Two seasons ago, fresh off a West title and a bowl win, NU backslid to a dreadful 3-9 finish, marked by horrifically bad QB play and a bad offense overall. The D eventually gave out and gave up. After that campaign ended, Fitz vowed that such a season would never happen again.
The ‘Cats then went and got a QB, swept the division, played well in the B1G championship, crushed an SEC team in a “name” bowl game, and earned a top ten national finish.
And now here we are, a year later, with another 3-9 finish. This year was worse — the worst, in fact, that I’ve ever seen in my nearly 20 years of fandom. Not only was QB play atrocious, so was everything else. The defense — our calling card in recent successful years — was abysmally terrible. There aren’t enough pejoratives to do it justice. They quit a long time ago. Giving up so many points to *VERY BAD* Nebraska and Illinois teams is Dark Ages stuff.
Fitz promised our fans and our program that 2019 would never happen again. Two years later, it’s worse. There is a glaring problem in the QB recruitment/development department. And I don’t know what to say about the defense beyond the obvious reality that Fitz’s DC hire was a very poor one & he needs to reboot that decision. Now.
In some ways, I’m not overly upset that the season is ending with an abject beat down at the hands of a lousy Illini squad, capping off 6 consecutive losses and a winless divisional finish. We are not “close.” There is no “momentum.” We are as bad as I’ve ever seen & are posting Dark Ages results on the heels of the best season in program history. Fitz needs to decide if his word means anything, and if a cartoonishly unacceptable season will be actually treated as unacceptable. I don’t know what he’s going to do (I don’t care what he says at this point), but I’ll be watching his actions very closely.
A disgusting season. What are you going to do, Fitz?
The ‘Cats then went and got a QB, swept the division, played well in the B1G championship, crushed an SEC team in a “name” bowl game, and earned a top ten national finish.
And now here we are, a year later, with another 3-9 finish. This year was worse — the worst, in fact, that I’ve ever seen in my nearly 20 years of fandom. Not only was QB play atrocious, so was everything else. The defense — our calling card in recent successful years — was abysmally terrible. There aren’t enough pejoratives to do it justice. They quit a long time ago. Giving up so many points to *VERY BAD* Nebraska and Illinois teams is Dark Ages stuff.
Fitz promised our fans and our program that 2019 would never happen again. Two years later, it’s worse. There is a glaring problem in the QB recruitment/development department. And I don’t know what to say about the defense beyond the obvious reality that Fitz’s DC hire was a very poor one & he needs to reboot that decision. Now.
In some ways, I’m not overly upset that the season is ending with an abject beat down at the hands of a lousy Illini squad, capping off 6 consecutive losses and a winless divisional finish. We are not “close.” There is no “momentum.” We are as bad as I’ve ever seen & are posting Dark Ages results on the heels of the best season in program history. Fitz needs to decide if his word means anything, and if a cartoonishly unacceptable season will be actually treated as unacceptable. I don’t know what he’s going to do (I don’t care what he says at this point), but I’ll be watching his actions very closely.
A disgusting season. What are you going to do, Fitz?
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