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That I promise.
Jorgan and Packers asked me to stay on this site after I lost a capping contest to them. I obliged. That is why I still post.
If this pick doesn't hit, that will be it for me:
6 years or 2 years or impeachment (
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)I am completely gobsmacked by this line:
Illinois -2 over Rutgers
I'm riding with LOVIE.
HOLY SHII****
For Rutgers to win this game, this is what they must overcome:
1. Illinois is 2-2 and coming off a bye week.
All the time needed to study Rutgers flaws and there are too many to count on a team that lost 149-20 to OSU, Kansas and Buffalo before losing to Indiana this week. This is still very much the same exact team, if not a bit more confident with a very green QB still learning. Baby steps were taken. BABY steps. Not trampoline leaps...
2. This is a revenge game for Illinois after RU broke a 16 game Big Ten losing streak to them last year.
RU couldn't beat anyone in the Big 10. That all changed last year.
They beat the Illini in their house 35-24 in an incredibly embarrassing loss for Lovie and Co.
Mind you, last years Rutgers team was a team that beat a bowl winning Purdue team (you think they'd be Purdue this year? Hell no!) and one that IMO, was a better RU team than this one by a tangible margin.
This is what Chris Ash said about LAST YEAR'S team:
"Nobody thought we could come in here and win this game"
He treated it like Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson, popping champagne in the city of Champaign. Literally, the scene in the locker room was like the 86 Mets after the ball got through Buckner's legs!
They didn't forget that game folks or the raucous celebration afterwards in their house.
3. It's put up or shut up time for Lovie too...
Lovie is on a hotter seat than Ash, I can promise you that. Building on a 2-2 start to 3-2 will go a long way with the AD.
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