Recent content by Ulysses Everett McGill

Would like to congratulate Mark Tupper on his impending retirement. A very impressive career. I enjoyed his opinions and his ability to defend them, even if I (fairly infrequently) disagreed with him. Enjoy your well-earned retirement Mark!

Back from some serious surgery. Question from recent closed line of posts: who is the Rob referenced in trying to establishing a presence? Is that McColley? Thanks.

Got me outta the house, got a couple beers, and saw the whole lineup. I’ll take it. Now if I can get through the missus’ Christmas party in a couple days I’m takin’ the week as a rousing success. Go Illini!

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That was a good piece by Werner about AJ, mostly from his Dad Rob. Kudos on both on AJ sticking it out here. Hoping for a great last two years for AJ. Groce's use of AJ, especially last year, was ridiculous IMO (as I said both then and now), benching him altogether for many games and yo-yo-ing...

Forgive my wooden-ness, but your last clause of that last (long, run-on) sentence ends up leaving me wondering what exactly you're saying there. I savvy your heavy dose of negativity, though; that comes in loud and clear. Seems way, way early to get to that point, but to each his own. I'm not...

He's been thinking a lot about us lately

Settles just said what I’m thinking — they’re overplaying us a ton and backdoors should be there. If we wake up.

Ah ... Thanks!

BTN rather than BTN2GO (or are they the same)? Thx.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NzvFNLAnYNw

First TV watch of the season last night. We've dropped cable so had to visit a pub for the game, which was just fine since I have some prior experience with that type of venue for viewing. Liked a lot of what I saw despite the outcome. I'll be in Rosemont in person Friday for the first B1G win...

FiveStar, or anyone else, have thoughts on when we might see some guard post-ups introduced into the O? Is that still pretty far down the road? Maybe being practiced a bit now but saved for later? I assume it's more than just telling a guard to go inside and post, i.e., the other players have to...

The Bulls would just f**k it up anyway, wouldn't they?

Went up for a rebound circa 1980 and when I came down I had a squished L5 and lost at least half inch of height. No way I was doing a fusion. My back's hurt every day of my life since. It's a pisser for anyone who loves playing the game above about anything, like I did, but especially one with...