Recent content by Centennialillini

About 40 miles east of Dallas is this impressive stadium, brick, luxury suites, etc, it is the high school stadium. Katy Tx spent $70,000,000 on their high school stadium. This is a different world both in facilities and the amount of talent. Look no further than Pinkle at Mizzou. His whole...

This is in the misery loves company category but the St Louis Post listed the 30 best prospects in the metro St Louis area in todays paper. With a couple of undecideds left, Missouri has been shut out.

Appleton ended up going to Wisc where he lasted I believe one year before run ins with the police ended his career, returned to E St Louis where he has never been heard of since. I believe a 4 star, sometimes coaches see things they cannot discuss the makes them uneasy. Unfortunately, both for...

It was put up Monday I believe. You can't miss that billboard and the sign is so bright it probably glows in the dark

So true with Zook, Prough, Merciless, and a host of others. He had a great eye for 2 star talent that was just about ready to blow up. Unfortunately he was blind as a bat on Saturday

Speaking of JGJ, I cannot remember any Illinois team in recent memory that can improve as much as next years can, IF they can find a competent QB. In Lovie's first year we had an immobile QB with a good arm, terrible receiving corp, and fair blocking. In year 2, we had a major upgrade in...

You do realize that Shakes the Clown was once described as the "Citizen Kane of the horror clown genre". Lets show some respect for the performing arts.

Considering Curly Neal retired from the Globetrotters about 15 years before Finke was born, Mike probably had no idea who he was. It was a good one liner by Underwood.

I just listened to the press conference again. The question that elicits Whitman's response is very benign. "what do you tell the fan base after this year". The response is classic Whitman, just what you would expect from the "smartest man in the room". It is measured, the race analogy is...

Spoon is right. Get a beer, some popcorn, head over to tigerboard, entertaining. To whit "moral loss" "time to recalebrate expectations" CM can't coach, never did, never will" "Does this really count as a win" Some good news for them. Tillmon had fouls and only 3 of them were stupid. St...

Guenther rented a room in a hotel in O.C. under his own name and within 3 minutes of getting in the room the phone rang. Assuming, correctly, that it was the press he didn't answer but told Samson they would try to reconnect later. Fortunately they didn't. Our present AD has more clandestine...

As a certain mayor of Chicago once said "a fish wouldn't get caught if it kept it's mouth shut". Let us embrace the silence

When the first Illini BB game you saw had Manny Jackson on the team, you've seen alot. As bad as the Knight situation at Wisconsin was, six months later, they passed on Bo Schembeckler to hire a coach no one remembers. I don't think Wisconsin dodged a bullet, I think they took it right between...

I remember Lou Henson saying back in the 80s that he had never gotten a top shelf player where he did not know the decision a least a day in advance. That is probably still fairly accurate. Our staff knew about Mark Smith's decision on Monday evening even tho the announcement didn't come until...

So did I and I was at the game that night. Still fun to rewatch. I completely forgot that Deron played almost no minutes in the first half that night. That was one of those games where at the 12 minute if you were a WF fan, you knew it was going to be a long night. Watching that game reminded...