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But he sees good position battles for playing time at key spots where last year the team struggled to put players on the field,Air Max 1 Atmos.
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Illinois lost in the Heart of Dallas Bowl to Louisiana Tech,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, but getting there was a big improvement for a team that had won just six games total in Beckman's first two seasons on campus.
"We really had an outstanding second half of the season," Beckman said Tuesday. The Illini had three wins in their last five games.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Coach Tim Beckman believes last season's 6-7 bowl team provided the kind of momentum the Illini can build on as the start spring football on Saturday.
Starting quarterback Wes Lunt has missed major pieces of both his seasons as a college quarterback with injuries. Last season senior Reilly O'Toole served as an experienced backup,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and wound up the starter late in the season. But this fall Lunt's backup is a redshirt freshman,Alexis Sanchez Arsenal Jersey UK, Chayce Crouch. And behind him are two true freshmen, Jimmy Fitzgerald and Jeff George Jr., who Beckman says will compete for the No. 3 spot.
Beckman believes he'll have better depth to work with this year. That doesn't mean the Illini will be deep — he said Tuesday that with injuries he won't have much depth at offensive line this spring.
Cornerback, he said, should be much deeper. And linebacker should be, too, with the return of Mike Svetina from a broken foot that cost him all of the 2014 season. Svetina started 11 games as a sophomore.
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