Let’s talk Illinois
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@Kcmatt7 if your gonna walk around like that your deserve all the hate. Just Colorado getting whipped tonight
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Only bright side would be that this isn’t a conference game.
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Herbstriet called it on game day. Altmeyer woild outplay JD
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Let’s see how poorly we manage our timeouts
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Defense is tired. JD and Grimes’s fault
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Timeout
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Question is do we even make a bowl
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Losing record if we play like this
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@webjay Time of possession is about the same.
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Does our dumbass coach know we have THREE timeouts?
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Timeout
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Very poor coaching tonight all around by LL and Grimes. The new stadium is going to be great 1/4 full with a 3 win team smh. UNLV spanks us next week too book it
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We get it back with 1 minute, likely down 6. Would still not throw it
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Run 7 times and score
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I’d bet a hefty amount JD throw another pick to end the game. Is that turkey or what lol
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Can’t believe numbnutz is still in the game
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Throw it away wasted 15 seconds
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Game ends with a JD turnover 5 turnovers in 6 quarters smh please bench him
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Maybe this will humble them.
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That was worst coaching performance in CFB history, Beaty would’ve got us the W. What a bunch idiots, actually that’s an insult to idiots.
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Will always be a Jayhawk, but this was last time I will watch a KU FB game
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@webjay hard to watch, easily the worst feeling I’ve had as a KU since South Dakota State beat us to open the Beaty era. Maybe we will end up wish LL left to Wisconsin
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If I’m Travis Golf, I’m meeting with coaches tomorrow and firing Jeff Grimes.
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@kjayhawks Probably related to Frank Grimes from the Simpsons
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Or Grimey, as his friends called him
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@patoh3 play ballard
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We should’ve played a decent team to start, starters only played half.
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Daniels has never had the arm strength to throw all the deep passes Grimes wants to throw. How many of those deep throws to Skinner did he badly underthrow tonight? Our passing game needs to focus much more on the short and intermediate routes with only 2 or 3 deep shots total per game. Grimm and Arnold are good enough at those short and intermediate routes to cause secondaries lots of issues.
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@webjay said in Let’s talk Illinois:
WTF? Run for 7, then throw it away twice?
From the bleachers, this felt like the series that lost it for us. Sure the pick 6 of course didn’t help at all, but we’d established the run, and we have 2nd and 3 and just, why?
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Well as pumped as I was for this one, it sure fizzled. Actually we controlled it for the most part for 3 quarters. The pick 6 was the only thing that kept Illinois in it. The defense finally wore out when they learned they’d be going back out on the field in a couple of minutes. Two long scoring drives in the 4th by Ill was all she wrote.
I too walked away miffed with Grimes. Our seat angle was such that it was kind of hard to see the plays, but you’d look up on the running plays and see on the scoreboard 5-6 yards a pop, and it just seems kind of logical that running is going to be your bread and butter. And yet we seemed to get away from it.
Leipold is not a dumbass as someone mentioned.
It was a fun game to be at. Illinois fans aren’t obnoxious although after the game as idiot students ran past us down to the field we heard one irate Illinois fan mad about Bill Self leaving. Couldn’t quite tell what he was mad about, but like dude, your team just won the game.
If our DBs turn and look for the ball, maybe we stop some of their longer plays.
This is a game we should have won. Clearly.
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I completely agree with that last sentence. Illinois is not good. This game was easily there to win for KU.
This is as bad as I’ve ever seen JD6 look.
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Feel like everything went against us. Garbage qb play, somehow not recovering the fumbled snap or the muffed punt
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I thought our play calling was below par, Grimes play calling was vanilla. I miss Andy K’s playbook.
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@AsadZ Vanilla would’ve been fine if they ran the ball. Absolutely inexplicable
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@BShark said in Let’s talk Illinois:
I completely agree with that last sentence. Illinois is not good. This game was easily there to win for KU.
This is as bad as I’ve ever seen JD6 look.
And Jeff Grimes play calling was ridiculous. 3rd and 2 and KU has great running backs: Grimes calls a 20 yd pass that falls short.
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@stoptheflop said in Let’s talk Illinois:
play calling was ridiculous. 3rd and 2
Ah, reminds me of the mid-70s Chiefs’ games. “Podolak into the line twice for 8 yards, pass incomplete, punt.”
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This is why I don’t get worked up over KU football. Over a hundred years worth of history tells us they will revert to the norm - which for KU is bad.
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I’M. SO. PISSED.
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@nuleafjhawk At yourself for having expectations or KU football for doing KU football stuff?
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Most of us do have expectations!
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After last night I’m just hoping we can go .500 and make a bowl game. Thats a loss that can completely destroy a locker room. Will have every offensive player questioning not only the coaching staff’s decisions but if our QB is capable of playing at this level anymore. Pretty much every media is laughing their tails off at Grimes play calls and how ridiculous we looked last night.
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@dylans Yes. And yes.
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I hope Grimes can take a few plays from Andy Ks playbook, use more RPO and design creative running plays.
I would also like to see a few plays with our backup QB.
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@AsadZ We all were worried about JDs health coming in and still don’t wish that upon anyone but the question looms. Were we a better football team with Jason Bean? JD looked unbelievable at times but has the limited practice time and injuries made the game get away from him? He looks worse than he did as a 17 year old true freshman. We just have to hope this is a transitional period of him finding his groove. On the side of the coin, we can’t wait a half of a season for him to figure it out. I’d say Illinois is probably the 3rd or 4th easiest game on our schedule which is pretty weak. If I’m coaching this week, Ballard is getting first team reps.
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Just so I have this right:
- fire everyone
- Jalon can’t play and is soft
- Lance can’t coach
- the stadium is never getting done
- the sky hasn’t just fallen, we also got hit by a meteor and a hurricane
- the season is over
- shut down the program
- go to the big east
Lots of drama queens here lmao. Take a Xanax.
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The Day After…I guess our title hopes are dashed? Ha. I’m still happy with a bowl game. Always my goal until proven otherwise.
I will say many of us KU fans hoped the program had turned some kind of corner. Maybe we’re stuck in the traffic circle still.
Illinois seems like a team that kept things close in most games last year. Maybe not as bad a loss as we think, but that sure seemed like a game we could have and should have won. In fact i wasn’t even worried after a few bad plays and turnovers. I thought we’d come back and dominate easily. Then stupidity kinda set in. Why can’t the adults on the sideline see what the rest of us were seeing? Make the right play calls! Put people in position to succeed! Seems pretty simple viewing from the couch. I don’t really know the coaches, so i cant say if Grimes or his understudy are capable. Something went drastically wrong. I hope they can fix whatever “it” is.
Like others, i think i saw a grimace on JD’s face early on. Maybe he was hurt? I know i’m just waiting for it to happen. Not wishing for it of course, but always a worry when the back is involved.
On to next week.
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But seriously, is qb going to be a position battle?
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Forgot to set the DVR so I can’t go back and watch. Had a penalty negate a TD to Grimm early in the 2nd quarter. Game play by play calls it offensive pass interference. From the stands Lance looked like he was arguing with refs, but never saw replay. Was it a legit gripe? Anyone remember?
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One more gripe for the upcoming week. We have DirecTV and they are currently arguing with the ABC/ESPN nation and as a result I won’t be able to watch Friday when they play UNLV. grrrr. first world problem I know, but grrrrr…!
