Pregaming Illinois
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@Crimsonorblue22 Speaking of new leaves - I think somewhere down the line I’ve at least mentioned that my (now 32 year old) son graduated from K-State. He was never into sports, so he didn’t care AT ALL about my obsession with KU. When I say he wasn’t into sports - he lived one block from the football stadium in Manhattan. ONE block. He never went to a single game.
Friday night, he’s singing the Alma Mater song, the Rock Chalk chant, he’s waving the wheat after every score. My jaw was on the ground. And he was INTO the game. Jumping up - fist in the air on good (or questionable) plays. I didn’t know what was going on. But it was one of the best sports nights of my life.
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@nuleafjhawk so much fun! Imagine AFH!
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@nuleafjhawk I’m so happy you didn’t give up and tried again.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Lol - that’s what I told him - if I can score some tickets sometime!!
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Our defense needs to stand up make a statement, show progress that teams aren’t just going to be able to run at will against us anymore. Which I think they have made progress , now time to show it, Lance talking how this was probably the most physical camp he has ever Coached. Wanted them more physical. Big Challenge time to show.
You know , I know everyone knows I’ve heard off their podcasts, read off there message boards they want to try and run the ball , run the ball down KU’s throats. Time consuming drives keep Jalen and the offense on the sidelines. saying they don’t want to get in a track meet /shoot out with KU’s offense. Smart strategy. They think they have the advantage against our defense time to show they are wrong show progress
Gonna be interesting hope fans show up strong, I think we gonna be pretty full. - -ROCK CHALK
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I sure wish JD would have been able to operate a couple of series last week to get his game legs back. Last year KU suffered from slow starts on offense and defense so KU was often/always playing catch-up. In the bowl game, KU was down 31-7 early in the second Q and down 31-13 at the half. I sure hope for a fast start on offense that will at least offset the typical slow start on defense.
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I don’t know, hope I’m wrong but starting to get this sick feeling that Jalen will be very limited in his snaps tonight. – - -hope I’m wrong , Jaason a dam good back up but with this game just think e need Jalen - -and we need a lot of Jalen to have a chance, just kinda feel like he still has a ways to gol, hopefully I’m wrong
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@jayballer67 If Jason Bean plays a lot of snaps, I sure hope he’s learned from the Missouri St game not to throw into good coverage; that tendency will eventually be costly, especially against a good defense like Illinois.
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@stoptheflop said in Pregaming Illinois:
@jayballer67 If Jason Bean plays a lot of snaps, I sure hope he’s learned from the Missouri St game not to throw into good coverage; that tendency will eventually be costly, especially against a good defense like Illinois.
Bean has thrown into coverage for years, he’s not learning and decisions like that are why he’s the back up and not starting.
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@jayballer67 he’s full go as of this morning
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Pregaming Illinois:
@jayballer67 he’s full go as of this morning
Thanks guy , ya I just went through my E-Mails when I got home and Mike Vernon had tweeted out that Jalen was good to go and would b starting tonight - -sounds good to me -Rocj Chalk buddy
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@Texas-Hawk-10 right dude is a 6th year player, that’s who he is at this point. Still maddening they had him try the two point conversion in the bowl game with Jalen on fire.
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Kickoff gettin close guys, this isn’t going to be a cake walk. w just have to continue to progress, tonight is big, I said before, tonight we have to step up on the defensive side of the ball be able to stop the run.
Illinois gonna try and run it down our throat , keep our offense off the field- -they want time consuming drives. Yet we have to respect Altmeyer running , he lead them in their rushing against Toledo with 69 yards .
seen this on a betting pod cast - -their QB had some success last week but only has a total of I think it was 92 attempts , and has been intercepted 4 times in very limited time- -got to get some pressure but respect his running at the same time
Let’s go take this. got a feeling Booth will be jumpin the sudents are ready - -Black out - - giving a rally towel to the first ten thousand - hopefully be fun - -be loud - - ROCK CHALK BABY - -LET’S DO THIS
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My first view of the “black Unis” but they have a lot of brown coloration instead of stark black. The sun was shining on them when I saw them. Maybe they will be more black under the lights.
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@stoptheflop said in Pregaming Illinois:
My first view of the “black Unis” but they have a lot of brown coloration instead of stark black. The sun was shining on them when I saw them. Maybe they will be more black under the lights.
How’s the crowd , attendencewise- -close to sell out ?
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Let’s go boys
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hearing Illinois gonna have a fair amount of fans there - -kinda sucks this is selling out
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@jayballer67 Sorry, I’m not at the game; I’m just watching the pregame show.
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I wish they were playing tomorrow because I’d have driven over. Interesting matchup personally as I grew up in Illinois and have always been ready to jump on the Illini bandwagon should they ever put it all together. They did once making the Rose Bowl and then got torched by UCLA. Not many exciting moments, so of course KU has one upped them with the magical season in 2008. Don’t worry, not secretly hoping for an Illini win. It just wouldn’t suck as bad as losing to someone else.
Of course the other coach in this one was a Badger coach and fairly successful too. He coached Russell Wilson there and was two hail mary losses in back to back weeks from being undefeated in that season.
Exciting matchup for sure.
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Daniels first pass a bullet for 1st down.
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Wave the wheat! Welcome back Jaylon, stay healthy please!
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Nice start to this big game
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Look SO MUCH better with Daniels out there. Good grief that guy is smooth.
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Nice to see Jalen come out and not force anything a good steady drive for 6. Neal’s fumble the only hiccup.
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@wissox I grew up an Illinois fan (Tony Eason, Jeff George era), but I’ve lived in kansas longer than IL at this point.
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@DanR I was trying to think of his name, I think it might have been Tony Eason that led them to that Rose Bowl.
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Eason played for the Patriots when the Bears creamed them in superbowl XX
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Very nice start for the defense
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Cubs get shut out, Sox getting no hit through 6, Illini losing, shaping up to be an epic day in Chicago sports.
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Hishaw is back to breaking tackles…
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@DanR said in Pregaming Illinois:
Hishaw is back to breaking tackles…
Would you want to try to tackle him? For that matter would you like to try to tackle Bret Bielema?
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That was an impressive drive, aided by the dumb personal foul.
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Wow, Casey again. Wow, great start.
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Couldn’t have hoped for a better 1st quarter. Keep wearing them down
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So far, so great!
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Very impressive first quarter so far, especially the defense and how much they’ve been in the backfield tonight. This is a good Illinois team, maybe not as good as the Duke team KU played last year, but Illinois should make a bowl this year.
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Just saw in Instagram Bill Self saying “This is the best Kansas team we have ever seen”. But back to the game.
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Come on D can’t start giving up chunks in the ground game
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They pulled a KC chief and got too cute lol sorry if that’s too soon
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Uh so I’m liking this athletic Defensive Line.
Last season I was just hoping to hold the other team to 3 on defense every possession, so this has been nice
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More Jaylon Magic
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Great catch by Wilson
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Daniels looks gassed.
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Also, these uniforms look even better than in the social media posts.
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I honestly thought this would be a bit closer than this.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Pregaming Illinois:
Great catch by Wilson
That guy is going to be something… either a spark plug or a disaster, but I love the way he plays
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@Texas-Hawk-10 The uni’s are the only thing I don’t like about tonight!
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Now they have to abandon their game plan and throw the ball
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4.0! He’s very impressive. Anybody remember him standing in front of Bean after the OSU game when Bean was overcome with emotion?
special moment between good friends. Going bowling!
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good play by Illinois
