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Thanks for sharing. This was a really interesting and informative interview. Maybe the concerns mentioned by Kevin will prove to be valid, and maybe not. I guess my biggest worry is that he stresses that the 3-3-5 can't succeed unless you have a big/excellent/athletic front three on the...

I just watched portions of the game again. That linebacker for Tennessee (No. 13) was really annoying with his dirty/bullying attempts to intimidate the Illini throughout the game. It was therefore especially sweet to watch him creep up to the line of scrimmage for the crucial 4th down play...

Sincere thanks to the seniors for your part in making Illinois football respectable!

Great throw, great catch, terrible coverage. I realize that even good coverage in this type of situation probably wouldn't have overcome the great throw and great catch. My point is that the quarterback saw that his receiver had broken free as the quarterback had a rusher bearing down on him...

I agree regarding Patterson. Other teams seemed to target him last season, and it seems that they will continue to do so.

I think you may have been lucky. I'm pretty sure those spots are not officially "free" on the day of a game. You could have been ticketed.

I have a friend who has had Northwestern football season tickets in recent years. Northwestern, like the U of I, is making major changes for this coming season. Yet, they did it differently. Rather than having a blind bidding process, they applied a mandatory "contribution" surcharge to the...

Why are ANY seats (aside from the student section or an area designated for the visiting team) shown as red (unavailable) before March 25th? There are large blocks of seats already shown as red, and there are also some randomly red seats sprinkled around. Aren't the same rules being applied to...

Regarding your last point, the receiver had beaten Kreutz and was pretty wide open with a lot of space left in an uncluttered part of the end zone. It was a terrible pass. It was a nice rush effort by Brown, but it seemed to me that Sellers basically panicked. (This was after listening all...

The fact that the program has improved since Lovie was fired doesn't necessarily mean that he "set the table" for Bielema. Lovie was awful. The program was terrible. Lousy records, sloppy play, bad coaching, too many penalties. Sure, he or his staff recruited some superb individual athletes...

Does anyone else remember when the Houston area was assigned to Miles Smith for recruiting purposes? This guy at minimum will be a huge improvement over Miles.

Maybe so, but isn't it his responsibility to make sure that the players on the back end of the kick-off return squad try to at least impede the progress of the guys trying to annihilate the kick returner? Take a look at the Wilcher fumble again. The Northwestern player came in like a rocket...

I stand corrected. You must have seats up there. ;)

The pillars are at approximately Row 40.

The fact that Beckman was a disaster does not mean that Lovie wasn't also (in different ways) a disaster. He was an overpaid, overhyped, boring, stubborn, unsuccessful coach. The U of I and its fans did not get what they thought they were "buying" when he was hired.