Illini PWO Blayne Sisson from Mt. Carmel, IL named MaxPreps Small School 1st Team All American Offense
https://www.maxpreps.com/news/mHLhfVqbwUi90ZeQ_N83Dg/high-school-football-terry-bussey-of-texas-headlines-small-town-all-america-team.htm
Blayne Sisson is the MaxPreps Illinois High School Player of the Year and an Illini Preferred Walk on next year, he is a terrific kid
https://www.maxpreps.com/news/briAsMoHR0y6po0tVu_x2w/blayne-sisson-named-2023-maxpreps-illinois-high-school-football-player-of-the-year.htm?
Blayne Sisson is a two time All State First Team QB from Mt. Carmel IL (not Chicago Mt. Carmel) who was an SIU commit but took an Illini PWO offer a couple of weeks ago. He stepped into the QB spot his sophomore year after the starting QB was injured and made some All State teams that year as...
Chemistry! I have been saying that most of the year, just didn’t seem to have it most of the time.. If the team ex Shannon and Mayer return, the chemistry might be there as they have been to the wars together, bought into the system and have grown.
I listened to the EIU game that Marty Simmons had Bryce Weiler, a blind radio announcer, do a few months back. Bryce is pretty phenomenal
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/blind-sports-commentator-illinois-college-game-radio
My little Allendale High School (town population of 500) is now consolidated into Mt. Carmel. My wife graduated from Dieterich but they moved to T-Town and her Hartke siblings all graduated from there. While I didn’t know Uwe, I knew the man who was responsible for getting the German player...
I am 71 years old and an Illini Bball and football fan since I was around 9 and hardly ever miss a game on TV. But as a an EIU grad, I BleedEIUBlue, so want to see the Panthers give a good show. I have known EIU Head Coach Marty Simmons since he was born (I played ball in with his uncles at my...
Marty is a good friend who I have known since he was born. His family is originally from my little hometown of Allendale (population 500) as was Ricky Leighty’s family, both their dad’s went to Allendale High and were fabulous basketball players. I played ball with a couple of Marty’s uncles and...
My 6’8” partner in the investment firm I cofounded was Captain of the Santa Clara 1993 team with Steve Nash that as a 15 seed beat 2 seed Arizona in the Big Dance.
This is quite a relief! The rumor was that the punishment would be Kofi would be suspended for three days and the Illini would be barred from post season.
Happy to see Brock Huard as one of the announcers, we hear him a lot around the Seattle area and he is terrific. A great football family, I talked to his brother Damon recently who has Passing Time Winery with Dan Marino.
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