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<blockquote data-quote="hoopsfan47" data-source="post: 1934808" data-attributes="member: 4716"><p>I am not a UIUC alum....but I am as avid an Illini hoops fan as anyone...since the days of Govoner Vaughn and Chesty potato chips. Likely, I would have played for the Illini if my hometown had not had a golf course. But Arnie was my inspiration even more so than Vaughn, Dave Downey and Don Freeman. Most of my close friends are alums...as were my Uncle and cousin so it would have been an easy choice. Saw Butkus in his coming out party at Purdue and my parents went to that '63 Rose Bowl game. I am an Arizona alum, but without a second thought I am a total Illini fan when the two meet on the hardwood. Hope I can qualify as an old timer Illini fan.e</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hoopsfan47, post: 1934808, member: 4716"] I am not a UIUC alum....but I am as avid an Illini hoops fan as anyone...since the days of Govoner Vaughn and Chesty potato chips. Likely, I would have played for the Illini if my hometown had not had a golf course. But Arnie was my inspiration even more so than Vaughn, Dave Downey and Don Freeman. Most of my close friends are alums...as were my Uncle and cousin so it would have been an easy choice. Saw Butkus in his coming out party at Purdue and my parents went to that '63 Rose Bowl game. I am an Arizona alum, but without a second thought I am a total Illini fan when the two meet on the hardwood. Hope I can qualify as an old timer Illini fan.e [/QUOTE]
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