Recent content by OrangeBlue98

I have zero issues with different colors of stripes with the same style. When we did the arched Illini helmets a couple of years ago, the style of helmet stripes differed from the uniform stripes. That was off-putting for me. Use the same stripe style with the arched Illini font, and I’m on...

This just has to happen, along with the white 1989 version. We have two of the best uniform templates in all of basketball. Lean into them.

Honestly, I didn’t even think about the Calimony. I was thinking more about the major travel expenses for the non-rev sports.

UCLA-“We are in a massive financial hole.” Also UCLA-“We’ll have to fire a guy that we still owe 6.5 million dollars.” But in all seriousness, this is a big piece of evidence about how even with the money now rolling in, trying to make the dollars and cents work across an entire athletic...

Forgive me, as I laughed much harder at this post than I should have…..,,

That’s some good old “Steiner Math” right there!! 🤣

I try really hard to not let my fan bias get in the way of things like this, but it makes no sense for Spoon to not be top 100. I’d probably have him top 50. Easily one of the biggest defensive difference makers in the league.

Ladies and gentlemen, a FOTN analysis special. The best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be.

Sounds click-baity…….

To say nothing about how UConn had a bunch of “slop” go in that game. Mullins banked at least one three from straight on in that game. They also had several highly contested shots at the end of the shot clock rattle in. That was a game where a lot went right for them and very little went right...

Landon Davis is a project player. I mean that in the best possible way. Lots of potential, and he plays in a way that the Illinois coaching staff really likes. He didn’t put up big numbers in high school, but he was also playing with another Big 10 recruit and is the type of kid that isn’t going...

I just don’t see it. Even in Iowa, the general consensus is they aren’t as good as previous years and have a lot of questions-particularly at quarterback.

I absolutely think we can. I don’t think this is a normal Iowa team this year. I think they take a step backward.

That’s my thought as well. I see this year as a small regression, but to think 7-5 is “regression” shows how far we’ve come. I want to see us be more competitive in games against the best of the best and not have a Wisconsin-style loss where we just lay a total egg.