I’m not ready to stop.  I don’t typically extend SOC posts into basketball season, mostly because it’s a Friday night thing and basketball games are all over the calendar.  But there’s a basketball game tomorrow, and there’s a coaching search going on, and there’s a bowl game selection on Sunday, and I still possess the [...]

See, I DID find time.  And wifi.  And I have probably 45 minutes on the laptop battery.  My string of SOC posts shan’t be broken. I went back and read my preseason prediction today.  On October 1st, I felt really dumb about projecting 6-6.  On November 1st, I still felt like I undershot.  Now, I’m [...]

We’re going to get drilled. Wisconsin 41, Illinois 10

There is no in-between with me when watching a basketball game.  When the internet feed finally came on tonight, our 8 point lead dropped to four.  I think we pushed it back to 6 and then they hit a layup to knock it back down to four – at that point, I was imagining another [...]

I’m a bit distracted tonight. As many of you know, I grew up in the metro-east, 29 miles from the Arch.  And I now live in the St. Louis area.  As such, I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan.  I’ve mostly kept that on the down low on here because of the stomach turn that [...]