Recent content by Centennial Illini

During that event, a lot of Iowa fans stormed the field, one of whom got his jaw broken by an Illini player. The thought of that after all these years still makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

Alot of "offensive" chatter on this board about our offense so i decided to do a little homework. Based on ESPN official stats, only Michigan got more yardage against Iowa than we did. 11 more and they averaged fewer yards per carry. And we did it with our backup QB. If TDV doesn't get hurt we...

I did. Butkus played linebacker at 240 when offensive tackles rarely weighted more than 215. My first Illini game was a 12-2 loss to Stanford that I listened to on radio. J.C. Caroline was the running back. My wife and I will make the trip up from St Louis this Saturday as we always do. I...

Another decrepit old codger here but I posted this 2 years ago, I've gone thru Valek, Moeller, White, Mackovic, Tepper, Turner, Zook, Beckmann, and Cubit. Excuse me, I just read what I wrote and I need a stiff drink to steady my nerves. Of all of those, only the the White and Bielema hires had...

The smallest home crowd in Bielema's last year at Wisc was just a little short of 80,000, he was getting tons of support. It is possible that he wasn't getting the administration's support but as he was Alvarez's personal choice and had a 3 year apprenticeship, that seems a reach. Obviously...

This unfortunately has happened before. In 1968 we scheduled KU when the hadn't won in decades. They killed us 47-7. Key Kansas players were QB Bobby Douglas (Bears) John Riggens (Redskins) and John Zook (Rams). Ugly I was there.

Even their couldn't stand those uniforms, the absolute worst

Beat Ohio State soundly at Columbus which started a 5 game winning streak over the Buckeyes. Fellow old timers correct me if I'm wrong but I think we were trailing Indiana by 13 with about 3-4 minutes left when we scored, forced a fumble and George hit a short TD pass in the last minute. We...

In 1988 we lost at home to Washington St 44-7 and I walked out of MS wondering if we would win 3 games that year. We ended 6-5-1 and gave Florida with Emmit Smith all they could handle in the bowl game, losing 14-10. This game will not make or break the season but just for chuckles lets win.

If you grew up in a small bedroom community like Collinsville anywhere from 1947 (Fletchers arrival) to the Kevin Stallings Rick George era 1979 (Fletchers retirement) basketball was the common denominator that joined everybody at the hip. The entire year was watching Kahok BB or talking about...

You do realize these guys are all still alive and in the area. Denny's foo foo dog took a crap in my yard yesterday.

As someone who went to CHS way before you guys, we hardly ever worried about Edwardsville because rarely beat us

On the gossip level, I was intrigued when in talking about the BIG and its members he said Some schools took a let's wait and see how this breaks attitude and they are far behind the curve Some, I am assuming football schools like PSU and Neb, are struggling to find NIL sponsorship for...

His one minute was right in front of my seats tho we were up a ways. UNC got the ball into Sean May and he just abused Nick on that play. Weber was off the bench in 1 second and pulled him. Physically no match for May.

All things considered, this team overachieved. Very short at the guard position, offensively limited, coaching disruptions, totally unexpected transfer, more injuries and illnesses than the law allows and yet for the first time in 17 years, we are big ten champs. I will always love them...