Carolina @ Illinois game thread

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Carolina defensive front winning the battle of the line play

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

Might be the greatest play I've seen all night

 

[sctarheel30]

You gotta be kidding me a lineman runs for ten yards on a fumble

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Illinois offensive lineman Spencer picks up a fumble from his QB and bulls his way to a first down. TV timeout so he can take some oxygen...

 

[HeelBilly50]

Our run D is so bad Offensive linemen are averaging 10 yards a carry!!!

 

[TarHeelMark]

How many times have they put the ball on the ground and it bounces right back to them? Sheesh.

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Illinois is now throwing the Ole pigskin alot

 

[TarHeelMark]

Nothing ever easy, is it?

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

Nothing ever easy, is it?

Right? Every time I think we have these guys in a vise they get out of it

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

Yes!

 

[TarHeelMark]

Ok. Finally stopped the drive thanks to a bad snap. But why the hell are we throwing it?

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Illinois has a 16 play drive which eats up the clock but on 4th down the drive ends

 

[yrusonvus]

Nice a series of downs where illini shoots themselves in the foot

 

[gteeitup]

run the f'n ball, fedora

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

Good guys get the ball back on a botched play on 4th down

 

[yrusonvus]

He so HOOD for TD!

 

[sctarheel30]

Good job hood TD

 

[strummingram]

Hood-winked!

 

[TarHeelMark]

Hell yeah! Elijah 62 yards... Nails are in the coffin.

 

[uncboy10]

That should do it

 

[yrusonvus]

run the f'n ball, fedora

By golly I think he heard you.

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

That should wrap it up boys. Way to go Hood

 

[TarHeelMark]

45-23. They've only out up one TD since first qtr.

 

[HeelBilly50]

Hood is gone!!! Ballgame!!!!

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Hood goes for 52 yards and scores and the MOOSE IS ON THE LOOSE...and as Dandy Don used to say " turn out the lights, the party is over". The sellout crowd is now silent. Oh yes the score 45-24

 

[gteeitup]

33-26 run to pass

not that it matters now, but we all know what we do best.

if anyone tells you we threw to setup the pass, they are fos.

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

These big ten announcers are not even trying to be bias

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

if anyone tells you we threw to setup the pass, they are fos.

Boom, don't ever let ANYONE tell you running the football doesn't win games.

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Defense lead by Jones stuffs Illinois yet again

 

[yrusonvus]

Dang little Ricky almost broke one off. Nice run Austin

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

New QB and tailback for UNC

 

[yrusonvus]

Oh shiggity and Elliot sighting

 

[TarHeelMark]

These big ten announcers are not even trying to be bias

They've been very complimentary of our team, IMO.

 

[Elijah.Lumbee]

Wow, Nate Elliott in, that's something

 

[sctarheel30]

Wasn't easy but we will take it

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

It will be a nice flight to RDU Tonight as Wilder kicks another field goal with under 90 seconds to play. 48-23...

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Yes Illinois, Carolina is not Murray State...final 48-23 in one ugly played game. The officials arms must be tired because they threw so many flags..

 

[grillheel]

My players of the game: Naz Jones and TJ Logan. A tip of the cap to a few others: Trubisky, Hood, Smith, Holcomb. But Jones and Logan set the pace for the defense and offense, IMO.

 

[Archer2]

My players of the game: Naz Jones and TJ Logan. A tip of the cap to a few others: Trubisky, Hood, Smith, Holcomb. But Jones and Logan set the pace for the defense and offense, IMO.

Agreed on the POG, both had very good games. I thought Smith, Holcomb, and Bart were all pretty solid defensively. No doubt in my mind that Holcomb is a player, not just a guy who has to play because we don't have any other viable options as has been speculated here.

The crowd was very loud, Lovey has them fired up about football again. Mitch and the offensive line did a good job overcoming the crowd noise for the most part. And Mitch was effective with his feet as well as his arm, and his ball integrity was impeccable. I remember only one pass where he threw into double coverage. Not only does he possess very good arm strength and a quick release, he is very accurate, especially on the short to intermediate passes.

I'd love to see us get our TE's more involved. We have a total of 3 completions to our TE's this year, 2 to Tucker and one to Bargas which doesn't count because he caught a deflected pass. The good news is that both look like promising Freshmen. But "Frittsy", as he's called, has been MIA so far and he looks like he could be great. Fritz has zero catches after two games. I thought he would be one of Mitch's primary targets this year. Is he hurt?

Solid win in a hostile environment. Good confidence booster for Mitch.

 

[HeelFan58]

Agreed on the POG, both had very good games. I thought Smith, Holcomb, and Bart were all pretty solid defensively. No doubt in my mind that Holcomb is a player, not just a guy who has to play because we don't have any other viable options as has been speculated here.

The crowd was very loud, Lovey has them fired up about football again. Mitch and the offensive line did a good job overcoming the crowd noise for the most part. And Mitch was effective with his feet as well as his arm, and his ball integrity was impeccable. I remember only one pass where he threw into double coverage. Not only does he possess very good arm strength and a quick release, he is very accurate, especially on the short to intermediate passes.

I'd love to see us get our TE's more involved. We have a total of 3 completions to our TE's this year, 2 to Tucker and one to Bargas which doesn't count because he caught a deflected pass. The good news is that both look like promising Freshmen. But "Frittsy", as he's called, has been MIA so far and he looks like he could be great. Fritz has zero catches after two games. I thought he would be one of Mitch's primary targets this year. Is he hurt?

Solid win in a hostile environment. Good confidence booster for Mitch.

Fritts was injured early in last week's game. I don't think he played yesterday but i didn't see game so not sure.