Illini Football 2025

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altgeld88
Given my penchant for OT posts, and Dan's kind forbearance of them, I'd wager that at least a few of us have used the IGNORE function on me. Or perhaps not even bothered and actually simply ignored me.,
 
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TentakilRex
That seems to be thing on the Locked On podcast network, the guy on Locked On (Texas) Rangers podcast I knew of on TwitterX for a while. The poor guy is the poster child for neurotic millennial media member who you can pretty much figure his views on anything in less than a minute looking at his twitter account. Also it seems like the most known Locked On guy is Drake Toll from Locked On Big 12 who also announces Banana Ball games.
 
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Bbuck21
I haven't bought season tickets in a long time. Mostly due to life factors, and admitted a loss of interest (Beckman specifically). I bought tickets and mini-packages. I am glad I thought to myself, "this is the time to get back to the ritual". I won't be able to make all the games. I already offered our tickets to great friends (Rutgers grads). I hope that is acceptable :) . Very excited for this season.
 
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1970 John
One other place I wear a tie, in court. That applies to whether I was on a jury—and I’ve been on a couple of very serious ones—or when I was requesting essentially a waiver from a judge.
 
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redwingillini11
Bought the tickets and then realized I can't go to the USC game. 😔

Guess I have a hopeful win at the Rutgers game, and maybe will consider coming down for WMU...
 
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redwingillini11
Orange_Blue said:
Suggestions on where to park? I will be coming from Iowa, it's been a long time since I lived in Champaign. Where would be a decent place to park (don't mind paying).
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I always opt for finding a free spot, which you can generally find in the corridor around and north of the Armory. I'm sure you could find more convenient paid parking, but it's not a bad walk from the Armory/Ice Arena to the Stadium.

Also, I am not saying there is a ton of wide open parking spots, but I've generally always been able to find one.
 
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Jinanjieke
Orange_Blue said:
Suggestions on where to park? I will be coming from Iowa, it's been a long time since I lived in Champaign. Where would be a decent place to park (don't mind paying).
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Before I began contributing to the iFund and paying for parking, I always parked for free on Lincoln Avenue just south of Florida. If you arrive early, there are always spots on Lincoln--or at least there were before the team started winning. It's a bit of a walk, but a rather pleasant one, as you pass tailgaters and their satellite TVs.
 
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Marshall_Lucky
Orange_Blue said:
Suggestions on where to park? I will be coming from Iowa, it's been a long time since I lived in Champaign. Where would be a decent place to park (don't mind paying).
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You can also park in downtown Champaign (free garage) or the free university owned garage at Goodwin and university and take the game day bus direct to the stadium for $2 per person round trip. If you aren't tailgating it is the least stressful way in and out imo
 
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Dkayak
For many years we parked free at Springfield and Goodwin. It’s a longer but pleasant walk, with opportunities to go down the quad or through what remains of Campustown. We typically timed it to catch the Marching Illini leaving the armory 45 minutes before kickoff.

By the time you get to your car after the game, there’s virtually no traffic on the way to I-74. It’s only 1.4 miles each way and there’s also a cheap shuttle from just north of the lot on Goodwin if you’re not a walker.
 
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kyillinifan
I park on Neil by the banks. $20 for the band at one of the Champaign high school. It goes for a good cause. I am sure if several games parking is full I will have to get there early. The Mi game last year no open spots.
 
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OrangeBlue98
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Considering the reactions from those here who are much more knowledgeable about these things, my interpretation of his statement is probably way off. I saw his statement as every team should have similar schedules. Which I guess everyone here understood. But, in his defense, this is just his second year at Indiana, and couldn’t (and I stress “couldn’t) some of these cupcake games have been scheduled years before he arrived at Indiana? He has probably heard the criticisms of his schedule (Probably heard it a lot last year), A schedule which, again, he may not have had anything to do with, especially last year’s, and maybe he is actually advocating for eliminating these cupcakes and kind of standardizing the schedules of all the teams. It could mean a cupcake, some mid-level teams like Toledo, and then more challenging teams combined. Oh, I didn’t read or listen to his whole talk, just responding to what was posted here. But again, I probably misinterpreted it.
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I do agree with Cignitti that schedules should be standardized to have more apples to apples comparisons.

It's just that, as others have also mentioned, a guy who just cancelled a series with Virginia to schedule another patsy isn't the guy who should be delivering that message. I mean, Virginia would be an easier game than Illinois playing Duke at the present time.
 
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Illini in Italy
phats22 said:

yes, it was
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I was over Beckman until you posted this . . . OWWWW
Utkarsh Ambudkar Reaction GIF by CBS
 
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Illini in Italy
altgeld88 said:
Lead us not into OT temptation... :LOL: ;)

As an old dude (~60) I wore suits for the first 25 year of my career. I loved ties, and still have a killer collection for the relatively rare occasions when I wear a suit. It's the male equivalent of a female's handbag collection, I suppose. However, living in a city that is stifling hot and humid for ~ four months a year, I don't miss carting a jacket around. I enjoy dressing fairly casually every day. I've transferred my accessorizing with ties into doing so with dress shirts. A trade I'm happy to make.

A final, old-school anecdote on this: until the mid-'00s I worked for two capital-intensive corporations engaged in energy production, the sort of business where, if your rotating machinery tolerances are off by a few millimeters or your pressure vessels a fraction of a psi, stuff blows up, fires rage, and people die. Accordingly, these companies had a very disciplined, rigorous approach to investment and operations.

My company went through a big merger a some point. A friend from the acquiring company told me that he worked at HQ at the time. The CEO, a gruff, brilliant Midwesterner, held a town hall for the several hundred HQ employees to ask questions about the merger. This was at a time when workplaces were beginning to allow less formal business attire. Someone got up and asked the CEO if after the merger employees would be able to have "casual Fridays," which was the term at the time for being allowed to dress down one day a week.

The CEO fixed the guy with an icy glare and asked "Exactly what part of your job strikes you as 'casual?'" My friend told me he has never witnessed someone shrink into nothingness so quickly. Just absolutely incinerated in a public forum.
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We share similar experiences my Illinois brother, and maybe even the same companies (at least in my civilian career - military career verrrry different). We’ll have to catch up some time over adult beverages and share experiences.
 
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AnnoyedWithGarza
OrangeBlue98 said:
I do agree with Cignitti that schedules should be standardized to have more apples to apples comparisons.

It's just that, as others have also mentioned, a guy who just cancelled a series with Virginia to schedule another patsy isn't the guy who should be delivering that message. I mean, Virginia would be an easier game than Illinois playing Duke at the present time.
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He has made his schedule apples to apples with the SEC. I think that is his point.

Why would I play tougher teams in the Non-Con than my direct competitors for at large spots?

If they win enough in the BIG they will be high enough in the pecking order to be one of the teams from the BIG. Their record would then need to beat SEC teams.

Why give yourself a chance to lose games that aren't necessary to lose?
 
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OrangeBlue98 said:
I do agree with Cignitti that schedules should be standardized to have more apples to apples comparisons.

It's just that, as others have also mentioned, a guy who just cancelled a series with Virginia to schedule another patsy isn't the guy who should be delivering that message. I mean, Virginia would be an easier game than Illinois playing Duke at the present time.
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Mea culpa, I didn’t know that before posting.
 
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