Recent content by altgeld88

We'll find out soon enough. For my part, I'll miss the vestigal gestures of his mentor, Jud Heathcote, particularly the grotesquely contorted visage as he whines to the refs. Gotta hand it to them: Sparty has had a solid 50-year run on the hardwood. No one else in the conference comes close...

I'm confused; is Fears the cat or the girl in this scenario? The case for "girl": flopping and not ready for prime time; appealing immediately to the unseen official for a quick whistle. The case for "cat": General first-class D-baggery. Though in the cat's defense, it didn't apply a sharp...

Taking his initial steps in the Josh Whitman path to power conference AD. Love that he's in M&A; I feared seeing "Compliance" under his "Capabilities" listing, the kiss of death for a young attorney. I'm fortunate to have seen what was probably the peak of his Illini career: his 20+ mins of...

Thanks. BB's approach to every aspect of our program that makes me so grateful he's our HC: long-term investment.

I despised it for decades for that exact reason. I accept it now. Fans like it and I'm finally OK with it (the '89 version, not the Zook-era one.) Still want the arched Illini helmet to dominate and (speaking of Fritz Crisler's theft from Princeton), quite frankly, wouldn't mind seeing the...

lol "at best." I hear you, brother. The math on that one is brutal for me, too. I console myself with fond memories of the '89-'90 seasons after those helmets debuted.

More arched ILLINI helmet deployment. And I've finally made my peace with SLANT ILLINOIS after 37 seasons. In the same way I imagine that the Wolverine faithful who came of age during the Great Depression had made peace by the mid-'70s with Fritz Crisler taking Princeton's winged helmet design...

Rejus Benn taking a kickoff to the house v Penn State for one. That was the opening statement of 2007 and it was massive.

Great thread idea.(y) The Pat Bryant walk-off is by far my favorite because I was there, it was an absolute miracle, and I'll never witness anything like it the remainder of my life. Having noted that, it was an ugly game for us throughout. We had a lot of penalties and they dominated time of...

Boo-yah! I'm all about free trade with Europeans.

This probably belongs in the uniform thread: I can't emphasize sufficiently how great it is to see the Illini in those orange script unis featured repeatedly in the naitonal media.

The difference is that the marginal difference in quality between the top 50 or so colelge basketball teams and the next 25 in the seriatim is substantial. Look at the difference between the 48-68 seeds in the tourney compared with NIT teams, let alone CBI teams.

It's devolving into the NHL playoff slate c. 1980 when 16 of 21 teams would make the playoffs, rendering the regular season meaningless.

British historian Robert Conquest's third law of politics applies here: The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Cross-cultural marriages can be fraught. I speak, unfortunately, from experience, though the cultural discontinuity I had to bridge was a lot less substantial than an Iowa-Illinois gulf.