Progress! Improvement! Competitiveness!
That’s what we expected October to provide for Lovie Smith’s Illini football program.
Instead, in another embarrassing effort at Maryland on Saturday, the UI defense was softer than a down pillow ... the one they slept on DURING the game.
Blanked a week earlier at Iowa, Maryland rattled off an astounding 712 yards from scrimmage in a 63-33 rout that saw the Terps carry a 49-12 lead into the final minute of the third quarter.
“There are some things that are broken,” Smith said. “That’s about as bad a football as you can play.