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Gonna be a loooooooong year

Seeing that display, with the Big Blue I and Assembly Hall in the background can bring one to tears.

Good to see an old fashioned Rutgers curb-stomping. It reaffirms my faith in B1G football.

The ACL injury recovery journey is drastically different from the one I took in the early ‘80’s. I suffered a partial tear of my L ACL in April of 1982, and tore it completely in June that same year. After an 18 month rehab (yes, I took advantage of the rehab Center), I went from a 38” vertical...

No bird, no rat . . . Chief or nothing. I’ll die on that hill.

In fact, they are getting embarrassed right now, gonna be a 3-0 defeat . . Down 19-8 in the 3rd set which TH leads 2-0. Pitiful . . .

As a former club player at Illinois (no men’s VB), I’m watching a really poor women’s volleyball team get their carcasses waxed by a Tennessee team threat while ranked, is one dimensional with Kennedy Rogers being their gladiator. We don’t have the players to compete at even a middle tier B1G or...

Not sure how to explain some of this other than accounting for lag between when a coach is active and when players he recruited actually made it and played in the NFL. Zook had some stellar recruits that made it to the NFL, and I believe most of the posters here agree that Lovie recruited some...

I disliked the arched Illini when I was in school, and I still don't like it. I do like the script Illinois, the Block I, and the NYG Illinois comes in a distant third. . . .

Actually, both locations suck from a location perspective. Who wants to go to a bowl game in late December or early January in Detroit or NYC? Give me a bowl game in Miami, Los Angeles, or even Nashville . . . Anywhere there's no (or little) winter. And this is from someone who spent the vast...

Let the 9th man discussion re-open!

Got my 10 in this am . . . :chief: