Recent content by Illinir1

Coach Underwood snubbed for B1G Coach of the Year honors. Defeats Co-COY Hoiberg and the other Co-COY will be watching from home today. Coach of the Year case closed. Hang a banner Brad! 🏀🏆

This from the school that rescinded Orange Krush's group ticket purchase and wouldn't allow group ticket sales to zip codes in Illinois. We need a "Paint Carver Orange" campaign for our game there. Iowa men's basketball attendance woes worse than official numbers suggest

scUM 72 Bucky 68!!!

You would have loved the Mike White era 80's. The stadium, the tailgate lots, even the whole town was full of orange and blue on game days. The stadium absolutely rocked and sounded like a jet engine at field level. Here are the years of the Top-10 Largest Memorial Stadium crowds (with...

Looks like we need to get this into service for Coach B (and Coach Underwood)...

Paint the underside and the backface front wall of the upper bleachers navy blue and all of the angle iron/girders orange (or vice versa). Would look way cool.

That also roughly corresponds to the period when they believe you are the dumbest and meanest person on the earth. To be fair, many (most?) of us (me for sure) went through that same phase.

From his bio on FightingIllini.com: "He and his wife, Jen, have two daughters, Briella Nicole and Brexli Nichole."

To think that the equivalent of this happened just a few years ago: "Brett Bielema announces that in addition to his role as Head Coach, he will now also be the Defensive Coordinator. Coach Bielema also announces the addition of his daughter, Briella Bielema, as Linebackers Coach."

Blatant over the back!!!!

Answer: Tim Beckman, Bill Cubit, Lovie Smith. These three coached the Illini from 2012 thru 2020. Their combined record over that time period was 34-71 (.324 win %) and an abysmal 16-58 conference record (.216 win %!!!). They beat down the spirit of any but us most die-hard Illini fans. Over...

Nine Alabama players entered the portal on Wednesday: College Football Program Loses Nine Players to Transfer Portal in 15 Minutes "The full list includes: Eli Holstein, QB Malik Benson, WR Shazz Preston, WR Miles Kitselman, TE Seth McLaughlin, OL Terrence Ferguson, OL Monkell Goodwine...