‘Mailbag’ Archive

Rantoul2012 XXX: Mailbag 2 August 11, 2012 Comments Off

More mailbag… Would we have the best DL in the country if Whitney stayed? ~Tom Yes. Well, the best starters at least. Three NFL players (plus Glenn Foster with a shot to hang on somewhere). Two of the top three defensive ends in the Big Ten. We were 6th out of 120 teams in sacks [...]

Rantoul2012 XXIX: Mailbag 1 August 10, 2012 1 Comment

Finally sitting down to go through some mailbag questions. And by “sitting down”, I mean “sitting in the passenger seat typing on my laptop while my wife drives”. The urgency I feel to answer every mailbag question before I forget everything is astounding. I woke up thinking about it. I keep refreshing my memory (“Nowicki [...]

KFHB 30 – Mailbag Part III January 7, 2012 3 Comments

I should save copies of things I’ve written that I never post on the blog.  It would be quite the blooper reel.  The post I wrote last night was so bad you might have stopped reading for a month.  Just awful.  I read it again before I deleted it and physically cringed.  Twice.  I can’t [...]

KFHB 29 – Mailbag Part II January 5, 2012 5 Comments

Before we get to the mailbaggery, some thoughts on the basketball game tonight. 1) Good win.  Possibly a tourney/no tourney win.  We’ll likely lose at home to Ohio State, and probably Michigan State, so we need to balance that out with road wins.  (Am I wrong that this is where I’m at with this season [...]

5-0 Mailbag (Part IV) October 7, 2011 Comments Off

A few more mailbag questions.  Sorry if I didn’t get to yours.  Readers whose questions were not used will receive a lovely bag of parting gifts including a VHS copy of Jerry Hester’s overtime explosion against Missouri in 1995 and a small chard of glass from the Jack Daniels bottle that the Black Crowes guitarist [...]