Recent content by altgeld88

As I commented at the time, if I live to be 90 and someone mentions Dain, that's the play I will remember. The sheer chutzpah of that move: it was simultaneously joyous, breathtaking, and a bit crazy. I loved it. Not often you see that from a guy his size, let alone in a tight Sweet 16 contest.

IMO the central portion of my post was this: VT has been blessed over the past 30 years with brilliant marketing of its brand. I've never seen remotely such acumen within UIUC or the DIA. We might end up with a cherished mascot. And we could very well end up with a cringeworthy disaster...

Too little, too late, Comrade. In our current, febrile cultural Loyalty climate, there's only one appropriate course of action:

.... and just to point out how many decades of iterating it took VT to get the gobbler/Hokie Bird incarnation right, here's how it looked in days of yore. I don't want to wait until I'm 100 to see UIUC get its mascot just so:

I'm also among those who have opposed the effort of creating a mascot because, frankly, I have over my long life found most to be irredeemably stupid. My formative experience was with Brutus Buckeye; while I enjoyed the '70s portrayal as a little boy, when he became a man with a nut for a head...

Loyalty has a nontrivial OCD component. The basketball-related signal amps up in April and May.

Heresy! ;) Nothing tops David Mamet in this genre.

Truly elite how you worked "3" into that post. 👊

Massive props for Line of Duty GIF. Fella! :ROFLMAO:

When this is all over I want a compendium of these entries in paperback format.

Juwan and Hunter beg to differ. ;)

Or Bezos. You'd think Princeton would be rolling in NIL from that single alum alone.

I'd been assured that Bardo hates us.

Massive gratitude to Marcus and to BU for recruiting him. What a memorable season he gave us. Wishing him all the best and a place in the Show.