Western Illinois

[JimmyJack]

Re: Western Illinois

Western Illinois has some good players indeed. But looking at their past two opponents I find it hard to really compare how they stack up to us. The University of Arkansas barely got by the Univ of Louisiana-Monroe by one point 27-26 this past weekend. The game they had this weekend with Quincy University is hard to judge also. Quincy is a school rum by the Fransicans and plays NAIA in football, Div 2 in other sports. Quincy's roster is dominated by freshman and sophomores with 22 seniors and juniors. They've had two winning seasons in 13 years. We came close last year. I would need to see more of WIU to judge how good they are before making a decision. But if Coach Stig has the team prepared like last weekend on our home turf I give us a chance.

Didn't USD beat Quincy in similar fashion last year or the year before?

Re: Western Illinois

I like school rums

[SturgisJeff]

Re: Western Illinois

Western Illinois has some good players indeed. But looking at their past two opponents I find it hard to really compare how they stack up to us. The University of Arkansas barely got by the Univ of Louisiana-Monroe by one point 27-26 this past weekend. The game they had this weekend with Quincy University is hard to judge also. Quincy is a school rum by the Fransicans and plays NAIA in football, Div 2 in other sports. Quincy's roster is dominated by freshman and sophomores with 22 seniors and juniors. They've had two winning seasons in 13 years. We came close last year. I would need to see more of WIU to judge how good they are before making a decision. But if Coach Stig has the team prepared like last weekend on our home turf I give us a chance.

[JimmyJack]

Re: Western Illinois

Their sophomore QB, Matt Barr can run, too. He came in to replace the starter last year during the 4 OT game last year and really exploited our defense at times. We seem to have some trouble with a QB who can run.

Their kicker is an NCAA record setter. They run a strange defense with three down lineman and a "Leatherneck" linebacker-type who roams around. It's kind of like Cal Poly's odd but usually effective defense, with people wandering around before the snap.

They're very good, but it's tough to say just how good. They played Arkansas tough, but that's a program in transition with Bobby Petrino putting a new system in place. Then they beat the daylights out of Quincy and, well... that's Quincy.

All I know is we played them very tough last year so it'll be a battle.

[JackrabbitGuy]

Re: Western Illinois

I was wondering about Western Illinois this morning too and looked at them a little bit. As far as I got (since I'm at work) was to see that they have a great senior halfback Herb Donaldson, who averaged almost 150 yards per contest last year. They should be a good test for our front 7. I'll have to wait until tonight to do more research, but here's the link to the bio of Donaldson.

http://www.wiuathletics.com/ViewArti...&ATCLID=631513

[launcher46]

What can anyone tell me about Western Illinois? I know they played Arkansas close in week 1, and I believe they were young last year and return most of their starters. Anybody have any good info on them besides that?