Recent content by Illiini

Wordmark two-tone slash font "Illinois" replaced by the more aggressive "Fighting Illini" and ditch the "Block I" on the shorts and I'm happy.

Seriously? Reference?

I've said this before, perhaps here, that penalties and miscues are often the result of pressure from the other team. When things get hot, it's harder to keep your cool.

I hope you have that right. Sunday morning will be delicious if you do. Let's really nail it down, however. Two seconds left for a 54-yard field goal attempt, score 32-30 Penn State. The kick is up...and it's GOOD! OK, you can now return to your regularly scheduled reality.

Any of that last play? I just wanna see how close we really were.

Remind me, what was the second half score against Kent State? We scored 28 points, right? That’s more indicative of what this team can do, I think. If we double that, we get 56 points. That said, the Saggy Baggy Lions (what a pathetic mascot) had a slow start, and then put its second (and...

Whew. Glad to hear that. The New York Times says that for football (and I suspect there's no difference in loyalties for basketball) my old stomping grounds in the 62040 follows the Tiggers 27 percent and Illini only 10 percent. How can that be? NCAA FAN MAP

Time for a pick. Overdue.

Absolutely. Need a six at one time, not two (although I wouldn’t kick that out of bed for eating crackers). Go Illini!

Love me some McLaughlin...but a TD, Illini, please.

Lovie has talked about field position football. Make them run enough plays and they’ll eventually make a mistake.

Nope.

The But Monkeys are going to come up with a lot of if-it-weren’t-fors but the things that USF has done to shoot themselves in the feet are what we have done to ourselves in the past. And going into the half with last second—OK, last two second—points to put the game into a two score game... I...

Do it again.

Good stop, D. Let’s go, O.