Lovie Smith and the Illini had a bye-week after a disheartening loss against Nebraska, and Smith thought it was a much needed break for Illinois.
“I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a bye-week come at a bad time. And I think that’s the case with us.”
“Had a little more time to stew on things during bye week but not like we haven’t addressed things the last couple weeks.”
“As we look at what we’ve done so far, theres some things we like, there’s some things we don’t like. Simple as that.”
For corrections that were worked on this week Smith said, “Everything.