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Just saying, the mount 3 strips below the I (look like mounts of some sort for lettering) look a little too small for Fighting Illini (especially for "Home of" too). What it does look like the perfect size for is a script Illinois

Even if the right call was technically made, the B1G just looks so bad through all of this, with their refusal to acknowledge any of their mistakes and inconsistencies throughout this whole process. Great, there are two clocks, whatever those are. Is it the scorebug plus the stadium clock? The...

Obviously, the light show was getting plenty of media attention, between us being the only P4 game on at the time and the new scoreboard hype, and, to no surprise, people were commenting on us "stealing" Enter Sandman. Those people comment whenever anyone uses it for anything CFB related tho. I...

Agree with the other comment. The defense constantly put our guys in the right spot to make a play. They just couldn't make the tackle if their lives depended on it. In the 1st half, it felt like for every tackle we made, we missed 3. 2nd half was slightly better, but still not great. Otherwise...

I remember a vague $25-30mil number given 2-3 years ago by Josh at the June roundtable, but I've never been sure if that was the cost of just the new stuff (scoreboards, lights, sound system, and wifi) or if it also included the other updates and structural work they've also done the last few...

I think we found the solution to our defensive line woes.

Davis is the only one officially listed as a forward. Stoj, Morillo, and Vaaks are an inch taller but still listed as guards.

NC State fans on Reddit seem confident it'll be Justin Gainey now

That's generally what I think as well. They'll probably root for the team they think they have a better chance of beating in the Elite 8. And despite personally liking our chances vs Houston, if I'm an Iowa or Nebby fan, I'd like my chances against the Illini far more than my chances against...

The acoustics of State Farm are weird, like others have mentioned. Nothing travels up or across at State Farm as opposed to Memorial, where you can easily hear the volume from the west main (however loud or quiet it may or may not be) from the east main, so basically only hear what's behind you...

People forget that this has been planned for years. This was probably happening with or without the $100mil from Gies. I get wanting more done to the SEZ, but that takes a lot more time and money than this is costing us. And despite some claims in here and on twitter, this doesn't prevent those...

The top paragraph is something I indirectly touched on in a postgame thread a few weeks ago that was full of people ragging on the student (it was Maryland when the entire Illini section of the internet was ragging on them, not just here). My main point there was that many of the prevalent...

It's the 2nd B1G bid, and technically, we're tied for the 2nd-best record among regular bowl teams in the B1G. The tiebreakers that technically put Iowa ahead of us don't matter all that much anymore, and bids will generally get picked by avoiding certain matchups (no rematches) and by who would...

I think people underestimate the amount of control Athletics has over the MI, especially for a Veteran's Day show like this. If athletics felt the fire extinguisher residue would put players at risk, they just wouldn't allow it. It's far from the first time MI has done it (3rd time since COVID...

Idk if deserve is the right word, but the design of the NEZ does put a spotlight on any attendance issues they have. I think it's easy to forget that current students are one of the smallest segments of the fanbase, even if they have easier access to games, and relative to the numbers, the rest...