GAME NOTES: Illinois 34, Wisconsin 10

Notable Quotes from postgame media availability

• From Paul Chryst’s opening assertion:

“A time like this, it’s gonna take everybody and positively we received leaders on this workforce that I imagine in, they’ve received an element, however everybody’s gotta personal it and everybody’s part of this complete deal so all of us need to be a part of the answer.”

• Paul Chryst on Wisconsin’s offense:

“There’s a number of issues within the query. Completely, will we need to be and will we have to be — to provide ourselves an opportunity to win, we’ve received to be enjoying higher actually offensively. There’s little doubt about it. You’ve received to attain factors to win, and we haven’t been scoring sufficient, proper? That’s apparent. And I feel that we’ve received to do an excellent job. While you check out all the pieces. How are we teaching them? Whare are we doing? I feel — you already know, it’s unfair, and we’ve simply received to play higher, you already know what I imply?”

• Chimere Dike on Wisconsin’s offense following their first scoring drive:

“Give credit score to them, they performed some good protection, I feel that we might have taken care of the ball higher, we might have moved the ball higher constantly within the operating recreation, with the passing recreation, us receivers being constant — we had a few drops.”

• Dike on the dashing assault:

“We positively count on to run the ball, it’s a part of our identification, however on the finish of the day you already know in the event that they’re taking that away, we gotta execute within the passing recreation, you already know we might have achieved a manner higher job of that right this moment.”

• Nick Herbig on the beginning the Badgers had within the recreation:

“That’s all the pieces you may ask for, first shot on offense and also you rating, first shot on protection, power a punt, you may’t begin out any higher than that.”

• Herbig on his fellow defensive gamers:

“I beleive in my guys 100%, I really like ‘em, I really like going to warfare each Saturday with my workforce and I’ll do it each single day of the week.”

• Herbig on the lockerroom’s mentality:

“Pissed off, truthfully it sucks, it sucks to lose, however pissed off…”

• Graham Mertz on when the momentum turned in Illinois’ favor:

“Ummm I don’t know, I imply, from my place, I’m gonna say the primary decide, once you flip it over in your facet of the sector, it’s by no means good.”

“It’s all proper, it’s getting checked out.”

• Mertz on whether or not the hit he took impacted his skill to throw the ball:

“I took a number of photographs, our bodies beat up, however that’s a part of the sport, you might have to have the ability to play beat up.”

• Mertz on the “massive image” of Wisconsin soccer’s 2022 season:

“I’m not centered on the large image, I’m centered on week-to-week. I feel that’s the best way we gotta do it, we misplaced these three soccer video games, we received much more forward of us and what are we going to do to return collectively — I attempt to examine it to final season, after we have been in the same state of affairs, the place everyone counts you out and what are you going to do, are you going to disintegrate, or are you going to return collectively?”