Not mutually exclusive. Especially when it comes to ESPN.
Pregame: Illinois at Iowa, Saturday, February 4th, 1:30pm CT, FOX
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ESPN is so embarrassing. The fact that I can, with like 10 minutes of googling around, explain the nuance of the situation in a more comprehensive fashion on the same day all of the info broke better than "professionals" at ESPN says all you need to know about their journalistic integrity and standards.
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Let’s wear orange, that’ll show them. Trying to sneak into our arena with their Orange Krush. Pah, we weren’t born yesterday!
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Did Josh facilitate this apology?
It's time to play this card!
Looks like 70 is our magic number. Hold teams under 70, we win. Only team to score more than 70 in any of our wins was Texas and that was an OT game. Every other team that has scored more than 70 has beat us
Well then it’s simple: Score more than 70 and hold them under 70!
Not "misleading," False.
https://www.offtackleempire.com/pla...hat-orange-krush-did-illinois-fighting-illini
Goillinikobd
- Southeastern US
Yup, this is the world we live in. People want a simple story that paints a villain, or agrees with their biases, instead of a complex truth they have to think about. I'm tempted to rant about it, but in the interest of living the change I want, I'll keep my outrage to a "meh".
We beat them in football correct. Now let’s beat them in basketball. Would love for Hawkins to go off.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Based on my understanding of (1) the behavior of Davenport and Bettendorf residents who support that team in Iowa City and (2) firsthand accounts from Illini partisans in Moline and Rock Island, your use of the term "disdain" demonstrates Herculean restraint.
Krush them. Drive them wailing and rending their garments onto the barren, frigid plains.
Our longest pregame thread of the year, as it should be. Iowa occupies my first 5 spots on my hated basketball programs. Indiana is number 6 and others come and go in the remaining spots.
I can't imagine this ever changing considering them committing one of the most evil acts in the history of college basketball. Attempting to destroy our basketball program and almost destroying the life of a poor kid from Chicago.
But I am a forgiving guy, so perhaps the day will come when they relinquish a couple spots in my top 5. A full public apology including admission of the complicity of the university in this evil, release of all evidence of their crime, and reparations to Deon Thomas and the University of Illinois. It's probably asking to much for them to forfeit one of those games from the 80s when Roy Marble played 38 minutes despite committing 14 fouls.
Man, do I hate them.
I can't imagine this ever changing considering them committing one of the most evil acts in the history of college basketball. Attempting to destroy our basketball program and almost destroying the life of a poor kid from Chicago.
But I am a forgiving guy, so perhaps the day will come when they relinquish a couple spots in my top 5. A full public apology including admission of the complicity of the university in this evil, release of all evidence of their crime, and reparations to Deon Thomas and the University of Illinois. It's probably asking to much for them to forfeit one of those games from the 80s when Roy Marble played 38 minutes despite committing 14 fouls.
Man, do I hate them.
Being an alum not from the great state of Illinois and not having the generational knowledge handed down to me by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc., this has certainly increased my background knowledge of the rivalry, not to mention making me spew my morning coffee all over my iPad (it survived). I had a hard time trying to stop laughing even as I was cleaning up the spill.
My disdain for the Sqwuakeyes grows with every post to this thread, and begins to approach the completely irrational hate I hold for scUM.
THE Fighting Illini 102
Idiots Out Walking Around 17
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Based on my understanding of (1) the behavior of Davenport and Bettendorf residents who support that team in Iowa City and (2) firsthand accounts from Illini partisans in Moline and Rock Island, your use of the term "disdain" demonstrates Herculean restraint.
Krush them. Drive them wailing and rending their garments onto the barren, frigid plains.
Good vs. Evil
Truth vs. Lies
The battle today is history at it's finest.........The hero's from the illini squad vs. the idiots from the squawkeyes cave people
The Illini hunters vs. the idiot gather's
Intelligence vs. stupidity
Right vs. wrong
beauty vs. beast
We need to swing the big stick directly at their small craniums and pea sized brains in the process of demoralizing whatever bit's of moral soul that they have left.................
here's hoping our arrows slung find their mark in the metaphor of 40 + % 3 point shots made .........I want to beat these peasants so bad.......................I really really do..................................
BOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd like to make a motion that we change the acronym to: Insecure Out Wandering Around. The term Idiots is too vague.
I think this should be our game plan. Feed DD to get their bigs in foul trouble.
Sorry if it has been posted already in this incredibly lengthy pre-game thread, but 30 years ago today:
Not a big fan of the matchup here. Can't have a slow start against those guys or we'll be in a world of hurt quickly. Can't turn the ball over, have to establish DD early, make free throws at a reasonable clip and make a point of getting the ball to the basket. Obviously, the defense has to be there. Iowa can really score. Hard to imagine us winning a game in the high 70's or 80's.
Mizzou is my most hated team, partially fueled by a friendly rivalry with my wife who went there for a year before transferring to WVU. Iowa is a very close 2nd. I hate their guts and livers, and beating them in mbb, fb, and wbb in the same year would bring much happiness. A wrestling win would be icing on that cake, but alas...not this year.
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