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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 1551754" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Charity is a cardinal virtue.</p><p></p><p>My brother got me a book for Xmas around 2005 or so. It was a history of Big Ten football. Each team had its own chapter. At the beginning of that chapter, across the bottom of two pages (IIRC) was the team's record charted in winning pct. across the 100+ years covered. Illinois' was positively sinusoidal from 1950s onward. A few strong seasons followed by years of poor-to-abysmal ones. No other second-division BT program (e.g., MN, IU, NW, Purdue) had anything resembling our peaks of successes and deep troughs of failure.</p><p></p><p>I'm from Columbus and visited there last week for the first time in 15 years. Caught up one evening with some childhood friends who went to OSU. We got to talking about football season arriving soon and one of them reminded me that he and a friend had crashed on the floor of my room in Scott Hall for the OSU-Illinois game in 1987 (we lost 10-6). I made an offhand remark about how we had some strong teams back then and then went into a tailspin in the '90s. Both of them scoffed at that claim. I reminded them that between 1983-92 we went 7-3 against OSU and beat them four straight times in Columbus from '88-94, then twice again on consecutive visits in '99 and '01.</p><p></p><p>The silent shame that suddenly descended on them was a joy to behold. I drove the nail further into the coffin by changing the subject to the upcoming basketball season <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 1551754, member: 2886"] :) Charity is a cardinal virtue. My brother got me a book for Xmas around 2005 or so. It was a history of Big Ten football. Each team had its own chapter. At the beginning of that chapter, across the bottom of two pages (IIRC) was the team's record charted in winning pct. across the 100+ years covered. Illinois' was positively sinusoidal from 1950s onward. A few strong seasons followed by years of poor-to-abysmal ones. No other second-division BT program (e.g., MN, IU, NW, Purdue) had anything resembling our peaks of successes and deep troughs of failure. I'm from Columbus and visited there last week for the first time in 15 years. Caught up one evening with some childhood friends who went to OSU. We got to talking about football season arriving soon and one of them reminded me that he and a friend had crashed on the floor of my room in Scott Hall for the OSU-Illinois game in 1987 (we lost 10-6). I made an offhand remark about how we had some strong teams back then and then went into a tailspin in the '90s. Both of them scoffed at that claim. I reminded them that between 1983-92 we went 7-3 against OSU and beat them four straight times in Columbus from '88-94, then twice again on consecutive visits in '99 and '01. The silent shame that suddenly descended on them was a joy to behold. I drove the nail further into the coffin by changing the subject to the upcoming basketball season ;). [/QUOTE]
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