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The Daily Illini: Old troubles haunt Illini in North Carolina loss
In high school, I had a football coach that always used to say, “Somebody needs to make a play!”
I never quite understood that: Obviously we were all trying to “make plays.” We wouldn’t have been on the field otherwise. Him exhorting us to do something we were already trying to do was confusing.
But I realized something: his expression might become the motto for the 2015 Illinois football team.