With Lovie as the new coach / CU bars
Double Down
- Chicago, IL
I would love to see tailgating around Memorial Stadium become a big thing to do for students on campus. All I am saying is that it is easier said than done right now with the way the program has been and what the students have done to make up for a crappy football team (go to the bar and party rather than care about the game).
If the football team becomes what we think it will become under Lovie, then IFC & DIA are huge in making this process happen because people are going to want to be around the buzz of a good football game rather than at a bar.
South Farms
- near Ogden & Rt 83
it can be done.
students and adults tailgate right next to each other at The Grove in Ole Miss and is works fine. Granted , its been a tradition there for about 60 years, so everyone there knows exactly how to act - the students, the alums and the cops.
NO ONE, and I mean no one, is allowed to drink anything alcoholic from a can or bottle. EVERYTHING is poured into a red (or blue) solo cup and that is accepted by the police for that day.. Come midnight or earlier if the case may be, the partys over. Only allowed on game day .
Yup. And it's a win for the University, the football program, the city of Oxford, the students, the adults, everybody. The Grove is the ideal.
Mike Thomas, for all of his faults, understood this. The only reason I wonder about Whitman is that his only experience with big-time football has been either as a player, inside the locker room and away from the action outside, or alongside Ron Guenther. But he certainly seems to have the pulse of the Illini fanbase at large and an understanding of what football Saturdays can and should mean. Lets hope he can work with the other stakeholders to figure this out.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Nice!!!!!
So which bars host "block"... Is there a bit of a pecking order?
Also do sorority girls spend a dime on booze at all?! I know they don't where I went to college
Also do sorority girls spend a dime on booze at all?! I know they don't where I went to college
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Obviously others should answer, but sometimes an outsider's perspective is interesting! I've been to all the Campustown bars besides Clybourne and White Horse Inn, many of them several times, but I've only drank before (and during) a game at Legends, Joe's, Firehaus and Brothers (we got too drunk to make it to Kam's until night!). Other than Joe's, none of those ones seemed overrun by Greek life, though there was a solid presence at Firehaus, especially in the front. I know Red Lion has a huge party, but I've gotten the vibe it's kind of like Union in Iowa City for anyone who's visited - unless you're like 19, blacked out and ridiculously horny, you'll probably find a bar you like much better. Joe's is big, and I'd imagine Kam's would obviously be the next big one.
Champaign is too classy now. It used to be dingy and gross. CO's, now there was a campus bar a man could learn to drink in.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I'm so sad I never got to go there, my aunt always talks about it, haha.
And downtown Champaign is DEFINITELY classy now a days. I feel comfortable saying people who haven't visited the area since the Hyatt was built haven't experienced the new Champaign. The guy there told us that when they built the hotel, there were 30 bars and restaurants within like 5 square miles, and now it's over 60.
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
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My wife and I were in CU for a few days last week to help my daughter move from her campus apartment to an Urbana apartment. We stayed at a LaQuinta just north of I-74. Each trip from the hotel to campus took us through downtown Champaign. That place is really happening. Even in the middle of the week, the crowds were out walking through town or sitting in the outdoor sections of the bars and restaurants. Very impressive. Made me wish I had sprung for a room at the Hyatt.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
What about that small bar that is like on campus, it is tiny and orange and blue. Is that a block place?
Man, that is where we stayed for the Husker game
Illini Inn. And don't believe it is.
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Also, I was told that Illini Inn is being torn down this summer to make way for a larger apartment building and there will be a new bar built in it.
Goodbye Illini Inn from mug club #36068
Back to Lovie being here, GREAT interview by Robert with our new Directory of Player Personnel about how the recruiting process is going to work.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
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Sad state - get out of the bars and go tailgate. Make an effort.
Illini inn! That's right! That location was awesome
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They had pretty good pizza back in the 70's.
Spent many a days there given the frat house was directly across 4th street. Will miss the Illini Inn. Having a new place there can't hurt though.
South Farms
- near Ogden & Rt 83
Willies Thick and Cheesy
it almost always was pulled out of the oven and served about 90 seconds early from being fully cooked.
As frosh in the late 1970's - early 1980's, we would go there on Thurs nights often, get a few mugs of OldStyle and play PacMan, Centipede or Space Invaders.