Recent content by wncillini

Yup. BB needs to drive up to his old stomping grounds, put a full can of beer on the end of some fishing line, cast it over the state line and bring in some beef.

Big plays for tds is nice. Not being able to impose your will on siu drive after drive is frustrating and a glimpse of the season to come unfortunately I think.

An underutilized defensive skill. Imagine an entire team of Betts' and Jake Davis' fro hair.....not a passing lane to be seen anywhere. Come on jake...let that hair out

The first 3 illinois games I have watched/ will watch on phone at work. First Saturday off this season will be the osu game and.....well maybe I should volunteer to work and not play on my phone this time.

Yeah this sounds just like something Benedict Arnold would say :)

Kind of depends on the fan. I would pick going 0 for 140 for 4 straight seasons if it meant a title the 5th vs 5 straight 35-0 seasons where we were knocked out in the first round.

Surprised we're not 139th

Unless duke ends up finishing with 9 to 10 wins......we are looking closer to 4 and 8. Than 7 and 5. Good news is when we are this bad the stress is off when watching. We've all been through this over the past several decades many times so no surprises here :)

With the supposed difference in talent it shouldn't matter on these short distances. It sure looks like if we swapped both o and d lines with uab we would have a better team. We shouldn't have to out scheme uab.

I mean.....missed tackles and blown coverages is somewhat fixable. However it looks like we are being outsized, out muscled, and outrun up front against uab is really not. Its not going to cut it next week against duke let alone the big ten teams.

With the available news, I dont think the worry is he won't be physically back. Its that he will be 75% of peak mirk and team will be like 82.7 % of peak due to lost practice time with our best player. We were pretty optimistic about putting a beat down vs uconn, missouri, tt, unc, and...

No way around it, this sucks. Add at least 4 to 6 weeks after his return to a game that our team will be up to form assuming no other injuries. Normally that wouldn't be as big of a deal but getting that number 1 seed and an easier shot at a tournament run was pretty reliant on us doing some...

Logically it is duke. We would also then be 3-0 at Cameron while having a losing record against Duke overall which would be an awesomely silly stat. However despite that I really want to shed the uconn monkey. Spank those punks.

I took my 11 year old girl who never cared about sports to her first game this year. Traveled back to illinois to watch minnesota game. Since then we caught the first 2 rounds of the ncaa tournament, per her request shes going to a basketball camp this week, and shes gotten into collecting...

Im bringing my daughters in from carolina for a game this fall and I asked them if they would wear custom printed t shirts for the game..... They all loved the video were mirk mentions 3 of his top 5 movies of all time...the Truman show, interstellar, and air bud... Was going to do a print of...