Basebone1898
Well-Known Member
1) Manny Diaz played a huge role in getting their defense up to that level. He went back to Mississippi State, so don't expect them to be as strong on defense.
2) Skip Holtz is very suspect as a coach.
3)Illinois was a garbage team. A lot of decent mid-major programs would have beat them too. Just look at how the MAC has taken it to those lower-quality Big 10 teams through the years.
They'll make a bowl game and probably will win the C-USA, but they are no Boise State due to the aforementioned reasons. Now on paper, yes they probably are a high quality G5 team with Boise State-like ability, but I don't know if they have the coaching to get them to that level with Manny Diaz gone.
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