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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1194144" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>Our administration took for granted that they could just punt on an entire football season and everything would resume as normal in 12 months time. They quit on our players. They think that just unlocking the gates of Memorial Stadium will produce their gauzy vague idealistic image of a Big Ten fall Saturday. That notion must be forcefully disabused.</p><p></p><p>My favorite line from Whitman's press conference was when he picked up his old helmet and looked at the chips and the stains and the streaks and said "you know, I didn't paint those on there with a brush". Illinois Athletics the idea is about that brotherhood of people who have spilled blood, sweat and tears for our school. Illinois Athletics the brand, the commercial product, is what you're buying tickets to, it's what the administration is marketing. A commercial product so callously, cynically hostile to the kind of good faith striving it takes to maintain a Big Ten level of leadership and standard of play does not deserve to be sold under the Fighting Illini name.</p><p></p><p>Have a fun day out if you want to, but you'll only be cheering on the Killeen University Wilson's, not the Illinois Fighting Illini, and every happy-faced orange clad Pollyanna who pays to see them is someone the administration will forever know can't tell the difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1194144, member: 527609"] Our administration took for granted that they could just punt on an entire football season and everything would resume as normal in 12 months time. They quit on our players. They think that just unlocking the gates of Memorial Stadium will produce their gauzy vague idealistic image of a Big Ten fall Saturday. That notion must be forcefully disabused. My favorite line from Whitman's press conference was when he picked up his old helmet and looked at the chips and the stains and the streaks and said "you know, I didn't paint those on there with a brush". Illinois Athletics the idea is about that brotherhood of people who have spilled blood, sweat and tears for our school. Illinois Athletics the brand, the commercial product, is what you're buying tickets to, it's what the administration is marketing. A commercial product so callously, cynically hostile to the kind of good faith striving it takes to maintain a Big Ten level of leadership and standard of play does not deserve to be sold under the Fighting Illini name. Have a fun day out if you want to, but you'll only be cheering on the Killeen University Wilson's, not the Illinois Fighting Illini, and every happy-faced orange clad Pollyanna who pays to see them is someone the administration will forever know can't tell the difference. [/QUOTE]
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