Back to the Illinois Fighting Illini Newsfeed

Illinois Football: An early look at the Illini offense in 2020

The team that Lovie Smith and the coaching staff are building will be good. They will make bowl games and it wouldn’t shock me if they eventually crack the top 25 in the next couple of years. That is how highly I think of the roster we are going to be putting out on the field.

There was a lot of criticism of the coaching staff when they started true freshmen over some players who were more experienced and more talented. There were some growing pains for sure. But that game plan of Lovie’s back in 2016 and 2017 is going to start paying off.