It’s strange to me that this is the 6th time I’ve done this. It feels like I started this blog 8 months ago, but when I looked up the old award winners, there’s the Spring 2009 list. Better yet, Jerry Brown was still on the roster when I did the first awards. I feel like [...]

Looks like this will be the last one for the afternoon.  I have to get ready to head over for the evening practice (now, with pads and hitting!).  But I’ll still try to get to all of the questions in the next couple days.  Thanks again for sending them. What is going on with Brandon [...]

I think I’ll choose questions with short answers for this one.  Then I’ll crank it up in Part V and give you nine paragraphs on the Sports Illustrated “1-7 in the Big Ten” prediction. Any indication of who will be getting most of the work in the return game based on what you’ve seen? If [...]

I am really enjoying your tweets/updates on the Illini and would like to know as much as possible on Jason Ford. How does he look so far, will he get the bulk of the carries? Predictions? Thoughts? Will he get the bulk of the carries? Absolutely.  He knows the offense the best, he has the [...]

Considering our Zook era punt return woes, is there any reason to see improvement this season? I figured I’d look up the statistics first.  Here’s where Illinois has ranked nationally in punt return yardage in Ron Zook’s 6 seasons (national ranking out of 120 teams): 2005: 112th 2006: 111th 2007: 88th 2008: 94th 2009: 114th [...]