Recent content by BZuppke

I agree. 42-17

I’m pretty much rooting for all of the home teams except Iowa and Nebraska

We actually had better games stats than OSU. 4 turnovers is what lost the game. Wisconsin was the most disappointing loss.

I do think our big win at Duke last year is deceiving. It was relatively close for 3/4 of the game. That being said we beat them handily this year on our way to an 8 plus win season.

Do people think our football program and fans would really rally around this?

I knew 😏

Me too. We needed a proven winner.

We take IlliBuck this year

As a passionate Illinois football fan since the early 1980s I’ve seen the lowest of lows and highest of highs. For years I’ve thought all we need is an experienced head coach who knows what he’s doing at this level. I followed the Iowa model - they hired Fry who had won before at SMU and...

So what do you do long term? It will need upgrades for safety eventually and costs aren’t going down.

I will say the all blues with the script Illinois helmet in the Music City bowl looked great.

Never slant Illinois. To remind you all I despise the stupid reason we adopted it: So people would know who we are. It’s small time and degrading. People will know who we are when we win. And we’re doing that now.

Shut up. When was the last time we won 19 games in two years?

I think Josh and Bret have a much better handle on things than we do. I’m confident We Will Win

Maybe a successor to Bret one day