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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 30, 2014 -> 05:08 PM) I'm starting the exploratory committee for Groce's replacement. 2.5 seasons now of complete choke jobs in big games. It's not like 2 minutes with a bucket, it's 6, 7, 8. It's pathetic. Yep. He is recruiting well but not well enough to justify keeping him if the results on the court don't improve drastically. There is no excuse for this team not to be playing better basketball.

I love that a garbage freshmen who hasn't hit a shot all year is on fire.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 03:09 PM) Even if they lost with Clausen, so long as Clausen was putting up points and being competitive and not throwing the ball away - pretty much what he was doing in his lone start - then Trestman and Emery could say, he look, the system works, we just need a quality QB behind it. Except for you know, actually scoring points are moving the ball because the Bears did neither with Clausen under center (to be fair to Clausen he actually played ok in that game though).

Kansas is not impressive at all this year.

The Lions are sadly doing everything possible to keep the Bears in this one. Bears are lucky not to be down 3 scores and now have a chance to tie it up.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 21, 2014 -> 02:09 PM) And he's thrown about 3 or 4 balls that have hit the receivers in the palms and they've dropped it. WR's are doing him no favors. Jeffery has two and Bennett had one that wouldn't have mattered since he wasn't gaining anything on the first play of the game. Wilson's wasn't really a drop but it was a play that could be made.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 21, 2014 -> 01:58 PM) Clausen actually looks really good. He's already thrown a couple passes that could have been picked and has completed one pass more than like 5 yards down the field.

I really hope things go off the rails early to see how bad things get.

Amazing shot by Rice to end it. Terrible performance by Illinois but at least they won. Biggest issues remain Cosby mysteriously forgetting how to shoot and really bad shot selection. When they don't settle for bad shots they efficient offensively but every guy except for basically Nunn just take so many bad shots. That is a coaching issue at this point, I like that Groce gives guys the green light and has them playing with confidence but there is a happy medium between Weber ball crushing players souls and this.

Did they even scout Missouri or are the players just a bunch of f***ing morons? Williams can't dribble at all with his right hand and yet Illinois continues to let him go left every time he touches the ball.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 17, 2014 -> 01:05 PM) He seems like big bust potential to me. Didn't he just have an 0-10 game? In high school for a good player that's unheard of. Meh. It is a game they won by like 80 and he has been great against better competition.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 09:57 PM) Eighth time bears have gone into the half with seven or less points this year including four shutouts. Trestman is an offensive genius.

The best thing that can happen to the Bears franchise is another embarrassing blowout. I hope the Saints crush the Bears tonight.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 09:01 PM) Lol, the Bears are hilariously bad Fixed

Groce clearly isn't Bo Ryan. Decent coach but he needs to have great talent to win big. He is upgrading the talent but it isn't quite there yet and he isn't a guy that can win big without it. This team should still be good this year but if Cosby and Starks are going to play like this the team is doing nothing. There are 7 players on this team that should be getting pt and 2 of them are proven shooters who can't make shots right now. Not good but Groce needs to stop being so set on rotations and let guys stay out there if they are making plays. Cosby has been awful but he finally made a 3 tonight and came out right after that. Let him stay in for a bit and see if you can get him going. We aren't winning a anything if he doesn't start playing like he did at Seton Hall anyways.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 13, 2014 -> 09:08 PM) The Big Ten is not good at all. Do you guys really want to still fight me on that? Agreed. Nobody but Wisconsin and maybe OSU looks any good.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Dec 10, 2014 -> 10:22 AM) It's just not clicking for him, my one big worry is that his shot is that awful flat type, did he just get lucky for a year at Seton Hall or was that true talent to score? I'm not that worried about the Illini, I figured we'd lose both of these games, it's just disappointing that we aren't shooting as well as we should be and that's really holding us back. But Hill and Rice are going to keep us in a lot of games, hopefully Nunn plays more and gets into a good groove as well. He shot 38% from 3 as a freshman as well and he took a lot of 3s both his freshman and sophomore year so he didn't just get lucky when it comes to making shots.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 09:18 PM) Cosby has been the most disappointing player, he's brought nothing thus far. If he and Starks don't start hitting shots this team just won't be that good. They both have proven track records on high shot diets so it would be really surprising if they don't start making shots but it is certainly a cause for concern.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 09:07 PM) Problem is that Starks isn't all that good either. He is at least an offensive threat. Tate is the worst offensive guard Illinois has ever had. Edit to clarify I mean this as a scholarship guard that gets minutes.

Jaylon Tate should never see the floor. Awful basketball player.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2014 -> 11:49 AM) Bears plan to can Tucker after season. http://www.csnchicago.com/bears/report-bea...er-after-season Unless Trestman goes along with him this does nothing for me.

Hopefully this year leads to an 8 team playoff. I realize you then have a debate over the 9th best team being led off but if you give automatic bids to the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12, and SEC champions a bid and then have 3 at large spots it will be incredibly rare for a championship caliber team to be left out.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 6, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) Pretty sure that's as bad as losing to app state. I'd argue it was worse.

This would be as bad as a loss as I've ever seen. Home against a low major team that is around 300 in Kenpom in a game where Lavert was on fire? Holy crap.

Kentucky's defense is incredible. There are times their offense can be pretty ugly but they have so much size they are efficient even when they aren't shooting well.