Illinois schedules home-and-home with Arizona in 2019/2020

[sacraig]

As someone who lives in Tucson, these tickets can't go on sale soon enough.

http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...lini-schedule-home-and-home-with-arizona.html

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050808731209003009

 

[ugottabjoshinme]

Illinois scheduled a home and home with Arizona

At Arizona in 2019
At Illinois in 2020

So could play them 3 years in a row if we catch them in Maui.

 

[foby]

They are definitely making it happen on the scheduling front......

 

[ChiefIllini]

They are definitely making it happen on the scheduling front......

Which is good. Playing cupcakes is something a team needs to do (well maybe not), but playing competition better than a bottom third D1 team before conference play will help in its own ways too.

If we really want to get back to the early 00s, this is the kind of opponent we need to schedule (and did schedule back then). Next up: Duke at the UC

 

[Obelix]

This didn't seem appropriate for any of the other existing threads, so I figured I would post it here.

As someone who lives in Tucson, these tickets can't go on sale soon enough.

http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...lini-schedule-home-and-home-with-arizona.html

Great choice, we need to get Arizona, Kansas, Duke and the like back on pre-conference schedule.

 

[Obelix]

So could play them 3 years in a row if we catch them in Maui.

Pretty lame, in 2000-01 we played Arizona 3 times in the same season.

 

[Spoon House]

Outstanding work by Whitman on this. I'm a fan of this.

 

[illiniclub]

This requires a shout out to Joey Biggs on Coach Underwood's staff. He handles scheduling and has done a great job so far. Much improved over what we have seen over the past many years.

 

[PlayAZ]

This didn't seem appropriate for any of the other existing threads, so I figured I would post it here.

As someone who lives in Tucson, these tickets can't go on sale soon enough.

http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...lini-schedule-home-and-home-with-arizona.html

Moved to Phoenix, will be driving back for that game however...post up first to see ticket sales please!

This scheduling is awesome for us...we make take our lumps initially, but rest assured this WILL get us more PR, win or lose, and more recruits will truly see the playing style and the nationwide coverage that comes with these games....they will begin to come.

 

[ILL in IA]

Pretty lame, in 2000-01 we played Arizona 3 times in the same season.

Thugs like us could do that type of thing back in 2000

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Love this, don't need to say much more than that.

 

[BananaShampoo]

Lots of Illini fans in AZ, myself included. Should be fun!

 

[westms77]

As someone who lives in Tucson, these tickets can't go on sale soon enough.

http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...lini-schedule-home-and-home-with-arizona.html

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050808731209003009

Exactly

 

[westms77]

One way to become relevant again is to play people that are relevant

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Lots of Illini fans in AZ, myself included. Should be fun!

Infiltrate the place, will ya?? I always do my part when the Illini play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and I'm usually not alone.

 

[ILL_INI]

Seems like a "can't lose" proposition, since Arizona will probably have to vacate their wins anyway.

 

[pruman91]

Seems like a "can't lose" proposition, since Arizona will probably have to vacate their wins anyway.

Damn its hot here in Arizona....Africa hot......FBI hot.....

 

[the national]

Infiltrate the place, will ya?? I always do my part when the Illini play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and I'm usually not alone.

I’ve enjoyed several games at carver hawkeye. They have gone 3-0 in the games I’ve gone to and the orange was a thing of beauty

 

[FeelYourPaign]

I'm in So Cal, but pretty sure I'll make the trip over. Don't get many Illini games in So Cal, gotta take 'em (and I'm happy to do so) where you find 'em.
Go Illini !

 

[FiveStar]

It’s fun to play teams you’ve heard of

 

[Konnie]

What is the possibility that the SFC will be re-seated before the 2020 season?

 

[IlliniFaninHoosierLand]

Anyone surprised these are being played on campus and not at a "neutral" site for either school?

 

[Deleted member 16340]

Lots of Illini fans in AZ, myself included. Should be fun!

Those of us existing in CA can help too!

 

[Obelix]

Anyone surprised these are being played on campus and not at a "neutral" site for either school?

A little bit, we used to play all these big time programs at UC (Arizona, Duke, Kansas) but the state of the program was in much better shape. Current state of the program, it would be very dangerous to move some of these games to UC, we definitely do not want to embarrass ourselves in Chicago and just do our opponents a recruiting favor. So SFC works well IMO. Once the state of the program improves (like the early 2000s) it would actually make more sense then to move those games to UC. It would show that UI can compete to a wider audience.

 

[Phoenix]

Anyone surprised these are being played on campus and not at a "neutral" site for either school?

Not surprised. It's possible the Illini could play in Chicago and AZ could play in Phoenix but I think it's probably as good to get them on campus.