Just Gary said:

We have our QB and Iowa is not on our schedule next year, so it will be interesting to watch what happens to Iowa. Will Sullivan transfer to get playing time at some G5 program?

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Iowa’s QBs got pretty beat up last season.

Their OL or OC are high risk.

Hopefully they stay healthy. But Sully will probably get PT again at Iowa

Sheffielder said:

Agree. I always considered Illinois to be a sleeping giant and just thought it was funny how they kept misfiring. Let's hope we haven't effectively flipped the script.

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Going back decades when bs-ing about college football when someone raised the issue "what team should be better, who has historically underachieved" I would always say Clemson and Illinois. Again, we are talking about "bar talk" two and three decades ago and obviously Clemson no longer is that way, but my stance on Illinois still stands.

prez77 said:

A few other possibilities come to my mind. They may have been effective co-workers but perhaps not pals. He may have preferred the Iowa academic workload to NU's, or he may have preferred a more consistent winner than our rebuild.

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I agree. A player like him is thinking past graduate studies which I imagine are fairly demanding at NU. Besides that, NU picked up a prized QB already.

Hungry Jack said:

It’s a beautiful place with lots of sour grapes

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Champagne for my real friends,
Champaign for my sham friends. 🥂

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Between basketball and football, USC is getting quite an introduction to life in the Big10

An offensive Curly Culp in the making?

Chitownjazz said:

I still find it odd that Gronowski didn’t seem interested in reconnecting with Lujan by coming to NU. Should that tell us something about Lujan? Or was Gronowski still undecided about entering the portal when Stone became available? I suppose we’ll never know.

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A few other possibilities come to my mind. They may have been effective co-workers but perhaps not pals. He may have preferred the Iowa academic workload to NU's, or he may have preferred a more consistent winner than our rebuild.

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TheC said:

Glad we’re not playing Illinois right now. They are on a hot streak having won back to back games by 30+

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I was just flipping around and saw that Ace was on the bench, and had gotten injured on the opening play? Ouch.

Also, figured it was a matter of time until Illinois got it figured out - just so much talent on that squad.

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CatFanEd said:

His history of injuries and his performance in the bowl game will make him not so popular in Iowa. He will most likely be on the bench unless he gets lucky and Gronowski gets injured. He should probably move on to maybe a MAC or lower division school if he wants to get playing time.

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I was in the stands when Iowa fans cheered Sullivan replacing McNamara. Tried warning them, they wouldn’t listen.

Chitownjazz said:

I still find it odd that Gronowski didn’t seem interested in reconnecting with Lujan by coming to NU. Should that tell us something about Lujan? Or was Gronowski still undecided about entering the portal when Stone became available? I suppose we’ll never know.

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Too late.

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Chitownjazz said:

I still find it odd that Gronowski didn’t seem interested in reconnecting with Lujan by coming to NU. Should that tell us something about Lujan? Or was Gronowski still undecided about entering the portal when Stone became available? I suppose we’ll never know.

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We signed Stone who has proven he can play at this level. Lujan has a stud QB now let’s see what he can do.

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CatFanEd said:

His history of injuries and his performance in the bowl game will make him not so popular in Iowa. He will most likely be on the bench unless he gets lucky and Gronowski gets injured. He should probably move on to maybe a MAC or lower division school if he wants to get playing time.

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They brought in Hank brown too another transfer QB from auburn. He would have to beat him out to even be the back up

AtlantaCat said:

That explains a lot.

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It’s a beautiful place with lots of sour grapes

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clarificationcat said:

Bloomington is less than an hour from Indianapolis and is a pretty nice place to live and a great place to go to school. I wouldn’t compare it to Champaign.

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I know a little bit about Bloomington. I graduated three kids from there four years apart and made at least 24 trips there and back when I lived in Valparaiso, IN. Great school as my kids are now very successful in their chosen professions. One of my daughters is high up the chain at Lilly and I had to move to Indy to babysit. I love Indy but leisurely trips to Bloomington do not happen very often. I was referring mainly to the TV/media exposure that an athlete gets/got at the two schools. A lot has changed in the last couple of years for the good of both schools. I went to a couple of football games in Bloomington and not much of a crowd. Now it will be hard to get a ticket.