at the end of the half.
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Self's done a good job this year. This team is very young, and the talent isn't superstar caliber outside of Collins and Aldrich. Hell, Brady Morningstar is starting. Starting off 4-0 in the Big 12 with two road victories--even if the teams all are bad--is a pretty good. And Mario Little is going to be a really good player. I wish he were 100% healthy. He can score. Agreed Self has done well, but its sad to think they might win a Big 12 title because they have to play the South only once. I still doubt they'll win the title. We'll lose to MU once and at OU. We'll struggle with both UT and Baylor. I think we'll win one of those, but we could lose both. OSU could bite us, too. And we'll probably drop one more head-scratcher--@ Nebraska is my guess. I think we'll end up 12-4 or 11-5. 12-4 gives us a shot, but 11-5 won't cut it. Did we mention how bad the B12 North is? Mizzou is solid but terribly inconsistent and everybody else is just bad. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if 11-5 tied for the North title. Overall, probably not.
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Except for the fact that I went back to DePaul-Marquette because I couldn't stand watching the slop that was the 1st 5 minutes of the game. It looked like really unorganized pick-up ball from both teams.
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My question is why the hell does he have Miles in there everyday? Isn't it pretty much assumed he'll be the RH halfof a platoon at 2B?
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Any of you fine gentlemen have any insight on the UI-OSU matchup tonight? I really know very little about OSU's team this year other than they have another highly thought of Freshman big man and Matta seems to be a good coach.
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Summer in Mpls. is great. It gets hot, but the humidity isn't usually too bad. Where is this in relation to the dome?
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I'm not quite up on NFL rules, how much of his big rookie contract would we be responsible for with Leinart? If that's not a problem, I'd take a flier on him Both teams would be responsible for whatever is left on the deals, both teams would take cap hits related to the pro rated portion the signing bonus, I think. I'm pretty sure the team trading the player away takes the full hit on the bonus and them the team getting the player is responsible for the rest of the contract.
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By the way, can Ted Valentine just go away? How does he still have a job officiating college games? I'm not claiming he did anything bad against Purdue last night, just that he's a horrible official in general. You don't want to get IU fans started on Ted Valentine. Don't think Bobby should have gotten tossed for checking to see if his player was dead under the basket, eh? I will always remember that as perhaps the worst call ever in college basketball history. And I'm an Illinois fan.
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Has there been any opinion on Nate Davis' decision here? I found that a little strange after his awful performance in the bowl game. Didn't watch much of it so I don't know if it was him or something else, but that's not the game you'd like to go out on when you're turning pro early.
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How is this already on the 2nd page? Anyway, big win for Illinois last night. I was worried after watching the 1st half and didn't get to see the 2nd. I'm a little concerned about the regression from Davis and Chet the last few games other than IU.
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The Duke system only works really well when Coach K is getting every call to go his way. That's really what the problem is for ND. Well, that, and like you said, they don't play any defense.
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The help side defense was absolutely awful the whole second half. Rotation was terrible and there was no communication on the weave thing they were doing up top. They'll get better and Michigan caused some weird matchups, but going 1-1 in the 1st 2 conference games is fine, especially with the win at PU.
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Go whoever's playing Duke!!!!!!!! I keed, I keed. But yeah, I hope Duke loses.
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In his defense, the reffing was awful both ways, Illinois just got a little bit worse end of it than Michigan. They weren't calling anything under the basket, and I'm not sure which team that helped or hurt more.
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Two of the players you mentioned play a premium defensive position, and the third is making significantly less than Soriano. No he isn't. Annualized it's not even $1M less per year. Soriano got 2 more years, but not much more money per.
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Thank you. If you go to Mackey you can probably say that to them in person because they are likely shooting free throws right now. yeah, because the refs are still calling fouls on the illini. The game was called fairly. not really. Eh, there were some questionable calls both ways. The only really bad call was the foul at the end of regulation on Davis. Typical B10 game other than that.
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Probably old news, but Steve Phillips was on ESPN radio the other day and was speculating the Mets might have to scale back a little because the Wilpon's had a ton of money tied up with Madoff. May affect their ability to sign big names a little.
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Izzo and Ryan could both outcoach Sampson without putting forth much effort. Both are far superior in preparation and in game adjustments to Sampson.
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I'm an Illini fan and it was a great win for the Illini, but I don't think they're as good as they looked tonight and I don't think Mizzou is as bad as they looked at times tonight. Bad shooting night for the Tigers, partially caused by good defense they hadn't seen yet this year. Good shooting night for the Illini and much of that was a lot of easy looks after breaking the press and really hot shooting early by McCamey. Illinois may end up top 20 at the end of the year if the young guys (McCamey in particular) can stay consistent. Mizzou may well end there just because the B12 North is so weak.
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How does Illinois not even get a vote in the coaches poll? I don't think they should be ranked yet, but the vote totals in the other poll seem a little more realistic.
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Week 16: Packers @ Bears, MNF on ESPN (7:30 CT)
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Just like the 3-12 Cardinals had nothing to play for a few years back when they beat the Vikings to knock them out of the playoffs? That's completely different though. That team was playing the spoiler role, so they had that to play for. That is motivation. The Giants have no motivaiton whatsoever. They'll be resting guys and basically just going through the motions and trying to avoid injuries. I'd probably rather have them play a crappy team than play a good team that has already clinched everything they can. I wouldn't count on Coughlin mailing it in. They played NE tough last year in the last game when they really had nothing to play for, and it helped start their momentum toward the Super Bowl. Jacobs probably doesn't play because he's hurt, but I would be Eli starts and plays the whole game, as does most of their starting offense and defense. This is exactly what I was going to post. Last year they had the playoffs locked up and still went balls to the wall to try to beat the Pats. Wouldn't surprise me a bit to see them play their regulars most, if not all, of the game. -
It's close to home for him and probably pays the same as having to spend 2 days trying to fly in somewhere and waste a bunch of time instead of being able to drive there and back and officiate the game in 1 day. He lives in Edwardsville so it's only about 2.5 hours to UI.
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I'm fairly certain he won't be ready any time soon, if at all. I think he's probably closer to retirement than pitching again. Plus, would he really go somewhere other than the Braves? He doesn't seem like a paycheck chaser to me.