Recent content by Chief Piasa

My grandmother used to say, “If you can’t predict anything nice, don’t predict anything at all.” So, I predict IL 17-14 at the half. For the game, I predict, um,

OTOH, ESPN says that colleges spent over $533 million in the last 10 years just on dead money contacts for ex-coaches, not counting recent LSU, TCU, TTU and UConn etc football firings. A guest professor on Stephen A. Smith yesterday was saying that colleges currently spend little or nothing on...

Or maybe it’s the opposite dilemma: Why should fans from Illinois be Benedict Arnolds and be fans of an Indiana team?

And Albert was always rumored to be older than his stated age. If they had re-signed him, they probably wouldn’t have been able to afford Bergman or Beltran or to re-sign Molina and Wainwright.

This is some serious talent. I’m calling it: dynasty!

With a lead on the road in the second quarter, going for it at the 20 yard line rivaled any questionable call in any game yesterday. Sheesh.

I couldn’t believe that Day went for it in the first half on 4th and 2 at the 13. They left 3 easy points on the board and I knew it would bite them on the rear in the 2d half. They would have won easily.

As long as we’re hijacking this topic asking “who?” regarding opera singers, I have a question regarding an alumnus who performed at a football game about 20 years ago. The alumnus was about 80 and forgot the words to an important song like the national anthem or loyalty. He re-started and...

This is a fascinating topic. College is education and college sports are an industry, as you said. But it’s the entertainment industry and you don’t see talent like Beyoncé or Taylor Swift or Paul McCartney clamoring for unions. Talent like that can demand their own pay scale and that means...

I literally bumped into him once in 1982. He has courting a woman (and so was the E. St. Louis mayor) who was a classmate at the prosecutors’ school in Springfield. She was very attractive, needless to say. Both guys sent that woman dozens of roses (to the State Police Academy) but Sorey must...

If we could just pay off the remaining Native Americans who claim Illini blood and then get the Chief, like the Seminoles did, then that’s fine with me. I was class of ‘76 so the Chief is IL to me as well. However, the Chief’s costume isn’t authentic and he wears a Sioux headdress. The Piasa...

Great point. If the BIG is now saying that the players and coaches cannot expect the clock on the field to be correct, then what can they rely on and how can they know when to call timeouts or kick a field goal at the buzzer or plan strategy at the end of the game, etc, etc. This supposed...

https://fox2now.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/09/8.png?w=1752&h=986&crop=1 The Piasa Bird is an Illiniwek tribal legendary bird that was painted on the cliff near Alton by the tribe, and was described by early explorers. It apparently means “devourer of men.” That would be a great...

And Hjerpe.