Sound the alarms.
Illinois’ first four games were ugly, mistake-filled, and flat out underwhelming, but seemingly showed enough flashes that a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel remained.
In Saturday’s beatdown in West Lafayette, things went pitch black.
Against a team that came into the game lost and preaching patience under its first-year head coach, Illinois was the one that left the stadium looking like the program at the start of a rebuild.
How on earth did we get here?
Coming off an 8-win season and the most program momentum in over a decade, nobody could’ve imagined that things would’ve gotten this bad.