Illinois let a baby-faced assassin turn Memorial Stadium’s lights out on Friday Night.
Bret Bielema must follow suit and pull the plug on a once-promising light for 2021.
The super senior strategy is simply not supplying significant enough substance to warrant its win-now nature. If the losses continue to pile up — and the Illini are 11-point underdogs at Purdue — Bret and Co. must pivot toward the future.
We’ve already seen beginnings of it — credit the staff for pulling super senior Tony Adams out of starter snaps; and good god, did Josh McCray look like a runaway freight train on multiple occasions.