Zook briefs reporters before season finale

"This last game to me is about our seniors. It's about these guys playing their last game for the University of Illinois, playing their last game for the Illini, playing their last game in Memorial Stadium. Obviously they've done an awful lot of good things and an awful lot of bad things. I think one thing this class has done is show us where we can be and where we need to get back to. I think when they came here it wasn't necessarily the popular thing to do, so I have a special place in my heart for that. As I told our football team after the game on Saturday, they basically recruited everybody in this room. We owe it to them to do everything in our power as a football team and as a coaching staff to do everything we can do to win this game."

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