Recent content by NJILLINI

The teams have been an embarrassment enough for more than a decade. Then, just as we start to see light at the end of the tunnel for both football and men's basketball, somebody proposes this and it passes unopposed out of committee? Please don't add insult to injury by allowing this...

Condolences to Luke and the Ford family. Very sorry for their loss. And another poor move on the part of the NCAA. Luke should have petitioned that he was changing positions from TE to QB. He would have gotten the waiver in that case, I'm guessing. Sanctimonious, arbitrary a-holes.

Grayson Allen?

Steve Lanter severely hurt his knee, I believe, in the game that followed the MSU victory. 15-0 up until then and, as we always used to say, "Number 1 in the country for two days (following the MSU win)." Played tOSU with Carter Scott, Herb Williams, Kelvin Ransey, etc the next game and lost...

Those mid- to late-80s teams were full of Indiana guys. Both White and Mackovic did well there. Derrick Brownlow, Mo Gardner, Jeff George, Jim Pesek and Pat Quigley from Carmel (washed out but Quigley was very highly recruited), Elbert Turner, Aaron Shelby, David Hill, Chris Green, Todd Leach...

I thought they were going to Italy. Colorado instead? I saw three of the four you listed this past weekend. :p

Don’t think Whitman or Illinois can likely sue due to covenants agreed upon in the NCAA member agreement. It is a “voluntary” membership organization (haha). Now, the Fords are a different story. Tom Mars? Maybe they should give Bob Auler a call. Dave Wilson versus the Big Ten redux. I...

And I'll bet if you checked, there have been exceptions made to those criteria on more than one occasion. Should have used the old tried and true "hostile environment for a kid from The Land of Lincoln." What a bunch of self-righteous a-holes the NCAA is.

Does anyone know if Lovie and Leavitt have ever had their paths cross in the coaching world? His was a name I was hoping we would pursue when we hired The Big Dipper (Timmy B). If you believe the reports, he is getting quite a settlement from Oregon so money perhaps would not be an issue...

Not ideal...

Hope we get this kid and he plays nickel. Then we can call him the "Essissima Bandit!" I know....bad attempt at humor and most too young to have any idea to what I was trying to refer. :cautious:

I was at those last two games, too. Been to a few I wish I could forget and those are right near the top. Although I'd been going to Illini games for at least eight or nine years by the fall of 1978, that was opening day of my freshman year as a real UI student. Hot and awful. And while it...

Opened in the late 70s and I am not sure when it closed, maybe late 80s or early 90s? It was on the southside of Green Street, sort of wedged between First Street to the east and the railroad viaduct on the west side. Great place to see live country/rock bands of that late-70s to late-80s era...

Born in Carrollton, IL but relocated to C-U when Dad took a prof job in 1965. Both parents (Mom - BA, MA and Dad- BA through PhD), both sisters and I all proud Illini. Grew up in Urbana and remember many of the haunts mentioned here -- some before my being able to get in and some that I...

I’m leaning more towards a tribute to a memorable John Wayne tough-guy character and propose Rooster as his new handle (with apologies for the spelling difference). :)