Recent content by Curbelo Fanboy

We beat Houston 3 miles from campus. KY in Louisville should be a breeze. Any Lville people in the building sure as heck aint rooting for Big Blue. Pay those SOB's back for 1984 once & for all.

You have your #'s wrong. The 6 plays the 11 & the 5 plays the 12 in the 64 team bracket.

He is IHSA royalty. Few were ever better.

Wasn't "taking shots" at all. McBride was a damn good high school player. Never said he wasn't. Had originally just pointed out that he was originally the #1 recruit in the country in like 8th grade or freshman year. He had some physical issues as he got older that caused his game to stall...

True. Certainly by his sophomore year Iggy passed him by.

As an aside, Rich McBride was rated #1 in his class in like 8th grade or freshman year. He was fully grown by basically freshman year of high school so had a physical advantage. As he got older he started having some injury troubles that took away some of his pop by the time he got to...

Bruce Douglas was a McDonalds All American in 1982.

Any rule change that allows less than continual acceleration on the straights & no random drop off in speed is against the very nature of racing. Racing at the top levels should be such that the car is "faster" than the track is capable of. This forces driver skill, car setup, car control &...

I'd say we are in a pretty prime spot. Minus Blackwell or some other high end addition, most likely not a preseason #1. But I'd say we are a solid title contender (top 5/10 type of team). As I see it, we know the following. We have 5 guys returning all who played significant minutes into...

Purdue’s best player was an undersized pg who will be lucky to get an nba sniff. We have better talent to bottom. I’m a nervous Nelly by nature but I have no concern with th pressure of being preseason top 1 or 2 or so. If u can’t handle that u ain’t winning it all anyway. Take it on. This...

Making the final four this year might prove to be a huge key next year. The 2 prior final fours in my lifetime were the culmination of a great run. We dropped off a bit each time. This time it feels like th guys got a taste. And now they all return plus some other players. The returnees are...

If another chip falls our way it might be a straight single digit number.

This to me is the biggest thing. So so many times in the past Illinois has been on the verge of perpetual greatness in one of the 2 main sports. In football, when Mackovic walked in 1991, instead of playing like a big boy we answered by promoting from within on the cheap. When Self walked in...

Purdue didn’t have the roster that we are possible gonna have. They were led by an undersized point guard. Don’t get me wrong. Braden Smith was a hell of a college point guard. He’s a second round at best nba talent. We will have multiple nba talents on the roster and at least 2 of those...

Pressure smessure. These guys didn’t play scared this year. They just shot like crap agains UConn. They didn’t play scared. Didn’t back down. Just didn’t put the ball in the hole. They belonged physically they belonged mentally. There’s no reason to not say we’re going for the whole...