Recent content by kisseber

I will be 82 on the 15th of this month...I started following the Illini with Nick Weatherspoon and Nick Connor, but I didn't get season tickets until Bartow became coach and then maintained them until 1996 when I left the U of Illinois for a professorship in Tel Aviv

I beg to disagree with you... when it comes to professional sports teams it is often a familial matter or attachment to a person who becomes identified with a team that determines who one follows... in the first decade of my life in the 1940's I became a Yankee fan because my father and older...

Look up the Titus & Tate episode on you-tube where they discuss Auburn and its ascension... they are always vigorous in saying that Pearl is a scumbag, going back to mentioning the Deon Thomas affair... but of course, you are right that most of the media just thinks about who is winning... of...

i have no interest in judging kids (whether basketball players, rappers, rock stars, "influencers", child actors, or whatever) for not having the maturity to navigate the world that they find themselves in (I'll reserve my scorn for those older)... but Illini fans should be proud of the fact...

titus & tate in their podcast (you-tube available) express a high level of doubt that Bates' measurables could be so bad and engage in various theories about what could possibly be going on, including some sort of ploy to try to keep Bates at Memphis for two years (he can't go NBA next year)...

I haven't noticed anything by the way of comment about the Titus & Tate show (I have been watching it on you-tube since the tournament), and since Titus is a former walk-on at Ohio State and Tate is an alumni of North Carolina, I suppose that might dissuade some from watching. Their tournament...

I understand the hope that Tev will be the player that some people think he could me... I just don't accept the criticisms of the coach for playing someone else instead of Tev (for instance, there can be no question that Tyler Underwood provided more of what we needed than Tev in the few minutes...

since we have now apparently decided that the coach does not need to be fired, perhaps we ought to let the coach decide who he wants on the team

grew up in Ohio, a Buckeye fan; spent 28 years in C-U as a PhD student and then a professor (season ticket holder starting with Bartow's year), then off to Israel and back after 12 years to South Carolina, but spending most Big Ten bb seasons in Columbus with my eldest son, but always Illini!

I am not sure what game you were watching. I attended the game with my son, a professor at OSU, and was naturally rooting for them (although I am more of an Illinois fan, as I was a professor there for 25 years and had season tickets starting with the Gene Bartow's season). OSU was completely...