I considered seven different things to write about in the last two hours.  I considered writing a summary of today’s events, but that’s been done.  I considered a “here’s why we’ll get Shaka/here’s why we won’t” list.  I was even standing in line at the grocery store tonight, staring at the magazines, thinking about how [...]

In 5th grade, our music teacher gave us an assignment.  We had to build a storyboard for a song.  Cut out pictures from magazines, use a glue stick to attach them to a few pieces of cardboard, and tell the story of the song through pictures.  Being that this was 1984, I chose the song [...]

Admittedly, I’m already behind on the coaching search. Much like I was for the football search in December. I’ve been on an extended weekend vacation both times, and each time I tell myself that scrolling through Twitter obsessively looking for coach tidbits instead of sitting on the beach will one day give me high blood [...]

I pick the craziest times to go out of town. I was in Colorado when Zook was fired. I’m in Florida when Weber is fired. There are two lessons here: 1) If you want real change in Illini athletics, send me out of town. 2) I’m very, very fortunate to have a relative with airline [...]

Can this one organize, inspire, and lead a football team? I know it’s totally unfair to be 13 minutes into the Tim Beckman era and already compare him to Zook.  But watching the press conference just now, it was all I could think about.  Intensity.  Makes caffeine nervous.  Raspy voice.  Probably wants to smash the [...]