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Illinois banking on collaborative effort to improve defense

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Oct. 22—CHAMPAIGN — The Illinois defensive staff spent the team's bye week at the Smith Center instead of on the road recruiting. Keeping them together, giving them that week without a game to self-scout and find a way forward through the second half of the season, was more valuable to coach Bret Bielema than sending them out of town. There was still necessary work to be done for the revamped ...

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