‘Illini Football’ Archive

Thoughts On The Big Ten Divisions April 29, 2013 6 Comments

When Maryland and Rutgers were added to the conference in November, a report spread pretty quickly saying that Rutgers and Maryland would join the leaders, with Illinois heading to join the Legends. In the hours before Jim Delany made a statement claiming that no decision had been made, I panicked a bit. Gone are regular [...]

Spring Mailbag Part IV April 24, 2013 5 Comments

I’m feeling eight questions tonight. Maybe a marathon mailbag session that lasts through the night. My wife gets up in the morning, sees me in the office still mailbaggin’ away, and brings me a cup of coffee and a hot towel. No words are exchanged, for she knows the importance of a spring mailbag post [...]

31 months April 20, 2013 1 Comment

Started to answer a mailbag question this morning about our offensive line (specifically, about Corey Lewis), but it was too much for just one mailbag answer. It deserves it’s own post. He deserves his own post. I want people to understand. I don’t know why I care this much – probably because this is my [...]

Spring Mailbag – Part II April 19, 2013 2 Comments

As the Buckeye’s are generally considered the gold standard of the B1G, I would be curious to know if you feel any of our 2013 starters would be good enough to make the 2-deep at OSU? Okay, how about the 3-deep? Maybe 2-3 guys? Since I like comparing us to OSU, can you arrange a [...]

Easy Post April 18, 2013 1 Comment

Easy posts are posts where I don’t have to do anything.  Actually, I guess they’re posts where I already did something, like this interview with this Big Ten blog about our spring game. The blog is called The B1G Time (a much better title than their previous name, “Delany’s Dozen”).  And besides, with Maryland and [...]