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Week 8 Polls - Illinois #18 in AP Poll
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<blockquote data-quote="Illini92and96" data-source="post: 1802689" data-attributes="member: 746827"><p>While I agree with your general sentiment, saying we “deserve” to be a football power is way overstated. That comment would get jeers talking to football fans not associated with our school. We are 50+ years from any meaningful sustained success, did not pop even one year into serious national title consideration, nor come from a football hotbed state (Site I looked at showed Illinois 21st in players in the NFL). There would be a host of schools more deserving. I can get behind that statement for basketball though. We’ve had prolonged stretches of success the last 50 years, have had a couple teams in contention for best team in the country, and illlinois has the 5th most players in the NBA.</p><p></p><p>We need to go 10+ years without a losing record (at a minimum) and win a west title or a few to be taken seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Illini92and96, post: 1802689, member: 746827"] While I agree with your general sentiment, saying we “deserve” to be a football power is way overstated. That comment would get jeers talking to football fans not associated with our school. We are 50+ years from any meaningful sustained success, did not pop even one year into serious national title consideration, nor come from a football hotbed state (Site I looked at showed Illinois 21st in players in the NFL). There would be a host of schools more deserving. I can get behind that statement for basketball though. We’ve had prolonged stretches of success the last 50 years, have had a couple teams in contention for best team in the country, and illlinois has the 5th most players in the NBA. We need to go 10+ years without a losing record (at a minimum) and win a west title or a few to be taken seriously. [/QUOTE]
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