Recent content by Illini2010-11

This is quite an exaggeration, IMO. Bedard and Kane easily look like the two best players on the team. The entire first line for the Blackhawks looks legit -- Bedard, Kane, and Kantserov This opening stretch has been brutal because Bedard was out of action and the early part of the schedule...

Given how loaded that November/early November schedule looks, the Illini could easily be #1 going into the second week of December or near the back end of the top 25. No matter what, we are going to have a lot of eyeballs on our early product. I am so happy that Brad has the schedule stacked...

Only in 1984-85 season (#2) did the Illini have a higher preseason ranking. The 2001-02 season likewise started at #3, while the 2004-05 runner up team started at #5. Biggest hype going into season in recent memory, and I am all for it!

Agreed to all of this. Crazy thing is that Northwestern (assuming they beat Rutgers Saturday) will be 6-1, but then have to go to Eugene, host Iowa, go to Columbus, go to Minneapolis, and then face us. It would not be all too surprising if Northwestern is 6-5 entering that game. I personally...

That is important for sure. Oregon looks off offensively, but our defense has not shown capable of stopping teams. No clue about how personnel issues will impact them, given the rumors swirling around. The key to me is if the offense can control the ball effectively. The only chance, IMO, is if...

I don't necessarily agree here (especially in the high profile rivalry games). There is no way Ohio State would simply rest their players against Michigan. Heck, there were Ohio State folks (before OSU won that natty) that wanted Day gone because he could not beat Michigan (even if they were...

I think it was a combination of Bedard being out of the lineup and the opening schedule being very difficult. That made the team look a lot worse than the talent that was present. For the first time in a number of years, I am excited to see the PP1 unit on the ice. The puck movement with...

Per Copilot: So these proposed changes would have increased the number of times we would have reached the CFP from 1 to 3. From a pure standpoint of making playoff, these changes would benefit Illinois, albeit we are still almost always on the outside looking in.

It was inevitable for this expansion to happen, but holy smokes...19 At-large bids! This is going to greatly reduce the quality of the non-CFP bowl games that take place around New Years (i.e. ReliaQuest, Citrus Bowl, etc.). There has to be a number of bowl games dropped out at some point, as...

Completely agreed. We just came off of a Final 4 and have the capacity to keep a solid chunk of the core for the next season...you must prioritize that and be one of the front runners to get to the Final 4 again (if not national champ contenders if all comes together perfectly). When you think...

It had as much teeth as

Assuming the season ever takes off...

Wait, you are not 147 years old!?

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/50168099/blackhawks-captain-connor-bedard-likely-make-season-debut-tuesday Looks like Bedard might be back a month earlier than initially expected. This would be huge to get him back in the lineup, considering this utterly terrible open to the season.

There have to be two hopes here: 1) Jerry wants to win one more World Series before he dies and is willing to start spending money in the three seasons he has controlling interest before Ishbia gets control (Reinsdorf plus sons' trust gets to current 50% controlling interest) -- the product is...