Recent content by Bleedorangeandblue44

Made my draft night to see a 1983 Tony Eason photo of past Patriots first round QB picks. One of my early Illini favorites.

I have been wondering this same thing. All the talk about how well we are doing in NIL, and I don't doubt that's true, but maybe competitors have a little -- or a lot -- more than we thought. And teams coming off bad or so-so years like Michigan, Indiana, Louisville, Xavier, etc. are more...

What does Coleman's emoji mean?

Iowa back-to-back second place finishes.....very, very impressive. I guarantee I hate the Hawkeyes as much as anyone on this board (grew up in the quad cities area during the height of the Deon/Bruce Pearl crap, not to mention Ed Horton and Kevin Gamble and all that before it), but I give all...

Can someone help me? I can't stop cheering for this Iowa team. And I bleed orange and blue! And hate the Hawkeyes.

Iowa not going down without a fight

That was a brutal end to the first half for Clark -- wow. That said, Iowa wouldn't be close to be in this position without her, obviously. I hope tomorrow night's game is as entertaining as this one.

Caitlin Clark doing Caitlin Clark things -- electric start so far

This has been a better game than I expected.

So listening to some of the Alabama-UConn pregame talk, Nate Oats says they "aren't going to be stupid" and attack Clingan. Hmm. And others that Illinois was intimidated vs. UConn, but Alabama won't be. I don't think we lost because we were stupid or intimidated. I suppose when you give up a...

Love the crowd they brought as well. Basketball always more fun to me in this kind of atmosphere.

Well, the 5-star PG could follow him to wherever he ends up. I'm not saying he's leaving for this job, and the age certainly is a factor that hopefully helps us along with I assume Brad has to be thrilled that Tyler was able to coach right with him and be promoted here, but also get the some of...

Just curious, who was the No. 1 player in last year's portal? Two years ago?

OT but didn't see a game thread so wasn't sure where to post this -- so they are experimenting with timeouts at 17, 14, 11, 8 and 4 in NIT....I already feel like the game flow is so choppy with the TV timeouts as soon as a team starts to make a run. Now they are going to add another? Do we...

Where do we stack up defensively with this mix? I don’t know enough about newcomers to say. Definitely seems like plenty of offensive firepower.