Good - game winning, must-do 2-minute drive to break 8 game losing streak in first game of a new season with millions of new coaches and players and beat the whiniest fat bastard coach in the league? Check.

Screw the bad and the ugly.

W
1-0

Get better
Snot-trail Idaho.

The Good - 1. Anytime you open the Season against a team that has already played a game and had opportunities to make corrections, it's good to get a win. Especially against a conference rival.
2. 330 Yards passing from our new Quarterback with one interception that wasn't his fault.Some questionable passes early. Not sure if it was nerves on his part or receivers running the wrong patterns.

3. Defense looks better. Gave up some yardage in the run game, but Illinois has a good running game. You can win games when your Defense gives up 20 points or less. Didn't see enough to determine whether pass rush has improved.

4. Camper looks like He can play at this level, and that is significant.

The Bad - 1, We can't give up interceptions like the one last night and beat good teams. Great Pass? No a little high and slightly behind the receiver. At this level that is a play that has to be made.

2, Too many Field Goals. Yes the margin of victory was a Field Goal and We have the luxury of having a great Kicker. But Wehave to get away from this Mentality that once We get inside the 30. We can settle for 3. We won't beat good teams kicking field goals.

The Really Ugly - As usual the running game and OL blocking were non-existent. I don't know what to do to to give consequences for non-performance. If I were Bell and Hiller, I would set these guys down and tell them that the first 15 plays of the Idaho game will all be scripted power runs. You have 3 Series or that many plays to show You can run block. If You can't prove it We will make changes and find someone Who can.

That kid won't get the headlines from last night that others will, but I thought that kid played a great game, A couple of big plays that we desperately needed. Very glad he chose to come to IU.

Go Hoosiers!

... such a nice feeling waking up to this news this morning.

The bigger the let down for them the better.

Did Jaylin Lucas play last night? Don’t remember seeing him.

#15 - Philip Dunham DB
#16 - Jordan Grier DB
#24 - Bryson Bonds DB
#80 - Chris Freeman K (by the way - loved his kickoffs tonight. No idea who this guy was).
#99 - Chris James (although it wasn’t surprising to see him get a lot of snaps).

*My “Lunch Pail Award” goes to J.H. Tevis up front.

OL is terrible so far. Not impressed at all with the QB play.

Let that sink in...

It was ugly..., but it's a W...

We've got three games to clean things up in before we get back to Big Ten play... Looking forward to seeing how things play out...

//Idaho (the next game) might just be more of a test than most of us think they will be... They have a new HC along with several ringers (Transfers) who have changed the talent equation from what we saw last Fall...//

Mason, Kevin and I are at Southern Stone for the first Inside Indiana Football of the season.

We’ll have updates throughout, follow along here.

Not sure I've ever been more proud of a Hoosier football team after a game. Defense kept us in the game and the O, struggling all night, executes a perfect drive to win it.

Great job, men!

Go Hoosiers!

We suck.
Beliema is a whale.

bout all I got.

Lots of new faces. Seems like similar play to last year so far.

Hope they can dig in and steal this one. Illinois is obviously the better team though.

Weekend started good with Purdue spitting the bit! Hope IU wins. And a Ohio st loss. would constitute a pretty sweet weekend! Cheers everyone!

Down 7-3 . Shivers was hit hard and is not yet back.
We need a drive. Illinois D looks good.

9 wins is certainly possible with this team. Tons of resilience on that final drive. No idea where it came from but more of that please!

The button for away game tickets on the website has been grayed out every time I've checked it, and I was hoping to get a ticket to the Cincinnati game from the school's allotment if it isn't already sold, because second-hand market prices started off steep and are only getting steeper. The cheapest tickets on StubHub have risen up over $100 each now. I mean, IU's might not be any cheaper or already be sold, but I'd at least like to be able to check.

Against average teams.

Blocking, catching, fundamentals, keep us from winning them.

Gonna be a long year. Again.

I just got home from the game, so a lot of this is pending a re-watch on tv.

1) my son’s first IU game was a win and a thrilling one at that. So I’ve got one hooked. Poor bastard.
2) Big shout out to Beau Robbins. For coming in as a 4* he was pretty quiet for years. Had some really big plays tonight and saw a lot of snaps.
3) CTA said Illinois was stacking the box. Maybe that’s true, but that makes the play calls that much more inexplicable.
4) OL, rough. They need to do some real soul searching on run blocking.
5) I’ll need to watch my DVR and I admittedly am not smart enough to diagnose coverages, but CTA’s defensive calls seemed more like last season than they did Womack. Kane blitzed a whole lot in really exotic ways. I don’t recall seeing such a blitz heavy defense tonight.
6) Chase Brown is a stud.
7) Camper & DJ & Barner are going to be a good combo.
8) As poor as the offense was, they at least moved the ball some on most drives. I was so irritated at the number 3 & outs the last two seasons. It was nice to see the D get some kind of break.
9) The D bailed out the offense more than they deserved.
10) I like Bazelak. Certainly not a perfect performance but solid enough. He should never run a pitch option play ever again. That’s just tempting fate.
11) finally, can’t say enough about what Cam, Noah, and Josh did out there. Those guys played a lot of snaps and laid some hits on people. Also Sio had some really nice, including disrupting a play that ended with someone getting a TFL because he ate up two blockers and got held (uncalled) in the process. Classic DL work there.

Now I’m going to sleep til sometime much later today. Good night moon.

You all better watch out. His head is in national title mode. The guy loves basketball, might sleep with one. Best shape he has ever been. One primary focus. Winning.

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