{"id":56537,"date":"2022-08-26T00:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zy-crisler-wins-starting-ol-job-identifying-cb2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:44:02","slug":"zy-crisler-wins-starting-ol-job-identifying-cb2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zy-crisler-wins-starting-ol-job-identifying-cb2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zy Crisler wins starting OL job;  Identifying CB2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><b>CHAMPAIGN \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During bye weeks last season, <b>Bret Bielema<\/b> and <b>Bart Miller<\/b> hit the road scouting future offensive linemen to address what were clearly short- and long-term holes on the roster.  That meant hitting up junior colleges looking to get a combination of both immediate and intermediate relief at the spot.  That scouting will immediately pay off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bielema, the Illini head coach, announced on Thursday that both junior college additions, <b>Isaiah Adams<\/b> and <b>Zy Crisler<\/b>, will start at left guard and right guard, respectively.  Adams appears to have had the starting left guard spot locked up for some time, and Crisler beat <b>Jordyn Slaughter<\/b> for the starting right guard spot.  Though Bielema said Slaughter will still play against Wyoming in the season opener at 3 pm Saturday at Memorial Stadium. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think we know how to evaluate o-linemen,\u201d Bielema said on Thursday.  \u201cI was with Bart (Miller) and to see his length, to see the way he played, the way he can bend and move, especially Isaiah.  Zy was actually playing left tackle when I saw him because we went to watch another left tackle and he jumped out to me on film and then to see him live.  There&#8217;s a lot of really good things that came out of that process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\">\n    if(typeof fbq === 'undefined') {\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.defer=1;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '320233411816140');\n        fbq('init', '1575186632756631');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; CHAMPAIGN \u2014 During bye weeks last season, Bret Bielema and Bart Miller hit the road scouting future offensive linemen to address what were clearly short- and long-term holes on the roster. That meant hitting up junior colleges looking to get a combination of both immediate and intermediate relief at the spot. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zy-crisler-wins-starting-ol-job-identifying-cb2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zy Crisler wins starting OL job;  Identifying CB2<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58277,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nebraska-blows-close-game-again-as-northwestern-wins-in-ireland\/","url_meta":{"origin":56537,"position":0},"title":"Nebraska blows close game again as Northwestern wins in Ireland","date":"August 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"College football is finally here and the first \"marquee\" game of the year didn't disappoint as Nebraska found a creative and new way to lose a close one.Now in his fifth season, Scott Frost is just 15-30 after a stunning loss in the Cornhuskers' opener against Northwestern. 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