Recent content by Illinisam

Has the Zuppke Field sign been covered up? In the far left picture it looks like a black vertical awning or maybe another lower ribbon board.

We never get football recruits from Iowa. In all my 40 years following Illinois football and basketball we have never gotten more than 1 or 2 kids every decade or so. Iowa comes into Illinois and gets at least 4 or 5 Illinois football players every recruiting cycle. It’s long over due that we...

Yes, I never did like them signing him. Should have kept Shaw at 3rd base and saved the money for pitching. Now we are stuck with another bad contract. I swear we go from bad contracts after bad contracts on players that are past their prime.

Also, has there ever been talk of permanently blocking Kirby between 1st and 4th streets and creating an exclusive sports area? Just keep it open area between SFC and Memorial Stadiums? That would definitely give more room to the south endzone area and open up maybe a bigger promenade. I also...

Does someone have a pic of the brick wall? I’m drawing a blank if it’s the curved wall of the outer ring of the horseshoe exterior. If a new south endzone is ever done I figured those big trees along the road were going to come done eventually.

Was it Lovie who made the decision to not have the south endzone remodel? I think they were smart to place it exactly where it is now connected to the Indoor practice facility. My question is why do you think Guenther put the weight room under the North Endzone bleachers instead of just...

Has anyone thought about making the bleacher seats around the stadium bigger? The last game I went too was very cramped in the upper east deck. If we made the seating space bigger than what it is while adding additional seats near the south endzone couldn’t this keep the same numbers of seats...

I know part of these upgrades is all new concrete steps on the west side with a new southeast entrance design. I guess new LED lights are part of this years upgrades besides the new score board and video boards. Does putting in the new longer scoreboard negate immediate plans for a south...

Finally some good momentum for recruiting!

Bingo! I had a college pitcher friend who said pitchers today are throwing a lot harder than when he did in the mid 70s to late 70s. The human body is not meant to throw that hard for long periods of time. Those guys who know how to pitch instead of trying to strike everybody out will have...

I haven’t nor will I ever. Bret is my fav coach since Mackovic. Just imagine if we had had this kind of sustained success during those years after Mackovic left? What needs to happen if we are to compete with all these other schools is to have a big time donor fund just football like Indiana...

This is my fav as well. Kansas came in ranked and we won an exiting game. The crowd was in to it and the students stayed the whole game. The crowd engagement did it for me. Not every home game the crowd is in to it. Don’t know if the game being at night was the reason or not but that game...

And the unique and great orange facemasks!

Arched ILLINI with an orange face mask just like we had in the 80s

Yes! Rome was not built overnight. Basketball is a totally different animal than football. We finally have a coach that is ‘committed’ to this program whereas others weren’t or not good enough. BB is both. Another couple of years and things will be great. We finally had two consecutive...