I’ll finish the mailbag tonight, so look for that tomorrow.  In the meantime, the Big Ten Network is at Camp Rantoul today, continuing their tour of all of the Big Ten training camps.  I’ve been following their journey by subscribing to Dave Revsine’s tweets, and let me tell you, it’s the highest of you-must-be-high comedy.

To wit.

EVERY team has looked great – even Indiana and Purdue, who are “better than people think”.  Every linebacker has “looked good in his uniform” so far, every QB looks “poised”, every offensive lineman “blocks out the sun”.  Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, and Purdue are all “greatly improved” and will be “dominant”. As I said before, it looks like this will be the year that the Big Ten finally doesn’t finish .500 against itself.  11 teams in bowls!!

As you can probably tell by now, August Syndrome drives me nuts.  Yes, I know that the BTN is trying to drum up support for their new “Fourpack” of shows, and so Revsine is encouraged to Tweet things that the fans will eat up.  That’s fine.  But when he says things like “Tate Forcier is the PERFECT QB for the Michigan system” and “it’s amazing how poised and confident he looks”, I want to punch a gopher.  Yes, “poised and confident” – on a practice field, wearing a red jersey, with no pass rush.  Got it.

So in the interest of balancing out what’s sure to be an Illinois slobberfest this afternoon (of course, wouldn’t it be funny if it wasn’t?), I will now predict 5 Dave Revsine Tweets from practice this afternoon:

• True freshman offensive lineman Leon Hill is a really big boy. Where did the sun go??
• Sirod Williams’ arms are huge! Has anyone ever gone from injury redshirt to first team All Big Ten?
• Juice looks poised.  Can he throw for 5,000 yards this year? With these receivers, I’m thinking yes.
• Justin Staples is an All Big Ten pick waiting to happen. Illinois will be fine at linebacker.
• Illinois will be absolutely fine without Will Davis and Derek Walker. Lead the Big Ten in sacks? Probably.

Did you read those and think “you know, I think a lot of that is true”?  Then you have August Syndrome.

It’s OK – so do I.