Pregame: Illinois vs Ohio State, Thursday, February 24th, 8:00pm CT, FS1

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TheChiefRises
altgeld88 said:
Yikes. Get well asap, RJ. Who had RJ/appendicitis on his/her 2021-22 Illini crazy injury/illness/malaise bingo card?
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Little late to the party on this, but I had appendicitis 3 years ago. Its random, it occurs without warning and it has no cause (from what I understand). If your appendix bursts (and mine did), the pain is IMMENSE and I'm told its similar to child birth or kidney stones. Luckily the surgery is rather quick and minor as far as surgeries are concerned, he just needs to be on a lot of IV antibiotics for the next few days to prevent internal infection.
 
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pruman91
www.stltoday.com

Curbelo ready to be Illini's spark plug in season's homestretch

Guard has had one setback after another this season.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The last time Illinois played Ohio State, Andre Curbelo was all over the floor.
Coming off the bench, he flew around the court of Bankers Life Fieldhouse, made timely plays and endeared fans with his energy and upside down headband.
More importantly, he was one of the biggest reasons they came up with a conference title in Indianapolis with a team-high 16 points and five assists in the Big Ten Tournament title game last March.
Curbelo was billed as one of the team’s stars and a preseason All-American after sparkling performances during his freshman season like that one. Instead, he’s gone through a Murphy’s Law kind of season where he’s missed over a dozen games because of multiple setbacks.

Now a year later, when Illinois hosts Ohio State in a rematch of that contest (8 p.m. Thursday on FS1), Curbelo will be in the same role he was then. Not exactly what Curbelo or Illinois imagined.”You miss so many games and you try to get into a flow and try to get into a rhythm, that can be difficult,” Curbelo said. “Especially when the team was supposed to be built around you, and then now you’ve got to get used to what we’re doing now.”

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great read
 
#253      
Bacon Butkus Swanson
altgeld88 said:
On that topic, I was on a business trip in the late '90s with my boss, who had graduated in '68. We were talking about casual dress, as our corporate HQ had just instituted "casual Fridays," which caused a negative stir among the elders. He noted that when he was in college in the northeast in the mid-to-late '60s the students wore jackets and ties to the football games. He said he went back for a game in '71 and all of a sudden none of the students were wearing that.

I filed that away. Many years later I saw footage of the epic Michigan-Ohio State game in '69, Schembechler's first year, when Michigan pulled the "upset of the century." Most of the students I could see in the background in Michigan Stadium were wearing coats and ties.

1970 seemed to be some sort of break point for casual dress among the young at college sporting events.
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That era also brought us streaking.... Let's hope Illini continue their winning streak.....ing?
Illini 82 - Buckettes 74
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#254      
sully
Lets go Illinois! Bury the fighting acorns or whatever they go by.
 
#258      
ChiefKingfisher
TheChiefRises said:
Little late to the party on this, but I had appendicitis 3 years ago. Its random, it occurs without warning and it has no cause (from what I understand). If your appendix bursts (and mine did), the pain is IMMENSE and I'm told its similar to child birth or kidney stones. Luckily the surgery is rather quick and minor as far as surgeries are concerned, he just needs to be on a lot of IV antibiotics for the next few days to prevent internal infection.
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Yup. Ruptured appendicitis is generally 3 days of IV antibiotics. Uncomplicated, nonruptured appendicitis patients usually leave the hospital less than 24 hours after surgery. Let’s hope RJ is the latter.
 
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jrichisamazing
I just realized OSU has pretty much the easiest possible conference schedule this year. They only play us and Purdue once, and they play Maryland, Minnesota, and Nebraska twice. They have a decent chance at winning out after this with a pretty favorable remaining schedule.

Now I really want us to blow these guys out. I don't enjoy seeing teams benefit from an easy schedule. Beat them tonight and their title hopes are gone.
 
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drsmitty74
illini0440 said:
White Script is my guess for uni...OSU probably wearing red so we won't wear orange. Ill be there in my lucky blue pullover though.
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ummmm, I hope you are wearing ORANGE over that lucky blue pullover...... I mean.........It's not paint it Blue tonight. ;)
 
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illini0440
illini0440 said:
White Script is my guess for uni...OSU probably wearing red so we won't wear orange. Ill be there in my lucky blue pullover though.
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drsmitty74 said:
ummmm, I hope you are wearing ORANGE over that lucky blue pullover...... I mean.........It's not paint it Blue tonight. ;)
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Not gonna lie I forgot it was an orange out.....so we will probably see the orange jerseys....and I am now torn on following the crowd and wearing orange or my superstitions and wearing blue....dang sports.
 
#273      
InDaAZ
RabidDawgClassic said:
Only Lou and Groce got the shade of orange correct.
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Lou-Do definitely pulled off the orange jacket/ tie combo best of all. If my old memory serves (and it rarely does), wasn’t there a small town shop (Arthur? Tuscola?) that custom made his threads?
 
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illini0440
InDaAZ said:
Lou-Do definitely pulled it off best of all. If my old memory serves (and it rarely does), wasn’t there a small town shop (Arthur? Tuscola?) that custom made his threads?
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Yes, hard to find another shop that gets the orange right. Also think BU has ditched the dress clothes for the foreseeable future.
 
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InDaAZ
illini0440 said:
Not gonna lie I forgot it was an orange out.....so we will probably see the orange jerseys....and I am now torn on following the crowd and wearing orange or my superstitions and wearing blue....dang sports.
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If you don’t wear orange, and they happen to lose, you’ll feel like a heel twice over…
 
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