The Signing Day post is always a little celebration around here. Today, this little blog turns three. The terrible twos are behind us – my last dance with irresponsibility was the U MAD BRO? Weber photo – and it’s time to grow up and start thinking about preschool. May Year Four be full of play [...]
Next to hiking in the mountains with my wife and looking at gif images of a confused Pat Fitzgerald (click on it – no, seriously, click on it), my favorite thing to do in the world is to put together an Illini football depth chart. I love it so much that I go three-deep. Because [...]
I decided to do another Random post. I should dedicate an entire post to the basketball game yesterday, but I don’t want to. It would simply be the same old story – boy meets basketball team, boy loses basketball team, boy wonders aloud why basketball coach calls a timeout after we gain momentum. So, random [...]
Find winners. Besides “get guys who can recruit”, it appears to me that Tim Beckman targeted assistant coaches from winning programs. Keith Gilmore we know, and Luke Butkus came from the NFL, but the other 7 assistants have a common thread: a winning history. Golesh, Ward, and Clinkscale came over with Beckman from Toledo, where [...]
My signature – the little thing that shows up at the bottom of all posts – on a certain Illini message board that I happen to post on (don’t worry – you couldn’t find it if you tried) says the following: But can they coach? This is my signature out of convenience. I used to [...]
