Recent content by bluemountain

Yes - people tend to look at Bo and Woody as being the same; they weren't. In my observation, Woody was an old school hard !!!, but had a great deal of integrity. He was starting to slip toward the end of his tenure, which led to some unfortunate incidents. Bo was a Grade A jerk without much...

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Runs like Hayes, hits like Mays

i think Turner was a DB

Not sure I'd call this a mixed bag...each of these teams fell well short of their FF performance the previous year

The waste of talent during his tenure was mind boggling

That is serious speed

Not too fond of Hartlieb I take it?

In the 5 individual Women's sprint events (100, 200, 400, 100HH, 400H) we had a grand total of 2 entrants. The Men had 2 in the same set of events. I don't see how that is even possible

Congrats to the Women and everyone who place. I have to say, I find our roster construction baffling - to not have enough sprinters to field a relay team is pretty amazing.

The Men's track program has completely imploded

It is really tough for UI to land top 10 instate prospects. Our bread and butter are the guys in the 11-30 range. If we get our share there and land a few from St Louis/IN/OH and a few Newtons and Witherspoons from FL and TX we will a consistent bowl team

Wow...I can't say I agree with this. I love Luke, but it's not often a "generational talent" goes undrafted. Given our talent level vs our competition, the fact we won 19 games the past 2 seasons is pretty amazing. We were by no means a CFP playoff caliber team

He lit up Illinois. Loyola had some really good players and teams in that era

Can't argue with any of these. Living in SC, the Citrus Bowl was amazing and unexpected