‘Illini Football’ Archive

Inventory April 15, 2012 8 Comments

My wife ran a half marathon today.  Go-getter, that one.  I don’t know if you’ve ever cheered for someone in a half marathon before, but it’s a long, long, long time of standing around waiting for them to run by, and then four seconds of support.  “Good job baby keep it up you can do [...]

Spring Game Thoughts 11 Comments

I have one of those blocks again. Where I start a blog post 3 different times, but I don’t like any of it, so I erase it, and I go get something to eat, and I come back and wonder why the words won’t come out. Usually, I have to process something. There’s something in [...]

Easy Post April 13, 2012 3 Comments

Easy Posts are when I join someone on the radio or on a podcast and I can just come over here and be all “hey go listen to me talk”.  This is another one of those. I had the opportunity to join Eric Loy on WDAN (Danville) this week to talk some Groce and some [...]

Go Orange Team April 12, 2012 3 Comments

I’m wearing Orange on Saturday.  Because I’m totally pulling for the Orange team.  Because I’m a total front-runner. They held a draft last night for the spring game rosters, and here are the results.  Because I’m a humble public servant, I will now break down what I believe will be the starting lineups for each [...]

Spring Game Questions April 10, 2012 2 Comments

ZOMG Spring Game in four days!  I have put Bruce Weber to bed on his cute little purple pillow and I’m ready to talk football.  Specifically, the Spring Game.  More specifically, Everything I Want To Learn On Saturday But Probably Won’t Because They’ll Keep The Playbook Simple So As To Not Give Anything Away About [...]