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 [...]
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 [...]
Yeah, I’m pretty tired. Mentally drained, really. I had a blast in Rantoul over four days, and I’m home now. I’m feeling all of this tremendous pressure to get the practice report up from this morning’s practice (“if I was still in Rantoul it would have been up HOURS ago!”), but I just haven’t had [...]
I’m home now. With tons of mailbag questions to answer. And practice notes from this morning to post. And a wife to reintroduce myself to. One more interview to post before I dig into those. This was my chat with co-offensive coordinator Chris Beatty from this morning. You’ll want to hear him light up when [...]
With Jack Cornell graduating, I set out this week to find a new Beard. I asked several players who I should talk beards with. Nathan Scheelhaase insisted it be Hugh Thornton. I tend to listen when Nathan speaks. So today, after practice, I conducted the first ever BeardTalk with someone other than Big Jack. Here’s [...]
