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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.

We can all gripe about Chase Brown being left off the First Team, but let's also celebrate the achievements regarding the Illini who received any sort of All Big Ten recognition. For example: Alex Pihlstrom. What a great story! Walk-on tight end a few years ago who gets little or no playing...

We disagree. People with your point of view think that because you deem yourself as being "into" the game and you feel like standing to show that you are truly "into" the game none of the people behind you are equally worthy fans who have an equal right to enjoy the game. Some of them are...

How about a special section in the rear for the self-centered discourteous morons who don't want to sit?

I respectfully disagree. I'm one of the people who was originally thrilled when Lovie was hired but he turned out to be a fraud and a disaster. Bad coaching, boring personality, lack of effort, outrageous nepotism and cronyism in his hiring decisions, stubborn and predictable, and a lack of...

I wasn't planning to attend the Iowa game, but I was at the 63-0 debacle (Thanks, Lovie) several years ago, and I don't want to miss the opportunity for a cathartic experience by beating Iowa. The margin doesn't have to be huge. Just a win will do.

This is what competency looks like. You comfortably win your non-conference games. Good times. Kudos to the coaching staff and players.

I went to the game yesterday and enjoyed it. Winning is fun. I'm not going to worry today about low attendance, too many bungled plays by the offense, annoying penalties, and so forth. The team is off to a decent start, and most of the errors seem correctable with good coaching. There's good...

I highly doubt that it was "designed" as a backwards pass but, even it it was, the execution was off. DeVito was ready to throw the ball but Chase wasn't looking yet, and by the time Chase was looking Luke Ford had whiffed on his block and the defender was able to destroy Chase just as the ball...

I attended the game yesterday. It was awesome to see the student section packed. I can't remember the last time we beat another team by 30 points! My "positive" comments are: Chase Brown is really good (not news); Tommy DeVito is definitely an upgrade at quarterback for us because he seems to...

I guess I don't understand your argument. The point I was trying to make is that as a collective unit (including Beckman of course) fresh from the MAC they were in over their heads at the U of I and not a well-assembled Big Ten coaching staff. Continuing to point out that some of them went on...