I'm worse than a newspaper. I mean, the whole idea behind a blog is that you can instantly publish. No more waiting until the next morning to read about the game. I went to basketball practice on Saturday and here are my thoughts.. on Wednesday. My
The one thing that struck me about the walk through Grange Grove to Memorial Stadium Saturday was that every player, or almost every player, was wearing headphones. Maybe this is getting dangerously close to The Simpsons meme about the old man yelling
That's what we say to our kids, right? We know it's not OK to get angry with them. And when we do lose our cool (every parent loses their cool in weak moments), they can destroy us with "are you mad at me?". We respond with the truth: "I'm not mad -
Worst loss since... Arizona State 2012? That was the first year of Beckman, so I don't think that really "counts". Has to be the worst loss since Minnesota 2011 - Ron Zook's final game. That team laid down and died that day. Which sounds somewhat
This might be a long one. I have a lot of thoughts. I have gone back and forth and back and forth with this game all week. This is the main reason I don't make a prediction until the night before. I would have changed it 13 times this week. I think I
Coming Up
Who: Purdue Boilermakers
When: 2:30 pm - October 13th, 2018
Where: Home Sweet Homecoming
How: FS1
Opponent Primer:
Head Coach: Jeff Brohm. The bane of Robert's patience mantra. Brohm, a former Illini QB coach
We'll switch up the order this week. Those Were The Days first, then Craig Has The Scout. With a likely Robert Rants About The Fact That We Cannot Keep From Shooting Our Program In The Foot somewhere in between. First, though, Detlef takes us back to
I wrote about it back in 2016, have probably referred to it twenty five times over the past two years, and now it's here. "We won't really learn anything for the next 25 games, until the Purdue game in 2018". Well, welcome to the Purdue game in
I watch a lot of bad football.
That's not a shot at our Illini, although they haven't helped the situation. No, these past few years before the Illini start their games late on Saturday mornings, I'm watching my nephews play junior football.
Youth
It's not much, but it's a rung on the ladder. This football program of ours - worse than Rutgers the last ten years, look it up - was at the bottom of the ladder in the Big Ten. After today, I think you can clearly say that we are definitely ahead of
Just so you know, I already know that I'm predicting a loss. If that's not something you want to read, I'd advise that you not click on this post and go watch YouTube videos of the 2001 season or something. If you do want to read why, well, here's my
Man, I totally forgot about this post today. Detlef already sent me the post - my only job is to post it on Friday. And it's 10:07, I'm just sitting down to write the SOC, and when I pull up the site I realize that I never posted the TWTD post. So now
Coming Up
Who: Rutgers Scarlet Knights
When: 11:00 am - October 6th, 2018
Where: HighPoint Stadium, Piscataway, NJ
How: BTN (I feel sorry for the announcing crew on this one)
Side note: This is Rutgers' annual blackout game,
Back from vacation. Here's my pro tip for the day: if you want to do a beach vacation in non-Florida USAmerica, do it in September. The air is still warm, the water is still warm, and the beaches are 92% empty because the kids are back in school. The
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