Recent content by ThunderousBear

TSJ third team is crazy. He missed a few games but there's no way he shouldn't have been at least on the second team. According to wikipedia we don't hang jerseys for third team All-Americans but I'm not an expert.

Kind of interesting, team's official twitter account made no mention of TSJ from what I saw, although I didn't look super hard. Curious to see how they proceed through the rest of the season.

I have been wondering this all season. I thought Dain was pretty good for the Illini last year? Clearly they're doing fine without him playing much though.

No TSJ no problem?

TSJ coming back paying huge dividends for us and him. Gonna be a first round pick for sure at this rate.

I cannot fathom not starting a guy who just threw for over 500 yards and 4 TD's. Altmyer has had good games, but Paddock just had a game which I didn't even think was possible for anyone in an Illini uniform. This of course, coming off an emergency game winning drive against Minnesota where he...

People are declaring our season over just because we played close with a lower conference opponent. As recently as 2021 we lost to a lower tier team (UTSA) and beat #7 Penn State on the road. A narrow win over a good G5 team is no reason to think this team's ceiling is suddenly much lower...

Wow when was the last time the Illini had votes in the preseason poll? 2008?

I love Keith Randolph

So when are we gonna change the conference name?

Northwestern lost another recruit to Oklahoma, and transferred a safety to OSU and a CB to UCLA today. 247 has them clocking in at the 2nd lowest P5 ranking for 2024 ahead of just K-State. Looks like we might be able to extend this win streak for a few more years minimum.

Much better. Shoulder stripes are awful imo and yes, invite unwanted comparisons to Cuse.

I don't know why people around here feel like they can look down on Northwestern so easily when it comes to sports. They've not only been better than us consistently at many sports for years now, but have also been trending upwards while we've mostly been trending downwards. I understand many of...

Anything but Alma Otter, a terribly embarassing pun and a generic one too.

Haven't seen any transfers yet but this freshman class is getting scant. Might be under 10 recruits in a week.