1) Proud of our team/staff, excited at our direction and haters be damned!
2) I was too young to browse message boards back then, but is this how we felt in 2005 for basketball, LOL? Reminds me of some of our road games (e.g., Purdue and Michigan) where we just had to weather the storm and the pull away ... must be fun.
You guys can all thank me for our bad sports luck lately, because I was one COCKY little Illini fan growing up in Iowa City from 1998-2006. Hubris always gets ya...
Back on topic, if we play like that every game this year, we’re bowling. All I REALLY care about, though, is that we beat Iowa. And we can.