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    Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

    Circle back on this in a few years to see how it pans out.
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    Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

    "The only program that gained nothing and lost everything built its retention strategy around a single word: family." Ouch
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    Game Thread: Illinois at USC

    This was news to me, I had no idea that they are using tech to stop the clock based on the refs whistle. I can't wait until this gets hacked to impact a game in some insider gambling scheme.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at USC

    Put back dunk with a taped up fractured hand like that is quite the play to add to your Illini lore
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    Coaching Carousel (Football)

    BB deserves my trust on this one, but my goodness, this is definitely not an inspiring read. "Dealing with agents and the transient nature of this and the lack of forward thinking by young people, which has never been a strong suit for centuries for young people. ... But now when they’ve got...
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Northwestern

    Indeed, with so much of the season complete, he might as well sit this one out to get another full year of eligibility, which apparently is close to unlimited if you play your cards right these days
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Rutgers

    Please get Wagler out of this game and into the ice bath
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    Illini Basketball All-21st Century Team

    This is fun, but I'm curious to know what your 21st century all BENCH team would be?
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    Coaching Carousel (Football)

    https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/12/10/potential-michigan-wolverines-coaching-candidates "While Manuel cannot control the alleged behaviors of Moore, or the refusal of Jim Harbaugh to cooperate with the NCAA, or Connor Stalions massively complex cheating ring, or the need to conduct an...
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Ohio State

    I don't think they are necessarily awful, but this might be one of the blandest announcing crews I've heard.
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    Week 15 Games

    Does a 9-4 ACC champ Duke get into the playoff? Obviously the loss to UConn really hurt them. Yet I like to live in a world where our beatdown of Manny Diaz and his football team prevented him from making the playoff. Forever as a fan base shall we be at war with Manny Diaz.
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    Gies Memorial Stadium

    Well if I do the math, that's 15,000 students a year. Would be interesting to understand the percentage of sports attendance for international students vs domestic students. My hypothesis would be that international students attend less collegiate sporting events and watch less live collegiate...
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    Gies Memorial Stadium

    You cannot build a strong football culture overnight. We need to have sustained success across multiple years to build that culture so it can be passed down through the classes and championed by the alumni. If you are a senior, you are living it up right now! But think back to when the current...
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    Marching Illini

    It was a really great show, but you can't be spraying those fire extinguishers on the field like that. Creates an unnecessary hazard for the players.
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